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New comment by donfuzius in "Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street"

donfuzius — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:14:05 +0000

Nice, and awesome that it works internationally. One little feature request: provide an .ics download, so that I can add a calendar event, add a link to the original calculation to the the calendar entry.

New comment by donfuzius in "Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents"

donfuzius — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:23:56 +0000

Something like this has been on my mind for a while. When using LLMs for coding I believe it is a significant benefit, if the amount of lines to be reviewed by humans is as small as possible. An app, which is not much more than a configuration in a dense, custom made DSL with minimal coding to specify business logic would be the simplest artifact that a human can review quickly and an LLM can manipulate with ease (provided there's good docs / linting / errors / maybe even a finetuned model at some point).

Everything which just works "by convention" or by "opinionated defaults" (allowing a tightly coupled but very feature rich framework) helps to reduce the noise / lines that needs to be reviewed.

While this approach might not be optimal for every project, I'm certain the opinionated defaults can work for many endeavours. And the reduction of complexity might be one important aspect, which can make an "agentically engineered" project sustainable.

New comment by donfuzius in "OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment [pdf]"

donfuzius — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 07:32:55 +0000

This is not about copyright but about the OpenAI terms of use that you agree to when you use ChatGPT or the API, which forbids using the output to build «competing models».

New comment by donfuzius in "OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment [pdf]"

donfuzius — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 21:12:27 +0000

It's awesome that the OpenAssistant project made it this far with a lot of crowed-sourced input. Congrats to the whole team that works really hard trying to create a truly open LLM.

One thing that puzzles me though, is that for the GPT-3.5 comparison, the model used is trained using both OpenAssistant and alpaca data, which is not free due to the OpenAI license used to generate the data. Isn't that defeating the purpose?

"... Completions were generated using pythia-12b-deduped fine-tuned on the OpenAssistant and Alpaca [9] dataset as well as gpt-3.5-turbo using the OpenAI API..."

New comment by donfuzius in "Bloom's 2 sigma problem"

donfuzius — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:52:22 +0000

Wow, I think it's truly amazing that it seems like ChatGPT is the only one in the room mentioning, that «creating a supportive learning environment, building relationships with students» is key to success. I haven't read Bloom's paper in detail, but to me it seems very obvious, that the relationship aspect of 1:1 tutoring is a huge factor in the equation, which (as the AI rightly states), cannot be replaced by better machines.

New comment by donfuzius in "All About Libpas, Phil's Super Fast Malloc"

donfuzius — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:23:41 +0000

This looks awesome and I really like the tone of the documentation. Great work! At the same time I'm sort of worried, that such a deep change in the memory management of my day-to-day browser opens up a significant security risk for a considerable time, until new bugs are found and closed. I'm sure this got more than one pair of eyes at apple, but I'd really welcome a specific bug bounty on such a change...

New comment by donfuzius in "Sonobus: Open-source app for low latency peer-to-peer audio"

donfuzius — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:47:32 +0000

Nice. My mind is circling around audio use cases these days (thanks Clubhouse ;-)). There is definitely a lot of untapped potential and tools like these make it easy to prototype ideas.