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Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:10AM (#50004860)
They are referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_frontier

Show HN: I over-engineered a home security camera that uses an LLM and talks

Posted by thecal on Sunday March 08, 2026 @02:10PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/calz1/roz

Roz is an open-source, Python-based pipeline that captures a webcam feed, detects motion, sends the frames to a local Vision LLM to analyze the scene, and then uses text-to-speech to audibly announce any meaningful changes.The Backstory: I heard an ad for Google’s Home Premium Advanced service, which claims to analyze your Nest doorbell images and describe what it sees. I thought that sounded...

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Re:Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant on Sunday January 12, 2025 @03:45PM (#42676768)
Unfortunate name. Can you connect Tabby to the OpenAI-compatible TabbyAPI? https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI
Re:New Phi-3.5 Models from Microsoft, including new MoE on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @04:33PM (#41303781)
Mini: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Large MoE with impressive benchmarks: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Vision: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Re:13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but is self hosted on Monday August 19, 2024 @04:54PM (#41294507)
Which directs you to https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads which is not ideal...
Re:Open sourcing IBM's Granite code models on Monday May 20, 2024 @12:53PM (#40417445)
Watson was not a product but a brand name they applied to lots of things. I am sure Granite will show up in here: https://www.ibm.com/watsonx
Re:Kodi 21.0 "Omega" on Sunday April 07, 2024 @11:30AM (#39961415)
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin
Re:Nvidia's Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally ... on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @12:54PM (#39360524)
It is probably the most famous HN comment ever made and comes up often. It is a dismissive response to Dropbox years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Re:Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:08AM (#39055577)
Meta has supported hand tracking since the Quest 1. It works fine but for many high speed action tasks (e.g., games), it doesn't work as well.

Ask HN: HN Holiday Gift Recommendations

Posted by thecal on Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I really enjoyed posts like this one where people talked about their favorite tech accessories:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35429801What recommendations do people have for gifts for your average HN reader?

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Re:ChatGPT's 1-Year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models... on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:45AM (#38486563)
Very cool, looking forward to it!
Re:ChatGPT's 1-Year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models... on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:52AM (#38486109)
I really like Inkbot! Are you working on a new version? How about one from Yi 34B?
Re:Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:44AM (#38191029)
Choose whichever one outperforms ada-002 for your task here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Codespaces/Rep... on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @05:30PM (#37935040)
I'll bet they're using this, that's exactly what it is designed for: https://tljh.jupyter.org/en/latest/

Alternatively, you could do something similar with Google Colab and a notebook you make to serve as a template.

Re:Omnigres: Postgres as a Platform on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:59PM (#37894851)
You are probably thinking of this: https://apex.oracle.com/en/
Re:WeWork Skips $95M in Interest Payments on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:50AM (#37751160)
I am reminded of this quote: "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." -J. Paul Getty
Re:Using disposable phone numbers for better security on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:34AM (#37420498)
I can't complete opening an account with Capital One because I have prepaid wireless. When talking to customer service, they said this happens and there's no fix. Ubisoft Connect (their Steam competitor) also rejects it.
Re:80% of Companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:19AM (#37209889)
"Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 2012...by three data warehousing experts: Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Dageville and Cruanes previously worked as data architects at Oracle Corporation... "

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_Inc.#History

Re:OpenLLM on Monday June 19, 2023 @06:14PM (#36397116)
Think of the model as a gigantic compiled binary where you send in strings in a certain format and get back a response. This is a web API wrapper for that so you only need an HTTP client instead of having to run something like llama.cpp yourself.
Re:Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy on Monday December 06, 2021 @08:56AM (#29459760)
Direct link to the item: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vindriktning-air-quality-sensor...
Re:Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Lambda Based Apps on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:15AM (#29118129)
Anti-pattern #1 is funny considering several people have said this is exactly how several AWS services are implemented - one Lambda function. Your deployments are much simpler. We built an application using an approach like he described and once you get to 30+ functions, it becomes a hassle.
Re:An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:57PM (#29050279)
That's called short-stroking - https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157...
Re:Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019) on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:05PM (#28672461)
I've used these for over a decade with limited success. Their performance is very specific to your wiring and can be fouled up with lots of things. Mine was sometimes no faster than WiFi. MoCA (Ethernet over coax wiring like for cable/satellite TV) seems to work better.
Re:Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythoni... on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:30AM (#28603966)
I've used this library twice, it is fantastic when you need a simple GUI on top of a Python script. Congrats for being on the front page of HN!
Re:American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certific... on Sunday August 01, 2021 @06:15AM (#28025202)
It is more complicated than that. Check out this answer: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/4703
Re:Garage Door Monitor on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:52AM (#27661968)
Seconded. I tried some of the consumer devices that ran over Z-Wave before OpenGarage. They worked fine but would invariably require a reset after a couple months. This meant I couldn't really rely on this and leave my keys at home. My OpenGarage unit has been super reliable for 2+ years.
Re:Machine Learning Deserves Better Than This on Thursday June 03, 2021 @08:56AM (#27380533)
Sorry, I agree with the GP. This was a popular book for learning ML with Weka (which is still around): https://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Mana...

There is also the Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) term which is still around via: https://www.kdd.org/

Re:Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power (2017) on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:59AM (#24062268)
CBS bought Westinghouse and began licensing out their name to all sorts of companies. I have a "Westinghouse" TV that is made by another company. That lighting company you linked appears to be an old family business that licenses the name as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Licensing_Corpora...

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