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theletterf

2,331 karmajoined há 7 anos
I'm a technical writer and aspiring developer based in Barcelona, Spain

https://passo.uno

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Cockpit Color Guide

cybermodeler.com
1 points·by theletterf·há 2 horas·0 comments

Will AI replace technical writers?

willaireplacetechnicalwriters.com
3 points·by theletterf·há 16 dias·1 comments

Guadagnino's Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after partnership with OpenAI

theguardian.com
6 points·by theletterf·há 17 dias·0 comments

Mekton (1995), mech first-person game from SGI ahead of time

neogaf.com
2 points·by theletterf·há 24 dias·0 comments

Feed the machines, then guide the humans

passo.uno
1 points·by theletterf·há 29 dias·0 comments

Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995

passo.uno
2 points·by theletterf·mês passado·0 comments

Claude Code hook that plays a random sound on negative feedback

github.com
2 points·by theletterf·mês passado·1 comments

Volcano Radio

en.wikipedia.org
4 points·by theletterf·mês passado·0 comments

Magnifica Humanitas

vatican.va
1,650 points·by theletterf·há 2 meses·965 comments

How Big Tech is harnessing the data of Indian factory workers to train robots

scroll.in
1 points·by theletterf·há 2 meses·0 comments

Show HN: Claude64, a Commodore 64 client for Claude

github.com
8 points·by theletterf·há 2 meses·1 comments

Thucydides Trap

en.wikipedia.org
4 points·by theletterf·há 2 meses·0 comments

The Unethical Guide to Surviving AI Layoffs [video]

tiktok.com
2 points·by theletterf·há 2 meses·0 comments

Nika Riots

en.wikipedia.org
3 points·by theletterf·há 2 meses·0 comments

What I've learned designing agentic workflows for docs

passo.uno
7 points·by theletterf·há 2 meses·0 comments

Most vibe-coded tools are not for you

passo.uno
2 points·by theletterf·há 2 meses·1 comments

Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment

passo.uno
32 points·by theletterf·há 3 meses·27 comments

Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010)

journal.media-culture.org.au
9 points·by theletterf·há 3 meses·5 comments

AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible

gerireid.com
2 points·by theletterf·há 3 meses·0 comments

Show HN: Medievalizer, an extension that rewrites pages into Old English scripts

github.com
8 points·by theletterf·há 3 meses·3 comments

comments

theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
The Windows 3.1 theme of my blog says Hi: https://passo.uno/win31/fine-tuning-docs-llm/
theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
Ha! I didn't know the origin was Shannon. It makes sense now. Big fan of my namesake Bellard. :]
theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
Try Runpod or similar services: you can fine-tune stuff for the price of a latte. Stanford's NLP course recommends them: https://cs336.stanford.edu/
theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
I concur. Old docs are the good stuff: https://passo.uno/why-collect-read-old-computer-manuals/
theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
Interesting! I think the advantage of style fine-tuning is that you might not have to provides that much context upfront. Also, it's kind of magical to have an LLM just do something out of the box. I'll compare my local fine-tuned models against the baseline with instructions and see how they fare.
theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
Had to pick a year, and most of the material hovers around the mid-90s, the golden age of MS docs. And 1995 is THE Microsoft year. :)
theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
Author here. Sorry, should have made that more visible!
theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
Author here. Another trick, I would argue, is consistency, hence the focus on style.

I also wrote on what I think makes docs beautiful, by the way! https://passo.uno/what-makes-docs-beautiful/
theletterf
·mês passado·discuss
I sometimes long for audio feedback when interacting with Claude, so I've made a Claude Code hook that makes Claude reply to negative feedback with sounds from a folder. You can use any sound you want.
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
Thanks! That makes sense. This was just genuine curiosity on how HN works, I couldn't care less about kharma.
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
@dang Is this item getting a lot of negative votes? I've no way of knowing, other than seeing my kharma increasing only slightly after all the points the story collected.
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
For a moment I pictured the Jesuits training their own LLM. If Arthur C. Clarke was still alive, we'd read a story like The Star, but with AI as the main plot device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_%28Clarke_short_story...
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
I'm a non-practicing catholic, and an agnostic (or an atheist, depending on the mood). And yet I acknowledge that the Catholic church is a force to be reckoned with in the spiritual matters, and one of the few institutions to have had continuous influence on the material (or temporal) matters for centuries. Whether their brand of faith is rooted in your culture or not, these are words that deserve attention, I think.
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
When he quoted Tolkien, my heart stopped. This passage might provide you with a suggestion on how to live a virtuous life:

"The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” [187] The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization."
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
Microsoft published its own UNIX from 1980 to 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix?wprov=sfla1
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
Can we have something similar for macOS (to turn the UI to Mac OS 9)?
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
Had somewhat related thoughts on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035796 (Most vibe-coded tools are not for you)
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
I love old desktop OSes so much I've created a Windows 3.1 theme for mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909295
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
Only some of the social buttons
theletterf
·há 2 meses·discuss
Moved here! https://passo.uno/win31/