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Amen for the first sentence. One more LLM wrapper today, and I would die.

by zidoo 1y ago

account-5 1y ago
It's so tiresome and is slowly ruining HN for me personally.
- deleted 1y ago
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lucianbr 1y ago
Hear hear.
paulddraper 1y ago
Or UI pontifications
belter 1y ago
Yeah, this has been LLM News for a while...
- ronsor 1y ago
  50% people shilling LLM products, 50% people complaining about LLMs (or indirectly by complaining about crawlers) However, this place used to be JS framework news not too long ago
  - herval 1y ago
    and "Crypto News" for a long time too
    - bigfatkitten 1y ago
      And "Why I Left Google" News before that.
  - uoaei 1y ago
    There's more finance and VC here than anyone wants to acknowledge. But it's not unexpected given that Y Combinator is a VC firm. However these folks aren't known for their technical expertise so there's a lot of unnecessary noise feeding into the AI hype cycle of late.
    - ljlolel 1y ago
      Almost all YC companies this batch are LLM wrappers
airstrike 1y ago
It does feels like a good use of AI (ML, really) would be to write a "disaggregator" for HN that tags submissions by category and lets users browse the bits they care about. Wish I had time to do it....
- miki123211 1y ago
  And a TL;DR, both for the articles themselves as well as the discussions. I don't think a TL;DR can replace most articles that appear on HN, but it can certainly tell me whether the article is interesting, much better than any headline ever could. Especially so if the TL;DR is written by a neutral AI with no interest in making me click anything, and hence no qualms about surfacing the most important information to the top. I actually tried to do this, but it was with GPT-3.5, and I didn't exactly like how it worked. I should look at this again, I wouldn't be surprised if the code I used back then could just be ported over to 2.5 Flash and produce much better results.
- kirubakaran 1y ago
  Here it is ;) https://histre.com/hn/ https://histre.com/hn/
  - rendaw 1y ago
    Oh that's great! I wish it kept the HN style, the contrast and density is too low for me
    - kirubakaran 1y ago
      Thanks. I'll create a HN-like theme. In the meantime, if you install the browser extension, you can get the tags directly in HN itself. Would that address the ui issue? Source: https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/iinmfmdejkafpmakbofheoiddalpobca https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/i... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-tags/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-t...
ajsnigrutin 1y ago
It's either LLM or "<existing software> written in <languge of the week>"
- Y_Y 1y ago
  I rewrote J in C, or D in F#, or Whogivesafuck in Rust and it's 8% better but don't ask me for my benchmark because it's secret sauce.
  - MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
    And I ported DOOM to it. Well, it's actually just a hardcoded slideshow of E1M1 while something vaguely approximating the main riff of At Doom's Gate plays inconsistently in the background, but you'll have to watch all 15 excruciating minutes of this poorly-narrated Youtube video I'm linking to figure that out.
    - xarope 1y ago
      I ported DOOM to it. In 100 LOC. BTW it's just a a line shooting a ball of zero width, at another line. And there's some movement left and right. But not forward, nor backwards. So there's no real strafing. And the other line doesn't shoot a ball of zero width back. But it's the spirit of DOOM!!! /s
  - ajsnigrutin 1y ago
    I started reading hackernews from very old posts to new ones, so i'm still rewriting stuff to ruby, because that will definitely be the universal programming language for the future!
- DANmode 1y ago
  Do you know why people started doing rewrites in other languages? It's usually to help teach them the other language. The rewrite part makes it easier for observers to learn and compare/contrast techniques in different environments for themselves. Why this would ever be criticised, I can't imagine.
Pulcinella 1y ago
"Prompt Kiddie" should be the new "Script Kiddie"

Amen for the first sentence. One more LLM wrapper today, and I would die.

by zidoo 1y ago

Amen for the first sentence. One more LLM wrapper today, and I would die.

account-5 1y ago

It's so tiresome and is slowly ruining HN for me personally.

deleted 1y ago
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lucianbr 1y ago

Hear hear.

paulddraper 1y ago

Or UI pontifications

belter 1y ago

Yeah, this has been LLM News for a while...

ronsor 1y ago
50% people shilling LLM products, 50% people complaining about LLMs (or indirectly by complaining about crawlers) However, this place used to be JS framework news not too long ago
- herval 1y ago
  and "Crypto News" for a long time too
  - bigfatkitten 1y ago
    And "Why I Left Google" News before that.
- uoaei 1y ago
  There's more finance and VC here than anyone wants to acknowledge. But it's not unexpected given that Y Combinator is a VC firm. However these folks aren't known for their technical expertise so there's a lot of unnecessary noise feeding into the AI hype cycle of late.
  - ljlolel 1y ago
    Almost all YC companies this batch are LLM wrappers

airstrike 1y ago

It does feels like a good use of AI (ML, really) would be to write a "disaggregator" for HN that tags submissions by category and lets users browse the bits they care about. Wish I had time to do it....

miki123211 1y ago
And a TL;DR, both for the articles themselves as well as the discussions. I don't think a TL;DR can replace most articles that appear on HN, but it can certainly tell me whether the article is interesting, much better than any headline ever could. Especially so if the TL;DR is written by a neutral AI with no interest in making me click anything, and hence no qualms about surfacing the most important information to the top. I actually tried to do this, but it was with GPT-3.5, and I didn't exactly like how it worked. I should look at this again, I wouldn't be surprised if the code I used back then could just be ported over to 2.5 Flash and produce much better results.
kirubakaran 1y ago
Here it is ;) https://histre.com/hn/ https://histre.com/hn/
- rendaw 1y ago
  Oh that's great! I wish it kept the HN style, the contrast and density is too low for me
  - kirubakaran 1y ago
    Thanks. I'll create a HN-like theme. In the meantime, if you install the browser extension, you can get the tags directly in HN itself. Would that address the ui issue? Source: https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/iinmfmdejkafpmakbofheoiddalpobca https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/i... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-tags/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-t...

ajsnigrutin 1y ago

It's either LLM or "<existing software> written in <languge of the week>"

Y_Y 1y ago
I rewrote J in C, or D in F#, or Whogivesafuck in Rust and it's 8% better but don't ask me for my benchmark because it's secret sauce.
- MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
  And I ported DOOM to it. Well, it's actually just a hardcoded slideshow of E1M1 while something vaguely approximating the main riff of At Doom's Gate plays inconsistently in the background, but you'll have to watch all 15 excruciating minutes of this poorly-narrated Youtube video I'm linking to figure that out.
  - xarope 1y ago
    I ported DOOM to it. In 100 LOC. BTW it's just a a line shooting a ball of zero width, at another line. And there's some movement left and right. But not forward, nor backwards. So there's no real strafing. And the other line doesn't shoot a ball of zero width back. But it's the spirit of DOOM!!! /s
- ajsnigrutin 1y ago
  I started reading hackernews from very old posts to new ones, so i'm still rewriting stuff to ruby, because that will definitely be the universal programming language for the future!
DANmode 1y ago
Do you know why people started doing rewrites in other languages? It's usually to help teach them the other language. The rewrite part makes it easier for observers to learn and compare/contrast techniques in different environments for themselves. Why this would ever be criticised, I can't imagine.

Pulcinella 1y ago

"Prompt Kiddie" should be the new "Script Kiddie"