Hacker News: Swinx43

New comment by Swinx43 in "Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations"

Swinx43 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:33:01 +0000

I live in the UK. Please for the love of all that is sweet and holy DO THIS! The only way our politicians will learn is if the public outcry is so fierce it makes them fear for their jobs.

A UK internet blockade might just get this going.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

Swinx43 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:30:11 +0000

The writing perpetuates the anthropomorphising of these agents. If you view the agent as simply a program that is given a goal to achieve and tools to achieve it with, without any higher order “thought” or “thinking”, then you realise it is simply doing what it is “programmed” to do. No magic, just a drone fixed on an outcome.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9"

Swinx43 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 06:33:25 +0000

Absolutely fantastic!! I love Botswana. I spent quite a lot of time in Gaborone for work. Growing up my home town was 80 kilometres from the Botswana border and we regularly visited friends there. I am so happy to see this news. Botswana has a special place in my heart. Well done Botswana! I can’t wait to see what else comes next.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Show HN: Robyn – "Batman Inspired" Python Web Framework Built with Rust"

Swinx43 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:16:37 +0000

The comic book hero

Show HN: Modelsmith – Yet another LLM entity extractor

Swinx43 — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:22:06 +0000

I made a thing!!! Yes I know I should not be that excited but it feels great to release something.

I have been busy building a RevOps partner in thought chat bot that uses an agentic framework to get different types of information to our users. (Gotta love the new word salad we have today ;D )

As part of this work we needed to do entity extraction from text and get Python types or Pydantic models back. We are using Google's Vertax AI and nothing out there existed for it at the time. So I took inspiration from other Python packages and built Modelsmith.

Over time it has evolved to now support Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, and Open AI APIs.

It is designed to be simple to use and also simple to understand the code base.

Hopefully it is of use to someone else out there.

(PS be gentle in the comments Hacker News ;) Feedback is always appreciated)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40993575

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New comment by Swinx43 in "Anthropic Introduces Claude Projects"

Swinx43 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:27:11 +0000

I second using Cody. It has been great for me. Being able to change models is fantastic.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

Swinx43 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:30:38 +0000

https://blog.christoolivier.com

I write mainly about data engineering and data related topics, albeit very sporadic.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers"

Swinx43 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:53:41 +0000

Your troll craft is somewhat lacking

New comment by Swinx43 in "Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter"

Swinx43 — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:02:23 +0000

Your observations are spot on. People are different and thus handle temperatures differently. The bit about humidity is absolutely 100% in line with my experience. I could handle -11 degrees C in Germany with clothing that would leave me freezing in the UK at -2 degrees C.

The same goes for handling heat and humidity. I grew up with average temps of 35 degrees C in a dry climate. It was not a problem at all. 28 degrees in high humidity I find unbearable.

New comment by Swinx43 in "IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’"

Swinx43 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:05:45 +0000

That is unfortunately not correct. I grew up in a commonwealth country, have travelled to many others, and now live in the UK. Not a single person I know in either country has even the faintest idea what Fahrenheit numbers mean for temperature. It is never used in any way in these countries.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Hector Martin: we care about fixing Linux problems on Asahi"

Swinx43 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 09:35:23 +0000

I have no idea where you have been hanging out on mastodon. My experience has been the polar opposite of yours. I have had more thoughtful conversations and interactions on mastodon in two months than what I had in many multiple years on other platforms.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now"

Swinx43 — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:27:21 +0000

I just came to offer my sympathies. That sucks in ways few will understand. Please tell me you have been spared from using Microsoft Teams...

New comment by Swinx43 in "How to estimate an SSD’s working life"

Swinx43 — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:37:14 +0000

This is the exact reason I am currently very uncomfortable with the idea of a new Macbook Pro for my own business use.

On the one had it absolutely makes life a lot easier and all the software I need runs great on it. On the other I would by buying into a device I simply cannot upgrade or maintain myself. This makes me extremely uncomfortable.

I dont want to run Windows as a daily driver since it is really jarring for my personal workflow etc. Yet Linux lacks quite a few of the essential pieces of software I need outside of development. E.g. (Krisp.AI, Reincubate Camo etc)

Rock <--> Hard Place

New comment by Swinx43 in "Take a break"

Swinx43 — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:41:05 +0000

I think it is impossible to understand how much additional stress and anxiety being a parent of small children bring without being in that position.

I refer to it as the best kept secret of parenthood. No one tells you this until you are in it.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?"

Swinx43 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:46:15 +0000

World War Z, the movie is far removed from the book and simply does not compare.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?"

Swinx43 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:40:59 +0000

I second this! Absolutely love this book

New comment by Swinx43 in "Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform"

Swinx43 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:17:07 +0000

The problem with MVPs is that they are effectively Microsoft sponsored marketing outlets. I know a few of them personally and they are great people but damn have they drunk the kool-aid.

New comment by Swinx43 in "The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night (2020)"

Swinx43 — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:37:17 +0000

I concur. I lived in London for 11 years and every cab I ever took the cabbie was always friendly and chatty.

Only if you get in and clear show you don’t want to talk will they refrain from engaging you in a conversation.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Is Web3 a Scam?"

Swinx43 — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:00:34 +0000

But it does apply to a lot, if not most, of the popular “crypto” out there.

New comment by Swinx43 in "Is Web3 a Scam?"

Swinx43 — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 11:42:41 +0000

Only until your wallet(s) address become known and then every single transaction you have ever made is visible to the state. This is the least “hidden” system on the planet.