danielcorin
Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now
on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:19PM (#44741736)
I’ve been building a Swift app [1], compatible with OpenAI APIs, easy model switching across providers, and with hotkeys for OS integration to capture text and images. It’s far more minimal than most other LLM frontends I’ve tried, but it’s been sticky for me.
Gemini 2.5 Flash default time to first token increased from 2.0
Re:Pelicans on a bicycle
on Monday December 16, 2024 @01:42PM (#42433905)
More recently, `gemini-exp-1206` did quite well [1].
[1]: https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle/blob/main/README.m...
Re:Code Search – Grep by Vercel
on Monday November 25, 2024 @10:05AM (#42236862)
This is nice and has a very snappy UX.
For the Vercel folks, how are you all thinking about this tool compared to offerings from Github[1] or Sourcegraph[2]?
Cogno – Word Guessing Game
Re:Cogno – Word Guessing Game
on Thursday October 24, 2024 @12:50PM (#41937276)
Cogno is a word game that is the inverse of Semantle. You start with a word and the goal is to guess as many of the top 50ish semantically similar words as you can before you make 5 guesses outside the top list. You get points based on how close the word is to the starting word, calculated by embeddings. More info here: https://www.cogno.fun/about
Sonnet 3.5 can solve 40% of NYTimes Connections puzzles
VLMs Hallucinate
Protobuf-driven data extraction with language models
VLMs Aren't Blind
Evals: Unit Testing for Language Models
A few options for LLM result streaming with SSE
Simple sandboxed Python environment for LLM agent testing
(Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections"
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:59PM (#36606218)
https://blog.danielcorin.com/
I mostly write about LLMs (lately) or whatever I'm learning or working on
Figuring out how to use LLMs in production
Shaping LLM Responses
Using GPT-3.5 to Quickly and Generate and Run Shell Commands
Nix and Direnv
Beating Language Model Prompt Injection with Focus
Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:44AM (#34515545)
I have some rough details on how I operated the AI tools here: https://adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app/credits. Unfortunately, I've lost the original log of the conversation.
Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:39AM (#34515510)
Thanks for the kind words
Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:37AM (#34515497)
Absolutely. This was recycled almost directly from some of the prompt material I gave while refining. I've learn more about "prompt engineering" (as it seems to be called) since and think it would be relatively easy to smooth these edges out.
Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:31AM (#34515460)
I used very basic prompts including words like "cute" and "happy" and environment descriptions but not much beyond that (no art style or specific colors of the characters). I felt overall the character consistency has room for improvement but could have been a lot worse. Midjourney's default "style" has a sort of specific flavor to it.
Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:26AM (#34515417)
This piqued my interest. I might give it a shot, either with this or something new.
Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:20AM (#34515387)
~15 minutes with ChatGPT to turn the initial plot into a story with the tone and length I was looking for, an hour or two with Midjourney illustrating and a few more hours for the site from zero to up and running.
Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:10AM (#34514971)
I was going for more of a kid's book tone but I think I hadn't quite learned enough about the depth and nuance you can introduce into the output via prompting. In retrospect now, I agree it has that generic-AI tone.
Re:Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:08AM (#34514958)
The porcupine has two mouths as well. I tried several times to smooth that one out but I could never quite reproduce the same look in the porcupine's eyes so I kept it.
Show HN: I “wrote” a kids book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
https://adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app/
Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations.The plot was sourced from a group of friends.