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Afaict these are separate events
I don't why I would want to stare at vibecoded UI and an ad to relax
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:19AM (#49573301)
Yeah, stopped reading after the first paragraph. It's really so disrespectful to your audience.

Show HN: Generate a /mu/ style essentials chart for your last.fm history

https://mymuguide.site/

Check out mine here:https://mymuguide.site/examplehttps://files.catbox.moe/n453mi.png___There's a shareable link and you can configure style/display settings and export to one of those classic ultra-long images. Just built for fun -- some costs incurred per generation so it'll work as long as the site credit pool is sufficient :)

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Really fun to fly around, find my old apartment building etc.

It would be neat if you could drag and click to select an area to inpaint. Let's see everyone's new Penn Station designs!

Would guess it'd have to be BYOK but it works pretty well:

https://i.imgur.com/EmbzThl.jpeg

Much better than trying to inpaint directly on Google Earth data

Show HN: Inflow – invoke an LLM with your viewport just by typing

https://github.com/cboRD181/Inflow

Hey HN, I built this simple tool for fun over the weekend after getting tired of breaking my flow to copy and paste what I was reading in a Claude tab.My goal was to make the process as frictionless as possible so you don't expend cognitive load thinking about the tool. To that end, there are no hotkeys or buttons to initiate the chat widget, the extension just detects natural language as you...

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Re:Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:03PM (#44408187)
I'd push back on a couple things here.

The notion that Scale AI's data is of secondary value to Wang seems wrong: data-labeling in the era of agentic RL is more sophisticated than the pejorative view of outsourcing mechanical turk work at slave wages to third world workers, it's about expert demonstrations and work flows, the shape of which are highly useful for deducing the sorts of RL environments frontier labs are using for post-training. This is likely the primary motivator.

> LLMs are pretty easy to make, lots of people know how to do it — you learn how in any CS program worth a damn.

This also doesn't cohere with my understanding. There's only a few hundred people in the world that can train competitive models at scale, and the process is laden with all sorts of technical tricks and trade secrets. It's what made the deepseek reports and results so surprising. I don't think the toy neural network one gets assigned to create in an undergrad course is a helpful comparison.

Relatedly, the idea that progress in ML is largely stochastic and so horizontal orgs are the only sensible structure seems like a weird conclusion to draw from the record. Saying Schmidhuber is a one hit wonder, or "The LLM paper was written basically entirely by folks for whom "Attention is All You Need" is their singular claim to fame" neglects a long history of foundational contributions in the case of the former, and misses the prolific contributions of Shazeer in the latter. Alec Radford is another notable omission as a consistent superstar researcher. To the point about organizational structure, OpenAI famously made concentrated bets contra the decentralized experimentation of Google and kicked off this whole race. Deepmind is significantly more hierarchical than Brain was and from comments by Pichai, that seemed like part of the motivation for the merger.

The huggingface spaces link doesn't work, fyi.

Sounds awesome in the demo page though.

Re:An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @05:51PM (#42872343)
> I highly doubt you are getting novel, high quality data.

Why wouldn't you? Presumably the end user would try their use case on the existing model, and if it performs well, wouldn't bother with the expense of setting up an RL environment specific to their task.

If it doesn't perform well, they do bother, and they have all the incentive in the world to get the verifier right -- which is not an extraordinarily sophisticated task if you're only using rules-based outcome rewards (as R1 and R1-Zero do)

My understanding is they built a performant suite of simulation tools from the ground up, and then they expose those tools via API to an "agent" that can compose them to accomplish the user's ask. It's probably less general than the prompt interface implies, but still seems incredibly useful.
Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:38AM (#41297735)
Searching Spotify for user created playlists is still probably your best bet. Youtube has some good results too.

Here are two that might fit what you're looking for:

'90s K-pop: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mnmq7HC68SVXcW710LsG0?si=...

'00s minimal techno: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mnmq7HC68SVXcW710LsG0?si=...

There are sites to convert from spotify to another service if you don't have it.

Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:45PM (#41296293)
No, but it's also biased toward their commercial partners. From this page [0], detailing their recommendation process:

> How do commercial considerations impact recommendations?

> [...] In some cases, commercial considerations, such as the cost of content or whether we can monetize it, may influence our recommendations. For example, Discovery Mode gives artists and labels the opportunity to identify songs that are a priority for them, and our system will add that signal to the algorithms that determine the content of personalized listening sessions. When an artist or label turns on Discovery Mode for a song, Spotify charges a commission on streams of that song in areas of the platform where Discovery Mode is active.

So Spotify's incentivized to coerce listening behavior towards contemporary artists that vaguely match your tastes, so they can collect the commission. This explains why it's essentially impossible to keep the algorithm in a historical era or genre -- even if well defined, and seeded with a playlist full of songs that fit the definition. It also explains why the "shuffle" button now defaults to "smart shuffle" so they can insert "recommended" (read: commission-generating) songs into your playlist.

[0]: https://www.spotify.com/ca-en/safetyandprivacy/understanding...

Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models on Monday August 19, 2024 @06:24PM (#41295069)
It may just be my perception, but I seem to have noticed this steering becoming a lot more heavy handed on Spotify.

If I try to play any music from a historical genre, it's only about 3 or 4 autoplays before it's queued exclusively contemporary artists, usually performing a cheap pastiche of the original style. It's honestly made the algorithm unusable, to the point that I built a CLI tool that lets me get recommendations from Claude conversationally, and adds them to my queue via api. It's limited by Claude's relatively shallow ability to retrieve from the vast library on these streaming services, but it's still better than the alternative.

Hoping someone makes a model specifically for conversational music DJing, it's really pretty magical when it's working well.

Yeah they absolutely do not use the pile.
"Hawk-3B exceeds the reported performance of Mamba-3B (Gu and Dao, 2023) on downstream tasks, despite being trained on half as many tokens. Griffin-7B and Griffin-14B match the performance of Llama-2 (Touvron et al., 2023) despite being trained on roughly 7 times fewer tokens."
Re:Neural Network Diffusion on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:31PM (#39458364)

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