Best of 2023

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2023. 789 posts.

AI & Machine Learning
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Against LLM Maximalism

LLMs are not a direct solution to most of the NLP use-cases companies have been working on. They are extremely useful, but if you want to deliver reliable software you can improve over time, you can't just write a prompt and call it a day. Once you're past prototyping and want to deliver the best system you can…

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Why Do ML on the Erlang VM?

Another question might be; why do machine learning at all? I'm not big into ML/AI though I've been poking it more recently as the open models, such as Stable Diffusion and the more practical Whisper, caught my curiosity. I have a very decent GPU (3090 Ti) and I've poked around a bit. I don't consider ML a super…