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In the early 1800's Alexis de Tocqueville attributed a lot of American success to its small organizations/associations: "There is nothing, according to me, that deserves more to at…

If you want to experiment with a version of the world model the article references, you can play with an implementation I put together here: https://insightmaker.com/insight/2pCL5e…

Interesting, I would love to hear how well those worked. Grammit uses the Prompt API for the local LLM, which currently uses a version of the Gemma 3n model on Chrome. Grammit uses…

I don't know if Vivaldi supports the new Prompt API [0] that Grammit uses to run the local LLM. As far as I know, the only browsers supporting it currently are Chrome [1] and Edge …

Hey HN, I wanted a grammar checker that didn’t send my writing to someone's servers, so we built Grammit, a Chrome extension that runs grammar checks locally using an LLM. Your tex…

There is a proposal to add support for this: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...

There is a Prompt API in development that's available in both Chrome and Edge to give access to a local LLM. Chrome extensions have access to it and I believe websites can request …

Yes, Chrome uses the Gemini Nano model for the Prompt API while Edge uses the Phi-4-mini model.

Hey HN, I wanted a grammar checker that didn’t send my writing to someone's servers, so we built Grammit, a Chrome extension that runs grammar checks locally using an LLM. Your tex…

We're building a Chrome extension grammar checker that runs locally using Chrome's built-in LLM. You can try it out here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/grammit-the-ai-gr…

Epic is not a customer of Apple. Many of Apple's customers are also customers of Epic. Apple is trying to prevent those shared customers from accessing Epic.

I've created a few DSL's and I've regretted not closely emulating an existing language that users already know. When creating a new DSL you should find the language that is most fa…

Disagree on using Bayesian statistics. Frequentist statistics are perfect for A/B testing. There are so many strong biases people have about different parts about UI/UX. One of the…

It's a similar situation with Chrome extensions. Extension reviews are generally pretty quick (an hour or so), but every once in a while you get hit with a longer one (days+). In t…

We built Text Blaze [0] a Chrome Extension [1] that supports a lot of similar capabilities. It lets you do text expansions on any website using hotkeys, include dynamic values like…

The Bard model (Bison) is available without region lock as part of Google Cloud Platform. In addition to being able to call it via an API, they have a similar developer UI to the O…

Firebase uses Google Cloud Logging. Taking a quick look at the blog post here, Google Cloud Logging already seems to support everything it describes. Is there something in it that …

We've explored usage based pricing for our app which has a core unit-of-work that delivers value to the user. We've talked with various customers about adopting usage based pricing…

My company has an Airtable competitor that has API support for SQL. It has pretty good SQL capabilities solving the issues with pagination you have in Airtable. An overview of the …

Google Groups is heavily used within Google's ecosystem. Specifically it is: - a system for managing group-based access for Google Workspace users, e.g. share a Google Doc with a g…