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Re:EmbeddingGemma 2 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:20PM (#49987703)
Interesting that they have buried the trending decisions API as the third example and a passing reference in the summary.

This may gain more traction if they lead with multimodal input decision making.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:17PM (#49916901)
Isn't /btw meant to be ephemeral?
I have found Fable 5.1 to be a much more natural communicator than prior Claude models
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:47PM (#49531482)
The biggest issue i found was the gap between the tire and rim. Otherwise, the max version is the best so far!
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:37PM (#49531424)
I've found that adding the words - "tell me in simple words" manages to improve the output. But, i have to keep repeating that
Wow, is this really a side-gig?! I would have assumed this would need a team of engineers to run
Not dumb at all. It's a whole field of active research - Speculative Decoding. A recent paper goes one level deeper with Speculative Speculative Decoding - https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03251
Framer Motion has recently launched CSS Studio. It's a library that runs on your browser and gives you the ability to tweak the site directly in browser which fires off instructions for your coding agent to commit to code.

I have been thinking about better and faster ways to communicate with agents for UI related changes and this is the right direction I believe.

Re:Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:08AM (#45989812)
If it is a little bigger to incorporate a bigger chip antenna and some GPIO pins, it is going to be very useful for a lot of IoT projects!!
Re:Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:08PM (#45368869)
Couldn't we get a low-res version of this info by tracking the active window using a cli tool? For linux, there are several options. Not sure about Mac.

Another approach is to run OCR on 1FPS screenshots. Everything runs locally without draining the battery like an LLM would.

Re:The Rise of Async Programming on Thursday September 11, 2025 @01:33PM (#45214083)
Off topic, but I assume the name braintrust comes from Creativity, Inc. Amazing book by Pixar co-founder Edwin Catmull.
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @06:34AM (#45037759)
I had a similar experience.

It did not change the text on a hat (ended up changing 1 of 3 words).

On one occasion it regenerated the same image again, ignoring my instructions to edit.

I get the feeling that this model is optimised for images with people in it than objects or drawings etc

Re:Show HN: Creao – Vibe coding product for founders on Saturday August 23, 2025 @02:21AM (#44993708)
> from idea to solid working product

What platforms have you been using for this? Did you face any challenges in getting the backend setup?

Re:Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) - Making RNA Programmable on Friday August 22, 2025 @01:47PM (#44987448)
How are the RNA sequences used? Are there any clinical trials running?
Re:Show HN: Thirty – The AI Calendar on Friday August 22, 2025 @01:44PM (#44987414)
What is this?
This is pretty cool! What kind of users are you targeting? Technical folks or those dipping their toes into dev with vibe coding?
This is quite similar to what I was trying to explore with [1] & [2] yesterday. Currently, the only option I found is to use localStorage and give the user the option to manually export and import.

Hyperclay has given me some ideas. What I want is something like [3] but that the user only needs to install once. One electron app that can load our mini-apps.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930814

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933897

[3] - https://www.electronjs.org/fiddle

Re:Show HN: Super simple offline app to track yearly goals on Monday August 18, 2025 @09:42AM (#44940514)
He has two main projects - A & B. Currently A takes up 80% of his time and B takes up 20%. He uses the timers to track time on each project with the goal of transitioning to 80% on B.
Re:Show HN: Super simple offline app to track yearly goals on Monday August 18, 2025 @02:15AM (#44937882)
This thought is what triggered me to try and build an offline web app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930814

After building this, I realise that we need a standalone electron that can download and run offline apps that are more complex.

Re:Show HN: Super simple offline app to track yearly goals on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:01PM (#44933997)
My colleague uses 2 kitchen timers to track daily progress on his two main projects. I was inspired by this to create an open source app but for yearly goals - https://github.com/anyg-me/goals-tracker
Re:Ask HN: Which popular apps should not need a backend? on Sunday August 17, 2025 @08:01AM (#44931009)
Linear is mostly used in collaborative setting right? Don't you use any of its integrations or workflows?
Re:Ask HN: Which popular apps should not need a backend? on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:26AM (#44930843)
Figma-lite maybe for solo designers?
This is useful but not to decide whether to work on an idea or not. Most initial ideas are going to exist somewhere around the world but they may not focus on the angle that we are interested in. So, I think this is more useful as a way to understand existing approaches and see if our insights can lead to a meaningfully different solution.
Re:Ask HN: Do you use personal AI Agents? on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:47AM (#44898581)
I'm implementing a personal AI agent that is fully local inference with external memory that has access to my meetings, notes, Slack and Google Docs. Initially, it replaces Fireflies to capture notes from meetings and Slack.
Re:GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:27PM (#44828467)
Good to know - > Knowledge cut-off is September 30th 2024 for GPT-5 and May 30th 2024 for GPT-5 mini and nano

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