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Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:05AM (#49876167)
I really cannot comprehend the fact that a company which runs biggest ad networks on their search engine product don't do actual search and uses AI to answer queries. If you don't send trafic to a site which publishes your ads, how do you plan to sustain your main business?
It gives me chills when I see the 3dMark 2000 benchmark visuals. I thought it is pure magic when I first saw it. What was a time to be alive!.
Yes that is way I have added this. It could work any OpenAI compatible model or router. I have tested it with Kimi and Qwen. You can bring your own tuned model which is better if you are doing specific work.

Show HN: Documan – AI Powered Requirement Management Workspace

https://github.com/bbayer/DocuMan

That is a tool that I have developed based on my own needs since it was a shame not to use AI for requirement generation. There are ancient tools like IBM DOORS but they require buying seat licences and they don't have any support for LLMs. I see that requirement management is a mess most of time, people are going back and forth between tools and Excel and Word. Customer couldn't track...

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @02:35AM (#47514028)
This was inevitable since Antropic made a fortune by releasing single app with only text generation business. They did best code generator and targeted developers and enterprise users. OpenAI did only 1.5 million dollars from Sora which is obviously far from profitable. So it is logical to assign GPU time to more profitable business.
Re:Everything we announced at our first-ever LlamaCon on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:31PM (#43838256)
This is actually my first impression while I am reading the post. Mentions "open source" everywhere but dude how the earth it is open source without training data.
Re:Building a T1D smartwatch for my son, from scratch on Thursday January 30, 2025 @12:09AM (#42875082)
Another alternative is to use ESP32's deep sleep mode. You can tell ESP to sleep until some event occurs. There are many options for waking up the microcontroller.

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32c...

It uses little power, so standard 18650 battery could last years with single charge.

https://www.programmingelectronics.com/esp32-deep-sleep-mode

Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] on Saturday December 28, 2024 @05:19AM (#42529942)
I am really impressed by how young speakers are. It is really fascinating to see how somebody collect such technical knowledge at such a young age.
Do you mind to share genre?
Re:How to get a heart attack while using JEB decompiler on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:16AM (#34773015)
Why would a decompiler execute code that has decompiled?
Re:KiCad Version 7.0.0 Released on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:58AM (#34770600)
I want to learn PCB design, mostly with ARM and ESP based designs. How would I learn basics? I know theory part but I really couldn't figure out why they determine which component and which value they have to use. I mean there are resistors, capacitors all over the place but I really want to learn reason behind it. Also I guess there are some basics related power, battery, UART, USB etc. Is there any source that covers all of these concepts?
Re:Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video] on Friday March 11, 2022 @07:44AM (#30639120)
Such modular design is tricky. Some parts require close distance to specific components like clocks. OP did a good job by solving such problems.
I think starting a side project with a goal of revenue is not practical. For me, doing side project is doing something that you can't normally do in day to day job. So, it has to something that I love to spend time for. On the other hand, I always think about making many part when I start something new. My side projects are generally about making games and mobile applications, search engine optimization, writing programs that transform data from one form to another. When I finish a side project, I don't hesitate to putting some ads and make passive income. It is lovely to make money while you are sleeping from something that you have enjoyed creating it.
Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:27AM (#24965762)
It reminds me the joyful moments while I plugged my Commodore 64 to TV set.
Re:Show HN: I co-wrote a novel with GPT-3 in 118 hours on Sunday October 18, 2020 @01:00PM (#24819249)
> Peter has adopted the code and molded it for years, Anakin to a digital C3PO. He'd grown attached to his creation. He loved Art more than anyone else alive.

True gold.

Flash Player itself has a lot of security vulnerabilities but Adobe Flash as IDE still has no competitor even today IMHO. There is no such tool that combines code and graphics with ease like Adobe Flash. You can use it as an animator, you can use it as graphic designer, you can use it as developer. All these features just came together perfectly and it made sense. I am still missing this usability.
Actually speaking yes. I spent a lot of time to think about it. Here is my little thought process to keep my motivation;

Why am I working? Why am I spending my 1/3 of my time with my daily job. Is career real thing or other words is it really necessary to make money? Does it really matter to have high work satisfaction even though you earn little? I am working because of money. Money doesn't bring happiness but it brings freedom. At the end of the day what I need is freedom. It doesn't matter if I have shinny career if I can earn same money with something else. I have limited time and more money to become free. So I need to use my time wisely to get more money to become free eventually. It doesn't matter if I am using shiny programming language, technology or IDE. At the end of the day nobody will give a shit about what I am using. Quickest is the best because I have counted days in my life. I don't have time to learn new things every time I start a new projects. I already know everything I need to make money. Learning is not a goal but it is a reward when I become free.

After several years of struggling with side projects I found one thing that motivates me: money. I don't even start a project if there is no possibility of some revenue. %99 of ideas got eliminated immediately. Every people have their own motivation though but having side income from a side project even you are sleeping is different thing. I have limited time for side projects. I always think I have one bullet so trying to use it wisely.
I have been in Bangalore and I really couldn't understand who is honking to me because everybody honk. It is just chaos.
Re:Show HN: Flash replacement on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @08:01AM (#21752022)
It is definitely something but not Flash replacement.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck on Saturday November 23, 2019 @02:21AM (#21612908)
Yes. I suspect that production line will be designed to be built on Mars. Design of the car also looks like it is built for high dust environments (non-flat rooftop). Solar charging, shell with same material with Starship also supports this thesis.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck on Friday November 22, 2019 @11:25AM (#21607019)
I understand what Tesla is doing here. Outer shell manufacturing cost is very low. No paint, minimal bending process. Just laser cut the material and it is ready to be mounted. If you want to manufacture something in a low resource environment ( like Mars ) it might be the clever move.
Usually, I cannot finish what I have started because of debating over which shiny new framework/stack I need to use. I overoptimize things and always try to code for worst case. I cannot resist to think about hundreds of users, peak performance, hn traffic of death etc. Eventually it never finishes or I loose interest.

Best thing you can do is to make something that just works in fastest way possible. Anything that can print out text will work. You will always have a chance to make it better once it starts to get some traction.

Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era on Monday October 14, 2019 @06:09AM (#21246604)
Adobe Air could produce executables iOS and many other operating systems and environments. I have seen many successful mobile games done with Air. Flash Player is a virtual machine and swf is compiled bytecode. It could be ported to any hardware and OS. Death of Flash is not technical, it is political. SWF format and Flash Player is proprietary. They chose to kill it instead of supporting someone else's technology.
Re:Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:43PM (#21129724)
Do you have any plans to be more developer friendly? Do you plan to give some sort of API to make custom development? It can bring lots of opportunities to devs if it provides some sort of hackability.
Re:I quit my job today to make video games full time on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:15PM (#20678245)
Hallway and cubicle just make me think that probably he works for an established defence company.

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