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disconnection

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    Show HN: Toy Python Lisp interpreters based on the 1960 McCarthy paper

    I wrote this set of Python files to try to help programmers understand the original LISP paper, assuming zero mathematical or Lisp knowledge. The original paper is a mind-blowing p…

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    Still waiting on a reply and the logs so I can do forensics on this incident. IMO the response from Railway should have been: "all hands on deck, red alert, worst imaginable securi…

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    Good that he worked it out so quick. I recently spent a day debugging email problems on Railway PaaS, because they silently closed an SMTP port without telling anyone.

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    I have a hierarchy of templates, where I can automatically swap out parts of the prompt based on which LLM I am using. And also have a set of benchmarking tests to compare relative…

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    It seems you have good intentions with this system and want to do something positive for children, but I am currently listening to this podcast. I think it would be wise to explici…

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    Comment #38193659

    Lol, don't care; I run my own models locally .

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    Comment #37686974

    Yup - SwiftUI is pretty immature still, so I use the latest iOS17 to get the latest features to make development simpler. For example, handling in-app purchases is hugely easier in…

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    Comment #37677936

    oops, high-pass filter.

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    Comment #37673098

    Cheers! Yes, I recommend it - it's a lot of fun. There are probably easier to install and better LLM models than mine for home use. But my project should work if you have enough Py…

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    Q: What is a dog? A: To get a frog. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: Because it was Sunday. With "Q: " as a prompt, it will make its own jokes: Q: How do you cross a race …

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    Comment #37672924

    Awesome! I didn't want to go for 100% sleep-inducing sounds; hopefully it works as general background ambience.

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    I just went really far into the nature, away from main roads or human habitation. I use wind muffs to cut wind noise, and sometimes a low-pass filter to cut out any very distant tr…

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    Show HN: MyGPT a toy LLM which can be trained on Project Gutenberg and dad jokes

    My puny version of ChatGPT. This was based on the excellent LLM lecture series by Andrej Karpathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY The main points of differentiation ar…

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    Show HN: I recorded nature sounds for a year, then released an ambient sound app

    There are lots of ambient sound apps on the App Store, but they all seem to be paywalled. I thought I should make one where all the content was free. I bought a secondhand professi…

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    From my own research, I would say that 4 days is still too much in many cases: http://www.disconnectionist.com/blog/becoming-a-part-time-su...

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    Comment #20024678

    That is a scarily fast time for someone to try to exploit it.

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    Comment #19761251

    Technical proposal and grant writing. If you team up with people from disciplines other than programming+architecture, who can each deal with different aspects of the one proposal,…