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vladoh

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About vladoh

Building products with AI as my cofounder. Ex VP of Eng, cybersecurity. Ex BMW self-driving.

Twitter: @haltakov Github: @haltakov

Recent public activity

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    This looks great, thanks for open-sourcing it! How does it deal with the current guardrails 5.6 Sol has on finding vulnerabilities? When I use it in the Codex app it would sometime…

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    Show HN: Home Page as a Chatbot

    Hey HN, I created a simple library that you can use to create a home page that is a chatbot that knows things about you. You can have predefined questions and answers, use a real L…

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    Comment #46636240

    Here is mine built like a VS Code simulator: https://haltakov.net

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    Comment #46266590

    I'm working on a way to make it super easy to create and share beautiful photo galleries that tell a story. Take your folders with photos and create a web gallery that works great …

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    Show HN: Free tool to reduce the size of images

    Hey, created this tool mostly for myself as I wanted to explore how different formats and compression rates impact the size and the quality of images. Just upload an image and play…

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    Comment #46074135

    Just a simple tool that I need to optimize images for fast loading by creating different versions in different formats and resolutions

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    Show HN: Web interface for the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

    I built this web app to experiment with the Gemini Computer Use model and learn more about its capabilities. I'm using it for some automation tasks, and it works quite well in some…

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    Comment #45567731

    The CSS for this is indeed tricky. I figured out this layout 5 years ago in the v1 and forgot how it works, just took it over as it looks good. The key is that not all rows are exa…

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    Comment #45562175

    I'm working on a open-source tool to create photo galleries from a folder of photos: https://simple.photo . It creates galleries as static sites that are easy to self-host. I start…

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    Comment #45543267

    I think this is the first messenger app that supports this. This is huge for AI chatbots!

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    Show HN: Simple Photo Gallery – open-source CLI to create static photo galleries

    Hey HN! I built this free and open-source tool out of frustration with how difficult it is to share vacation photos and pictures of our kids with friends and family. There is no to…

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    Show HN: Simple Photo Gallery – CLI to turn folder of photos into static gallery

    Hey HN! I started building a free and open-source tool out of frustration with how difficult it is to share vacation photos and pictures of our son with friends and family. There w…

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    Show HN: Leoline – AI audio stories for kids, with parents in control

    Hey HN, My 6-year-old was getting frustrated trying to get ChatGPT to tell him stories, so I built Leoline. AI voice assistants today aren't designed for kids - they interrupt too …

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    My personal site as a VS Code simulator

    Had some fun updating my personal website to look like a VS Code simulator. It uses the actual VS Code editor (Monaco), but the rest is all custom built to look like VS Code. All h…

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    Comment #37845276

    We've been using Bluedot for couple of months already and it has been a huge boost in productivity. We often go back to meetings (especially with clients) and review things. We are…

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    Comment #36263027

    I worked at BMW for many years. I didn‘t do anything relate to their F1 program but once I talked to an engineer that did. He was a mechanical engineer that designed different part…

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    Show HN: A different way to practice machine learning

    We built a site that posts one machine learning question every day. Each question presents a problem. Usually, a real problem that you and I have or will face at some point in our …