What fine-tuning a language model is, how Unsloth AI came about, what makes it different from Axolotl, TRL and LLaMA-Factory, and when it is worth using. With the numbers on VRAM and speed, the founders’ story, and a practical example.
Read the article →OpenRouter's Stealth programme is a stage on which AI giants test anonymous models before launch. We find out who is hiding behind names like Space Bunny Alpha and Ox Alpha, and how to use them in Hermes Agent.
Read the article →Nous Research and OpenRouter are two key players in the world of open source AI and decentralisation, but with totally different roles: the former focuses on research and fine-tuning of advanced models, while the latter is an aggregator that brings together hundreds of models through a single compatible API.
Read the article →WSL2 was born to solve a precise problem: giving Windows developers a real Linux environment without heavy VMs. Here is why Hermes Agent runs better on it, and how this architecture came about.
Read the article →What Nostr is, how a protocol without central servers works, and why the privacy it promises is real but has precise limits that nobody talks about. With the specification read at the source, the history, and the three ways it can be compromised.
Read the article →Version control is not a backup and it is not a way of working: it is the reason why a software project never dies. What distinguishes Git from GitHub and GitLab, the difference nobody explains to you, and the private and public key pair with the story of RSA from 1973 onwards.
Read the article →The word hacker never means what the press wants it to mean. The definition in the Jargon File and in RFC 1392, why cracker is a pathology semantically before it is legally, what a lamer is, and the three philosophies competing for the scene. With the rule that actually tells them apart.
Read the article →The difference between free software and proprietary software is not the price, it is control. Why reading the code, being able to modify it and not depending on a vendor are worth more than any licence, and how all this came about from 1983 onwards.
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