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Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:18AM (#50349034)
Wow! Now all we need is Fasttracker 2 and then 90's music revival is done! Great work. Don't forget to check the demo songs and TGV kilomix from bar 30 or smth.

Ask HN: As a freelancer how should I charge my clients in AI era?

Hi HN!As a freelancer, I usually do a requirements workshops + one or two months of development in the pre-ai era. Which was enough to pay the bills and save up. Now I can do things in a matter of days. Do I charge my clients the old time + rate, or just the new reality (which means I'd need more gigs in order to make the same amount of money)Would love to hear your answers, cause charing them...

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Re:Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @05:31PM (#49189324)
I like it! Would be great if I could run locally from the start without configuring an s3 for easy playing/prototyping
Re:ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:39PM (#48876117)
Also would love to know how was we could iterate over the files. ie a bit how duckdb allows for paruet fikes scanning and reading would be nice to see how fast we can query the fs for ai/ml training workloads
Re:ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:32PM (#48876078)
I really want this, but it feels a little scary to trust all my files. I wouls like it if there was some contineous suite trying to corrupt the files and then see the failure cases!
Re:One Million Passports Leaked Online on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:36PM (#48725609)
Is this the CA from FB fame? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica? If so how come they still exist?
Would be great if people would brag with quotes and feedback from the maintainers. I'd be more interested to see that. Instead our model found x, I want something that really helps the maintainers.
Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang on Thursday June 04, 2026 @01:25AM (#48394340)
I agree with this fully. I don’t know about AI in this specific case, but I’m always amazed by human’s capacity to devalue conscious in things they don’t fully understand. Happy to meet someone who thinks this way too.
Re:MCP Is Dead on Saturday May 30, 2026 @05:14AM (#48334269)
i feel exactly the same its literally the only api standard that we truly made plug and play and even automatically oauth antenticathable with dcr and people are falling over it. also in an absolute record speed thousands of mcps.

cli’s also need to be documented and input/output typed.

its also extremly dsitributable by just pointing to an url.

cli’s are great because they are composable but i really got huge mileage out of mcps

Re:Have You Seen the New Excel? on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:44AM (#47959031)
i know its inteneded to be satire but it kinda isnt?

well excel changed the world, many more organizations run on excel and the companies that dont run excel in the same field are probably having a harder time. so yes i guess?

also ai and excel are different things?

haha this is awesome! this is fantastic.
also maybe a good usecase to finally have P2P web torrents :)
Yeah that's great but I'm in a cafe outside burning my phone data. ty!
Ah let me clarify, many of the in the browser demos make me download certain models even if I already have them It would be great if there was a way that I don't have to redownload them across demos so that I just have a cache. or an in browser model manager. hope this makes sense.

Or indeed use some sort of huggingface model downloader (if that exist with XET)

so multiple of these browser wasm demos make me re-download the models, can someone make a cdn for it or some sort u uberfast downloader? just throw some claude credits against it ty!
Re:ChatGPT Shopping on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:16AM (#47816559)
I had to double check if I was on the right domain, my dear what an awful idea. But maybe I'm missing something.
note: doesn't openrouter charge 5.5% fee?
Awesome! Also love the gaussian splat demo, cool use case!

Ask HN: Merge/Nango open source alternative?

Looking for a truly opensource alternative to collect oauth tokens and do integrations with in a unified api for agents.I.e many integrations with single place where users can connect their integrations. Preferably just a single lightweight app, with some proxy api.Thank you all!

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Re:Bye, Mom on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:17AM (#46263143)
First time I saw a post here of her I found it odd, and made me think, now I know it's one of the things that makes HN, HN and I appreciate. To make me think.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:54AM (#45965974)
Don't think there is anything wrong with a centralised service being down, you just make a conscious decision if you want that and can afford that?

People not being ready for cloudflare/[insert hyperscaler] to be possibly down is the only fault.

Re:Show HN: RAG-chunk – A CLI to test RAG chunking strategies on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:47AM (#45938679)
A good thing is to incorporate some old school observability and benchmarking, MLFLOW has been around for some time. You could push some some parameters to that to track your scores, and you could use Meta's AX optimisation framework to finetuning the settings (hyperparameters)
Re:Show HN: RAG-chunk – A CLI to test RAG chunking strategies on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:13AM (#45938397)
Good like these small tools. I'd like to opt for more strategies too like doclings HierarchicalChunker.
Re:We built a cloud GPU notebook that boots in seconds on Friday November 07, 2025 @06:41AM (#45845469)
Also curious! I was also wondering if criu frozen containers would help here. I.e. load the notebooks, snapshot them, and then restore them.
Re:State-based vs Signal-based rendering on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:12AM (#45644850)
how many permutations of Fe dev do we need?

- auto rerender by comparing trees?

- track all changes by signals?

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