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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:42PM (#50348164)
This is mind blowing.

This opens so many avenues on using Astra or any large model to one shot smaller purpose built models for Agents, Imagine Agents writing or editing smaller weight models when doing agentic loop.

The implications are immense if all of this is generalizable

Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:59AM (#49990522)
an AI that is at 100s of Einstein level in every intellectual field imaginable ?maybe, running apple does not require one to be very smart or intellectual
This is so amazing, can you improve the quality of generation at the cost of notes per seconds ? No one can play 108 notes/sec anyways, maybe you can train the model to do CoT for better quality
Re:Fields Medals 2026 on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:25AM (#49033501)
We are doing fine so far with just Transformers, we have just crossed Trillion parameter models, we don't know if 100s of Trillion param model wont be better.
How are you planing to segregate between professional use and personal use, I dont want any agent or any llm to know all the time what i have been doing on my system, it would be privacy nightmare and most of the time the screencapture is not meaningful. People may use their work laptop or devices to checkout reddit or hackernews occasionally.
LiteLLM already provides this feature, no need of another proxy
Re:LLM=True on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @05:40AM (#47149856)
Can TOON format help in this, with "LLM=true" we can reduce the noise which pollutes context
Re:Tell HN: Happy New Year on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @08:31AM (#46443907)
Happy New Year from India
Re:Self-hosting my photos with Immich on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:34AM (#46170997)
I use ente which is also the same, a bit tricky to setup but the app looks great
Re:How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS on Friday August 01, 2025 @07:28AM (#44755368)
Why do you need a human to do the initial mapping ? why can't you use a Roomba or a smaller hardware for this task
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:21AM (#44707213)
Currently working on https://exitfox.com/. After recently switching jobs, I became frustrated with the handover process to the new joiner. This experience inspired me to start building a tool that uses Gemini/Claude to ask relevant questions about the project being handed over, streamlines the exit process in a structured format, Now I am adding more features for HR managers and employees around Clearance, FnF etc

Interestingly I found Claude Code to be the only LLM good at designing frontend, asking it to make it look better actually helps

Re:Make Your Database Tables Smaller on Friday December 30, 2022 @02:33AM (#34182803)
> Joins are cheap. Normalise earlier

I am sure i have heard strong opinions like this but in practice joins are never cheap, tables with billions of rows crossed with millions of rows just to find a single row with data is not something i would call cheap, more often than not it is better to avoid joining large tables if you can live with duplicate data, also one trick i have found better is just to archive data in your tables which are not accessed frequently and reduce the size of tables keeping only the data which is needed

What about standardisation that comes with using a framework like kubernetes , while not using k8s you end up with adhoc deployment methods, clunky work arounds of handling networking, policies, secrets etc, with Kubernetes or even ECS it signals that the team or the developer is looking to use fixed set of rules for infrastructure, also k8s scales well even for smaller apps
Re:Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories? on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:18PM (#31622899)
Play Life is Strange
More like generate a random number from 30 to 90 and show gibberish data, cool idea though to fool small businesses into improving their visual score and charging money, good gimmick though
meh "is there any area column in addresses table" did not work seems straight forward to me ?
This is also crashing PUBG Mobile and a lot of gamers are angry as a big tournament (PMWL) is going to start soon, Facebook needs a better QA process
We use Clickhouse extensive at work and boy is it better than anything i have used in column oriented databases so far, documentation is good, http query interface and features such as builtin url parsing are amazing, we also tested Druid and found Clickhouse to be better than Druid, it is easier to setup and maintain as well
Re:Ask HN: For a startup, when should I begin writing tests? on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:10AM (#21627372)
There are various levels of testing, at an early stage you can write only integration and functional tests, later on when you get time you can write unit tests as well
Re:Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like? on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:00PM (#21521068)
Custom Collector(analytics) -> Clickhouse -> Custom ETL Scripts -> Clickhouse -> Re:dash We tried metabase which is awesome , but Redash is also great and easy to setup as well if your team knows sql then Redash is better We also looked at druid and after some benchmarking we settled on Clickhouse, realtime queries even without etl runs within seconds in clickhouse
Re:Django 2.2 on Monday April 01, 2019 @12:41PM (#19545207)
Awesome ! we at Careers360 (India top 100 Alexa) use Django for everything, the best thing about an Opinionated stack like django is freshers are production ready at day 1, learning time reduces and maintainability is solid , although i prefer golang where frameworks are particularly not favored ,Django ORM surely lacks a lot of features but does a decent job, async story sucks unless you are willing to give in to Channels i hope Django embraces async officially in the core
How does it compares to ClickHouse ? Isnt creating a proprietary Query Language going to be a problem for Adhoc quries? Why create yet another language when the industry is standardizing on SQL or a subset of SQL
Re:SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:37AM (#18776204)
Is there a way to combine screen/tmux with ssh ? like i always need to do some long running tasks over ssh and forget to put it in a screen session, i would like to open each ssh session in a screen session so that when i connect next i should be able to proceed from where i left
How is this different from inline styling ? this throws class inheritance out of the window
Re:Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:11AM (#18176555)
cluster-autoscaler can mange the machines easily, the point is kubernetes is an abstraction layer, using this level of abstraction is upto the user itself. Should i keep going down with container or using the node itself is the question, in production environment it makes all the sense to use something which has the potential to scale infinitely, but for hobby projects mental overhead doesn't justify using k8
Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:23AM (#17521336)
I set a goal to read atleast 3 books a month, so this is my July list: - A mind at play: halfway through ,good read so far Shanon is a legend - The subtle Art of Not Giving a FK : Refreshingly good - Measure What Matters : Using this as a reference for everything now on, good read
Re:The Two Faces of AMP on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:56AM (#16390921)
AMP implementation also sucks, why cant i use !important in css for AMP ? Also try to convert any user generated page to an AMP page and have fun with all the validation errors. AMP might be a good thing for web in general but the way it is handled poorly by google , atleast Facebok Instant Articles dont have that many restrictions
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:22AM (#15830896)
Careers360 | Software Engineer| New Delhi, India | Salary 9-12 L, Onsite

Careers360 is looking for Backend Developers experienced in Python. You must be able to contribute in achieving excellent code quality, implement standard practices and run agile projects.

Responsibilities:

Build customer facing technology product for millions of customers

Work with a performance oriented and highly motivated Engineering team

Develop a high sense of ownership for your code and work closely with Product

Focus on code quality and deliver projects with high business impact

Working in a startup environment pushing boundaries with deep involvement with the business

Required Skillset:

Python (Django), Django Rest Framework

Worked with full text search engines like Elasticsearch, Solr

Experienced in caching technologies like Redis, Memcached

Well versed with continous deployment and integration, Git

Can write clean unit and functional tests

Good to have: AWS Infra management, Docker, Kubernetes skills

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