Hacker News: cpetersen

New comment by cpetersen in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

cpetersen — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:05:37 +0000

I've been working on Red Candle, a Ruby gem that runs LLMs (Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Phi) directly in your Ruby process through Rust bindings (based on the candle crate from Hugging Face). No Python, no servers - just FFI with Metal/CUDA acceleration.

It's been useful for adding AI features to Rails apps without the complexity of managing separate services. Would love feedback from anyone working with LLMs in Ruby.

GitHub: https://github.com/assaydepot/red-candle

Show HN: Red Candle – Run LLMs Natively in Ruby with Rust

cpetersen — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:45:04 +0000

It's been useful for adding AI features to Rails apps without the complexity of managing separate services. Would love feedback from anyone working with LLMs in Ruby.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44710297

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by cpetersen in "'Dark Money' Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks"

cpetersen — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 04:21:33 +0000

110M to 50 firms over 5 years is about 440k/year/firm. That’s roughly 2, maybe 3 FTEs on average. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan and averages can hide a lot, but that’s not exactly swimming in foreign money either.

Markov bot trained use Jeb Bush's emails

cpetersen — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:20:15 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jebsemails

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9046552

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Quantcast's traffic spikes as Rap Genius traffic falls

cpetersen — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 04:38:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantcast.com/quantcast.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983062

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

What I learned from hitting the front page of HN

cpetersen — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:41:16 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.everblog.me/posts/359-what-i-learned-from-hitting-the-front-page-of-hacker-news

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570838

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cpetersen in "Show HN: Everblog, Blog directly from Evernote"

cpetersen — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:06:08 +0000

I'd love to take a look at pistachio, I didn't see it either.

I'm glad you like the idea, that's exactly why I created it. You can use the Evernote webclipper to clip articles and the site uses embedly to add rich content automatically. I'll have a screencast on how to use it to create a link blog in the coming days.

New comment by cpetersen in "Show HN: Everblog, Blog directly from Evernote"

cpetersen — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:03:17 +0000

I'm sorry for the error. I shouldn't have submitted it to hacker news right before leaving for a meeting. Lesson learned, it's fixed now.

The reason, in case anyone is interested: the footer shows the most recent posts. Someone created some posts that contained data that I wasn't expecting. That caused the footer to raise an error. I removed the recent posts from the footer (from my phone, before the meeting) and the site returned to normal.

I'm really sorry for the error, but I learned something from it, so thank you!

PS, existing blogs weren't affected, it was only the homepage.

Show HN: Everblog, Blog directly from Evernote

cpetersen — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:18:28 +0000

Article URL: http://everblog.me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5551580

Points: 12

# Comments: 9

[infographic] Biotech innovation and investment around the globe

cpetersen — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:23:23 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.assaydepot.com/biorhythm-a-comprehensive-look-at-worldwide-i

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3254108

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Southwest to buy Airtran

cpetersen — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:29:31 +0000

Article URL: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/SouthwestAirTran-deal-means-apf-591140265.html?x=0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737607

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cpetersen in "Single Line CSS"

cpetersen — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:49:06 +0000

Love it, I've been using the single line technique for about 6 months now (I used multi-line for years prior). It's definitely easier to scan.

New comment by cpetersen in "Flash vs HTML 5"

cpetersen — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:36:07 +0000

This article seems to miss the point.

First, it starts off talking about the iPad and how Flash may not be the CPU hog its made out to be. It then goes on to say that HTML5 is more efficient than Flash in Safari. The iPad runs Safari, in effect contradicting their previous argument about the iPad.

Next, they say that Apple could allow Adobe to make Flash faster, all they have to do is open up access to the hardware APIs. Who exactly wants a browser plugin to have low level access to the hardware APIs?

Seems kind of ridiculous to say that something else is at work here. Does Apple want to kill Flash? Probably, but even if they didn't want to, they've got plenty of reasons not to allow flash on the iPhone/iPad/etc.

New comment by cpetersen in "No. You Can’t Pick My Brain."

cpetersen — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:56:20 +0000

I have to disagree. I find the more I share ideas and advice, the more I get in return. The free flow of ideas benefits the giver as well as the receiver. As an added bonus, the more good advice I can give and the more ideas I can share, the more ideas and advice come my way.

You could make an argument that once you've "made it" this exchange becomes asymmetrical. However, I'm grateful for those interactions I've had with people who have "made it" and wouldn't begrudge that to others when/if I have.

I'm reminded of a quote from Howard Aiken:

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

New comment by cpetersen in "Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework"

cpetersen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:47:01 +0000

Work's now.

New comment by cpetersen in "Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework"

cpetersen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:47:13 +0000

Anyone else having trouble viewing this using YouTube's HTML5 viewer?