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georgeck
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About georgeck
https://georgeck.me
https://github.com/georgeck
https://bsky.app/profile/georgeck.me
Currently working on HN companion: https://hncompanion.com
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Comment #48587304
The day this story was posted on Show HN, I didn’t want to be glued to the screen, waiting for new comments. So, I asked Gemini to write a script that listens for new comments on F…
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Comment #48560132
Wanted to call out that the demo of the Enron dataset [1] is based on a private fork of Memento. Since the archive contains multiple inboxes, we had to make Memento pick one of the…
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Comment #48559703
Great feedback. It would be great to connect Memento to Slack and possibly the user's photo archive as well. And if we can map the canonical user across all these stores, the Memen…
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Show HN: Memento – Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email
Our email inboxes carry multiple decades of messages (100K-500K). This is a good proxy for all the important things that happened in your life, the projects you have done and the p…
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Comment #46976920
Thanks for the feedback. The system prompt for the web app is optimized to balance between too short a summary vs not long enough. The browser extension, on the other hand, allows …
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Comment #46971804
Fair enough. I completely understand that the experience and hunting for gems in the comments is the core appeal of HN for many and AI summaries definitely aren't for everyone. Tha…
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Comment #46968669
Another interesting link relevant to AI summaries for HN discussion is the utility created by simonw [0]. Our tool is quite similar to what simonw did, except that we make the back…
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Comment #46968418
Another interesting feature for HN users in the companion Bluesky bot we created [0]. It analyzes top stories from HN [1] and generates a new Bluesky thread every hour using the sa…
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Comment #46968096
When people hear about AI summaries, this is what comes to mind. And I understand their concern. Wouldn’t a summary strip away the essence of a conversation? Let me explain with an…
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Comment #46964944
Thanks a lot, Rayshan! Your feedback through GitHub issues has been instrumental in helping us prioritize specific features. Additionally, the Chrome Web Store team has approved ou…
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Show HN: HN Companion – web app that enhances the experience of reading HN
HN is all about the rich discussions. We wanted to take the HN experience one step further - to bring the familiar keyboard-first navigation, find interesting viewpoints in the thr…
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Comment #46702628
Congrats on the launch! How does this compare to https://finetunedb.com
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Comment #45205469
This was discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089176
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Comment #45171257
Thanks, that’s helpful. I’m also hoping similar media management options are available on iOS and desktop, since I use Signal across devices. By the way, does Signal treat synced d…
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Comment #45170854
It would be really useful to have more client-side control over media storage. That way, I could better manage storage growth without wiping entire threads. For example, being able…
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Comment #45010532
SQLite's backward compatibility means many best practices - like WAL mode, foreign key enforcement, and sane busy timeouts - are not enabled by default. The author's Go library, sq…
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Comment #43597893
This is a great idea! Exactly what I was also thinking and started working on a side-project. Currently the project can create summaries like this [1]. Since HN Homepage stories ch…
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Comment #43597782
I tried summarizing the thread so far (339 comments) with a custom system prompt [0] and a user-prompt that captures the structure (hierarchy and upvotes) of the thread [1]. This i…
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Comment #43542253
Is this solution similar to the Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) [1] provided by another 'fine-tuning as a service' - OpenPipe? [1] https://docs.openpipe.ai/features/dpo/overvi…
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Comment #43202668
> To quickly find text, select some text and press ⌘E followed by ⌘G. This is really nice. Once I am in this 'search' mode, I couldn't figure out how to get out of this mode. - Edi…
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Comment #42910769
Tools like https://pi-hole.net does this for the whole house. It comes with a default set of blocked domains and you can easily add to it. It acts as your local DNS for the network…
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Comment #42910285
Thank you for trying out the extension and for this great suggestion! We've actually been thinking along similar lines. Here are a couple of improvements we're considering: 1. Buil…