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Re:Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years
on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:19AM (#48147698)
I love “Becoming Steve Jobs” much more than the official biography.
Re:Stanford Review: Is YC for Cowards?
on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:30PM (#47011575)
> they sometimes include some sort of alternate way of applying (to avoid the bots)
This looks interesting, could you please elaborate? Do you mean like on social networks?
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Ask HN: Advice for getting into post-training / fine-tuning of LLMs?
Hi everyone,Those who follow fine-tunes of LLMs may know that there’s a company called Nous Research has been releasing a series of fine-tuned models called the Hermes, which seem to have great performance.Since post-training is relatively cheaper than pre-training, “so” I also want to get into post-training and fine-tuning. Given that I'm GPU poor, with only a M4 MBP and some Tinker credits,...
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Neel Nanda: I lead a DeepMind team at 26. If you want to work at an AI company [video]
Re:NY Times: Why Are More Millionaires Renting?
on Saturday September 06, 2025 @09:32AM (#45149129)
NY Times: Why Are More Millionaires Renting?
Ask HN: People who have backed Moth Fund, what has your experience been like?
Hi Everyone,Recently I have come across the Moth Fund [0], which to me seems like an interesting VC firm, since it seems to be managed by one person. The feeling or the vibe conveyed by its website is also different from that of other VC firms. So I was wondering that for people whose companies have been supported and backed by Moth Fund, may I ask what's your experience is like?Many...
Re:Ask HN: Is fast.ai's "Deep Learning for Coders" still relevant in 2...
on Monday August 04, 2025 @09:01AM (#44785187)
Thank you for your suggestions!
Originally I was more interested in ML/DL theory and mech interp, so you can see I was more into theory. Recently, I am also curious and leaning towards learning more about how to build products with foundational models, such as LLM; for instance, recently I got the "LLM's Engineer Handbook [1]".
> If you want to work with ML you likely need the PhD + get lucky.
I do am interested in doing PhD in theoretical computer science, but I'm not too sure about AI PhD as I heard many (not-so-good) things about it.
> If you are interested on it because of AI, it's better to focus on LLMs and more NLP related fields.
Do you have any recomenndations that you have gone through that you think are helpful?
[1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/llm-engineers-handbook/...
Ask HN: Is fast.ai's "Deep Learning for Coders" still relevant in 2025?
Dear all,I learned some basic ML from Andrew Ng's Coursera course more than 10 years ago, recently I graduated from the Math Master program and have some free time in my hand, so I am thinking about picking up ML/DL again.In [Yacine's video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph6PIchDOcQ), he mentioned [fast.ai's course](https://course.fast.ai/), which I heard of in the past but didn't look into...
Re:Diary of a Startup – the rise and fall of ArsDigita
on Monday July 21, 2025 @08:19AM (#44634287)
Thank you for posting this! It's really informative to read...
Ask HN: Knowledge/skills to develop and contribute to projects like Unsloth?
Hi everyone,I am a Master student in math in Germany and will graduate recently, since I am also interested in programming and LLM, I have been following HN and subs like r/machinelearning and r/localllama for some time. I have been really impressed by projects such as Unsloth that could help people train and/or fine-tune on commercial-grade GPUs.I also want to develop/contribute to projects...
Re:Happy 20th Birthday, Django
on Monday July 14, 2025 @11:01AM (#44561051)
Out of curiosity, for people who have do projects in both Django and Ruby on Rails, which one would you prefer and why?
I learned Python more than 10 years ago, but later chose Rails to be my first web framework to learn, as I also wanted to learn more about Ruby, hence the question.
Re:Quantum Computation Lecture Notes by Peter Shor
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:13PM (#44261916)
De Wolf's note is also one of the standards right now, and more up-to-date than the QC&QI book: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09415
Ask HN: Is it hard to build a successful startup now than in the past?
Hi everyone,I am reading “Fire in the Valley” and it seems that back then it was relatively easy for hobbyists to build and sell computers. Borland also had “humble beginnings” like selling Pascal.Now, software development is faster than before and hardware business seems to require more capital and expertise. Some big companies also seem to react to competition faster than before, not to...
Deepseek.cpp: CPU inference for the DeepSeek family of LLMs in pure C++
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Ask HN: AI PhD workload and applications of research in real-world business?
Dear all,I am currently a Master student in Math interested in discrete math and theoretical computer science, and I have submitted PhD applications in these fields as well. However, recently as we have seen advances of reasoning capacity of foundational models, I'm also interested in pursuing *ML/LLM reasoning and mechanistic interpretability*, with goals such as applying reasoning models to...
Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?
on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @04:41AM (#42863197)
Thank you for your reply. In your other comment, you mention that you know Ruby relatively well. Would you recommend learning Ruby along side with Rails (i.e., learning Ruby in/with Rails), if I have some experience with other languages, such as Java, Python, C/C++, Lisp, and so on?
Also are there any Ruby AI libraries that you would recommend? Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?
on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:17PM (#42858149)
> If you're doing AI stuff, any Python framework will be best.
I understand that AI stuff now is mainly Python. But is it possible to connect Rails with some Python program/service, is this one of the purpose of microservices?
Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:24PM (#42592083)
Congrats OP and it looks really nice! Out of curiosity, may I ask what’s ur tech stack for developing this software? I’m also an aspiring app developer :) Thank you!
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Re:Ask HN: How can I experiment with LLMs with a old machine?
on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:41PM (#41612549)
Thank you for the Mozilla AI guide, it's really useful! I knew some of Justine's work and they are really cool.
Re:Ask HN: How can I experiment with LLMs with a old machine?
on Saturday September 21, 2024 @01:17PM (#41611306)
May I ask how small? From what I see on r/localllama, it seems that at least 3B and 7B ones are starting to be useful? Also I cannot use CUDA or modern AMD cards..
Ask HN: How can I experiment with LLMs with a old machine?
Dear all,Recently I purchased "[Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)](https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-from-scratch)" by Sebastian Raschka, so that I could learn more about how to build and/or fine-tune a LLM, and even developing some applications with them. I have also been skimming and reading on this sub for several months, and have witnessed many interesting...