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Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band

https://github.com/callbacked/kinesis

a couple hours ago i had astra take on a 10 month old repo of mine https://github.com/callbacked/neural-band-poc/that involved finding a way to use the meta neural band independently from the glasses to read the sEMG data off of it. i really think it is a cool piece of technology that largely gets overlooked by the glasses, and always thought it was a shame it couldn't be used outside of its...

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Show HN: Meta neural band PoC connected to Mac without needing the glasses

https://github.com/callbacked/neural-band-poc/

old repo from 10 months ago that i sicced astra on to see if it could let me use the meta display's neural band without needing it to be tied to the glasses for other potential use cases - was fun. i hope others can find cooler things to do with it.i really do think the band is a cool piece of tech that should be opened up a bit more, it often goes overlooked because of the glasses, IMO....plus...

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Re:EVE Online moves to Python 3 on Saturday August 29, 2026 @07:55PM (#49494365)
bonus points if you tack on "I believe in you, you can do this!" at the end
you're an engineer by doing, whereas wannabes don't! very cool project
that and the seal for the battery enclosure can seize up after continuous drives through dirty water, the next passenger may not be so lucky and end up stranded once water breaches the battery pack
unfortunate name in spanish...
Re:If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it? on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:22PM (#47493240)
> not sure why the whole article assumes the only language in the world is Python

https://github.com/ax-llm/ax (if you're in the typescript world)

Re:Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM? on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:09PM (#46916834)
can only speak for myself here, but the prompt processing speeds on Apple Sillicon is too slow, especially for any meaningful usage
yeah that had me do a double take lol
Re:Show HN: Embe Bot - An Automatic Embeds Fixer for Discord on Sunday December 28, 2025 @06:37AM (#46410328)
Discord's embeds for social media links are annoying. TikTok videos show as static images at times. Instagram Reels lose the video entirely and it sends as a thumbnail image. Twitter embeds are hit or miss (or used to be, it has improved).

Embebot automatically detects these links and replies with upgraded versions using services like vxtwitter, vxtiktok, and ddinstagram – which actually embed the video inline with a proper player.

Built on Cloudflare Workers using Durable Objects w/ a SvelteKit dashboard. Server admins can toggle platforms on/off and customize which embed service to use.

  Repo: github.com/callbacked/embebot-cf
This is actually a rewrite to a Cloudflare workers friendly version of my bot since it was written in Go, packaged via Docker and hosted on my homelab, but I've been too busy tending to my homelab and want to host it on more reliable infra.
These demos whether good or bad go in meta's favor I think

Successful demo? sweet! people will rave about it for a bit

Catastrophic failure? sweet! people will still talk about it and for even longer now!

Ali G would have loved this for his ice cream glove idea
Re:Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:29AM (#44682920)
Awesome list, any chance of adding OpenRouter? Looking at their website seems like it would be a pain to scrape all of that due to the site's layout.
Re:Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @04:33AM (#44656949)
30B-A3B works extremely well as a generalist chat model when you pair with scaffolding such as web search. It's fast (for me) using my workstation at home running a 5070 + 128GB of DDR4 3200 RAM @ ~28 tok/s. Love MoE models.

Sadly it falls short during real world coding usage, but fingers crossed that a similarly sized coder variant of Qwen 3 can fill in that gap for me.

This is my script for the Q4_K_XL version from unsloth at 45k context:

llama-server.exe --host 0.0.0.0 --no-webui --alias "Qwen3-30B-A3B-Q4_K_XL" --model "F:\models\unsloth\Qwen3-30B-A3B-128K-GGUF\Qwen3-30B-A3B-128K-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf" --ctx-size 45000 --n-gpu-layers 99 --slots --metrics --batch-size 2048 --ubatch-size 2048 --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --min-p 0 --presence-penalty 1.5 --repeat-penalty 1.1 --jinja --reasoning-format deepseek --cache-type-k q8_0 --cache-type-v q8_0 --flash-attn --no-mmap --threads 8 --cache-reuse 256 --override-tensor "blk\.([0-9][02468])\.ffn_._exps\.=CPU"

No thanks HP, I'll stick with SMART instead.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025) on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @02:32PM (#44436800)
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes (Open to hybrid or on-site)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Languages: Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, Bash, PowerShell

- DevOps/Infrastructure: Docker, Ansible, Linux (RHEL), AWS, GCP, CI/CD, Git

- Networking (Caddy, Reverse Proxies)

- Frameworks/Libraries: React, Express, Transformers.js, Next.js, Vite

CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Ozg2aBBgfGxTI8z2ay8aTYVGgI...

GitHub: https://github.com/callbacked

Email: [email protected]

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Hi, I'm Alex. I'm a year post grad from CS, still looking for work. I have been biding my time by doing a variety of projects to keep busy and learn new things. Prior to this, I have done systems administration, where I managed on prem Windows servers, Hyper-V, and networking hardware for some school districts where I have studied. In my spare time, I run my own Linux homelab using Docker, Ansible, and Grafana. I use it to self-host my projects (among other things), which include a full-stack Reddit marketplace monitor with its own CI/CD pipeline. I'm a generalist who enjoys working from the infrastructure up to the application.

Honestly? I'm not picky (never was). I don't mind a chance working anywhere.

Show HN: Vela – An LLM Client for the PS Vita

https://github.com/callbacked/vela

Hello all, awhile back I had ported llama2.c on the PS Vita for on-device inference using the TinyStories 260K & 15M checkpoints. Was a cool and fun concept to work on, but it wasn't too practical in the end.So in the spirit of "doing things because you can", I have made a full fledged LLM client for the Vita. You can even use the camera to take photos to send to models that support vision....

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Excellent! I just need to find offers...
surely on an iPhone that has the checkm8 hardware vulnerability available, one could jailbreak the device, install a codesigning bypass plugin on it, then develop and sideload their app without the whole "pay apple $99/yr to keep your sideloaded app on your phone" thing?

Show HN: An LLM Running on a PS Vita

https://github.com/callbacked/psvita-llm

Hello all, a couple of moons ago I ported karpathy's llama2.c code to run inference on the TinyStories 260K & 15M checkpoints on the on the PS Vita with the ability to download/delete the models on device.Runs showed that the 260K model ran at ~120 tok/s and at 15M ran at 1.8 tok/s, which probably could be a bit higher if it weren't a single threaded application. Had fun working on it as a...

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you're right, that was a kneejerk reaction on my end. there is always a balance to be found
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone experiencing "AI brain rot?" on Saturday March 29, 2025 @05:14AM (#43513999)
I would wager that autocorrect/predictive text on your phone is to blame for that. It is such an overlooked convenience to a problem we solved decades ago that it is on virtually any smartphone.

Typing in a hurry or you forgot to add one more s in the word 'necessary'? No worries! Keep typing incorrectly and the phone will take care of the proper spelling of the word for you! And it will do so faster than you figuring out the right spelling for the misspelled word. Many of us have probably regressed in our spelling ability to some degree at this point.