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melvinmelih

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    Comment #47769081

    That's the only trade-off, the app bundle is about 340MB for the first download but once you have it on your phone it will always work offline and load all assets instantly.

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    Show HN: Early Reader – Free open source reading app I built for my 4-year-old

    Over the holidays I went looking for a reading app for my 4-year-old daughter. The top app in this space charges $500/month. Since that's a bit much to pay for an app, I figured I …

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    Comment #46681511

    “Sir, you have the vote of every thinking person.” “That’s not enough — I need a majority.” — Adlai Stevenson

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    Comment #46613977

    Why not build a receipt scanner then?

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    Comment #46539727

    I’m in Colombia right now and they actually have a great food labeling system. It just warns you if a product contains too much sugar, salt, additives etc, without trying to score.…

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    Comment #45733999

    > because they are trained on multilingual data But they were not trained on government-sanctioned homegrown EU data.

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    Comment #45472151

    > After all, it's not like they could possibly identify every single living person and tie them to their likeness. Wasn’t he literally scanning eye balls a couple years ago?

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    Comment #45453043

    I recently had to build a production-ready workflow in N8N - it ended up being a spaghetti flow of custom code nodes and custom http requests (because none of the provided connecto…

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    Comment #45015926

    > we could solve this dead time problem and start doing things on the go Interesting idea, but how do you address car safety concerns? Studies consistently show that cognitive dist…

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    Comment #44609067

    > We identified a total of 1,862 MCP servers exposed to the internet. From this set, we manually verified a sample of 119. All 119 servers granted access to internal tool listings …

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    Comment #44316240

    > Driving is not a general problem, though. But what's driving a car? A generalist human brain that has been trained for ~30 hours to drive a car.

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    Comment #44257316

    > Modern games provide much stronger feedback. Now, when you hit an enemy, you might see: > the crosshair briefly changes to confirm the hit, damage numbers pop up above the enemy,…

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    Comment #44080859

    > or be in epistemically different worlds where international competition is irrelevant (eg clearance filters based in nationality, government and military, market that has exotic …

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    Comment #43878435

    According to Dutch law, you lose your Dutch citizenship if you accept another nationality. The Dutch embassies (who are responsible for renewing Dutch passports abroad) are well aw…

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    Comment #43245191

    Great, thanks!

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    Comment #43244506

    This is interesting but why do you make it so hard to view the actual agents.json file? After clicking around in the registry ( https://wild-card.ai/registry ) for 10 minutes I sti…

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    Comment #43168066

    Video mirror in case you missed it: https://x.com/cdolan92/status/1894216778126959027?s=46

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    Comment #43166799

    I do not understand how: 1) Someone actually thought this was a good idea 2) Someone actually built it 3) YC actually funded it

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    Comment #43104868

    Yeah but the MagSafe charger I've spent $150 on doesn't work without the magnetic part.

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    Comment #43104784

    26 hours of battery life but you still have to charge it with a cable (they didn't add MagSafe). This might be a deal breaker for me…

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    Comment #43064444

    In about 2 weeks since OpenAI launched their $200/mo version of Deep Research, it has already been open sourced within 24 hours (Hugging Face) and now being offered for free by Per…

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