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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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