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Optimizing XGBoost Machine Learning Models with AI Agents

earino — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:12:56 +0000

Article URL: https://szilard.github.io/xgboost-autoresearch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803617

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by earino in "Claude.ai down"

earino — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:10:10 +0000

Claude going down is how I know I can start messaging with my west coast friends.

New comment by earino in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

earino — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:56:29 +0000

Hello Boris! How do I increase the 1 hour prompt cache window for the main agent? I would love to be able to set that to, say, 4 hours. That gives me enough time to work on something, go teach a class, grab a snack, and come back and pick up where I left off.

New comment by earino in "Vibe coding kills open source"

earino — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:57:34 +0000

Two of the authors are engaging on bluesky regarding the "clickbaityness" of the paper:

https://bsky.app/profile/gaborbekes.bsky.social/post/3md4rga...

(Note, I receive a thanks in the paper.)

New comment by earino in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

earino — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:25:15 +0000

What joy to bump into you in the comments section! I definitely preferred 5 minutes past, but my calendar was pretty awful.

What was really awful, however, was when your calendar was a random mishmash of starts at :00, :05, :30 and :35 :-)

New comment by earino in "AI Prompts for Nonprofit Professionals"

earino — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:28:23 +0000

Built this over the weekend with my wife using Claude Code. Github repo for site is here: https://github.com/earino/nonprofit-ai and github repo for prompt testing harness is here: https://github.com/earino/prompt-harness

Was a really fun weekend project!

AI Prompts for Nonprofit Professionals

earino — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://nonprofit.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45811282

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by earino in "Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude"

earino — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:14:02 +0000

Follow up question, can the diff apply and fix json models be run locally as well with octofriend, or do they have to hit your servers? Thanks!

New comment by earino in "Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude"

earino — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:34:43 +0000

Ok wonderful! Thanks.

I'm trying to set it up right now with lmstudio with qwen3-coder-30b. Hopefully it's going to work. Happy to take any pointers on anything y'all have tried that seemed particularly promising.

New comment by earino in "Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude"

earino — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:25:47 +0000

This looks very interesting. I wish it came with some guides for using it with a local LLM. I have an MBP with 128gb of ram and I have been trying to find a local open source coding agent. This feels like it could be the thing.

New comment by earino in "Largest punk archive to find new home at MTSU's Center for Popular Music"

earino — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:13:49 +0000

As a proud graduate of MTSU's CS department, I'm so happy to see my school listed here. Even back in the 1990s when I attended there, everyone knew the recording industry program was something special. For a small to medium town, Murfreesboro had an incredible music scene.

I loved getting my bachelor's degree there. Best 9 years of my life :-D

New comment by earino in "Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi"

earino — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 09:26:54 +0000

This was a really enjoyable couple of minutes. I was able to find some of the more ancient cities I've visited (Ceuta, for example), and see how they're represented.

Now that we've seen how quickly digitized information becomes un-usuable, it's interesting to reflect that the actual physical Mappa Mundi will far outlive (barring fires/disasters) any of it's digital reflections.

New comment by earino in "The case for single-stair multifamily"

earino — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:34:43 +0000

I now live in a 4 story building in Spain and I too miss having BBQs.

New comment by earino in "The case for single-stair multifamily"

earino — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:32:15 +0000

What a wonderful article.

I've lived in single family homes and apartments in USA, Switzerland and Spain. I never understood why the apartment buildings in the USA felt so different, and now it makes sense. Even in my 15 story apartment in Zurich, there was a single stair. It made the apartment layouts much better, made it easier to make apartments with a lot more light, and many of the things this article talks about.

Now I live in Spain in a building from the 1960s. A 4 story apartment building, retrofitted in the 1980s with a tiny elevator. It's a really efficient design, though my wife and I have discussed that from an accessibility standpoint, it leaves a lot to be desired.

Now I understand the constraints of apartment designers in the USA a bit better!

New comment by earino in "Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI"

earino — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:32:15 +0000

ChatGPT now has the ability to do web browsing to search for recent events!

https://chat.openai.com/share/c35e3fd1-d94e-477b-a331-b14384...

New comment by earino in "Istanbul's blue tile paradise"

earino — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:26:24 +0000

I was in Istanbul recently, and what surprised me was the absolute depth of the cities attractions. I stayed in the Kadıköy and Sultanahmet districts, and it was so incredible to walk through a society which had been Monkey Patched through millennia. The runtime behavior of the objects, streets, buildings and the city had been adapted time and time again. Roman temples becoming Churches becoming Mosques becoming Museums, sometimes simply with some new tiles or a freshly laid down carpet. Each layer rich in artifacts. My favorite attraction was the Great Palace Mosaics Museum, some of the most detailed and vibrant mosaics I had ever seen. I hope to return soon.

New comment by earino in "Launched my first mobile app after learning to code for the past 9 months"

earino — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:29:52 +0000

Congratulations for getting this done. A very small percentage of folks who want to do this actually do it.

My constructive feedback is that the app asked me to register immediately. I didn't really get an idea of why I would get value from it.

Consider giving me a little tour or letting me browse before I have to give you my email address? Thanks and good luck!

New comment by earino in "Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022"

earino — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:41:38 +0000

> Did you know that you can save ~$62,000 per year per company you work for, tax free (or deferred)?

Do you happen to have a link or pointers?

New comment by earino in "How popular is COBOL?"

earino — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:07:20 +0000

No worries at all, again thanks for the pointers!

New comment by earino in "How popular is COBOL?"

earino — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:49:42 +0000

Amazing! Thank you so much for pointing this out to me. It's basically exactly what I hoped to find :-)