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anyg

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About anyg

I build, break, learn and fix things https://anyg.me https://x.com/anyg_me

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    Comment #48682537

    Not dumb at all. It's a whole field of active research - Speculative Decoding. A recent paper goes one level deeper with Speculative Speculative Decoding - https://arxiv.org/abs/26…

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    Comment #47676967

    Framer Motion has recently launched CSS Studio. It's a library that runs on your browser and gives you the ability to tweak the site directly in browser which fires off instruction…

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    Comment #45989812

    If it is a little bigger to incorporate a bigger chip antenna and some GPIO pins, it is going to be very useful for a lot of IoT projects!!

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    Comment #45368869

    Couldn't we get a low-res version of this info by tracking the active window using a cli tool? For linux, there are several options. Not sure about Mac. Another approach is to run …

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    Comment #45214083

    Off topic, but I assume the name braintrust comes from Creativity, Inc. Amazing book by Pixar co-founder Edwin Catmull.

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    Comment #45091007

    Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/86/

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    Comment #45037759

    I had a similar experience. It did not change the text on a hat (ended up changing 1 of 3 words). On one occasion it regenerated the same image again, ignoring my instructions to e…

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    Comment #44993708

    > from idea to solid working product What platforms have you been using for this? Did you face any challenges in getting the backend setup?

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    Comment #44987448

    How are the RNA sequences used? Are there any clinical trials running?

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    Comment #44987414

    What is this?

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    Comment #44941936

    This is pretty cool! What kind of users are you targeting? Technical folks or those dipping their toes into dev with vibe coding?

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    Comment #44940591

    This is quite similar to what I was trying to explore with [1] & [2] yesterday. Currently, the only option I found is to use localStorage and give the user the option to manually e…

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    Comment #44940514

    He has two main projects - A & B. Currently A takes up 80% of his time and B takes up 20%. He uses the timers to track time on each project with the goal of transitioning to 80% on…

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    Comment #44937882

    This thought is what triggered me to try and build an offline web app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930814 After building this, I realise that we need a standalone elect…

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    Comment #44933997

    My colleague uses 2 kitchen timers to track daily progress on his two main projects. I was inspired by this to create an open source app but for yearly goals - https://github.com/a…

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    Comment #44931009

    Linear is mostly used in collaborative setting right? Don't you use any of its integrations or workflows?

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    Comment #44930843

    Figma-lite maybe for solo designers?

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    Ask HN: Which popular apps should not need a backend?

    Most self-use apps - note-taking, nutrition logging etc don't need a backend unless for social sharing reasons. But most apps do have a backend because that's necessary (?) for pro…

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    Comment #44898655

    This is useful but not to decide whether to work on an idea or not. Most initial ideas are going to exist somewhere around the world but they may not focus on the angle that we are…

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    Comment #44898581

    I'm implementing a personal AI agent that is fully local inference with external memory that has access to my meetings, notes, Slack and Google Docs. Initially, it replaces Firefli…

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    Comment #44828467

    Good to know - > Knowledge cut-off is September 30th 2024 for GPT-5 and May 30th 2024 for GPT-5 mini and nano

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    Comment #44828215

    Also, the code demos are all using GPT-5 MAX on Cursor. Most of us will not be able to use it like that all the time. They should have showed it without MAX mode as well