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Congrats! I just tried Handy again which now uses transcribe.cpp and it works brilliantly. Love the streaming output from Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B. I remember using Handy about a year ago and it's amazing to see the improvements!

Did solutions to problems just pop into your head when you were programming before LLMs? Did you not pause and think about the code you were writing before?

I always have a book with me when I go out with my partner, even if I don’t usually end up reading it. If she has to run an errand and I have to wait, I don’t waste my free time with nothing to read. I have become good at walking my dog while reading — I even got complimented for that by a stranger — and I make sure I never go to the bathroom without a book.”

This does not sound an improvement over using a phone. We don't have to occupy ourselves every waking moment. It's okay to not do something for a minute.

Hi Bruno - this looks great! I remember collaborating with you a couple times on Kagi's browser extensions. Was there a specific moment that made you want to work on Uruky, or was it because of the overall direction Kagi is heading in?

100%. Not sure what the solution is but I have lost interest in Show HNs these days. Part of it is because when someone posted before, it usually meant they spent a fair amount of time thinking, and found it worthwhile to spend energy on the project. This was a nice first filter for bad ideas and now no longer exists.

Even for posts that are interesting to me, I get the feeling that it's not worth looking at because it was probably made using LLMs. Nothing against them, but I personally thought of Show HNs as doing something for the love of it, the end result being a bonus.

I built something very similar recently but eventually lost interest because I couldn't find customers. It's main focus was sending email reminders to users to contact their friends.

https://alabhya.me/myfriends

Nice very cool. Unfortunately, the blog post looks like it's been generated by an LLM.

Going from a high score to the highest score isn’t usually about making minor tweaks. It requires fighting for every small, boring, consequential decision—the ones that determine whether a repair isn’t merely possible or practical, but within easy reach.

BOOM! Let's go

I wonder if the Small Android Phone project has moved forward since the last time it was posted here: https://smallandroidphone.com

I can highly recommend Brave Search to anyone who is looking for an alternative. I found it to be much better than DuckDuckGo. Feels like Kagi almost, but free.

How do you block users on HN? Are you using a different client?

I am also going to now implement an existing project and invent a different name for it. Look out for Waterfox, a minimal web consumer.

From their post on Twitter in 2024 when they adopted Swift, with a comment on Rust.

My general thoughts on Rust:

- Excellent for short-lived programs that transform input A to output B

- Clunky for long-lived programs that maintain large complex object graphs

- Really impressive ecosystem

- Toxic community

https://xcancel.com/awesomekling/status/1822241531501162806

Looks like they changed it:

Warp raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital and grew to over 500,000 engineers on the platform.

This is not becoming the main focus of the project. We will continue developing the engine in C++, and porting subsystems to Rust will be a sidetrack that runs for a long time.

I don't like this bit. Wouldn't it be better to decide on a memory-safe language, and then commit to it by writing all new code in Rust, or whatever. This looks like doing double the work.

Here's another approach using Rclone and an editor of your choice. Rclone has a built in crypt library that can encrypt your data and store it in a cloud provider. I use it along with Sublime Text to journal, and store my encrypted data on Dropbox.

More here: https://alabhya.me/rclone

Amazing - congrats on this work. Do I understand it correctly that the goal of the platform is help organise online protests? If so, I would love to understand how this approach is different from using something like change.org. I have read through the linked README and it looks sophisticated and technical - I'm just wondering if this is the best way to protest online.

Wow Wails looks interesting! Hadn't heard of it before.

They should switch to a native installer then. Quite confusing

Very very cool! Just signed up. Reminds me of Val Town which I'm a big fan of. Did you choose Lua because you love using it, or for some other pragmatic reasons?

Do you think a service like yours with support for many variety of languages a good idea? Not in order to meet user demand but purely because I think it would "just" require running the program on the server using a different interpreter/compiler, assuming code sandboxing has been achieved to make the initial language work.

For example, I love the long list of languages supported by Code Golf: https://code.golf/wiki.

Is this solving the same problem as Netlify's forms? https://docs.netlify.com/manage/forms/setup/

I guess one advantage here is that the user is not locked into a specific hosting provider.

Nice! Love the domain. Did you use Claude to design the landing page?

I agree that there is signal, and that phrasing his original post as you pointed out would have been better.

My issue is that the cost, in terms of time, for these experiments have really gone down with LLMs. Earlier, if someone played around with the posted project, we knew they spent a reasonable amount of time on it, and thus care about the subject. With LLMs, this is not the case.

Thank you! I don't use Mataroa but I can see the similarities. My current blog setup is a Python script that parses content written in markdown and emits HTML. The CSS is inspired by the other minimal blogs I see here.

Thanks a lot for checking out my blog/project. Have a great day!

It's interesting but I don't think it belongs as a comment under this post. I can use LLMs to create something tangential for each project posted on HN, and so can everyone else. If we all started doing this then the comment section will quickly become useless and not on point.

OpenAI releases a new model to distract from their board drama

This one shows the "age" of the LLM, or the data cut off time

Amazing! Though I can't get the theme to stop changing while the music is playing. Is there a setting I'm missing?

The difference is restricting removal of the app. It takes away the user's choice. As far as I know all preloaded apps, at least on Android, can be disabled if not uninstalled.

The November 28 order, seen by Reuters, gives major smartphone companies 90 days to ensure that the government's Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones, with a provision that users cannot disable it.

I heard that the ML version was a translation of the C version, and is thus not easy to follow along. Or it may have been the other way around!

I used to be very against closed source products but changed my mind recently. One of the founders of Obsidian makes some great points here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/1...