Hacker News: thomasfl

New comment by thomasfl in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

thomasfl — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:42:26 +0000

Is there some documentation for this? The code is probably the simplest (Not So) Large Language Model implementation possible, but it is not straight forward to understand for developers not familiar with multi-head attention, ReLU FFN, LayerNorm and learned positional embeddings.

This projects shares similarities with Minix. Minix is still used at universities as an educational tool for teaching operating system design. Minix is the operating system that taught Linus Torvalds how to design (monolithic) operating systems. Similarly having students adding capabilities to GuppyLM is a good way to learn LLM design.

New comment by thomasfl in "Do Architects Still Need to Draw? (2020)"

thomasfl — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:42:38 +0000

Yes, architects still very much needs to draw by hand. Imagining working as an architect on a single family house. Being able to listen to the client and make drawings by hand in meetings is the best way to communicate architectural ideas. Drawing on paper before continuing on a computer, also makes it easier for an architect to design something other than square boxes.

New comment by thomasfl in "A useless infinite scroll experiment"

thomasfl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:44:38 +0000

Just likte this demonstrates the stupidity of infinite scrolling, here is a site that demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate everybody to click click on things that gives us rewards:

https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

New comment by thomasfl in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

thomasfl — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:28:22 +0000

Semantic web is for computers to read data from your website. WebMCP is for interacting with your website.

Using URIs as identifiers and RDF as interchange format, makes it possible for LLM's and computers to understand well what something really means. It makes it well suited for making sure LLM's and computers understand scientific data and are able to aggregate it.

New comment by thomasfl in "Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation"

thomasfl — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:15:54 +0000

What are the use cases for Polis? Can it be used for city planning? It is a complex task with a lot of compronises to design towns.

New comment by thomasfl in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

thomasfl — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:57:22 +0000

Some brutalist architecture may be preserved, as a warning for future generations about the danger of mixing politics, ideology and architecture.

I am the founder of the architectural uprising non-profit in Norway. The primary goal of architecture is in my view to increase peoples quality of life and to ensure social, economic and environmentally sustainability for future generations. Both the Southbank center and the Barbican center in London fails in my view. Innovation in architecture is a good thing. Now lets face the fact that most brutalists experiments over the last 80 years has failed miserably. Intensions in architecture is good. But not this buildings intentions of eradicating history and ignoring peoples feelings.

New comment by thomasfl in "Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds"

thomasfl — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:38:28 +0000

If music is so valuable to us humans, then why can't humanity make a site like wikipedia for free music? There is a new generation growing up used to streaming services costing 10 bucks a month.

New comment by thomasfl in "Big attack on NPM – Shai-Hulud 2.0"

thomasfl — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:31:34 +0000

This is a nasty npm attack. It steals API keys and credits.

Big attack on NPM – Shai-Hulud 2.0

thomasfl — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:25:39 +0000

Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-discovers-widespread-npm-supply-chain-attack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046636

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by thomasfl in "Ratatui – App Showcase"

thomasfl — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:12:16 +0000

I want a small wrapper around slumber so it can take the same command line arguments and options as curl. I now there are several attempts at making a graphical UI for curl, but slumber has a very nice and simple cli.

New comment by thomasfl in "Using Deno as my game engine"

thomasfl — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:30:30 +0000

Upvote for making a great city planning game. This could teach the young generation the importance of good city planning for the economy, the environment and the well-being of people. The architectural uprising is just as much about city planning as beautiful architecture. Human friendly towns is good for business, saves the municipalities money and increases quality of life. Ideally people should be paid to live in cities. Disclaimer, I am the chairman of the Norwegian architectural uprising.

New comment by thomasfl in "YAML document from hell (2023)"

thomasfl — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:15:26 +0000

Not many know that the inventor of the YAML specification built a fully working pendulum clock as a teenager. With Lego bricks. YAML is a good standard for simple settings files. For more complex data structures, use JSON.

New comment by thomasfl in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

thomasfl — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:32:01 +0000

Imagine talking to a "glasshole" for the first time. The "glasshole" is being able to do facial recognition while talking to you, and see a ton if info about you before you've been able to introduce yourself. What could possibly go wrong?

New comment by thomasfl in "Is OOXML Artifically Complex?"

thomasfl — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:56:45 +0000

I was new in the standards business. Believed this was common. Understand now that it wasn't.

New comment by thomasfl in "Is OOXML Artifically Complex?"

thomasfl — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:19:06 +0000

I worked for the Norwegian standard organization at the time. After seing with my own eyes how Microsoft was able to get OOXML approved, I quit doing standards. The OOXML standard is a joke. Three different ways to store basically the exact same thing. Like dates.

New comment by thomasfl in "Hiroshima (1946)"

thomasfl — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:30:14 +0000

Many comments here defend the decision to bomb Hiroshima. Atomic bombs today are 80 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. I find it difficult to defend a decision to drop an atomic bomb that powerful on a city of millions of inhabitants. No matter what war crimes have been committed.

New comment by thomasfl in "Show HN: Sharpe Ratio Calculation Tool"

thomasfl — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:57:31 +0000

How about adding a demo? A demo may even be for a made up non existing fund, named Acme Fund.

New comment by thomasfl in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

thomasfl — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:31:48 +0000

Why not use javascript, JSX and TypScript to produce PDF? You use the language you know already.

New comment by thomasfl in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

thomasfl — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:51:06 +0000

Sometimes AI model generates technical debt. It happens for instance if AI generates code with dependancies that to old to be automatically be updated to the latest version.

New comment by thomasfl in "RPG in a Box"

thomasfl — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:17:19 +0000

We humans are story telling species. RPG in Box is what got my 12 year old son interested in programing. Not python. Not AI. My son wants to tell stories and let others experience his stories. Programing is just a means to an end.