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LLM Distillation Tool
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Hey HN, We’re Volodymyr and Volodymyr—two developers from Ukraine building WhiteLightning. It’s a tool that turns large LLMs (Claude 4, Grok 4, GPT-4o via OpenRouter) into tiny ONNX text classifiers that run anywhere—even on drones at the edge. Why we built this: Many developers want custom models (spam filters, sentiment analysis, PII detection, moderation tools), but don’t want to deal with constant API calls or deploy heavy models in production. How it works: WhiteLightning uses LLMs to generate training data and distills it into KB-sized ONNX models you can run on any device and in any…
2025 · whitelightning.ai
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Hey HN! Lathe is an experiment in using LLMs to teach me something new, instead of doing the work for me. It generates a hands-on, source-backed tutorial for any technical topic you want to learn. Then you work through it yourself by reading and typing the code by hand (gasp) in a local UI built for exactly that. It's a Go CLI plus LLM agent skills (Claude Code / Cursor / Codex). You prompt something like "/lathe build a 3D slicer in Erlang", run `lathe serve` to spin up a local webapp, and read it in your browser. Every tutorial comes with the things that have made…
Jun 2026 · github.com
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2023 · promptperfect.jina.ai
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2024 · adamgrant.info
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2023 · tinyllms.vercel.app
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Hi HN! We’re been working hard on this low-code tool for rapid prompt discovery, robustness testing and LLM evaluation. We’ve just released documentation to help new users learn how to use it and what it can already do. Let us know what you think! :)
2023 · chainforge.ai
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Oct 2025 · github.com
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Nowadays, a common AI tech stack has hundreds of different prompts running across different LLMs. Three key problems: - Choices, picking from 100s of LLMs the best LLM for that 1 prompt is gonna be challenging, you're probably not picking the most optimized LLM for a prompt you wrote. - Scaling/Upgrading, similar to choices but you want to keep consistency of your output even when models depreciate or configurations change. - Prompt management is scary, if something works, you'll never want to touch it but you should be able to without fear of everything breaking. So we launched Prompt…
2024 · jigsawstack.com
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2024 · columns.ai
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I have been working in AI space for a while now, first at FAANG with ML since 2021, then with LLM in start-ups since early 2023. I think LLM Application development is extremely iterative, more so than any other types of development. This is because to improve an LLM application performance (accuracy, hallucinations, latency, cost), you need to try various combinations of LLM models, prompt templates (e.g., few-shot, chain-of-thought), prompt context with different RAG architecture, different agent architecture, and more. There are thousands of possible combinations and you need a process…
2024 · github.com
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Current AI-assisted CLI tools are often part of larger systems and work better on Linux. I built llm-term to address these. It's a Rust-based tool that compiles into a single binary file. You only need to download the binary, add it to your PATH, and configure your OpenAI key to get started. While llm-term offers an option for gpt-4o, it works great with gpt-4o-mini. So it's not costly. I appreciate any feedback or suggestions.
2024 · github.com
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