Is that too much to ask for in 2025?
The Latin plural of "status", in the accusative form, would actually be "status" as well.
Something like
omnes status intelligentiae artificialis in eadem pagina videre amem."Ask HN: Why don't programming language foundations offer "smol" models?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840078
If I could run smol single language models myself, I would not have to worry.
I wonder if you could ablate everything except for a specific language.
I don't think it's that easy. The times I've trained my own tiny models on just one language (programming or otherwise), they tend to get worse results than the models I've trained where I've chucked in all the languages I had at hand, even when testing just for single languages.
It seems somewhat intuitive to me that it works like that too, programming in different (mainstream) languages is more similar than it's different (especially when 90% of all the source code is Algol-like), so makes sense there is a lot of cross-learning across languages.
Hell, even the huge foundational models are still useless in most scenarios.
Concretely from my testing, both 20B and 120B has a lot higher refusal rate with Q8 compared to MXFP4, and lower quality responses overall. But don't take my word for it, the 20B weights are tiny and relatively effortless to try both versions and compare yourself.
edit:
So looking here https://ollama.com/library/gpt-oss/tags it seems ollama doesn't even provide the MXFP4 variants, much less hide them.
Is the best way to run these variants via llama.cpp or...?
gpt-oss:20b on my M1 MBP is usable but quite slow.
Qwen3-Coder is in the same ballpark and maybe a bit better at coding
Don't get me wrong, I don't expect everyone to use the same environment that I do, and I certainly don't expect accolades for preferring a TUI... but that struck me as a regression of sorts in software development. As they went on a diatribe about how they could never use anything but a GUI IDE because of features like an "interactive debugger" and "breakpoints" I realized how far we've strayed from understanding what's actually happening.
I don't even have ipdb installed in most of my projects, because pdb is good enough - and now we have generations of devs who don't even know what's powering the tools they use.
>Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?
1. {AWS, Github} is down
2. Post to HN about it
3. Comments wax poetic about getting rid of it and doing it the "old way"
4. It's back up before most read the post
bashy•3h ago
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