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Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:48AM (#50152472)
I got both DEXA and MRI :)
Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:48PM (#50133857)
I've lost 6kg of fat (I've maintained muscle mass) in 2 months with only the 0,25mg monthly dose using Wegovy.

This is one of the most interesting ideas in medicine right now

For the harness... just the shell. No client library. Does that answer your question?
Also I don't know if people like this... but could this be wrapped around a nice desktop app?
I just used it, went through the whole installation (took like 1 hour approx). Long but straightforward. If I put my computer to sleep will it continue?

I started the server (very curiously I was running oLlama in the same prot slotserve uses by default, instead of switching it which I know you can do, I just ditched oLlama, perhaps an insight for you) and built a small html hello world served via Python. The thing pointed me to the localhost link, nice!

As an early user, my advice is to focus on efficiency. The efficiency of the installation but more importantly, the efficiency of running the thing. 8.1GB per slotserve process is a lot! Is that in your control?

Also, I've seen an interest of certain kinds of programmers for open-weight models. "We all know agree that LLMs for coding are very useful but we're giving money to a small set of big, evil corporations. They're Trump donors. I heard it's bad for the environment because it uses water". If it's local and open-weight, this could be marketed this way I think.

Finally, what's the actual, real use case for slotserve?

Lived it from my 20th floor apartment in Medellin. It was scary af, my wife started crying, but friends and family are OK.

Interesting tech fact: A friend of mine who lives in SF couldn't communicate with his parents who were in the countryside near Pereira (one of the 2 or 3 most devastated cities) because comms were pretty bad, but luckily they had Starlink to be able communicate.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026) on Sunday May 10, 2026 @08:54PM (#48089848)
SEEKING WORK | Colombia (US Timezones) | Remote or Hybrid in Colombia (can fly to the US or elsewhere for offsites)

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tebanvargas/

Technologies & Skills: Software Engineering, React, Node, TypeScript, AI Engineering, System Design, AWS, Leadership.

I'm looking for a full-stack engineering role. I can be either be a pure IC or a tech lead. The main thing that I'm optimizing for is for solving the problems that I want to solve.

9+ years of experience in the industry, the past 4 in tech lead roles. I have mostly worked for US SaaS companies, and have also been a founder in the past (backed by Techstars).

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d0-tqGvQdwnN0sXtFfUW6qdE3l9...

Ok I actually like the idea of flatter orgs and player-coaches a lot.

However, do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that as a lot of companies, this company over-hired during ZIRP? Do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that the crypto hype is gone, therefore their business is smaller? “Company as intelligence” and “AI productivity” are just buzzwords so their stock price doesn’t suffer.

Re:Agile Is Dying on Friday April 17, 2026 @07:35PM (#47811758)
Interesting perspective
Re:Agile Is Dying on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:41PM (#47810905)
XD
Re:Agile Is Dying on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:41PM (#47810902)
Staying pretty much the same, at least with the current state of technology (just way more bottlenecked by this, but with the same process). What have you seen?
Re:Agile Is Dying on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:40PM (#47810899)
Agree! I'm not saying that people are ditching all of Agile, just certain parts of Agile. Let's call it Agile 2.0 or something completely different
Re:Agile Is Dying on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:39PM (#47810888)
Could be the case! Without being to strict on the terminology I just wanted to give a clear message: Our planning processes and time range expectations are changing completely

Show HN: Weekly Updates – Multiplayer productivity with monthly leaderboards

https://personal-standup.vercel.app/

I built this arcade-style productivity mini-game to help me push myself to meet my personal goals by having mutual accountability with other people.You post your weekly update. Every monday you and other people vote on each other's update, then the leaderboard is recalculated and if you did good progress you climb up the leaderboard.You can optionally ask for and/or provide advice/feedback when...

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I built this because I just thought it would be cool to show which LLMs respond faster (between GTP-4o mini, Claude 3 Haiku, and Gemini 2.5 Flash) and show some metrics (TTFT, avg tok/s, total time, and nTokens)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026) on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:45PM (#47237843)
Are you open to UTC -5?
Re:How far back in time can you understand English? on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:03PM (#47108034)
This very interesting blog post got me thinking how English would look like in 2100 or 2200 driven by the changes of the internet and AI. Spelling matters less so alphabet gets reduced? Simpler grammar as it gets more spoken worldwide? Emojis as punctuation?

window unseal nite no log. odd.

Re:Show HN: Startup Simulator – AI Choose Your Own Adventure on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:10PM (#46545086)
Hey! I just wanted to build this to show where gaming is going thanks to this AI Boom (choose your own adventure, but opinionated enough to move numbers, get items, have a game end, etc.)

Don't consider this true educational material! haha

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