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ByteAtATime

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About ByteAtATime

High schooler making cool stuff; I try to share my journeys every once in a while.

Email: hi@byteatatime.dev

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    Comment #44552264

    That makes sense -- I'll go figure something out, thanks for the explanation!

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    Comment #44552111

    Fair point! I've actually thought about that before; I've tried to be extremely clear in the project's README with a disclaimer that this is a non-commercial hobby project and is n…

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    Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

    Hey HN! I'm a huge fan of Raycast, but as a Linux user, I was always disappointed it wasn't available on my main OS. This summer, I decided to just build it myself. This project ha…

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    Comment #44166413

    One of the reasons people take notes is that you’re processing the information while taking the notes. This is removing that important step, and I would argue it means these notes …

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    Comment #43988807

    In my opinion, HDR is another marketing gimmick -- the average layman has no idea what it means, but it sounds fancy and is more expensive, so surely it's good.

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    Comment #43942437

    Back in 2010, this "require[d] a decent graphics card" Now, my phone's integrated graphics can run it very smoothly. Moore's law at play.

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    Comment #43907209

    I think one of the main selling points of Cursor, as an investor-backed company, is that it's cheap. For $0.04 per prompt, I can get Claude 3.7 Sonnet to use 25 tool calls. In comp…

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    Comment #43907084

    This is really cool! Just a small nitpick: on a low-powered device, the hero globe is really laggy (it's fine if I scroll past it, though).

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    Comment #43901520

    Have you seen duckdb? https://duckdb.org/ It's basically what you're building, but more low-level. Really cool, to be honest -- serves the same market too. Do you have any signific…