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nilsherzig

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    Comment #49179606

    I don't see a lot of value in that, but one could supply a lot of semi structured extra information which could aid the readers LLM to answer questions the reader might have with m…

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    Comment #48737787

    love the background music in combination with the flying fishes wallpaper in the first video haha very cool project

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    Comment #48633488

    If you're unsure about spending the time to learn Zig, I really recommend watching the following interview with the creator of Zig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ convi…

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    Comment #48604270

    Why would anyone think that it would get linearly worse? What's the (wrong) assumption there?

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    Comment #48603294

    I like MAGIC CARPET "Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies"

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    Comment #48514823

    Great software. Especially the "lettermod" feature. It allows you to configure a key to switch to a layer / secondary actions if held for some time, but only if no other key was pr…

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    Comment #47047793

    yes but https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask... reads like they connected to MQTT and received data from IOT devices on there, not using BLE

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    Comment #47021827

    Can someone explain the other iot devices using the same broker? I tried cross referencing the feature list, information about the user base, kickstarter origin and flutter app wit…

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    Comment #46962775

    Not mine. Was already posted on here, but the last time it got traction was a couple of years back.

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    Comment #46960270

    I think the randomness is addicting. While writing a prompt often doesn't result in the perfect outcome, it very well could. Pressing the "prompt lever" (again and again), waiting …

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    Comment #46400149

    Alright let’s put that article into eleven labs to hear it as an ai audiobook on 2x speed while doing chores. Gotta optimize bro

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    Comment #46396799

    I know nothing about photography, but i really enjoyed your work. Especially the line scan cable car and „ 1390 Market Street“. Thanks for sharing.

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    Ask HN: Someone impersonates my GitHub project, what to do?

    Someone created a website and social media account for a project I've built two years ago and published on GitHub. > llocalsearch dot cloud > x dot com/llocalsearch > there also is…

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    Show HN: Filtered GitHub Trends

    I like new RAG libraries like the next guy, but I also like finding projects, which aren't RAG libraries, so here is a simple "GitHub Trending" frontend which allows blacklisting t…

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    Comment #45833722

    But that’s half the fun (and knowledge about these systems got me my current job)

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    Comment #45238640

    Building websites which only work on the "www" subdomain should also be a crime.

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    Comment #45085059

    I don’t think so, but it’s getting harder to flash custom ROMs (locked bootloaders) and there are even legislations in planning which would make it illegal (at least in the eu). It…

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    Comment #45081974

    https://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/IMG_9239.png The difference between posting an image url without and with a random string in the url. Blue line is successful requests (peo…

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    Comment #45081618

    only got the working on chrome desktop https://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/2025-0831-105623-64...

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    Comment #45081290

    I should really add some enumeration protection to these image sharing urls haha

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    Comment #45081279

    Does not render properly on iOS mobile (iOS 26 beta) https://files.nilsherzig.com/IMG_9236.PNG

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    Comment #45024560

    Loving the interactive visualizations. Reminded me of https://kelseyc18.github.io/kademlia_vis Can someone recommend a collection of similar pages?

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    Comment #45024518

    I'm certain that Google would turn their users into resurrected brain-dead meat computers if that would improve their quarterly profits

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    Comment #45002282

    Feels good to be the one who rejects prompts haha