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This is awesome! Does it work in EU as well?

Does this also recognize peaks as well as PeakFinder does?

Re:Personal software factories are a waste of time on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:29AM (#50152957)
Doesn't this suit a prepush hook or CI job better?

I personally want to keep my commits light & fast, so it's not an impediment to commit often. I've always found even a simple reformatter on commit can be a bit annoying. Ideally for every micro-task done I commit, even if it's messy and even if I decide to revert the work later. It becomes kind of like a reasoning trace. Only when the task is completed, must the code comply to all the necessary checks, and then it becomes a PR and CI jobs run to validate

Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:31AM (#49932755)
You can use any (Anthropic API-compatible) provider and any model with Claude Code, it's just a matter of changing the env vars in the settings json...
Can confirm this is a really excellent piece of OSS for local STT, I use it in both English and Dutch.

The only thing it has trouble with are brand/product/tooling/person names. You can add custom vocabulary, but then it tends to over-correct and insert those custom words when I never said them. However this isn't unique to local STT, frontier cloud models also struggle with this.

Re:Where .env Went Wrong on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:40PM (#49174788)
Hm, the main headache I have with .env files is simply that I lose them (switching between machines etc...), or the trouble of sharing secrets with team mates, etc... The headache of keeping them up to date and synced across environments & machines.

Not affiliated but those troubles are now finally solved with Infisical for me. It's open source so I happily give them a plug.

Re:2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:48AM (#49121951)
I feel like these days it's more like managing a team of seniors who are technically very competent, but may not always have the full domain context of the problem they're solving. And/or they forget parts, if that context is too large. And/or they have a poor temporal dimension (deprecated badly maintained information polluting the context).

They also tend to overengineer solutions if not guided well.

If you think about it, in that respect it's not that different from managing actual human senior engineers.

I think this is why focussing one's limited human attention more the input (defining clear requirements) as well as on validating the output (good CI/CD including end-to-end automated tests) is far more important than manual code reviews and micro-managing the development process.

Re:Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:20AM (#48828660)
What does "scanning" mean though?

Does this mean every parent has to now make sure not to take pictures of their children playing in bath for instance, in order not to trip these scans for false positives?

For ages I've been looking for a way to easily share & sync a simple knowledgebase (HTML/MD and other files in folders) with my team (= including non-technical people), using Git as the sync/versioning layer, without it being too technical, and without getting vendor lock-in with expensive & unnecessarily complex cloud-based platforms.

Having built-in AI integration without relying on sketchy plugins would be the cherry on top (although, seriously missing the option to connect with any openai-compatible LLM provider like someone else mentioned here).

Seems like this might almost offer exactly that? I'll have to try it out...

Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:56PM (#47578273)
I literally wrote how I measure this in the post you are replying to: #commits which is admittedly a worthless proxy for productivity, so, more importantly, number of finished production-ready features delivered.

That number is at least tenfold of what it was before, simply because I can run a lot of gruntwork in parallel now without wasting brainpower and focus on that stuff.

Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts on Monday March 30, 2026 @10:08AM (#47574582)
> Seriously, what value are tokens providing other than justifying layoffs

Like the OP said, it's incredible how polarizing this debate is. When I read comments like yours, I feel like a significant part of the global workforce in IT must be living on another planet? Or they never really used Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, ... intensively before because of company policies?

I legitimately am at least 10x more productive than a year ago, and I can prove it in number of commits and finished monetizable features developed per day. Obviously my workflows still very much require an active, constantly context-switching human-in-the-loop, but to me there's absolutely no question both output volume & quality have skyrocketed.

Isn't this just an artifact of their chain-of-thought reasoning? If they are verbose in their output, it's more likely the next word predicted is actually correct.

Also, I see this more as a feature than a bug. In many projects I inherited in the past, I wish the original devs were a bit more verbose. Then again, with every developer using LLMs now, probably the opposite applies now.

You could also use plain markdown files, any free Markdown editor/IDE, and git, and sync with a remote Git repo using gcrypt for encryption (git-remote-gcrypt).

It's just a bit of a pain to set up, and also, not mobile-friendly.

Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2026?

This question seems to be asked almost annually on here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=successful%20one-person%20online%20businesses&sort=byPopularity&type=story), and I'm curious what it looks like in 2026.> How many people on Hacker News are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get...

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The 2% of cases when you need the commit log (or more importantly: someone else who inherits your code...) justifies writing good messages imho.

If you make a change to your codebase, normally you know what you want to achieve and why (otherwise... what are you even doing?). A commit message is just putting that in writing... that only takes a few seconds, often less than it takes to write the code.

So it's just a good habit to have. It forces you to think more about the changes you do & why, so it makes you a better software developer. Creating any new habit always takes some energy initially, but it's worth it.

Re:Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @05:44AM (#44886413)
Cool, but I wonder... is this really a feasible workflow?

The way I use LLMs is, I enter a very specific query, and then I check the output, meticulously reviewing both the visual output and the code before I proceed. Component by component, piece by piece.

Otherwise, if you just "let it rip", I find that errors compound, and what you get isn't reliable, isn't what you intended, increases technical debt, or is just straight up dangerous.

So how can you do this from a smartphone? Don't you need your editor, and a way to run your code to review it carefully, before you can provide further input to Claude Code? Basically, how can you iterate from a phone?

Re:AI Horseless Carriages on Thursday April 24, 2025 @05:27AM (#43780736)
It definitely makes me lose interest and trust in software that is openly described as being "vibe-coded".

I'm with the vibe of wanting to move on to the point where LLMs are just yet another tool in the process of software engineering, and not the main focus.

I'm sure that would work out fine. Just like the GDPR regulation made the web so much better & more private, and the promise of the AI act is boosting innovation in Europe...
Re:Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta on Monday March 31, 2025 @01:05PM (#43537249)
Exactly. So many local first libs don't cover this that it makes me wonder if the applications I am typically working on are so fundamentally different from what the local-first devs are normally building?

Most apps have user data that needs to be (partially or fully) shielded from other users. Yet, most local-first libs neglect to explain how to implement this with their libraries, or sometimes it's an obscure page or footnote somewhere in their docs, as if this is just an afterthought...

I'd highly recommend to add an "LLM Cheatsheet" page to your docs. Example: https://goatdb.dev/llm-cheatsheet/

No doubt this would help increase adoption these days, and make implementation a lot easier.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Monday February 24, 2025 @04:00AM (#43157289)
Radar-based device for measuring athlete sprint & agility tests.

A lot of professional sports clubs, S&C coaches, etc.. use timing gates for measuring sprints, but those are a pain to set up, only capture split times, and are expensive. I think radar (+ optional video overlay) provides a far superior solution.

https://ledsreact.com

Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:47AM (#42997560)
There's this on the Bitcoin blockchain: https://opentimestamps.org
Re:OpenAI Sales Agent Demo on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:10AM (#42960542)
Meh, pretty basic. Most SaaS businesses have something like this in place already.

Closing inbound leads is relatively easy, since they've already shown active interest... The challenge I'm struggling with is (cold) lead generation: finding leads (and how to contact them) that match well with the service you're offering.

There are a lot of dubious scraping tools and B2B lead databases, but I feel like it should now be relatively easy to build a reliable web crawler & lead generator ... Does anyone know state of the art open source tools or services for this?

Probably yes, but his internal state doesn't matter, as long as the outcome is line with their original mission of open sourcing again :)
Why not? Someone changing their mind, showing repentance for past mistakes, and making corrective action ought to be a good thing.
Awesome! The name is just a bit funny if your native tongue is Dutch.
Honestly, it just highlights how little traction Bluesky has. We tried it within our company's niche, but it's like a desert. Feeds that rarely get updated. 0 engagement. What's the point? Whatever you may think of the management, X does the job (and arguably better than before). You can just filter out the stuff you'd rather not see on your feed.

Also, I second the other commenter's mention of the lack of sports on BlueSky. That's a pretty large category not to have...

Re:Reweb: Visual website builder for Next.js and Tailwind on Monday November 25, 2024 @05:22AM (#42234920)
I'd happily pay a fixed fee for a self-hostable desktop app version of this, that just uses Ollama/ChatGPT/Claude for the LLM part. Ideally open source too.

But yet another subscription? ... no thanks

Re:Learning Not to Trust the All-In Podcast in Ten Minutes on Friday November 08, 2024 @03:51PM (#42090367)
You say you don't say anything about what we as a society should do about it, but it's definitely implied... or can be seen as such. Especially because it's quite a colored opinion - do you need a list of hoaxes and lies disseminated by the political left in the last 4 years?

Point is, everyone has biases, and everyone makes mistakes. We're only human. I think we should judge an information channel by the way they self-correct for those mistakes. That tells a lot about character and values, and whether or not to trust the source. So I believe we desperately need a meta layer on the Internet, much like X introduced with community notes, but on a larger scale. Open source, fully auditable, immutable (append-only and decentralized, so probably on a blockchain cause of the Byzantine Generals problem) - but I'll admit, that's just the tech geek in me trying to find a practical tech solution to a complex social problem.

Re:Monorepo – Our Experience on Thursday November 07, 2024 @04:01AM (#42074954)
I like monorepos as a developer, but as a founder, monorepos have one massive downside: if you want to hire outside help, you have to share everything.

While in some cases, the complete context is helpful for the job, in other cases, and I realize this may be pure paranoia but, you may not want to share the complete picture.

Re:Learning Not to Trust the All-In Podcast in Ten Minutes on Thursday November 07, 2024 @03:55AM (#42074919)
Problem is, the legacy media is confidently wrong about all kinds of matters too, all the time.

Why would they have the right to broadcast misinformation, and popular podcasters not?

The answer to this isn't censorship. It's in education and teaching people to think critically.

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