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New comment by brokensegue in "Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions"

brokensegue — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:30:45 +0000

there are models between 2-grams and 600m param models that would be good options. i don't expect a 2-gram to do very well here. also i'm not sure why this model isn't a fine choice if it solves their problem

New comment by brokensegue in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"

brokensegue — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:34:27 +0000

you should link your data to wikidata which will get you free connection back to crunchbase and other sources e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97041185

You could even back some of the data from there

New comment by brokensegue in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

brokensegue — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:01:57 +0000

EU tried to ban tracking cookies. Anyone could've seen the result coming (every site now disrupts your reading). The defeatist attitude would've been right there.

I don't see how games won't just charge you a $0.01 "subscription" that lasts 5 years or various other such sidesteps. it'll just make everything more annoying.

New comment by brokensegue in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

brokensegue — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:26:31 +0000

anyone have a free photo for wikipedia?

New comment by brokensegue in "Babel-USB: USB drive with every file"

brokensegue — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:06:51 +0000

Using mtp takes away some of the magic for me

New comment by brokensegue in "Waymo Premier"

brokensegue — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:39:27 +0000

i assumed it's for influencers who want to make a video of the new city or something

New comment by brokensegue in "ESP32-S31"

brokensegue — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:48:56 +0000

Amusingly you just conflated the pico (a dev board) with its chip (rp2040)

New comment by brokensegue in "Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain"

brokensegue — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:37:19 +0000

Then maybe caveat your posts with that

New comment by brokensegue in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

brokensegue — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:25:58 +0000

ah. I missed that.

New comment by brokensegue in "Disagreement Among Frontier LLMs on Real-World Fact-Checks"

brokensegue — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:58:58 +0000

were you involved in making the study? your bio says you work for them so you should probably indicate that in your comments.

lack of agreement when there is no singular correct answer (or any answer at all) isn't a useful metric

I ran into a lot of these kinds of issues when working on the Citation Needed WMF project (and related extensions). Truth is so often very nuanced.

New comment by brokensegue in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

brokensegue — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:23:00 +0000

yeah i really don't like the corpus of statements and it makes me doubt lenz. consider

> “Artificial intelligence will cause widespread job loss among software engineers.”

https://lenz.io/c/ai-software-engineers-job-loss-impact-05e4...

this is a statement about the future. who knows? dataset also includes

> Robots will not replace human teachers in schools in the near future.

> Papua New Guinea has very few female members of parliament.

what counts as very few?

> “Taurine supplementation supports mood and emotional health in humans.”

why is this labeled as misleading? i'm not even sure when I'm supposed to use the misleading label

> Anaximander was the first scientist in recorded history.

this is a judgement call as the term scientist didn't exist.

the claims that feel actually solidly answerable seem to have much better LLM performance

New comment by brokensegue in "Tesla Cybertruck driver arrested after driving into lake to use 'wade mode'"

brokensegue — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:06:49 +0000

Most jeeps never go off-road

New comment by brokensegue in "The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work"

brokensegue — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:08:04 +0000

I think the problem isn't that people don't care. It's that checking is expensive. "Only $15" isn't trivial when there's tons of claims floating around. And even when you do it people return with complaints and you'll have to redo it (see the other comments here).

New comment by brokensegue in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

brokensegue — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:52:14 +0000

jython has been basically unmaintained for quite some time

Wikimap: A Map of Wikipedia

brokensegue — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:50:58 +0000

Article URL: https://wikimap.wiki/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098232

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by brokensegue in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

brokensegue — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:40:44 +0000

Their variable cost is (basically) the number of tokens. They increased that. I don't get how that saves them money

Show HN: Experimental app for remixing and sharing Wikipedia content

brokensegue — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:11:04 +0000

I work on Wikipedia’s Future Audiences team, where we try to reach new readers and editors. We built a small experiment: an iOS app where users can remix Wikipedia content into digital scrapbooks.

- All of the content comes from Wikimedia projects (even the “stickers”).

- We want to learn whether people might be interested in remixing Wikimedia content for themselves or for sharing with friends or on social platforms.

If you're not on iOS you can see a gif of the creation experience: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Sunflowe....

This is a very early alpha (invite-only, limited to <100 users). So far in the app, you can:

- Create scrapbooks from Wikipedia topics using text and images from Wikipedia

- Add gifs, stickers, and sounds from freely-licensed Wikimedia content

- Share your scrapbooks as a video or set of static images

See some sample scrapbooks we’ve made, and the books you’ve created You won’t be able to see scrapbooks that other users are making (and other app users won’t be able to see yours), but we have some lightweight “liking” functionality and you might see some “likes” on your scrapbooks from our team.

Would love thoughts from HN, especially if you’ve seen other attempts at reformatting Wikipedia or educational content.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784570

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by brokensegue in "Peptides: where to begin?"

brokensegue — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:41:31 +0000

You can freeze and concentrate a substance without chemically altering it

New comment by brokensegue in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

brokensegue — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:37:23 +0000

none of that is censorship

New comment by brokensegue in "I Quit Editing Photos"

brokensegue — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:06:20 +0000

I think b/w film has a different grain than color. It isn't identical to grayscale color