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Re:Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:57AM (#49729017)
Yes "oversight and guardrails" are still needed, but even that is becoming easier to build, and imo already no longer in the "laborious" category. Even far from the frontier, you can tune a 0.2B LLM into a decent 2000 Elo player as a weekend project:

https://x.com/maximelabonne/status/2100137121264828901

Re:Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history on Saturday August 15, 2026 @08:02PM (#49315500)
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309451

> Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

Re:Go Away Python on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:27PM (#46439438)
As shared in a sibling comment, you can get away with just curl+shell: https://paulw.tokyo/standalone-python-script-with-uv/
Re:Go Away Python on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:25PM (#46439407)
And with some small shebang trick, you don't even need to have uv installed [1], just curl and a posix shell

[1] https://paulw.tokyo/standalone-python-script-with-uv/

Re:Accepting US car standards would risk European lives on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @06:02AM (#46133047)
> threatening to start a new trade war if the EU doesn't permit their murdermobiles on the European roads

The strange part is that those car can be sold in the EU markets already. They just have to comply with the same pollution and safety standards as other cars. What would justify an exception?

Re:I Love OCaml on Friday November 07, 2025 @05:39PM (#45852058)
> mostly because it's the scripting language of choice for PyTorch and AI-adjacent libraries/tooling/frameworks

I would politely disagree. Torch started in Lua, and switched to Python because of its already soaring popularity. Whatever drove Python's growth predates modern AI frameworks

Re:Introducing tmux-rs on Thursday July 03, 2025 @10:25PM (#44460644)
Very much a side note, but:

> my feeling is that I’d still reach for it if my hands are really physically hurting, and I need to keep working. Usually once I reach the point where I’ve got blisters on my fingers I think it’s better to just take a break

I'm dumbfounded, and impressed in an unhealthy way. Do some of you regularly type so much that you develop blisters?

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:20PM (#42924799)
Hi Bryant, I'm quite interested in the senior software engineer role in the applied AI team!

On your job board I'm seeing slightly different infos about the location requirement. Can you clarify if the role is globally remote or US only?

Re:Using uv as your shebang line on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @07:46PM (#42860078)
Uv's support of inline metadata is super handy. What if the person running the scripts doesn't have uv yet though? For fun I wrote a double shebang script that will handle that too: https://paulw.tokyo/standalone-python-script-with-uv/
Re:Textual 1.0 Release on Thursday December 12, 2024 @08:42PM (#42405254)
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024) on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @04:18AM (#41432556)
Marketer, with SDG specialty

Location: Europe or Japan

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes

Skills: international marketing professional (7 years). Decided to specialize further, I obtained a master in globalization, business and development from the University of Sussex. Speak English and Japanese, intermediate in French.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yukie-soeda-319499196 (email me for a pdf)

Email: 901stb {@t} gmail.com

(independent from m3at's account)

Yeah langchain is not necessary for this. The author appear not to have shared his code yet (too bad, the visualizations are nice!), but as a poor replacement I can share mine from over a year ago:

https://github.com/m3at/hn_jobs_gpt_etl

Only using the plain OpenAI api. This was on GPT-3.5, but it should be easy to move to 4o and make use of the json mode. I might try a quick update this weekend

Re:Tokens, N-Grams, and Bag-of-Words Models on Saturday April 06, 2024 @08:36PM (#39957048)
Two of the most popular libraries for token creation (tokenization) are in fact in rust, with an interface in python:

https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers

https://github.com/openai/tiktoken

Re:Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:09AM (#39915472)
That's a lot! More than half of the yearly buybacks Intel did in 2018-2020! /s

https://www.intc.com/stock-info/dividends-and-buybacks

Re:Piano on Paper on Friday March 08, 2024 @11:23PM (#39649348)
I agree for pianos, because the mechanical feedback is part of what makes playing enjoyable.

I'm not as sure for keyboards in VR! There has been a lot of research on non-invasive brain computer interface (BCI), including predictive systems that guess what you want to type, instead of where you're actually typing (example from 8y ago [1]).

Simpler gesture recognition is already on the market (like this one, from 2020, for the apple watch [2]). And now bigger VR players are investing in the tech [3]. I expect useful brain interface to be integrated in common VR devices in a couple of generations.

[1] Air Keyboard: Mid-Air Text Input Using Wearable EMG Sensors and a Predictive Text Modeland a Predictive Text Model; https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art... [2] https://mudra-band.com/ [3] https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/zucker...

Re:JAXA SORA-Q mini moon rover on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:03PM (#39030372)
Re:Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative with Time? on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:56PM (#38944686)

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