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astrodudeon Show HN: I built an AI Agent that uses the iPhone

in case if anyone wants to understand how it works: https://github.com/kiranz/phoneagent/blob/add-docs/explanati...

astrodudeon Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS

is there a similar repo for machine learning/AI?

Simon's blog explains things simply, without all that marketing/hype terminology. Compares performance with competitors. Love reading it

astrodudeon Show HN: Chat with 19 years of HN

was thinking about doing something like this for a while now, but you got to it. Very impressive. Great job!

astrodudeon Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

really useful when you are travelling without laptop and you need to quickly fix a thing

astrodudeon Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp

do you have any example images it generated based on your prompts?

want to have a look before I try

astrodudeon Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

how do you know that this test doesn't already exist somewhere on the internet and LLMs were trained on it?

astrodudeon GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

Agreed. Windsurf is a lot better

astrodudeon GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

Windsurf is a solid tool in this space. CoPilot and Cursor are way behind

astrodudeon NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation

oh, wow. this actually works. I didn't know :) thanks!

astrodudeon Perplexity got ads

A lot of non-tech people seem to be ok with Ads (e.g: Spotify/Google). More than 1 Unskippable YT ad is where they draw the line

astrodudeon I am rich and have no idea what to do

Another instance of money doesn't bring you happiness or peace. Congrats on your exit.

astrodudeon My favourite computer ergonomics hack

with a Mac and iPhone, you can probably achieve the same thing without any additional hardware

astrodudeon I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly

What Google should have done long time ago

astrodudeon Memory is all we have

I think so too

astrodudeon Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

This makes sense, AI is a new phenomena and most people aren't using it on their phones as much as they use SM apps, camera. Battery life is one of the major reasons why people upgrade their phone (believe it or not, many don't just replace their battery)

astrodudeon Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back

Don't all life's comforts work this way?

astrodudeon Google Pixel 9 Pro

Love the camera on pixels, hopefully this one takes it to next level.

astrodudeon Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal

This looks great. I love that it's using YAML files that can be version controlled and shared.

I developed Just-API (https://github.com/kiranz/just-api) with YAMLs for automation testing of APIs.

astrodudeon A Universal Basic Income Is Being Considered by Canada's Government

Providing/Improving basic necessities (such as public education, health insurance, access to healthy food, affordable housing) is far better than any kind of UBI.

astrodudeon Show HN: Axilla – Open-source TypeScript framework for LLM apps

Hi Nick and Ben, Looked at the demo. Great job! I'll be trying it soon!