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Re:Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:36PM (#50279656)
Loved ground effect since I first saw it on (iirc) beyond 2000 television program. I haven't been able to find any reference to that episode...
I know you were focusing on backwards compatibility, but given your understanding of terminals and scrollback, I'm curious how far vibe coding could push to retain and persist state to keep that state through restarts or reboots. Such a pain to get back to before a reboot or after accidental closing. Having effectively"undo close tab" and better persistent resume would be interesting.
Re:MXC - a sandboxed code execution system on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:42PM (#50024089)
Don't get eliminated!
Re:There's no point at which turning your brain off will work on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:25PM (#49757491)
Turning your brain off is usually a defense mechanism to protect yourself against something bad. dissociate during trauma etc. lighter dissociation points to the interaction trending toward badness, not goodness. Seems like the mind and body is telling us something that we shouldn't ignore
Re:Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:07PM (#49010957)
+1 to using MUD as a learning tool. Learn about agent loops, prompting iteration, etc.

I vibe coded a few room proof of concept MUD. I added a tools called `oracle` (aka me) that it could ask me questions to help along its way; and the ability to interject in the loop with a hint. Just as I might want an llm to stop to ask me for help instead of plodding along...

Interesting to limit the number of turns and see where it gets stuck or how quickly it can finish.

Re:Car touchscreens are cheap, not good on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:14PM (#48810594)
I refuse to believe this is the only way to make it cheaper. Standardization and modular components could help. Might not be cheap enough. But surely we can be more imaginative!
My intuition is that a small radio from the 80s is sufficient. Has relatively small size and passive speaker. Small passive speaker and small enclosure are cheap aka not 100+ USD. A tonie box sounds fine. Can I diy reproduce one similar at low cost (less than buying 50 USD)?
I've spent countless hours searching for a small, good quality passive speaker. In a roughly 4 inch cube size. That comes with an good (acoustically) box/enclosure. Plenty exist in various forms (kits) but I never know if they sound as good as even laptop or phone speakers. Which is a low bar, but still can't find good reviews.
I wonder where the water is coming from for these sites
Re:Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:33PM (#33556670)
Did they publish that fact anywhere?
Re:Linux Kernel MultiPath TCP Project on Sunday October 16, 2022 @09:45AM (#33223583)
Is anyone using this on Android?
Re:A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:17PM (#32601277)
Perhaps? I remember the article arguing more comprehensively why a different order would be beneficial, but maybe I am just misremembering
Re:A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:23AM (#32580610)
I once read an article about SQL and how reordering the sections of a query would make it more ergonomic for users (iirc things like specifying what you want first and then how to present it last, more like a pipeline). I searched many times over the years but have not been able to find it again.
Re hydration

Do you have any good reading on that link? Searched just now and there's a lot to wade through to find a good article

Re:Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @06:12PM (#29731362)
What's your favorite PTT mic? I'm always on the lookout for great device recommendations!
Re:TinyPICO – tiny fully-featured ESP32 board on Saturday July 17, 2021 @10:44AM (#27866142)
Ah finally found one! Looks great!
Re:Beating TimSort at Merging on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:41PM (#27823808)
Are there similar relatively simple methods or simd tricks for multi-way merges?
Re:TinyPICO – tiny fully-featured ESP32 board on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:48PM (#27817461)
Still looking for a microcontroller that can fit on my wrist [watch-like form factor] with built in microphone, deep sleep, quick wake, and quick push audio to wifi or BLE...
Re:Precursor – A mobile, open source electronics platform on Saturday September 19, 2020 @06:58PM (#24530853)
A recently launched pi tablet hits a couple of the requirements but definitely not all

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/745629624/cutiepi-raspb...

Re:Ask HN: Best way to publish a free book online? on Thursday July 30, 2020 @03:30PM (#24002012)
I ran across this person's blog, who seems like they have some different slants on publishing that might interesting to you:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/6-lessons-learned-self-pub...

Re:Tired of note-taking apps on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:49PM (#23970721)
Sorry to hijack this thread, but too curious if you made any headway from your "Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?" post? Sounded like an interesting use-case.

tia

Re:Ask HN: What would you pay monthly to be searchable? on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:16PM (#23733946)
+1 I appreciate your answer!
Re:Ask HN: What would you pay monthly to be searchable? on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:47PM (#23728675)
(Yeah the exact billing model is fungible/an example to get people to think in terms of actually willing to fork over money.)

Do you mean you might have a specific and relatively small set of videos that you would like searched, but at a much lower price point (e.g. 10k videos at less than $10/year)?

Re:Ask HN: What would you pay monthly to be searchable? on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:03PM (#23726089)
The only public search engine that I'm aware of using common crawl is ChatNoir.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/common-crawl/3o2dOHpeRxo/H2O...

Re:Ask HN: What would you pay monthly to be searchable? on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:11AM (#23721740)
Most searching (e.g. web, email, torrents) is based on ads, which works because of the utility to a huge number of people. There are many things one might in passing want to be able to search (e.g. quickly finding the location of particular book on your disorganized bookshelf, non-web text content, etc.) but don't have mass appeal to sustain ads revenue. And even many of those wants aren't worth paying a few dollars for let alone the cost of hosting search.

So does anyone in the HN crowd have a search-based itch they're willing to pay to have scratched that's not already handled by existing search products?

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