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Re:Rejections on 4DGS capture app for iPhone on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:54AM (#48132348)
I built an app using metal compute shaders to capture 4d gaussian splat video for the iphone. Took about two months to get it running in realtime with good compression and quantisation.

Apple have now rejected it 5 times (it takes them a week to reply each time, so that's 5 weeks) for nit picking things, inconsistently each time.

I know the app store can be like this, but it's been enough to push me back to being an android developer.

I love my macbook, but i might try rocking a graphene os phone.

Show HN: BotParty, a native macOS chat app where conversations are documents

Posted by captainbenises on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:36AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://botparty.com/

Hi HN, I built BotParty.It's a native macOS/iOS chat client for openrouter, built around Swift's DocumentGroup.Each conversation is a regular file on disk — you can save them in folders, sync them with iCloud, email it. I made it because I got sick of the claude desktop app changing it’s system prompts on me constantly. I also wanted to be able to own all my own chats, and archive them locally....

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Re:Show HN: Selectable – mobile-friendly Postgres client on Friday September 20, 2024 @07:54PM (#41606453)
Feature request:

Add an AI query tool - you could do it on-device with something like functionary ggml and llama cpp with a few functions:

getSchemaForTables(...) getTableStats() runQuery('...')

Then you could do a query like:

"show me all customers who regularly post between midnight and 1am"

Re:Show HN: Cryptovoxels.com – Minecraft WebGL World on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:28AM (#27366656)
I worked part time on this project for about 2 years, and full time with a small team for the last year. It's all typescript / webgl / node.js / preact, and lots of microservices.
Re:Manyverse for iOS on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:54PM (#21964413)
This is fantastic news, awesome work André!
Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:48PM (#20620014)
Cargo bikes! You can easily take one or two children on a cargo bike (yuba for example).
Re:If It Ain't TypeScript It Ain't Sexy on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:21PM (#19138960)
They are though. What if the API you're relying on doesn't have types and it returns something you didn't expect.

I think this is the biggest gotcha for developers who are using typescript. Typescript doesn't do runtime type checks, so if you're calling out to something third party that isn't written in typescript, you can't trust it'll return what you think it returns.

Re:Boden cross-platform framework: Native C++11, native widgets, no Ja... on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:09PM (#18585413)
Yeah - if this was using something like flexbox for layout that'd actually be pretty neat.
Re:Some nice and accurate CMake tips on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:47PM (#17191625)
You don't have to write cmake commands in UPPERCASE ANY MORE.
Re:Use YouTube influencers for low-cost marketing on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @12:46AM (#14305961)
This seems super spammy, there was no pricing, only "get a quote".
Re:Dmoz closed as of Mar 14, 2017 on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @08:43PM (#13817080)
I'm working on putting up a mirror of dmoz at www.zedurl.com.
Re:A platform for discussing a new web directory with a focus on human... on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @08:29PM (#13817013)
The DMOZ data is licensed under creative commons and there is a RDF export. I downloaded the data, registered a domain - http://www.zedurl.com/ - and I'll try knock up a mirror of DMOZ tonight as a rails app. I'll update this post if things go well.

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