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I wish I had more uses for my Casio calculator watch (CA53W). But these days it's faster to hold down the power button on my phone for half a second to activate a voice assistant. Now, if Casio made a smart watch that could run a micro-model on-device to do voice input for the calculator...
Whoa, this is crazy good. Although not being open source makes me wonder how long it intends to stay free.
Very cool, but I can't seem to jump up onto the benches, even with crouch jumping.
You can activate flying mode by double-jumping and crank the speed up with +.
It's giving Vishnu, but the world cannot exist without Shiva.
What's the monetization pathway here? No private repositories (because everything is on ATProto) so near zero commercial use potential - CI is free, everything is free, no pricing page... Am I the product if I use this service?
"The law in America relies on intentionality, notes Rune Kvist, head of Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which insures AI firms. If no human intended to hack anyone, no crime can have happened. The ability to sue for damages is limited too."
This is sloppy. Criminal negligence exists (although some crimes do require intent). And civil tort certainly doesn't require intent.
But if you told an embodied AI to do a home cleaning task, and it decided to pick up a gun and start spraying bullets, you might not want to be held liable for that.
Out of curiosity, what exactly is a "fully mechanical scissor switch"? And is this the first such switch on the market? If I search for other such products I can only find "metal scissor switch over rubber dome" style.
"Visual graph editor for AI workflows" seems like an extremely saturated market (Langflow, n8n). Consolidation seems natural as the agent engineering industry matures.
Multiple levels of disappointment here. This is about Hilbert curves, not physical lawn mowing. The participant interviews provide self-reported strategy, but the phrasing "why some people..." implied that there would be some discussion of causative factor beyond that, maybe a correlation between 2d Hilbert curve construction and performance in other more familiar tasks like 3d shape rotation, or measured testosterone levels.
Disappointments aside, this reminds me of how engaging the old game Flow Free was!
I feel obligated to warn future readers that this post contains decaying corpse imagery and is therefore not suitable for breakfast.
I find it interesting that they gave the father a funeral. So there likely was a proper eulogy given. People in that position often don't get a funeral.
I feel this way about gpt-5-nano (EOL December 2026). It seems like the open weight models have progressed a long way since these old models were released though. Deepseek V4 Flash is even cheaper than gpt-5-nano. I'm still going to pay a cloud provider to run it for me, I'm not local inference pilled yet, but I _can_ run it myself in the future if worse comes to worst.
Objectively testable evals are one thing, but how does one judge whether a new model is adequately reproducing the subjective "writing style" of an old model that you've gotten accustomed to the feel of?
Starlink is also satellite internet, right?
Denver has this... nominally. 3 machines (2 in circulation, one is a "Display"). 4 week checkout period. 103 current holds. 103*4/2/12 ≈ 17 year wait time.
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whycombinetor on Friday June 12, 2026 @12:24PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://crowfly.golf
crowfly is a single-html-file golf round GPS tracker.Hit your shot, tap "log shot", walk to your ball, repeat. Shots and rounds are stored in localStorage. Distance markers. CSV export. Zero account, zero backend.Short-term roadmap:- Mandatory login- AI club recommendation- Paywall everything- ERC-20 issuance- MCP servers- Even darker modeLong-term roadmap:- Humanoid agent plays the round for...
Oh, didn't read that part of the news. That's great. Ability to run x64 docker images seminatively was one of the big reasons I jumped to the M1 platform when it came out and I was baffled that they would remove it.
Plaid wants you to enter your bank username-password into their form. If it was just routing+account it would be truly no different than other bank connection methods.
Try clicking "Stumble" a few times...
After reading this and remembering an old hobby project, I decided to switch the deploy from a systemd service to PM2, which apparently has rolling deployments without needing Docker engine (for those of us minmaxing instance RAM).
Porque no los dos. Force a platform. Deploy non containerized. Build a dockerized version of the forced platform for cross-platform local dev.
>I read the Fogbank story and recognized it immediately. Not the nuclear material. The pattern. Build capability over decades. Find a cheaper substitute. Let the human pipeline atrophy. Enjoy the savings. Then watch it all collapse when a crisis demands what you optimized away.
>In defense, the substitute was the peace dividend. In software, it’s AI.
Before it was AI, the cheaper alternative was remote contract dev teams in Eastern Europe, right?
For real work I'm already on Opus full time (plan+execute). I think there's a different space for cheap-but-good-enough options for small-to-med repo hobby projects. (Not enough usage to warrant a plan.) And Opus is only ~30 tok/s while grok-code-fast-1 is ~120. So planning with Opus and executing with grok-code-fast-1 is still on the table for me - it's good at following explicitly written plans, lightning fast.
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whycombinetor on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I get good, cheap, fast feature coding success with grok-4.1-fast for planning and grok-code-fast-1 for execution. But according to the Openrouter usage stats, grok-code-fast-1 is now old hat - usage dropped off a cliff in mid-Feb.What are you using now? (That's around the same price per token) (AND also blazing fast (100+tps)? is that possible?)(I'm finding Minimax M2.5 usable, but I think I...
What feedback did your pitch analyzer product give to this pitch about itself?