Hacker News: samwho

New comment by samwho in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

samwho — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:39:57 +0000

Looking really good! Great work.

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:05:39 +0000

You’re welcome! Thanks so much for the kind words.

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:52:59 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:52:29 +0000

“Zero point” is how I saw it referred to in the literature, so that’s what I went with. I personally prefer to think of it as an offset, but I try to stick with terms folks are likely to see in the wild.

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:22:55 +0000

Definitely could be, but in the time I spent talking to the 4-bit models in comparison to the 16-bit original it seemed surprisingly capable still. I do recommend benchmarking quantized models at the specific tasks you care about.

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:20:51 +0000

Thank you! I was really surprised how robust models are to losing information. It seems wrong that they can be compressed so much and still function at all, never mind function quite closely to the original size.

Think we're only going to keep seeing more progress in this area on the research side, too.

Quantization from the Ground Up

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:06:34 +0000

Article URL: https://ngrok.com/blog/quantization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519295

Points: 351

# Comments: 59

Don't blunder: better chess puzzles

samwho — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:32:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blunder.clinic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382457

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by samwho in "Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

samwho — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:04:46 +0000

Thanks for linking to my silly little quiz in the article! :)

New comment by samwho in "I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus"

samwho — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:29:04 +0000

I wrote a tool called llmwalk (https://github.com/samwho/llmwalk) that’ll deterministically show you the likelihood the top N answers are for a given open model and prompt. No help on frontier models, but maybe helpful if you want to run a similar analysis more quickly on open models!

Calculating the shortest path using just CSS

samwho — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:55:05 +0000

Article URL: https://css-tip.com/graph-theory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045190

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

What those AI benchmark numbers mean

samwho — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:10:43 +0000

Article URL: https://ngrok.com/blog/ai-benchmarks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814012

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by samwho in "Graph of All Human Languages"

samwho — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:03:52 +0000

My mistake! Misunderstood the underlying dataset. Not sure how to edit it though. Thanks for calling it out.

Graph of All Human Languages

samwho — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:45:00 +0000

Article URL: https://dr.eamer.dev/datavis/poems/language/network.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716033

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by samwho in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

samwho — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:06:10 +0000

Oh, you beat me to it! :D

New comment by samwho in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"

samwho — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:16:26 +0000

I love this, the end result looks so good.

Something you don’t really mention in the post is why do this? Do you have an end goal or utility in mind for the book shelf? Is it literally just to track ownership? What do you do with that information?

New comment by samwho in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

samwho — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:39:44 +0000

Thank you <3

New comment by samwho in "Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens"

samwho — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:32:18 +0000

Thank you! <3

These are all built with React and CSS animations (or the Web Animations API where I needed it). I’m not very good at React so the code is a real mess. 2 of the components also use threejs for the 3D bits.

For the stuff on my personal site, which simonw graciously linked to in another reply, you can see all the code behind my work at https://github.com/samwho/visualisations

New comment by samwho in "Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens"

samwho — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:26:39 +0000

Simon, you’re too kind. Thank you. <3

New comment by samwho in "Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens"

samwho — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:01:42 +0000

When I was writing this, GPT 5.1 was the latest and it got it right away. It’s the sequence of prime numbers fwiw :)