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Darshan Makwana
Personal blog · darshanmakwana412.github.ioaiprogramming
Darshan Makwana's personal blog at darshanmakwana412.github.io covers ai and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Gumbel Max trick for LLM sampling”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link the author's posts on setting up a blog with Excalidraw diagrams and on the Gumbel-max trick, the latter cited while discussing a self-distillation code generation paper.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Darshan Makwana’s blog. Thoughts on AI, programming, and life.
Most-linked posts?
- Gumbel Max trick for LLM sampling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-27
What Hacker News says?
Yeah I use that plugin too. I was just referencing it in relation to how I setup my blog[1] [1]: https://darshanmakwana412.github.io/2026/03/a-system-of-jour...
Comment linking /2026/03/a-system-of-journaling/
on “I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog”Submitted Extracting Steering Vectors from J space as a story · 66 points
HN discussionAhhh! section A uses the classic good old gumble max trick[1] [1] - https://darshanmakwana412.github.io/2026/01/gumbel-max-trick...
Comment linking /2026/01/gumbel-max-trick/
on “Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation”Submitted Tinkering with J Space as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding Agents make careful engineering cheap as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Code Chronicles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gumbel Max trick for LLM sampling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Process Was the Point as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gaussian Splatting for Dummies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gaussian Splatting for Dummies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted After 3 months of using standing desk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I use obsidian for with my GitHub pages blog as a story · 1 points
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