Viewing profile — kirurik
kirurik
HN member- Joined
- Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 9:54 AM UTC
- HN karma
- 8
- Public activity
- 16 items
- HN profile
- View on Hacker News ↗
About kirurik
All comments and mistakes are my own.
GitHub: https://github.com/Kena-Njonge Substack: https://substack.com/@kena540200
Recent public activity
-
comment
Comment #46632508
You can run some models pretty decently using CPU inference only, things like Gemma 3 that are built for exactly that use case or some tiny speech to text models via llama.cpp that…
-
comment
Comment #46632421
Thank you for replying to me and recommending a feature - that I didnt know about!
-
comment
Comment #46486579
Saving this
-
comment
Comment #45723595
I agree, I think there is such a thing as AI overuse, but I would rather someone uses AI to form their points more succinctly than for them to write something that I can't understa…
-
comment
Comment #45723477
To be fair, you are assuming that the input wasn't garbage to begin with. Maybe you only notice it because it is obvious. Just like someone would only notice machine translation if…
-
story
Show HN: Osync – A Git and rsync tool for local syncing and backups
Hey everyone, I made a small tool called osync, a setup that uses Git and rsync to sync and back up directories between devices. It started as a personal experiment to sync my Obsi…
-
comment
Comment #45611894
True, it is meaningless how good one is at vimgolf if it doesn't flow naturally
-
comment
Comment #45519991
I did the neovim tutorial which I accessed via :Tutor, I see now that vimtutor has some divergences, I will do that tutorial also, to improve my muscle memory and knowledge. Thanks…
-
comment
Comment #45518574
I'm currently learning vim and usign neovim, coming from VScode, wondering how y'all learned it if you made a similar switch, how long it took to learn and your opinions on purely …
- story
-
comment
Comment #45139686
It seems obvious, but I hadn't thought about it like that yet, I just assumed that the LLM was finetuned to be overly optimistic about any user input. Very elucidating.
-
comment
Comment #45078466
True, and many not so intelligent people may overestimate their intelligence and do it. So maybe it does somehow end up being representative.
-
comment
Comment #45077711
The self-selection bias is definitely something to consider. I’d guess people who feel relatively confident in their intelligence are more likely to take the test.
- story
-
comment
Comment #45049173
There definitely is an element of shooting oneself in ones own foot, but sometimes it seems unavoidable to me, or the effort just isn't worth it e.g. if I am using sklearn or numpy…
-
comment
Comment #45024452
I am not an experienced programmer, but I liked python because of the dynamic typing, but tbh no type hints are a nightmare (as I used to use python). These days I gravitate toward…