Hacker News: denimboy

New comment by denimboy in "He Earns $1k a Job–and He's a Car Dealer's Worst Nightmare"

denimboy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:26:18 +0000

> Mikula, 33 years old, spent more than a decade selling cars and auto financing at dealerships. Now he deploys his fluency in car-dealer speak and his encyclopedic knowledge of dealer inventory to try to talk down the sticker prices.

I may be over optimistic but "car-dealer speak" sounds like something an AI could be trained on and access to inventory might be a couple of tool calls to the appropriate APIs.

New comment by denimboy in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

denimboy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:30:33 +0000

Should have been called slashBOT

Ape sign language was a bunch of babbling nonsense

denimboy — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:45:58 +0000

Article URL: https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591762

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by denimboy in "Qwen3 Vision Language Embedding Model"

denimboy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:07:46 +0000

images and text embedded into a shared space

Qwen3 Vision Language Embedding Model

denimboy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:07:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-VL-Embedding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560687

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

Craig Newmark backs Global Signal Exchange anti-fraud push

denimboy — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:07:34 +0000

Article URL: https://securitybrief.co.uk/story/craig-newmark-backs-global-signal-exchange-anti-fraud-push

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467549

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Duckduck go offers "pro" subscription plan

denimboy — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:18:48 +0000

Article URL: https://duckduckgo.com/pro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45131170

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by denimboy in "This AI Model Never Stops Learning"

denimboy — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:17:16 +0000

https://archive.is/IE2Cp

New comment by denimboy in "Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024)"

denimboy — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:34:26 +0000

I wonder how this compares to RWKV-V5 7B

https://blog.rwkv.com/p/eagle-7b-soaring-past-transformers

New comment by denimboy in "Think your dog can understand words? This scientist says you might be right"

denimboy — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:00:58 +0000

I knew a dog that had a decent vocabulary. He would visibly react to words like CAR, WALK, or PARK. He also understood PARTY and MEAT and would wag his tail for PART and lick his chops to MEAT. One time we were going to a BBQ so I explained to him we were taking the CAR to a MEAT PARTY and he got super excites, wagging his tail and going to the door all while frothing at the mouth. Anecdotal but it certainly looked like he could synthesize concepts and imagine what was going to happen in the near future.

I've done a few other experiments with my foreign speaking friends and it appeared to me that dogs understand the language their owners speak primarily.

New comment by denimboy in "Advanced Python Development Workflow in Emacs"

denimboy — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:56:07 +0000

This guide explores how to evolve Emacs into a robust Python IDE. Whether you’re writing simple scripts or managing large-scale projects, you’ll find a setup that aligns with your engineering needs and reflects the power of Emacs customization.

Advanced Python Development Workflow in Emacs

denimboy — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.serghei.pl/posts/emacs-python-ide/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42395329

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by denimboy in "Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%"

denimboy — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:09:36 +0000

This is the year of the Linux desktop

Chevron will move its headquarters to Houston

denimboy — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 20:18:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/business/energy-environment/chevron-headquarters-houston.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41142255

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

CalFire incidents map and data (CSV,JSON)

denimboy — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:57:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41114066

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by denimboy in "Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM"

denimboy — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:47:39 +0000

mergekit is the tool you need to do this

  https://github.com/cg123/mergekit

you can slice off layers and blend models with different strategies.

New comment by denimboy in "Are you afraid cuz a good developer can be hired remotly for less your salary?"

denimboy — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 08:32:56 +0000

No because programming is more than typing and more than grinding out code. It requires understanding business and creating solutions which satisfy customer needs which requires understanding of the culture. You aren’t going to get that with some remote hands code monkey.

New comment by denimboy in "Building Text Classifiers: A New Approach with Less Data"

denimboy — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:44:04 +0000

I think they are using the LLM as few shot learner then using that to label the rest of the training data and finally using the now fully labeled data to train a more traditional supervised classifier like DistilBert.

New comment by denimboy in "Salesforce to Hire 3,300 People After Layoffs Earlier This Year"

denimboy — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 03:58:08 +0000

Sell 5500 to depress the market and then buy back at depressed price.

New comment by denimboy in "NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool"

denimboy — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 01:49:40 +0000

Keras-ocr