benrules2
Re:Automatic Programming Returns
on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:26PM (#46920721)
I have been thinking about the parallels between early compilers, and LLMs for a while now. I know I'm not the only one... But I hadn't see a retrospective on how predictions and outcomes played out last time around. This post is the outcome of my own digging.
Re:Show HN: Insta2000 – Re-render Instagram locally, retro, and ad free
on Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:21AM (#41547068)
Thank you! On this note, I am curious if the content could be hosted and integrated with an existing app from the [fediverse](https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/). Need to do some research.
Show HN: Insta2000 – Re-render Instagram locally, retro, and ad free
https://github.com/benrules2/insta2000
I've been avoiding instagram for a few years, as it feels very noisy and addictive. I'm starting to feel out of touch from friends though, so got wondering if I could build a tool to get just my friends updates, without all the other junk.It turns out scraping my own profile and re-rendering a static webpage is quite a successful way to achieve that goal. It has no ads, no discovery injections,...
Re:Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox
on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @09:23AM (#41445494)
This is a really cool tool. Have been playing with similar scraping capabilities, so appreciate you sharing the source code as well. People who are saying "loads of scraping tools already exist" have likely not suffered through the current state of the art too, as heuristic based approaches absolutely pale in comparison to what an LLM can extract.
Re:Thomas Cochrane
on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:37PM (#38846859)
Thanks for sharing! I'll pass this along to my family. They'll be interested to learn he is known in Chile.
Re:Thomas Cochrane
on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:21PM (#38844949)
He's my ancestor! He hovers just on the edge of obscurity as a historical figure, and most people have never heard of him, so it's cool to see a summary like this out in the wild. My grandfather still shares exactly the same name too, though he's the last of the juniors.
Re:Show HN: SearchArray – Text Search in Pandas
on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:33AM (#38334240)
What sort of BM25 indices does this support? Does it allow experimenting with an elasticsearch query and mapping for example?