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Zopieuxon Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model

This is not advertised on their page, did you make this up?

I believe image classification/analysis by deciders (not just OCR, not everything is about text) is still lacking.

Cloudflare's Clef had fair results on my test, but it's larger and slower. Wondering about Strands.

Zopieuxon City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

Unfortunately this seems nauseously US-centric, like most of the genre.

Zopieuxon Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/132123913@N03/48775624516/in/a...

Backside of the panels. This might help you understand why the amount of space used is not at all extravagant. We're spoiled with our disposable, tiny electronics. Those things were meant to last decades.

Zopieuxon Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

Thanks. The only thing I wanted to see, which to me is truly a marvelous craft, is the wiring job. Cable management porn anyone?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/132123913@N03/48775624516/in/a...

Zopieuxon Tiny Brutalism

"Latest tech shit with the occasional gem" (like this post) is a deeply accurate, if not slightly depressing, description of HN.

Zopieuxon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

You know when rivers run not-low? In winter when we need to heat all those freezing homes. Crazy how that works. Yup, it's not ideal in a summer heat wave... but that's precisely when solar can shine.

We need both until we've solved storage. There's no need for more false dichotomies and FUD.

Zopieuxon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

Don't forget about the rest of the world which does not use imperial and have access to plywood stock that is e.g. 18mm birch in metric standard dimensions for the cut sheet. Being able to customize what stock I have access to locally and adjust measurements and cuts automatically, e.g. rounding to cm not quarter inches.

Zopieuxon Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco

Oops! Car dependency has consequences!

Zopieuxon Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

Seeing the amount of complaints in this comment section, I sure start to question the average savvyness of the average HN reader.

Yes, josm is an ugly java tool but this did not prevent me from doing a lot of mapping back in the days.

Zopieuxon DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama. https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

Zopieuxon 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

The bootstrap.css example shows a lot of very random highlighting around numbers (some are blue, others black) and rule names (some are purple, others black).

While the premise is neat (syntaxes and tokenizers are pretty similar, how much diversity can humans possibly come up with??), this does not inspire much confidence in the accuracy.

Zopieuxon Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)

I'm not sure I get it. This looks like a worse repackage of muscriptor but with a 10s limit, making it useless.

Zopieuxon Splitting a Git Commit

It's funny how people assume Dehian/Ubuntu's ice cold release schedule is the norm, when the rest of us have been enjoying rolling releases and timely, stress-free (easy rollback) updates with NixOS and Arch back in the days. It's been at 10+ years now.

Zopieuxon How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

Bad take. This is exactly how I use non-auto-backup Photos: 99% of my shitty smartphone pictures are local only, and I don't care to lose them.

Occasionally though, I want to share or save a photo. Having this (small) button is quite convenient.

Zopieuxon Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

What's the status on automatic debloating (non interactive) scripts for Windows these days? With vibe coding I'd expect hundreds of those to exist by now. Something everyone would run after a clean install, to revert, disable or uninstall all the stupid defaults and enshitifications Microsoft added in the past decades.

Anyone can recommend one of those?

Zopieuxon Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

Patent was being sarcastic. Everybody heard about (or had the displeasure of seeing) those ads.

Zopieuxon Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

(US only)

Zopieuxon $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

Woah that sucks. Closed the tab when I saw the cartoonishly stupid, completely out of place smoking thermometer.

A music video is not (necessarily) a depiction of what the lyrics say at any moment. Soulless for sure.

Zopieuxon AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

The trope of vibe coded pages adding this slide-up transition on every paragraph needs to die yesterday.

Zopieuxon Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection

At this point, the only "solution" is anti-compete legislation.

Zopieuxon Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection

Thanks for your hard work!

Zopieuxon Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models

Have you written software before?

Zopieuxon Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040

I do. There is quite the delta between a immense & sudden reservoir and a meandering river shifting its (otherwise similarly sized, and unintterrupted) bed over decades.

I'm not even touching on the human concerns regarding population displacement.

Zopieuxon GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents

I don't understand those takes.

Open-weights perhaps, but definitely not self-hostable – since those require $20k+ capex – which is the real "step change" to me, as it ends the stranglehold providers have over censorship.

The only silver lining would be increased competition in API providers of those open-weight models leading to truly affordable prices and a race to remove stupid "safety" checks.

Zopieuxon Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040

The concrete is a small part of the problem. Flooding gigantic areas and stopping the natural water flow have serious consequences for widelife, but most people don't care enough.

Zopieuxon Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

Not great. The inpainted areas are, as usual, very smooth compared to the detailed, "high frequency" look of natural photos.

Barely useful enough to erase things in thumbnails.

Zopieuxon Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects

Ah yes, clearly the one thing I want from my favorite projects is for them to embrace AI coding and immediately deskill such that their value-add or passion for the craft evaporates in the next 3 months.

Zopieuxon Who owns your ATProto identity?

It has all the tells. There are websites which list them, please search "LLM tropes".