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ZennyKenny 
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What a trip. Just walked through @burtenshaw and @evalstate tutorial on adding Hugging Face Skills to your Claude Code agent so you can fine tune LLMs by chatting with AI.

These are the kinds of innovations that are going to help everyone benefit from the power of Artificial Intelligence. Well done gentlemen and thank you for sharing.
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ZennyKenny 
posted an update 7 days ago
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😐 I keep seeing takes on LinkedIn from American business influencers melting down about Silicon Valley startup "dependence" on open-source Chinese models.

🤔 Can anyone describe a credible scenario where these models can be leveraged by the Chinese government to endanger American security interests or am I right to believe that this is just Red Scare nonsense?
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Nymbo 
posted an update 11 days ago
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🚀 I've just shipped a major update to the Nymbo/Tools MCP server: the Agent_Terminal, a single "master tool" that cuts token usage by over 90%!

Anthropic found 98.7% context savings using code execution with MCP, Cloudflare published similar findings. This is my open-source implementation of the same idea.

# The Problem

Traditional MCP exposes every tool definition directly to the model. With 12 tools, that's thousands of tokens consumed *before the conversation even starts*. Each tool call also passes intermediate results through the context window — a 10,000-row spreadsheet? That's all going into context just to sum a column.

# The Solution: One Tool to Rule Them All

Agent_Terminal wraps all 12 tools (Web_Search, Web_Fetch, File_System, Generate_Image, Generate_Speech, Generate_Video, Deep_Research, Memory_Manager, Obsidian_Vault, Shell_Command, Code_Interpreter) into a single Python code execution gateway.

Instead of the model making individual tool calls, it writes Python code that orchestrates the tools directly:

# Search for Bitcoin price
result = Web_Search("current price of bitcoin", max_results=3)
print(result)


Don't know what tools are available? The agent can discover them at runtime:

print(search_tools('image'))  # Find tools by keyword
print(usage('Generate_Image'))  # Get full docs for a specific tool


The individual direct tool calls are all still there, but they can be disabled if using the Agent_Terminal. Try it now - https://www.nymbo.net/nymbot
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ZennyKenny 
posted an update 17 days ago
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The #feedback channel of app early access Slack Workspaces is some of the best unintentional comedy material I have ever come across tbh.
ZennyKenny 
posted an update 19 days ago
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🎉 Wow. Congratulations @bfirsh and the Replicate team on the CloudFlare acquisition!

✌️ You've really built an incredible ecosystem and product offering and should be super proud.
ZennyKenny 
posted an update 28 days ago
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🎉 Novoyaz is live.

A few months ago, I built a quick POC in Hugging Face that used a fine-tuned variant of OpenAI's OSS-20B model that I trained to convert the text from pre-reform Russian-language documents into modern Russian orthography.

⚡️ This morning, I launched novoyaz.io.

This is a production app, the frontend for which I built in like two hours with Lovable, that uses that same fine-tuned model for transliteration, but now has a bunch of extra features that make using it even easier (like taking and uploading pictures with your on-device camera for example 😅).

👉 If you're a researcher, or know a researcher, for whom this app will improve their day-to-day workflows, please get in touch with me.
Nymbo 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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I've added an 11th tool to the Nymbo/Tools MCP server, it's for your Obsidian_Vault. I'd argue it's far more context-efficient than any other Obsidian MCP I've seen, and doesn't require any plugins. Also some big improvements to the Web_Search and Web_Fetch tools.

# Obsidian_Vault Tool

It's basically a read-only version of the File_System tool, but it works so well for navigating Obsidian without unnecessary context. It supports recursive (full-text) search across the entire vault, and supports offset so the agent can "scroll" through a document without re-consuming tokens.

Run the server locally and set the OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT environment variable to your vault's root path. If you don't use Obsidian, this is perfectly usable as simply a read-only filesystem.

# Web_Search Improvements

The Web_Search tool previously just used DuckDuckGo as a backend search engine, but now it also supports Bing, Brave, Yahoo, and Wikipedia. Default engine is auto which provides results from all backends in recommended order. Still doesn't require any kind of API or auth for Web_Search.

There's also a new date filter to limit results to those created in the past day, week, month, or year. Oh, and uhh, SafeSearch is now off by default :)

# Web_Fetch Improvements

As context-efficient as the Markdown mode is for web browsing, sometimes it does lose important context in the conversion from HTML to Markdown. So I've added a new HTML mode to the Web_Fetch tool that basically executes a cURL request on the URL, returning the full HTML page if necessary.

# A Note on Claude Skills

I've been having fun with the new File_System and Shell_Command tools. Using Claude Skills doesn't currently work in the public HF space because of environment restrictions, but using Skills works perfectly well running locally.

Happy building ~
ZennyKenny 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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Anyone got the scoop on a good OCR model that's available on inference?

Keen to make use of an endpoint (gated or not -- happy to pay for usage) for a personal project, but not so keen to pay for the GPU hosting myself.

🙈🙈🙈
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ZennyKenny 
posted an update about 2 months ago
merve 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is out! 🔥 my take ⤵️
> pretty insane it can parse and re-render charts in HTML
> it uses CLIP and SAM features concatenated, so better grounding
> very efficient per vision tokens/performance ratio
> covers 100 languages
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Nymbo 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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Two new tools added to the Nymbo/Tools MCP server, File_System and Shell_Exec. You can theoretically do basically anything with these two tools, and it should enable support for many Claude Skills.

GPT-5-Codex proves that for many cases, shell commands really are all you need, and Claude Skills seem to lean into this. The thing is, nothing about the design of Claude Skills actually restricts them to proprietary models!

# File_System

There's a new directory inside the repo called Filesystem, that's the agent's "root". It can perform the following actions : list, read, write, append, mkdir, move, copy, delete, info, help. It's able to keep this all within the scope of one tool call by making the Action field required and all other fields optional. Using a filesystem shouldn't require 15 different tools.

Files created in the public HF space live in the space's running container, and gets cleared when the space is restarted. When running the server locally, files are actually stored on disk.

# Shell_Exec

What good is a filesystem if you can't execute commands in that filesystem? This tool automatically detects if the server is running on Windows or Linux, and suggests using the appropriate shell (PowerShell/Bash). Both of these new tools require that the agent uses relative paths, rather than absolute paths. I could be convinced to back pedal on this.

# Closing Thoughts

The File_System and Shell_Exec tools aren't super polished yet, I'll continue to improve the agent's instructions and UX of using the new tools. Most of my testing was done with gpt-oss-20b and if it messes up, it gets the gist after one failed tool call. It should work perfectly fine for the GPU poor.
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ZennyKenny 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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Did Hugging Face just ban hammer a bunch of bot accounts or am I just so uninteresting that 30% of my subs dropped me overnight?

😬 Wait, don't answer that.
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ZennyKenny 
posted an update about 2 months ago
Nymbo 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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I've made some improvements to my custom Deep_Research tool in the Nymbo/Tools MCP server. I've added a second LLM process and it still takes less than 1 minute to complete!

The original version of my Deep_Research tool would basically dump up to 50 fetched webpages onto the Researcher model (Qwen3-235B), with only a little bit of context shown from each page.

# New "Filterer" Process

The new process includes another LLM call before the researcher process. The Filterer (also Qwen3-235B) gets the query summary and the original 50 pages with low context, and decides which pages are most relevant to the research topic. The Filterer then outputs the URLs to the relevant pages, which are then re-fetched (with more context) and sent to the Researcher.

# Researcher Context

The Researcher now gets only the relevant webpages, then begins writing the report. When testing with 50 initial results, the researcher would often end up with 10-20 results of relevant context.

It still takes less than a minute to accomplish everything, thanks entirely to Cerebras inference. It now takes about 35-45 seconds to complete once the tool is run.

It's also worth noting that both the Filterer and Researcher now are provided the current time/date before they see the content, reducing hallucinations caused by knowledge cutoffs.
Nymbo 
posted an update 2 months ago
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I have a few Sora-2 invites - 15509N
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ZennyKenny 
posted an update 2 months ago
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🥊 Big Code Arena is live! bigcode/arena

💡 bigcode is an open scientific collaboration working on responsible training of large language models for coding applications.

👉 The Arena ranks LLMs based on their ability to support natural language vibe coding requests in a competitive format, based on feedback from human reviewers.

🧠 It was a pleasure to contribute to this project led by @terryyz and appear as an additional contributor in the Big Code Arena paper.
ZennyKenny 
posted an update 2 months ago
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🖤 Probably one of my favorite projects that I've worked on so far, introducing Новояз (Novoyaz).

🛠 One of the first acts of the Bolshevik government after the Russian Revolution was the reform and standardization of the Russian language, which at the time had a non-standard and challenging orthography.

📚 Upon its reform the government launched a nationwide campaign called Ликбез (Likbez), which sought to improve literacy in the country (by the way, it worked, bringing the national literacy rate from <20% in the 1920s to >80% by the 1930s).

‼ While this is a remarkable result that should absolutely be celebrated, it's one that has left behind literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of artifacts using pre-reform Russian orthography.

😓 Researchers and historians are working tirelessly to translate these artifacts to modern Russian so that they may be archived and studied but many have told me that. they are doing this BY HAND (!).

💡 I thought, well this is a perfect use case for OCR and a fine-tuned LLM to step in and help to aid in this important work!

🌏 Introducing НОВОЯЗ (NOVOYAZ)! Powered by ChatDOC/OCRFlux-3B and https://huggingface.co/ZennyKenny/oss-20b-prereform-to-modern-ru-merged, researchers can now convert images of their pre-reform documents to modern Russian orthography using the power of open-source AI!

Check it out and drop a like to support more real-world use cases for open source AI outside of traditional tech-centric domains!

ZennyKenny/Novoyaz
ZennyKenny 
posted an update 2 months ago
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🔒 Like a lot of other AI builders, I have some anxiety about the emerging surveillance-capitalist paradigm emerging in the AI space.

👉 Of course-- this kind of thing isn't completely new and has been going on for decades, but the difference is the stronger immersion of AI tools into our daily lives (compared to something like a search engine or social network).

❕ That's why I was really excited to come across Lumo: https://lumo.proton.me/u/1/

❕ Lumo is created by ProtonPrivacy and offers privacy-first features that make sure that what you do with you AI assistant is your business.

❕ I already trust Proton with my other business apps and I've never been disappointed, plus the Lumo architecture is really fantastic, dynamically routing each query to the most appropriate model for the request.

🔥 Really awesome stuff Proton, thank you as always.