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Machine Learning 🤖 Parachutes 🪂 and Bunnies 🐰 Formerly Algorithmia. Currently using JavaScript to make better AI.

Seattle, WA
Joined January 2008
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Kenny Daniel
30 days
Today I'm excited to announce that we are launching @hyperparamapp, an AI-powered Swiss Army knife for massive LLM datasets. It lets you view, score, filter, label, and transform LLM data directly in the browser. I started Hyperparam one year ago because I knew that the world of
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Kenny Daniel
4 days
Someone leaked our architecture diagram 😲 What if our competitors learn that you don’t actually need a backend??
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Kenny Daniel
7 days
Agree! The optimal amount of risk is not zero.
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Peter Holderith
8 days
there's this new plague of weenies that don't understand that all the most fun things in life are risky/dangerous and it's driving me insane
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Kenny Daniel
7 days
The human in the loop interface is how the user expresses what they want from their AI. And the human-in-the-loop is what distinguishes high-quality, well-engineered software from slop. It’s something we believe strongly in at Hyperparam.
@hyperparamapp
Hyperparam
7 days
AI-assisted scoring is great for surfacing the patterns in LLM chat logs that you’d never find manually, but you still need a human looking at those patterns and deciding which ones matter. Even if you use AI for everything, the human-in-the-loop still provides that extra layer
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Kenny Daniel
14 days
So much interesting data in the open router state of ai report! There's a chart for everyone in there
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Kenny Daniel
17 days
There’s recently been discourse about AI sentiment on X vs Bluesky. A few weeks ago I spoke in-person with a progressive political group about AI. I'm being honest, I knew the moment I was invited that this was going to be a controversial topic for the liberal crowd. But I really
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redJ🌹
20 days
i am begging any San Francisco laptop-class tpot cantillionaire to write a blog for the well-meaning but anti-AI liberals, to explain to them that Progress can be good and scary at the same time, and the only way out is through. must i do this myself? i'm bad at writing.
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Kenny Daniel
17 days
In the last few weeks I’ve shipped a couple new projects that would have taken FAR longer without AI. I singlehandedly wrote an entire SQL engine from scratch with over 93% test coverage in less than a week. You can judge for yourself if it’s slop or not. https://t.co/kFKL3Si71b
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Squirreling Async SQL Engine. Contribute to hyparam/squirreling development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Kenny Daniel
17 days
AI != Slop I’ve been writing code professionally for over 20 years, but today, I barely write any code without the use of AI. I use AI to produce more and BETTER code than I could without AI. And that takes work. You need creativity, discipline, and an understanding of what
@hyperparamapp
Hyperparam
17 days
We love AI, use it for everything. But we will NOT ship slop!
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roon
19 days
three years now since the world changed
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Sam Altman
3 years
today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: https://t.co/uWra8LKFMN
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Laurel Orr
22 days
I’m in between gigs and can actually be productive, so I decided to spy on Claude Code. I built Snoopty - a simple proxy and UI for snooping on Claude Code. You start the server and proceed as normal. But now you’re the spy master and can 👀 all messages.
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Kenny Daniel
22 days
When someone says they created a project in record time thanks to AI, I've seen snarky comments like "github or it didn't happen". Well... judge for yourself. https://t.co/kFKL3ShzbD
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Kenny Daniel
22 days
I created and released a new JS library this week: Squirreling SQL Engine Existing in-browser engines like duckdb-wasm don't handle async well. Squirreling JS is built to query over async data sources (like parquet), minimize fetches, and stream data back as an AsyncGenerator.
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Kenny Daniel
25 days
If you come across a Parquet dataset in your work, what do you do? Download it and load it in Jupyter? Why do we still accept this multi-step annoying process as normal while it’s been proven that all you need is the browser?
@hyperparamapp
Hyperparam
25 days
Browser-first data tools > Python-first. Hyperparam opens Parquet datasets in the browser with no backend, so your time-to-first-row is ~instant #BurnTheBackEnd
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Kenny Daniel
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Kenny Daniel
1 month
The amount of text being produced by models is overwhelming, and only increasing. On Wednesday, we’re launching Hyperparam, the first tool that transforms LLM-scale datasets like it’s nothing: - Drag and drop your dataset - Instantly explore with natural language - Score,
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Hyperparam
1 month
Everyone working with LLM data has been there: thousands of conversations and no way to find the one that matters. Existing data tools were not built for the massive scale of LLM data. Hyperparam was built to solve this problem. Free while in beta starting 11/19.
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Kenny Daniel
1 month
This is something I feel strongly about. I hate how backend is considered more "real engineering" than frontend. How many companies have you been at where product is developed "backend first" and then APIs thrown over the wall to the frontend team and told "make me a pretty UI".
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Hyperparam
1 month
Browser-native isn’t a toy. It’s an architectural choice that puts performance and UX at the center instead of bolting them on later. Most systems start backend first, then hand off to the frontend to make it usable. We started with the user — and built the app around them.
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Kenny Daniel
1 month
When @huggingface adopted my open source libraries, I realized there was something more to what I was building. In this Q&A I talk about my lessons learned from a year of Open Source software: https://t.co/wCyWd08mFn
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Hyperparam’s founder explains what a year of open source data transformation taught him about balancing community and development in the AI era.
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Kenny Daniel
1 month
I was frustrated with the experience of trying to work with chat logs in jupyter notebook. There has to be a better way. That’s the mission I’ve been on for the last year building Hyperparam.
@hyperparamapp
Hyperparam
1 month
Every chat log is a lesson in customer experience — but how do you analyze enough of them to make it meaningful? Tweak prompts, test different AI models, score for sycophancy, and explore everything blazing fast in the browser.
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Kenny Daniel
1 month
How do you avoid abstraction? I look at the whole system and what it's goal is (eg- view data in the browser), and then ask what would be the minimal code required to achieve that goal if you included the ENTIRE stack (including frameworks, libraries, infra, etc). I think this
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