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Re:WasiPy – Python Interpreter in Wasi on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @05:36AM (#45113859)
I have been experimenting with WebAssembly/Wasi over the last couple of years and decided it would be time to have another look and see what the state of things is. I it would be interesting to try and embed python in a wasm component for its nice sandbox properties.

There's a super cool project https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython which is a python interpreter in rust which can compile to wasip2 so I hooked that up and it seems to work well.

Its easy to build wasi components in rust now with the wasip2 target, excited to see where things head over the next few years.

Ask HN: How do we get an optimal neural network architecture?

Posted by fbodz on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:03AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been playing around with neural networks and looking at some of the recent llm architectures. I'm far from an expert in this but the way some of them are configured seems a little random? Like stack this layer on top of this layer with these dimension, we don't know why this configuration works well it just does etc. Do we have a way of proving ahead of training that one architecture will...

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Re:Xmas.c, winner of the 1988 International Obfuscated C Code Contest on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:38PM (#38749001)
This makes me think about kolmogorov complexity. The program here looks like gibberish but produces the desired output, would there be even shorter programs that don't look like they make sense but produce the same output? How would you search for these programs?

Show HN: Talk to tables, query your SQLite databases using natural language

Posted by fbodz on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:13AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://talktotables.com/

I had a friend who was paying someone to write SQL queries for their bespoke accounting software, i thought with the recent advances in machine learning it would be possible to translate natural language to SQL on the go. This is a small proof of concept I created which tries to be as privacy preserving as possible, the sqlite database runs in your browser and sends the schema along with the...

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Re:StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context... on Monday May 15, 2023 @07:12PM (#35955796)
Yeah I am using the default training script with int8 quantisation. It uses peft with lora but this still requires 26gb
Re:StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context... on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:18PM (#35955266)
Has anyone figured out a way to fine tune this with 24gb of vram? I have tried with deepspeed etc but no luck. Seems to be just out of reach for fine tuning requiring 26gb.

Ask HN: Has YouTube been slow for you recently?

Posted by fbodz on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @06:26AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Over the last couple of days I've been having issues playing videos on YouTube in Firefox. I wondered if anyone else has experienced slowness? I've asked around a couple of my friends and they're experiencing the same thing. Usually the video won't autoplay and I have to wait a few minutes for it to work then sometimes it will buffer in the video (the last time i remember that happening would...

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Re:Hydroponics: Growing an appreciation for plants on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:29AM (#32409538)
This is a great video for anyone that's interested in getting into hydroponics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyqykZK2Ev4. I loosely followed it to build my own system.

Ask HN: Advice on starting a niche ad network

Posted by fbodz on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:01PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've recently been thinking about starting an ad network with a new format for ads. I think the format is more engaging for viewers and more useful for advertisers. However, I'm not sure where i should start developing it, what would be your advice for how to develop the ads? The ads will be web based and square dimensions but I'm just not sure what the current best practises are for adtech....

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Re:Ask HN: Share your side project on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:00AM (#28032729)
I've been working on a uni paper review site. Only available in New Zealand for now. https://papergrade.co.nz
Re:Show HN: Ballreport – Key basketball data in one place on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:00PM (#26429562)
Thanks for the feedback. I think i just need to imporove the UI and add some more stats.
Re:Show HN: Ballreport – Key basketball data in one place on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:38AM (#26421715)
I was annoyed at how all the key data about games was spread out over multiple sites and not easy to see quickly. Ballreport shows the days upcoming nba games and the key data about the teams, odds and players. Its very basic at the moment but updates daily and i will be adding more functionality soon.
Re:Show HN: Reddit and blockchain and webrtc on Saturday August 08, 2015 @02:50AM (#10026561)
It doesn't directly interact with the blockchain but it uses its own implementation which is synced between peers.

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