Fine-tuning Qwen3 at home to respond to any prompt with a dad joke
Details
- External ID
- 46314082
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fine-tuning Qwen3 at home to respond to any prompt with a dad joke
- Website domain
- substack.com
- Launched
- Dec. 18, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4933206106870229
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fine-tuned llm for dad jokes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an instructional blog post or basic script demonstrating standard LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning using Hugging Face PEFT, Unsloth, or Axolotl on an open dataset. Off-the-shelf scripts and notebooks make this directly vibe-codeable.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 96 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #55 of 97 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 35 days after the earliest competitor.
- I fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 (0.8B–4B) on a Mac for text-to-SQL · hn · 2026-03-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- ST-jeved · github · 2026-09-20 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- A Dad Joke Website · hn · 2026-04-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Dante-Qwen-4B · hn · 2025-11-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Crilio · hn · 2026-08-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- just-prompt-motherfucker · github · 2026-09-16 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- qwenimage3.0-qwen-image-3.0-prompts · github · 2026-09-24 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Samosa Chat · hn · 2026-07-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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- No other launches for this product.
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