johnnylambada
Re:Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:13AM (#49638325)
I don’t blame you for using an LLM to write an article about an LLM that you built. I’ve been reading so much LLM output that now I see it everywhere. I wonder if humans will start writing more like LLMs?
Re:Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:13AM (#48968895)
I checked it on a property I own in Temecula CA. It gave me great stats but not being a farmer I didn’t talk know what I was looking at. Tooltips or links to definitions would help a lot. The property scores 64 overall.
Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on...
on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:50AM (#46718576)
I’m not sure why the downvotes. I think the poster is basically saying the same thing as this YouTube-er. I read “Million monkeys” as referring to LLMs.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:30PM (#46490126)
One thing you won’t get with in an LLM is genuine research. I once answered a 550 point question by researching the source code of vim to see how the poster’s question could be resolved. [0]
[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/619423/backup-restore-th...
Re:The Big City; Save the Flophouses
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:47AM (#46313250)
I imagine they’re all gone now. A great example of the free market creating a niche product that was useful and affordable to its customers and the government regulating it out of existence. I’m sure there were abuses by owners but the system worked for the majority.
Re:Generative AI Scripting
on Friday November 01, 2024 @07:15AM (#42015801)
[email protected] fixed it for me -- thanks!
Re:Generative AI Scripting
on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @11:00PM (#42003047)
I'm on macos 14.5
Re:Generative AI Scripting
on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @10:59PM (#42003043)
same
Re:Generative AI Scripting
on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @10:51PM (#42002992)
Going through getting started on the command line fails:
$ npx genaiscript script create proofreader
Need to install the following packages:
[email protected]
Ok to proceed? (y)
file /Users/me/src/learn/genaiscript/proofreader/genaisrc/proofreader.genai.mjs already exists
Error: file /Users/me/src/learn/genaiscript/proofreader/genaisrc/proofreader.genai.mjs already exists
at copyPrompt (/Users/me/.npm/_npx/3f5b5bbcce7f85b9/node_modules/genaiscript/built/genaiscript.cjs:96237:35)
at async _Command.createScript2 (/Users/me/.npm/_npx/3f5b5bbcce7f85b9/node_modules/genaiscript/built/genaiscript.cjs:96327:15)
Re:Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k yea...
on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:27PM (#40713507)
It’s fascinating to think about the number of PUs (procedural units) it takes to make a modern tool. Something as simple as a modern hammer must number in the thousands and a mobile phone in the millions or billions.
Re:Google AI recommends adding Elmer's glue to pizza cheese after scan...
on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:17AM (#40462756)
Well it does work
Re:An analysis of the rabbit R1 APK
on Friday May 03, 2024 @05:30PM (#40252601)
Several folks have stated that it could be just an app. I disagree. Modern versions of Android on a real phone severely limit what an app can do. It can't run forever, it can't gather any and all telemetry available to the physical device at will.
As for battery life, there's a lot you can do at the OS layer to limit what services run, but at the end of the day you're not running on a piece of hardware that has been honed by thousands of engineering hours and billions of dollars, so V1 is going to be pretty rough.
Re:An analysis of the rabbit R1 APK
on Friday May 03, 2024 @12:04AM (#40243918)
As an Android developer and someone who has studied the ASOP internals, I don’t see what the big deal is. If I were going to build custom hardware that has a custom ui then it makes complete sense to start with the open source version of Android. Google has spent billions inventing that wheel and you can use it for free. It has everything you need (except realtime). The natural way to build ui apps in Android is to make an apk. Doing anything else would be weirdly unnecessary.
Re:An analysis of the rabbit R1 APK
on Thursday May 02, 2024 @11:57PM (#40243878)
If you run the hardware then an Android app can do anything you want it to.
Re:Descent 3 Source Code
on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @12:40AM (#40048424)
Great! Brings back memories of descent 1 & 2. I played d1 for hours over the early internet. My favorite level was Minerva and my arch enemy was named “upinya”. Amazing what the brain remembers from so long ago.
Re:Megaparsec Tutorial
on Sunday March 03, 2024 @11:45AM (#39581980)
I thought this was going to be an article about measuring vast distances in space. Instead it's a tutorial abouta Haskell library. Personally, I was disappointed.
Re:Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser
on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:24PM (#38932306)
Thanks for the link. I read both Carson's (your?) article and Max's. In general I see the point, but I think what's missing is a htmx-specific Android/iOS app template. Something that wraps a WebView but perhaps preprocess and reacts to mobile specific html tags or special hx-mobile-xxx attribues to existing tags that know how to do special mobile things. I'll have to think more about this.
Re:Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser
on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:00PM (#38918803)
I love the concept behind htmx & started reading the book today. But every time I think about using it, I remember that I'll eventually have to support native mobile apps as well and I'll be completely re-writing not only my frontend but much of my backend to do it. I know about hyperview.org but a react-native app won't really cut it for the use cases I'm interested in.
Re:Fish Skin Can Heal Other Animals' Eye Injuries
on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:50PM (#37969961)
“Mirza Melo, a veterinary ophthalmologist in northeastern Brazil's Ceará state”
Article says she treated them. I doubt they intentionally injured them.
Re:Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night
on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @11:26PM (#36690138)
$100/yr to join a club of fellow California homeowners / home renters who love to camp and are willing to reciprocally allow stays at their home is not bad. Especially if that $100 is used to pre vet users who will behave in a way that will garner 4-5 star reviews consistently.
Re:Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night
on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @11:06PM (#36690017)
Homeowners insurance covers a lot. If you have more than 30 nites (don’t quite me on the number) of stay then you need arider as well.
Re:Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night
on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:55PM (#36689946)
If you’re car camping you probably don’t have necessary facilities.
Re:About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
on Sunday May 28, 2023 @12:46PM (#36105677)
Zip code 90740 has <800 under 5 yo kids. Total cost year 5 was something like $11k for the year.
Re:About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:57AM (#36104548)
I just looked up the cost to sponsor a smallish zip code in the US and it’s surprisingly inexpensive even if you’re not a millionaire or billionaire.
Re:U.S. Home Prices Are the Most Unaffordable They've Been in Nearly 1...
on Sunday March 26, 2023 @02:01AM (#35311525)
I’m so sorry to hear that happened to you, that must have been awful.
Re:
on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:19AM (#34804942)
This is cool! Nice work. How about generating figma as well?
Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:10PM (#34799999)
Linode has been around forever and were once one of the few games in town. They were into cloud computing years even AWS was. A lot of, er, elder statesman developers remember them from way back then. So if you’ve gotten into the game less than 15 years ago, it makes sense that you may not have heard of them.
Re:Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?
on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:10AM (#34575989)
Wow, so much hate for SO on this thread. Stack overflow has been a core part of my life as a developer for many years. Not all questions are answered well but, to some extent, you have to be a connoisseur. The first answer may not be correct, or it may be out of date but chances are that some answer, maybe far downstream, will be invaluable and save hours of research. Ask questions. Answer questions. Don’t do it for the ranking do it because someone did it for you.
Re:US Marines Defeat DARPA Robot by Hiding Under a Cardboard Box
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:55PM (#34527506)
Oh great, now the robots know the “Dunder Mifflin” maneuver!
Re:Show HN: Kody Tools – I developed 300 tools in 6 months
on Saturday January 14, 2023 @01:17PM (#34382468)
Is it all web based or a web interface to command line tools?