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thomasm6m6

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    Comment #48144794

    FYI, llama.cpp (which antirez/ds4 is inspired by) supports system ram. E.g. [1] is a good guide for running a similar-sized model with 128gb ram and a 3090-sized GPU. [1] https://u…

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    Comment #47774632

    And OpenCode just added `opencode export --sanitize` for PII redaction https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/releases/tag/v1.4.4

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    Comment #47773470

    There's https://github.com/badlogic/pi-share-hf by the creator of pi-coding-agent, to redact session data and publish on Huggingface. You can find others of the same idea for Claud…

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    Comment #46628150

    post title should be dated. earliest archive.org snapshot is from 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20180501000000*/https://www.medi...

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    Comment #46215189

    script is here: https://github.com/vtomnet/hn35/blob/main/generate.py the prompt indeed began with "We are working on a fun project to create a humorous imagining of what the Hacke…

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    Comment #46214673

    > A 100% Rust kernel is now upstream in Linux 7.4 the future predicted by gemini is already coming true; from 3 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585 >: "Rust ...…

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    Comment #46214472

    re: image gen, have you seen the more recent models? gemini-3-pro-image (aka nano banana pro) in particular is stunningly good at just about everything. examples: https://vtom.net/…

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    Comment #46213914

    oh, didn't realize it required login. it's an implementation of the "llm simulates a world as you go" idea. screenshots and twitter for context: https://sw.vtom.net/tmp/worldsim1.p…

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    Comment #46212483

    thanks! here's the script for reference: https://github.com/vtomnet/hn35/blob/main/generate.py

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    Comment #46212445

    wow that's cool. didn't expect an llm could make that complex of a ui. it's giving me flashbacks to simulating reddit threads with llama in early 2023

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    Comment #46212335

    Now I'm curious to try something more real-time. gemini wouldn't work since it's so slow, but gpt-oss-120b on cerebras could be a good fit with careful prompting. might do this aft…

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    Comment #46212312

    Ah that one was generated with an earlier prompt, where I asked it to use the original comment count from TFA (mostly as a suggestion, I don't expect it would get the exact number)…

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    Comment #46212269

    good point. some of the comments actually do have >1 children, e.g. a few here ( https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/item.html?id=90098555 ), but it'd be better if more random

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    Comment #46212180

    Here it is: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html I downloaded the original article page, had claude extract the submission info to json, then wrote a script (by hand ;) to run feed e…

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    Comment #45976152

    https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/release/v0.... > For Google AI Ultra subscribers and paid Gemini and Vertex API key holders, Gemini 3 Pro is already available and …

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    Comment #45509130

    2.5 Flash Lite replaced 2.0 Flash Lite which replaced 1.5 Flash 8B, so one might suspect 2.5 Flash Lite is well under 50B

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    Comment #45184006

    On iOS at least, there is a “Sort replies > latest” option which is strictly chronological

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    Comment #45072329

    OpenAI’s o3 was big on en dashes—one time it produced a Deep Research result containing >200 of them. I’m not aware of any other LLM using them commonly, though. I’d guess humans u…

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    Comment #44551340

    Much of the article resembles chatgptese... though I suppose for adslop it doesn't matter whether it's written by a human or an llm