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Re:Neuron Persona Library on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:56AM (#50285747)
Super cool interpretability project. Source code / request form for additional models would be awesome additions.
Re:Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:01AM (#49692954)
On the same vein: "The Protopian Fiction Prize invites you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change." https://protopianprize.com/
Awesome! Is the link unclickable on purpose (to avoid being slashdotted.. )
Re:A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design on Monday April 27, 2026 @03:24AM (#47918681)
CubeSats are being launched around the world. While a compelling effort, this book is rather US-centric, and will be incomplete without some wider research.
Every hackathon should use this.
A test that runs for 15 hours on a high powered rig is going to be hard to reproduce or scale. But I think this addresses a widespread concern, which affects all kinds of cloud services. What you ping is not necessarily what you get.
Re:Michael Rabin Has Died on Saturday April 18, 2026 @12:24PM (#47817114)
That sly remark at 22:40 on the telephone ringing :)
Re:iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @06:02PM (#47523888)
Check out Apertus, the publicly funded model from a research team that goes to great lengths to remove icky content.
You made my day. Thank you!
Beautiful. I am a little worried that you’ll soon lose interest and stop supporting the app without a business model. Do you plan to at least get sponsored, e.g. by some kind of foundation, like ones that are behind mental health initiatives?
Re:Flirt: The Native Backend on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:25AM (#46971945)
Excellent. Starting with the domain name :)
Re:HuggingFace Is Down on Thursday February 05, 2026 @08:39AM (#46899521)
For 6 minutes in 90 days. Not bad!
Re:Reliable Signals of Honest Intent on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @03:23AM (#46702637)
Wonderful thanks for sharing.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @05:38AM (#45423619)
The "using with AI" support is really interesting, should help bootstrap some serious vibe coding.

Show HN: We ran a F{AI}R hackathon

Keen to hear your feedback to a series of events we just ran in support of the launch of a sovereign AI platform, thoughts on the future of civic hacktivism, links to your own posts. In my blog I do some armchair philisophising (Apertus-enhanced, of course) before parsing the results from each of a dozen challenges. See https://log.alets.ch/111/ or view the source data at...

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Hence, couples / group therapy.
Re:Swiss {AI} Weeks on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @02:03AM (#44166846)
Switzerland just kicked off its largest AI movement to date — all about turning world-class research into real-world impact. Over 55 organizations – including the Federal Government, EPFL AI Center, ETH AI Center, Gebert Rüf Stiftung, Swiss Re, Swisscom, and UBS – are joining forces to shape the future of trustworthy AI made in Switzerland.

From 1 Sept to 5 Oct, the latest Swiss AI developments will come to life in events and hackathons across the country:

AI Talks, Conferences, Workshops & Online Courses in 10+ cities from Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, and Lucerne to Lugano, Lenzburg, St. Gallen, Winterthur, and Zurich Hackathons in 7 cities AI Challenges from leading organisations in healthcare, government, finance, industry & more Incubation programs for Hackathon winners

Join us and help to #makeAIright https://swiss-ai-weeks.ch

Re:Show HN: DeepSeek Your HN Profile on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:47PM (#42857752)
Mine reads « Unexpected token 'W', "Webhook er"... is not valid JSON » #WIP
Re:Ask HN: How to Organize a Hackathon? on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:04PM (#42333350)
This article was mentioned in another HN thread, you might find it useful: https://taranjeet.medium.com/experience-organizing-an-intern...
Re:Ask HN: How to Organize a Hackathon? on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:00PM (#42333301)
Kudos on the idea, and for reaching out here! I build open source tools for hackathons, something I posted about here a few days ago. Your question is a great one, because small private events are not really addressed well by the typical guidance for large (100+) event organizers. Let me (with a little help from my fine-tuned assistant) give it a try:

Do: communicate the objectives and rules clearly (e.g. Gantt chart the timeline), encourage a diverse mix (friends and family, also to boost the audience), provide necessary resources for ideation (from high quality moderation kits to healthy snacks and water), allocate time for brainstorming, pitching, voting, and development stages, and ensure there are mentors available (at least people with some prior hackathon experience) to guide the teams. Think about some creative team-building activities.

Don't: overload participants with too many rules, micromanage the teams, celebrate individual achievements over ensuring all participants get something out of it, or make the hackathon too competitive.

In summary: focus on learning, collaboration, and having fun while documenting the process and outcomes for future reference. Especially for that last point, feel free to test Dribdat in our sandbox, or ping me if you want something more robust & private.

Good luck with your event!

Re:Show HN: Tracking Deno 2's compatibility with Node daily on Thursday December 05, 2024 @03:55PM (#42332634)
Nice one! I assume the tests will soon run regularly in CI. Would you also consider doing a side-by-side comparison of Bun?
Thanks to the Hack the Hackathon conference for prompting me to finally post about this here. In particular, it was the discussion with the "Hackathon Template" team that reminded me of humble beginnings and prompted me to share more. You can see a Dribdat site with links to the event here: https://hackthackathon.dribdat.cc/
Re:In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024 on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @11:05AM (#42195219)
A language that changed the lives of millions of people - myself included - who couldn't go to learn C or Pascal in grad school just to get started with coding. I imagine that modern alt-tech culture from hackspaces to hackathons - owes much to you as well. Also, I am heartened to learn that one of the first precursors of BASIC was DOPE.

Lighting the candle in a way Mr. Kurtz would have appreciated: https://graphics.social/@seism/113516128540983344

Show HN: Dribdat – a honeycomb challenge board for sweeter hackathons

https://demo.dribdat.cc/

This is a demo website of Dribdat: a self-hosted open alternative to Devpost or HackerEarth for tinkering on prototypes with friends and hacktivists.It started out as a humble cookiecutter template for Flask in Python, an attempt to streamline the set-up for open data & open hardware hackathons. Before we knew it, the years went by, it's been hacked on by hundreds and used by thousands of...

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Re:A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011) on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:45PM (#41841791)
When I am forced to use a phone or tablet of a brand and size I'm not used to, everything seems wonky and out of place. Yet I can adapt to a different brand and size of car in a few minutes. Replacing tactile memory with skeuomorphism, is like a prosthetic arm that can extend 10m to replace your sickly feely biological one. I'm always up for advocating for more arts & crafts as part of interaction design.

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