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skramzyon Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

Neat!

What's TDS?

skramzyon Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

lmao

skramzyon Anthropic's official plugin gets the core principle of the Ralph Wiggum wrong

Anthropic's official ralph plugin gets the core principle of Ralph wrong by preventing a single instance of claude from exiting, rather than continuously starting new sessions.

Here's an opinionated, but proper implementation of the Ralph Wiggum AI technique.

Ralph solves the AI context window problem in the most simplistic way possible; keep feeding new AI sessions the same prompt until the job is done.

skramzyon AI generated music barred from Bandcamp

> Sorry, that's AI. So is OCR, so is voice recognition, and many other things you probably use and take for granted

Have you heard of machine learning?

skramzyon Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor

That's Stripe's transaction fee, not theirs

skramzyon Yelp Is a Full Featured, Unhinged Boomer Social Media Platform (2024)

I had a lot of fun writing this. Fascinating stuff.

skramzyon Numbering should start at zero (1982)

It definitely does not

skramzyon Inspired by a recent post, an old-timey radio station for my wife's newsletter

I'm not sure how they built theirs, but here's how I built mine:

- Parse the newsletter RSS feed - Summarize the most recent post with an LLM in the style of a fast-talking 1920s transatlantic radio broadcaster - Generate an audio file by synthesizing a custom voice I generated by sampling the recap narrator of Avatar: The Legend of Korra - Upload the file to a cloud object store and return the playback URL to the client - Repeat steps 1 - 4 each week until the heat death of the universe

This will run autonomously with new weekly content for as long as the newsletter persists.

Built with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind & Vercel

skramzyon Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)

What gets measured gets optimized

skramzyon Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office

My office is across the street. I can see it from my window and still never go in.

skramzyon Node.js 20 is now available

I've used Koa in my last few work projects but will be either switching back to Express or moving onto Fastify for the next one. Like you mentioned, Koa does indeed feel dated. It's community never really took off, either; many of it's most popular helper/companion libraries haven't been updated in years.