Hacker News: spencerchubb

New comment by spencerchubb in "The Signature Flicker"

spencerchubb — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:18:29 +0000

For quick and simple, by all means do a TUI. I have done it too, and they're super easy to vibecode :)

Claude Code seems neither quick nor simple

New comment by spencerchubb in "The Signature Flicker"

spencerchubb — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:28:40 +0000

Why do TUI developers insist on doing such weird stuff when they could just make a GUI

New comment by spencerchubb in "WikiTok"

spencerchubb — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:15:16 +0000

use firebase cloud functions free tier

New comment by spencerchubb in "PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine"

spencerchubb — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:21:15 +0000

really depends on the company. my company cares a lot about security because it's a huge fortune 50 company with sensitive data and a lot of reputation could be lost with a security scandal

New comment by spencerchubb in "PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine"

spencerchubb — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:20:14 +0000

jfrog is the one my company uses

New comment by spencerchubb in "PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine"

spencerchubb — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 06:02:52 +0000

companies that actually care about security have a more secure solution and don't allow devs to use pypi

New comment by spencerchubb in "llms.txt directory"

spencerchubb — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 04:55:48 +0000

A human could read the llms.txt if they want to. And a developer could put ads in llms.txt if they wanted to!

New comment by spencerchubb in "llms.txt directory"

spencerchubb — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:22:00 +0000

You seem to be misunderstanding why a website would make llms.txt

Obviously, they would not make it just for an AI company to scrape

Here's an example. Let's say I run a dev tools company, and I want users to be able to find info about me as easily as possible. Maybe a user's preferred way of searching the web is through a chatbot. If that chatbot also uses llms.txt, it's easy for me to deliver the info, and easy for them to consume. Win-win

Of course adoption is not very widespread, but such is the case for every new standard.

New comment by spencerchubb in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

spencerchubb — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:32:13 +0000

> Super exciting that OpenAI pushed the compute out this far

it's even more exciting than that. the fact that you even can use more compute to get more intelligence is a breakthrough. if they spent even more on inference, would they get even better scores on arc agi?

New comment by spencerchubb in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

spencerchubb — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:02:52 +0000

I am eager to learn the pricing as well. It works sooo well but the pricing will make or break whether it's viable for apps

New comment by spencerchubb in "Tree Calculus"

spencerchubb — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:24:13 +0000

the ability to invert a function sounds crazy to me. I never imagined that was possible

New comment by spencerchubb in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

spencerchubb — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:59:15 +0000

training an ai model is essentially searching for parameters that can make a function really accurate at making predictions. in the case of LLMs, they predict text.

New comment by spencerchubb in "Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract"

spencerchubb — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:28:25 +0000

Github already has a way to get the raw text files

New comment by spencerchubb in "Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model"

spencerchubb — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:39:24 +0000

Researchers want to publish

Recruiting

New comment by spencerchubb in "Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons"

spencerchubb — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 05:24:05 +0000

if a metric is too simple, choose better metrics! don't throw away metrics altogether

New comment by spencerchubb in "Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch"

spencerchubb — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 07:00:17 +0000

why do you say "just" a wrapper? it is not a bad thing to be a wrapper, it is just a descriptive term

the amount of code does not dictate whether or not it is a wrapper.

New comment by spencerchubb in "Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch"

spencerchubb — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 01:38:45 +0000

I think what you just said actually reinforces the point that ollama is a llama.cpp wrapper. I don't say that to disparage ollama, in fact I love ollama. It is an impressive piece of software. If x uses y under the hood, then we say "x is a y wrapper"

New comment by spencerchubb in "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers"

spencerchubb — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:31:14 +0000

ever since i started working for an insurance company, i realized that understanding the insurance industry is far more difficult than understanding the codebases. if the codebase is acting weird, at least i can step through it with a debugger!

New comment by spencerchubb in "Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?"

spencerchubb — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:32:54 +0000

Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

you don't have to have read the other Hunger Games because it is set about 60 years before the others

New comment by spencerchubb in "Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner"

spencerchubb — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:16:34 +0000

not sure what the best is these days because models improve so rapidly. LocalLlama subreddit is probably a good place to ask