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iib··on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
This is exactly the fine-tuning I am hoping for, or I would do if I had the skills. I tried it with gemma3 270M and vanilla it fails spectacularly.

Basically it would be the quickadd[1] event from google calendar, but calendar agnostic.

[1] https://developers.google.com/workspace/calendar/api/v3/refe...

iib··on Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions
How do you use the recordings as part of the CI?
iib··on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
How exactly does it take 20 minutes to get an invite? I have not tried it, but I can't see how that would be easy.
iib··on The $25k car is going extinct?
Some already consider this a new dialect. It's called Euro English[1]. There are some more examples in that wikipedia article. Not just synonyms, but grammar as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English

iib··on Mbake – A Makefile formatter and linter, that only took 50 years
Ideally, we'd have linters that preserve the human context as well. But human context may be too ambiguous and high variance enough that it can be impractical.

It's hard to say what's intent and what not, maybe linters with many custom rules would work best.

iib··on Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
Are there any problems with the fact that email wasn't created to be instant messaging? Are the messages sometimes delayed?
iib··on Edamagit: Magit for VSCode
I used to install this extension just so I could configure an extra saving option, "ctrl-shift-s", that would not only save the changes but also perform a `git add` on the current file.

It always felt a little clunky, because it would randomly stop working. Regardless, it was a huge time and context-switch saver. I also tried binding `git commit` through the extension somehow, but I couldn't figure it out.

iib··on Hacker News for Gamedev
As a sibling commenter said, I think the background texture is the most distracting.

Other than that, I also think the tag density is higher than on Lobsters, where they seem to be using mostly one, or at most two, tags, whereas this website's front-page is using around three for each post.

Maybe the color scheme as well. And perhaps more negative space can be removed by making the column wider, like it is on HN.

iib··on Hacker News for Gamedev
The theme reminds me more of Lobsters [1]. Is this site invite-based as well?

[1] https://lobste.rs

iib··on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
Older games are usually easier to run on newer versions of linux than windows, in my anecdotal experience. Not sure about cracked AAA titles, I guess that's a bigger part of the "illegal" stuff.
iib··on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
Does anyone know if titles like FIFA/FC25 work seamlessly on linux devices with proton / whatever the best gaming software is? I remember Wine having a lot of trouble with past FIFA titles.
iib··on Garmin Connect services were down
I use Gadgetbridge[1] exactly for this reason. It's a FOSS app (on f-droid as well) that tricks wearables into thinking that your phone is actually communicating legitimately with the server.

Garmin support[2] is not really good. Some commenters here mentioned that Garmin watches can work without servers, maybe that's why.

It's not local-first by definition, because you still need a phone with an app, but it's the best I got for now (apart from finally assembling my PineTime watch).

[1] https://gadgetbridge.org/

[2] https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/wearables/garmin/

iib··on Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram
I don't want to make you use it more, but I found a thing that actually works for me, to restore some of the previous feed behavior. I saved a bookmark that directly goes to the "Friends" feed. It seems to have surprisingly few (I think zero or one) ads and recommended things this way. The funny thing is that the "You read all the posts" thing still appears if used in this way, telling you to go outside.

I do the same for instagram [2], and there was also a post of setting "Google web" as the default search engine, showing you actual web results, not stuff recommended by Google.

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr [1]

https://www.instagram.com/?variant=following [2]

iib··on Ask HN: Which are the best newsletters to keep informed on AI development?
What RSS reader do you use that is transformer powered? Or is it custom made?
iib··on GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
I think Debian also does this, I didn't see it when using the latest version
iib··on Fixit 2: Meta’s auto-fixing linter for Python
Where can I see this? I didn't find the pattern in the repo or the article.
iib··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
I have the same feeling. I recently started contributing more, even after such articles were already present, and I have to say it's a fun experience and I feel like I learn a lot, despite the occasional hang-ups I mentioned in a sibling comment to parent.

Especially nice to be able to link my own answer to things.

iib··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
There is also a bizzare thing that I noticed only when I enabled RSS for some of the tags I wanted to watch. My RSS reader routinely had questions that were nowhere to be found on the site, even though they did not seem to be offtopic or have some other kind of structural problem.

Of course the users themselves could have deleted the questions, but regardless, I did not expect to see that.

It could be a nice experiment to enable RSS for some niche topics and checking automatically after a number of days to see which are gone.

iib··on Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?
It seems like he is not the only one (in case he did not use a pseudonym here): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shard_(database_architect...
iib··on NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly
It's also free and open source, so you can host it yourself, if you want that.
iib··on A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
Is there any bookmarklet to add this to another arbitrary page? I can't seem to make it work, even with modifying the CSS code.
iib··on Minotaur: A SIMD-oriented synthesizing superoptimizer
AlphaDev[1][2] seems to be the only project, in the news at least, that approaches low-level compilation research. And even there, you have only a small subset of optimization.

[1] https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sort...

[2] https://justine.lol/sorting/

iib··on Learning to Touch Type Again
I've been trying to find the modern equivalent of that video, and nothing seemed to be good enough. Do you know of a good setup, preferably local and emacs-based?
iib··on How some common material imbalances affect your win-rate
I think it means that the opponent does not gain a strategic advantage from an exchange. You both have good enough positions and you are simply a pawn up.
iib··on Plain Text Accounting
The meal plan example may be able to go even forward, because I think ledger-cli can also track your calories and macro-nutrients, apart from the ingredients themselves. I meant to do a calorie counting system in ledger-cli for some time, but did not quite get to it.
iib··on Using LangChainJS and Cloudflare Workers together
Is this open source somewhere? It seems interesting to study
iib··on Knuth and McIlroy Approach a Problem (2021)
This is doable in Emacs, using org-mode and org-babel.
iib··on Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database
Has anybody seen any huge performance regressions using atuin?

I installed it and simple commands take noticeably longer. Is there any way to make it faster?

iib··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
There are instructions on how to run the GUI from localhost, and the title and even the phrase that has the link to their own hosting tell you you can run it locally first.

It seems they are genuine, and they phrase it exactly as it is. The only thing I would have maybe wanted to see in the title is "open-source" or free software.

iib··on Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
The C++ is compiled to WASM. You can look into [1] to see emscripten there.

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/blob/master/CMakeLi...

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