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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:38AM (#50350268)
this is really interesting!

I would love to see the models that astra produced, the fact that it builds them layer by layer assigning to each layer a specific goal makes sense given the tools it was given to build them, but it's also far different from what happens with normal training

Re:Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:18AM (#49891936)
jeeves is currently the name of my local hosted assistant, in its context there are rules that tell it to behave like good old jeeves.

soon I'll make sure that my home assistant pod answers to "Hey jeeves"

Re:Nokia Design Archive (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:37AM (#49828713)
what a coincidence, less than an hour ago I looked for pictures of Nokia 2110 since I just found out that the letters on older phones were placed on different keys: OQZ were on the 0 key, not listed alphabetically, and that is still happening on small keypads used by cashiers, at least here in Italy, that's why I noticed it

Show HN: Sommelier, an Excel Addin for your agent

https://sommelier.grokked.it

Sommelier (there is a nice wordplay on Excel and pairing) is an Excel Addin + relay server that lets your agent work hand in hand with you while you're working on an Excel spreadsheet. It's heavily inspired by the excellent marimo pair.It's useful when you either don't want to use Microsoft Copilot, want to use a local model + harness for security reason, or want to use an agent that already...

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Re:Jev-Leftpad on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:15AM (#49785333)
why useless? it did one thing that js didn't natively do

Show HN: GGUFun, play snake and a simple maze on Ollama using hand crafted GGUFs

https://ggufun.grokked.it

A couple weeks ago I was wondering if I could build a GGUF model file that, when run on ollama, would deterministically answer with the same exact sentence (not simply using a system prompt).That was surprisingly easy to implement, leveraging mostly the unembedder, so I started exploring GGUFs.First I built a simple GGUF that could compute the position of a point in a limited grid, using 4...

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:27AM (#48729549)
I've been using it with a couple of tools (like context7) as a documentation/helper, without giving it direct access to writing code, in marimo. it works great, albeit a little slow on my server (m1 max 64gb ram), at 8bit with omlx
I'm answering to the comment that explains how currently macos works
yes, but I'm answering to the comment that explains how currently macos works
problem is: without allowing it webUIs like synology won't work, since they require your browser to connect to the local network... as it is, it's not great
I've done a similar library[0] for python ~1 year ago, generating a function code only by invoking it, and giving the llm some context over the function.

Apart from the fun that I got out of it, it's been there doing nothing :D

[0]: https://github.com/lucamattiazzi/magic_top_hat

Re:Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @08:41AM (#43831813)
not to mention the mix of snake_case & camelCase
my god cricket is the best episode, and it’s crazy that no information about any character is even remotely needed to appreciate it

the authors created a great character in rusty

Re:Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:55AM (#41867676)
that's not entirely true: if you look at the manifest on the github repo you can see that it only requires the `tab` permission, which, when installed, will make the extension seem quite safe, since it should not have access to the content of your pages
Re:Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:51AM (#41867653)
they say: `This also means that, unfortunately, the bug will not work on stable builds of Google Chrome since the release channel is set to the proper value there`

So it's only working on Chromium, a way smaller attack surface than the whole Chrome users

Re:AI Winter Is Coming on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:49PM (#41814642)
Heroku has been around for almost 20 years, Vercel was Zeit ~10 years ago, and they both have always been widespread solutions, I wouldn't say that that there is hype only now

I cannot vouch for laravel cloud or void, since I've never used them, nor I will comment on Deno/Bun since they are far more recent

they are second places only if you work there, I think
Re:Show HN: Magic Top Hat, an infinite library for Python on Thursday July 11, 2024 @04:41AM (#40934730)
I thought I was explicit enough in the README, but will add a warning as well!

Show HN: Magic Top Hat, an infinite library for Python

https://github.com/lucamattiazzi/magic_top_hat

Just for fun I wanted to write a library that generates the functions you import from it at runtime using the context in which you called them.It's just a joke, but it proves what I was always afraid of: dunder methods are way too powerful and sometimes python seems to be broken because of it.

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what is a tractor paper?
Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:50AM (#39463987)
About southern blot there is more: it's a method used to find a specific DNA sequence in a DNA sample, and was named after its creator.

When a similar method was invented that applies to RNA, was of course named Southern.

When the one for proteins was invented, was named Western.

Re:Coffee in a Can on Sunday September 10, 2023 @08:54AM (#37455405)
you're completely right. but most italians will never admit it, shunning all of the alternatives.

the strange thing is, we are used to different grapes varieties that are used to produce different wines, and everyone knows which tomato goes in a sandwich, which ones are better in a caprese, which for tomato sauce. but we are all fine with not knowing which kind of coffee we drink, and not knowing how it was treated...

that's why in Italy it's really rare to find someone that drinks coffee as it is, usually we add either sugar (or honey) or milk in order to mask the fact that coffee here tastes too burnt and bitter.

only in the past few years specialty coffee is starting to appear in the bigger cities, and I'm finally getting used to drink coffee after a whole life of tea with milk and the occasional macchiato caldo (espresso with a dash of hot milk), unless when abroad

you can remove the `prima` from the italian version: it's implied by the use of past tense and it sounds really bad in italian. if you want to emphasize the `before`, you can use: `ha già detto addio troppe volte` instead
Re:You can serve static data over HTTP on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:47AM (#36122177)
not sure that MITM definition applies here: cloudflare is serving the data, they're not in the middle, they're either alice or bob
does anyone know what's the string above the "NO CARRIER" written at the bottom of the page?
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:29AM (#34878826)
> upgrades will cost you around $150 total on AliExpress

I'm upgrading a thinkpad (x220) with new monitor and battery and a few more upgrades, so I have an idea of the cost of upgrading

I'm sorry but the price of the upgrades is not that low, how do you get to that total upgrading:

- monitor

- wifi card

- trackpad

- battery

that does not add up

that said, I like the end result, and I'm really curious about the trackpad

Re:CatGPT – What if ChatGPT were a cat? on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:16AM (#34611600)
ahahaha I rushed to register https://chattpg.fr in order to do the same a couple of days ago :D (TPG since the french translation for GPT has a different acronym)
Re:iPad Pro M2 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:36AM (#33248985)
I read it as Easter (as in colorful) vs Victorian (as in austere)
that's one of the craziest theories I've ever heard (and amazing if correct!) I found this article https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13062-019-023... but I still haven't read it!

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