I spent a week building and then a month over-engineering https://roastedreads.com - a site where you get roasted you based on what you read by literary characters (Gollum, Murderbot, Ms.Marple etc).
Readit Newsninjaranter commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) · Posted by u/david927
Oracle, Delphi, Minotaur, Ikarus, what else?
Alpha, Beta etc :)
ninjaranter commented on Ask HN: What colorscheme are you using in your code editor? · Posted by u/navierstokess
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=narenran...
I wanted a color scheme where colors _meant_ something, rather than just be pretty - where you can just squint at your code and be able to visualize a heatmap of the key control flows. Among other things Chandrian uses Warm Colors for action keywords, Cold colors for Function names, variable values etc, and muted colors for punctuation / parenthesis etc. which just get in your way of reading code.
Disclaimer: I made it
ninjaranter commented on DALL·E now available in beta openai.com/blog/dall-e-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Facebook released over 100 pages of notes a few months ago detailing their training process for a model that is similar in size. Does anyone have a link? I can't seem to find it in my notes, googling links to posts that have been removed or are behind the facebook walled garden.
But I seem to remember they were running 1,000+ 32gb GPUs for 3 months to train it and keeping that infrastructure running day-to-day and tweaking parameters as training continued was the bulk of the 100 pages. It is beyond the reach of anybody but a really big company, at least in the area of very large models, and the large models are where all the recent results are. I wish I was more bullish on algorithm improvements meaning you can get better results on less hardware; there will definitely be some algorithm improvements, but I think we might really need more powerful hardware too. Or pooled resources. Something. These models are huge.
> Facebook released over 100 pages of notes a few months ago detailing their training process for a model that is similar in size. Does anyone have a link?
Is https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projec... what you're referring to?
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Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 40 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared.
Course Hero has been recognized as Top 100 Best Places to Work and Top 50 Companies with the Best Benefits in the Bay Area. In the past 18 months, we've acquired four companies and have been recently valued at $3.6B. We are in hyper-growth mode, and are actively hiring across the board!
We are hiring for the following roles: - Senior Engineering Manager - Senior Data Scientists & Senior Data Analysts (3+ YOE) - Senior/Staff/Lead Software Engineers - Front End, Platform, & Full Stack (5+ YOE) - Software Engineer II, Android (2+ years)
Our tech stack: React, Typescript, Sass, Go, Python
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ninjaranter commented on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project? · Posted by u/JNRowe
https://feelings.earth/
Visualization of what the people of Twitter are feeling right now across the globe (or at least the ones who have geolocation enabled :)). It's fun to have it up on a monitor in the background to periodically gaze at.
I'm an Engineering Director and can rarely justify finding time to code anything significant during my day job these days, so this was my cut-loose-and-have-fun project over ~a weekend. Had a blast doing it, and then rewriting it half a dozen "cool" frameworks ranging from NextJS to RemixRun.
(It works on mobile, but much nicer on desktop)
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About the Front-end team: We have a very collaborative, learning-focused culture with an active front-end "Technical working group" where we learn from each other, meet weekly, and work on company-wide engineering initiatives. We recently sponsored and conducted workshops at Reactathon. We're big on Typescript and experimenting (with products in production) with React-Native & GraphQL. Our engineers have complete autonomy and independence to innovate.
I'm a hiring manager / front-end engineer myself, so feel free to reach out (contact info in profile) if you have any questions / want to know more!
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | Senior Engineering Manager/ Senior Front-end engineer | Full-time, Remote (but within the Bay Area/ Vancouver) | https://grnh.se/2ywlpf or email me directly
About the Company: Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared. We have been recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in the Bay Area in 2020, as well as in the Top 50 Most Transformational Growth Companies in EdTech. We recently received a Series B round of funding and are now valued at $1.1B.
About the Front-end team: We have a very collaborative, learning-focused culture with an active front-end "Technical working group" where we learn from each other, meet weekly, and work on company-wide engineering initiatives. We recently sponsored and conducted workshops at Reactathon. We're big on Typescript and experimenting (with products in production) with React-Native & GraphQL. Our engineers have complete autonomy and independence to innovate.
I'm a hiring manager / front-end engineer myself, so feel free to reach out (contact info in profile) if you have any questions / want to know more!
>> Remote (but within the Bay Area/ Vancouver)
Can you clarify as to what this means?
Within a 2 hour driving distance from our offices, to be able to attend team-events / quarterly brainstorming sessions etc