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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:00AM (#50338708)
cost savings and you already have the tv remote that it comes with is the main reason i would like to use it
Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:09PM (#50203270)
dang that was involved. got it connected to my jetkvm and copied to clipboard with matching spacing in the file, i can see how a normal person could not follow this.

but im exited for whats to come next.

That all I do. With a vibe coded Python TUI to select and start new instances.
I have lxd containers already running that have everything the system needs.

When starting CI it's doing a DB SQL dump replacement which takes 1-2s to prep, self hosted github actions.

Its been very cheap to run OVH cloud with the newest and fastest AMD EPYC CPUs that have high single core speeds. Did this as it was cheaper than GCP spot to have these always on.

I'll run many always on lxd containers that all match with the same stacks. Add another one when needing to parallelize more

Our CI has thousands of tests and is done in 2 minutes. Everytime it grows above 3 I add more parallelization and keep it ultra fast. Been working great for our team
Re:HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:44PM (#49735827)
I have a couple hundred line TUI that just clones an LXD container and I get all my repos and infra isolated in 5s with pi having isolation to that container. Swap between any instance. Port forward to host all automatic.

Funny to me how stuff is described these days. Seems like some people lack the full understanding of all these different systems and really overcomplicate their harness setups or use super bloated all in one tooling.

love this idea!
Re:OpenAI Agents API on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:24PM (#49650959)
I just have a slack bot running on a VM that sees a message and invokes pi.

It would be trivial for every request to clone a full lxd container and have all the tools and repos required if I wanted to allow it to do even more.

Not sure why anyone prefers to choose locked in options

Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:52PM (#49567119)
What type of setup do you use? I have very small 4-5k initial context and do one task then clear. I rarely go above 150k context for most things.
Re:Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:29PM (#49566839)
Yeah what, I'm using flash models and getting a ton of stuff done. 300-400b param size with pi.dev
Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:14AM (#49545837)
I have been using glm 5.3 flash and it feels as good as opus 5. Put a lot of work into it this week (100m tokens). Now I'm curious to try this one. These smaller models are getting very good imo
Re:Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:09PM (#49527416)
It DOES still hurt.

For example the eBay app. Does not allow installing from the play store on grapheneos.

Re:Agent Memory as a File Format on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:22PM (#49515574)
No memory. No web search 99% of the time.

Two agent.MD files that are very small. One on each project. One at parent project level.

Did 30M tokens through glm 5.3 flash today for 52c

Using pi and a few extensions my initial context is always 4k max

Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:11PM (#49514331)
I ran 30M tokens through for 50c... insanity that this is possible.

and it really is opus 4.8 level.

Re:Automating Immersive Reading on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:20PM (#49503814)
Any plans to offer a way to generate audio books on demand. like if i set kokoro, a book auto imports, it can make the file for me for the whole book after some time of local gpu work?
Re:GLM-5.3 is now open-weight on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:35AM (#49499615)
Starlink? It's never gone anymore
Re:Automating Immersive Reading on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:34AM (#49499611)
Wow I didn't even think about just using on device AI.

I'm going to set this one up and try it with kokoro which has the most natural for small size that I've seen. Wonder if the paperwhite 12th Gen can handle it.

And also setup the main repo for when I have the real audio book. Thanks!

Re:Automating Immersive Reading on Sunday August 30, 2026 @10:58AM (#49499231)
This is great. Recently got an xteink x3 and jailbroke my kindle, making custom stuff for it.

I couldn't find it exactly in the docs. Sorry if I missed it.

If you align these and then pull onto koreader via opds or other way, will audio work over Bluetooth there too? Along with the highlighting.

Re:GLM-5.3 is now open-weight on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:07PM (#49485299)
You do, there's like 20 providers for any model on openrouter. You can also just spin bedrock or gcp and download the weights for later if you're worried. It's never going to make cost sense when the token rate is so low with how expensive ram is
https://voxtype.io/

https://tryvoiceink.com/

There's so many of these, at this point I've seen 10 clones make the front page each time as if there never existed local only options before.

Also whisper is pretty outdated vs parakeet

Re:Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:15PM (#49457685)
super sick, already setup a derp server.

dns node key for fun on one

and two machines that connect, with systemd to keep tailcat serving ssh running

Re:Disruption with Some GitHub Services on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:28AM (#49450870)
Can't even run self hosted github actions lol
Recently jailbroke my kindle so I could have a camera pop up when frigate detects a person or a package while I'm reading.

I think with omarchy adding easy to vibe code extensions and the way AI makes stuff so easy, I hope every OS gives full control to us to do anything.

We need to keep right to repair going so we can own our own devices!

Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:29AM (#49400760)
I think the spec overcomplicates everything honestly. Its not that hard to add a long running auth token and put it in the MCP config as a header to send along and then avoid all the extra special rules.

"Oh no it's a long lived token that's bad"

Put it in a secret manager like 1pw cli and now start an agent...

The world doesn't make sense to me. I use 5.6 Luna. Deepseek v4 flash 0731. And kimi k3. Don't even need claude anymore at their insane prices for anything I do.
I have crossink which is awesome on the x3. I find it better with more features on top of crossink.

And then setup home assistant and picture rendering so when a package or person is detected while I'm reading on a jailbroke kindle, it pops up in the corner automatically with the feed so I can see who it is.

Tailscale too.

Having full control of these devices is awesome.

Re:Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:41PM (#49128294)
I just use whatever's cheapest for personal things. Dsv4 flash and got 5.6 Luna are great for the price and I'll use the openrouter benchmark view to compare the overall score.
Re:Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @08:29PM (#49000265)
Yeah I use rcs and you can use the pixel camera app if you want??

Rcs had a bug that was fixed recently though

Re:I Built a Telegram Client for Pi on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:57PM (#48837940)
I have the llm twean every little piece of pi which is why I love it. And swapping models. Plus not having scroll jank like I got in opencode.

I even tweaked hitting "enter" when nothing is in the input box, it resume the last request. I love having this control and ease to extend and add anything to the ui

Yeah wyoming protocol I think someone even made kokoro Wyoming. I forgot exactly what I did it'd been a little while

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