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New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:47:33 +0000

True, but most would ignore LM if it weren't LLM.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:45:37 +0000

This title might have triggered something in those bots; most of them have sneaky AI SaaS links in their bio.

Honestly, I never expected this post to become so popular. It was just the outcome of a weekend practice session.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:59:50 +0000

OMG! Why didn't I thought fo this first :P

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:57:38 +0000

OMG! You just gave me the next idea..

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:53:03 +0000

Pretty neat! I'll definitely take a deeper look into this.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:51:48 +0000

Uppercase letters were intentionally ignored.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:50:20 +0000

My initial idea was to train a navigation decision model with 25M parameters for a Raspberry Pi, which, in testing, was getting about 60% of tool calls correct. IMO, it seems like around 20M parameters would be a good size for following some narrow & basic language instructions.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:41:16 +0000

It mostly doesn't, at 9M it has very limited capacity. The whole idea of this project is to demonstrate how Language Models work.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:37:48 +0000

I haven't compared it with anything yet. Thanks for the suggestion; I'll look into these.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:36:37 +0000

I intentionally removed all optimizations to keep it vanilla.

Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

armanified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:20:12 +0000

Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food.

Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655408

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New comment by armanified in "Show HN: Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouter"

armanified — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:29:29 +0000

Good to see someone contributing to the Bangla space.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142"

armanified — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:08:38 +0000

A lot was generated with LLM, but not vibe-coded. I have a clear expectation and project plan.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142"

armanified — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:37:02 +0000

JS/TS could actually be my next venture! Would love to hear about your use case to help prioritize features if I build it out.

New comment by armanified in "Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142"

armanified — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:36:21 +0000

Fair concern. Most of these projects are abandoned because keeping up with major browsers' changes is exhausting. I genuinely want to maintain this and plan to update it with major Chrome releases as part of my work depends on it. Things move fast in this space, but I am committed to keeping it functional. I'll do my best to stay on top of it.

Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142

armanified — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:28:24 +0000

BoringSSL and nghttp2. Matches JA3N, JA4, and JA4_R fingerprints. Supports HTTP/2, async/await, and works with Cloudflare-protected sites. Not trying to compete with curl_cffi - just a learning project that turned into something functional.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857312

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