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punkspider

1,396 karma · joined December 18, 2020

Last updated when adding meet.hn details.

Currently getting paid to prompt LLMs and code.

Coming from digital marketing, web hosting, and SEO background.

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Interests: Web Development, AI/ML, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Startups

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punkspider··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
Seems both honest and rude, when it could've been honest and understanding.

Responding to the original comment with 'get lost' and 'we don't want you either' is not constructive in my opinion.

punkspider··on The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
Thanks so much for mentioning this. His name carries a lot of weight for me as well.
punkspider··on The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
I was excited as soon as I saw the domain name. Even after a few months, this article[1] is still at the top of my mind. You have a certain way of writing.

I remember being surprised at first because I thought it would feel like a wall of text. But it was such a good read and I felt I gained so much.

1: https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/02_what_i_learne...

punkspider··on Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?
Hope he sees this and writes a post about it. I've been wondering the same thing.
punkspider··on Ghostty 1.0
I think it would help if there were more information about it, along with demos, to clearly communicate what it's about. At the moment I'm still confused because I see Ghostty has gotten so much attention, and I'm not clear why it's special.

I am sold thanks to the author's authenticity, but if I had not seen this, I wouldn't know what I'm looking at. So I think it would be very helpful if there were more info on the landing page.

punkspider··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
The marketing trick that had the most impact on my mindset has been this article about how to structure landing pages https://marketingexamples.com/landing-page/guide.

If you didn't know about it already, I think that you could use it to tweak the Nuenki landing page, and you'll possibly have some aha moment that'll help in marketing down the line.

punkspider··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
I forgot to add this one to my list, but it's exactly what I've been trying for the past few days, after I was reminded of it after hearing John Carmack, in a podcast, talk about learning things deeply.

This is one of the reasons I'm dissatisfied with myself. My greatest successes have been when I applied full attention to details out of frustration, which have been rare. I genuinely believe that my life would drastically improve if I'd stop rushing from one thing to another.

punkspider··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
Isn't it fulfilling already because you get things done where others may fail? Also how do you do it? I'd love any tip you may have.
punkspider··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
1. Your first one is also on my list.

2. I have written technical blogs and it is very rewarding when you see your article ranking at the top of Google, and people sharing it because it is genuinely useful.

I may have some advice here.

If you've never had a blog, you'll be surprised how easily you can rank in search engines and get visitors. Technical blogs that haven't been tainted by monetization aren't as many as you'd think. You probably see many of them here on HN, but in Google most websites fight to stay on top for major keywords to make money.

Furthermore, many experts don't write. You'll be amazed when you start seeing impressions in Google Search Console (their dashboard for search activity).

I highly recommend: - Setup the site quick, in an imperfect state - Post a few articles in an imperfect state - Install Google Search Console

Then follow the data in Search Console - you'll see which keywords and pages are getting traction. From there, keep posting what you think would be helpful for people like you.

punkspider··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
Mental endurance and discipline to better handle tasks that require sustained focus, especially those I instinctively resist or dismiss, whether because I dislike them or I downplay their importance. Examples are thinking through unfamiliar and difficult problems or reading dense documentation and contracts.

I also want to improve my prioritization skills to better judge which challenging tasks truly deserve my time and mental energy, and which ones don't.

punkspider··on Generate Color Palettes from Text
A very variant I really like is using Flux Schnell. I use it on replicate.com but you can find it for free all over the web such as https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell

Result for "color palette of 8 colors for a china-themed site. Include opposing complementary colors."

https://replicate.com/p/zrb89ym2r1rm80ckxf1995yxcr

punkspider··on Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts
From what I've come to understand:

- Romania's voting system is in 2 rounds, and he won the first. The second is in ~2 days.

- Most people never heard of him up until 2 weeks before the first round, when an aggressive Tiktok campaign started. Polymarket.com didn't include him in their system. Many were taken by surprise.

- Many videos promoting him on Tiktok weren't marked as being propaganda, and thus allowed to go viral.

- He claims 0 campaign spending and that it's thanks to volunteers.

- Many who voted for him aren't into politics, and liked the way he presented himself.

- His content is a mix of populist, nationalist, anti-establishment, and mostly contain patriotic and emotional narratives to connect to viewers.

- Larger cities voted for the pro-western candidate

- He's made some controversial statements, such as the moon landing being fake, covid denying (am not sure to what extent), 5G conspiracy, denying climate change (those being just a few)

Everyone's talking about him. I'm curious how it will turn out and to see how the quote "there's no such thing as bad publicity" fares in this case.

punkspider··on Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner
Thank you for clarifying. I also initially thought it was an (LLM (vulnerability scanner)).
punkspider··on Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE
It does edit files directly when using its' Composer feature (Ctrl/Cmd+I).
punkspider··on Claude for Desktop
I agree, I'm also firmly convinced it's the best. Until a month ago it has some bugs I disagreed with some design choices, but since 1-2 weeks ago it's the absolute best I've ever used and have easily convinced others to use it.
punkspider··on Is the attack helicopter dead?
Now that you've pointed it out I've also realized there was something off about how I thought about attack helicopters when I first read the title.
punkspider··on Show HN: Free AI tailored workout generator
Same here. I think normally I'd move on, but because it's a Show HN and it got some attention I'm forcing myself.
punkspider··on Show HN: AI Tool Is Now Supporting React, Angular, CSS, Svelte, Vue
They're likely referring to using the large language models (GPT, Claude, etc.) through their primary interfaces, because you get more control by interacting with the LLM directly.
punkspider··on An Open Course on LLMs, Led by Practitioners
I have been eyeing your course for a while now. This is fantastic! Thank you so much!
punkspider··on Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska
Loving the choice of words.
punkspider··on Ask HN: How did you become a good listener?
1. I recognized that many times I answer in a way that's more to entertain me, than actually useful for my discussion partner.

2. It clicked some time after reading "Never split the difference" by Chris Voss. A negotiation book.

At first I understood that I'm listening to understand what my counterpart really wants, that is not saying directly.

An example (I won't remember this correctly and am oversimplifying) was with a Filipino terrorist who was justifying his actions, and the taking of hostages, due to decades of USA injustices to his country. He was asking for a massive amount of money. Turns out he let the hostages go when the negotiator acknowledged what the terrorist was upset about - something like "I understand that you're upset because the USA did X, and they did Y, and Z, etc"

So by that the book made it's point that I should actually listen to what people are saying, because I myself don't understand immediately what I want while I'm talking, so as to tell someone "I want X".

Another example the drove that point home - The author and his son were preparing for something and he asked for a notebook. But the son was giving him a folder, because in his head a notebook is like a folder. And it goes something like:

    Chris Voss: Give me the notebook about the thing.
    Son: Gives the folder.
    Chris Voss (frustrated): Not the folder, the notebook!
    Son: Notebook?
    Chris Voss: 3 ring binder.
Video of him explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcSxpdj84hs

Finally, after about 6 months what really made it click was the part on how to listen on his appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast: https://youtu.be/8EguLJgkc54?t=1307

What drove the point home was his experience starting up at the suicide hotline.

He learned to listen in a way to help the other person untangle their minds.

So basically rubber duck debugging. And that's what I try to do now. I always think like I'm assisting people untangle their thoughts and what they want to say. This helps me also ask questions and not assume anything. And I think I get some dopamine when I ask a good question and they elaborate, because my goal is to learn more about what the other person is talking about, which makes me listen more.

punkspider··on Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter Notebooks
Not sure if https://hex.tech fits here?
punkspider··on Ask HN: How to find a new job when I'm not good at networking?
Have you considered personal branding/networking via either social media / blogging?

Making Peace with Personal Branding: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2017-12-18-personal-brand.html

Your blog would detail some of your work experiences you wish to write about, such as tutorials, case studies, etc. I realize it's likely a longer game than classic networking.

punkspider··on Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
This hits a little too close to home right now. Only a week ago have I felt that I did a few things to actually make an impact.

And this only because it seems that the CEO noticed I can spin up prototypes to validate ideas before passing them to the actual devs.

I've worked with him for a total of 3 years however, and during that time, most of the time I felt like I was tinkering without making a real difference.

The only time that a bigger project was implemented that I had the lead on felt like a fluke and it was after probably 6 months of working on it.

punkspider··on What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs
Perhaps this would be of use? https://github.com/langgenius/dify/ I use it for quick workflows and it's pretty intuitive.
punkspider··on Many Searchers Want to Turn Off Google AI Overviews
I'm also frequently surprised when I visit them and realize it's SE, not SEO.
punkspider··on Following the Lean Startup Method
And for some reason the scrollbar doesn't display on Chrome (tested with multiple profiles and latest Chrome 122.0.6261.95)
punkspider··on Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder
I assumed the target audience knows a bit about prompt-based LLMs and could use some guidance. If that's the case, I think this serves as an excellent and straightforward framework for leveling up their skills.
punkspider··on How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
Some of the author's other articles are worth reading as well. I read them instead of focusing on work and 100% don't regret it.
punkspider··on Ask HN: Athletic coder dads, how do you balance your schedule?
I noticed that when want to boredom/stress-eat, that if I do a small workout instead, the joy from having completed it makes the craving go away.
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