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Re:Why copyright makes no sense on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:00PM (#49912259)
It’s been about control of culture and rent seeking for a long time
Re:DIY Soft Drinks on Sunday April 12, 2026 @04:23PM (#47744074)
Jumps through 100 hoops to make coke... doesn't add cocaine?! :)

Add modifinil and peptides and you'll have your latest soylent startup.

Re:Why I Vibe in Go, Not Rust or Python on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:34PM (#47483991)
Add air for auto reload and ur golden
Get bought out by military control grid --> Instantly kill popular consumer devices.
Would this be a good fit to replace FTS for hybrid search? Biscuit + Vector?
There is tons of fear-mongering around a natural process-- I had a 24 yo friend deliver his first child off grid by himself. There are also a ton of independent midwives out there where you can deliver either at home or a midwife center for a fraction of the cost.
Re:Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @03:01PM (#45815269)
AI is game changer for the wildly detailed ffmpeg command line-- just tell gpt what you want to do and it will spit out the ffmpeg command 10/10.
Re:Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:34PM (#45532757)
looks great! would love to see benchmark with bleve and a lightweight vector implementation.
Re:RIP: Amazon Prime Benefits Sharing Ends on Oct 1, 2025 on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @12:36AM (#45099179)
How can they tell if someone is a teen in their household vs someone else?
Re:FFmpeg 8.0 on Friday August 22, 2025 @12:14PM (#44986348)
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Re:Open-source framework for real-time AI voice on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:37PM (#44575012)
No demo? No demo video? Nothing?
Re:Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello on Monday June 02, 2025 @11:51AM (#44160102)
Great project, will give it a try, we've been using another open source trello clone that has been pretty solid and very closely clones the trello UI.

https://github.com/plankanban/planka

Re:Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency on Monday May 05, 2025 @04:59PM (#43899400)
Nice work, I like the lightweight web front end and your implementation of VAD.
Re:A single line of code cost $8000 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:46AM (#43834238)
What's in that payload when they check for updates every 5 minutes?!

Novel dark pattern: You unchecked "Let us collect user data" but left "Automatically Update" checked... gotcha bitch!

Build it. Use Go. Maybe nknorg/nnet for P2P. Signed HLS segments. Have Go also serve the web front-end with a WASM web worker. Public nodes can run on a very lightweight VPS/server with an autocert domain. Viewers browser join the swarm with WASM-- this way people can just type in a web address so it's very user friendly but the domain doesn't actually have to serve any data. I would just use a trusted pubkey to sign P2P updates so nodes can block naughty IP addresses. Should get you very friendly user experience, easy node deployment, pretty low latency, and bittorrent level of legal resilience.
Been running Cool for about a year. Drop a couple thousand on a 1U and throw it on a $100/mo colo and it's crazy bang for the buck. It makes it so easy to spin up new projects it's hard not to like it. Definitely when launching some containers and open source projects it's not as seamless as it could be-- can require fiddling with vars and compose files-- but on the whole very stable, lightweight, fast deploys, and conceptually pretty simple.

One thing I've noticed is I've starting using much more open source software for various things. When you can just jump into the UI, paste in the github link, and have it running on a wildcard domain in 60 seconds I find myself giving OSS a try more often before looking elsewhere.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @10:09PM (#43563941)
Kingdom Quest | Austin, TX (irl) | Full-time | https://kingdom.quest/

We're building a real-world realtime immersive interactive gaming experience.

- Unity devs

- React Native / Javascript devs

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- AI devs-- LLMs, generative, STT, TTS, vector DBs, vision

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Drop a line: [email protected]

Great lib... now is there a Go-native way to generate vectors from text?
Re:The Last Drops of Mexico City on Thursday March 20, 2025 @11:57AM (#43424987)
Also Valle De Bravo is the Hamptons of Mexico
Re:Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:34AM (#42623436)
Somebody should just scrape all the most popular images from getty then setup a pipeline to regenerate them with flux/controlnet/loras. Charge $10/mo for unlimited licensing or find ancillary way to generate revenue. If most of revenue comes from editorial images start there-- most people won't even care if it's a bit off.
There is a video of Zuck denying they "recording peoples microphone" -- but how he said it with a smirk I took him to mean "we do on-device transcription and only send back keywords"
Re:TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court on Friday December 06, 2024 @11:45AM (#42341392)
Reading the comments here make it clear HN has become severely astroturfed.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Is Pave Legal? on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @12:34PM (#41512947)
Anyone else remember when HackerNews had an adventurous libertarian ethos before the school marms infested the place with irrelevant and low vibrational commentary?
Re:Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing on Friday August 30, 2024 @01:04PM (#41402593)
So thought out, feels like watching a kubrick film
Re:Judges Rule Big Tech's Free Ride on Section 230 Is Over on Thursday August 29, 2024 @01:44PM (#41393391)
Insane reframing. Big tech and politicians are pushing this, pulling the ladder up behind them-- X and new decentralized networks are a threat to their hegemony and this is who they are going after. Startups will not be able to afford whatever bullshit regulatory framework they force feed us. How about they mandate any social network over 10M MAU has to publish their content algorithms.. ha!
less secure indeed
Re:Spudguns; the Definitive Potato Cannon Guide on Friday June 28, 2024 @01:33PM (#40822900)
ted kaczynski alternate timeline
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:55PM (#40650752)
#1 Most Talented Female Engineer
^^^ you are here.

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