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New comment by intoXbox in "Show HN: Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

intoXbox — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:05:56 +0000

This has factored out product development, which is more than compute resources. Just like any industry, some organisation needs to take ownership and responsibility to convert technology to a usable product.

New comment by intoXbox in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

intoXbox — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:30:22 +0000

That only tells what base architecture they used, but fine tuning does not increase the number of weights, it just adapts the weights to improve better on a fine tuning dataset- something they claimed they had done

New comment by intoXbox in "Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor"

intoXbox — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:06:05 +0000

Nice tool. I like the local approach. I think a nice feature would be to remove all PII from documents, so that users can redact PDFs and upload to their favourite LLM.

New comment by intoXbox in "CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering"

intoXbox — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:11:29 +0000

They used a custom neural net with autoencoders, which contain convolutional layers. They trained it on previous experiment data.

https://arxiv.org/html/2411.19506v1

Why is it so hard to elaborate what AI algorithm / technique they integrate? Would have made this article much better

New comment by intoXbox in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

intoXbox — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:23:29 +0000

The pain already starts when a new feature needs to be introduced, your colleague is assigned to the task and the architecture is completely unfit for modular development.

Any sensible experienced programmer will take into account possible future features spoken about around the office, when deciding how implement a feature. To me that’s the key reason I can’t delegate AI complex features that will grow. The same reason I inspect and clean the toilet when I’m done - out of respect to my colleagues

New comment by intoXbox in "Python: The Optimization Ladder"

intoXbox — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:26:33 +0000

Great write up and recognisable performance. For a pipeline with many (~50) build dependencies unfortunately switching interpreter or experimenting with free threading is not an easy route as long as packages are not available (which is completely understandable).

I’m not one of these rewrite in Rust types, but some isolated jobs are just so well sorted for full control system programming that the rust delegation is worth the investment imo.

Another part worth investigating for IO bound pipelines is different multiprocessing techniques. We recently got a boost from using ThreadPoolExecutor over standard multiprocessing, and careful profiling to identify which tasks are left hanging and best allocated its own worker. The price you pay though is shared memory, so no thread safety, which only works if your pipeline can be staggered

New comment by intoXbox in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"

intoXbox — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:33:36 +0000

I still use a high school calculator for doing pen and paper maths. Stuff like figuring out when functions change sign. I find it less distracting than a code editor