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bbayer··on When did Google get so weird?
I really cannot comprehend the fact that a company which runs biggest ad networks on their search engine product don't do actual search and uses AI to answer queries. If you don't send trafic to a site which publishes your ads, how do you plan to sustain your main business?
bbayer··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
It gives me chills when I see the 3dMark 2000 benchmark visuals. I thought it is pure magic when I first saw it. What was a time to be alive!.
bbayer··on Show HN: Documan – AI Powered Requirement Management Workspace
Yes that is way I have added this. It could work any OpenAI compatible model or router. I have tested it with Kimi and Qwen. You can bring your own tuned model which is better if you are doing specific work.
bbayer··on Goodbye to Sora
This was inevitable since Antropic made a fortune by releasing single app with only text generation business. They did best code generator and targeted developers and enterprise users. OpenAI did only 1.5 million dollars from Sora which is obviously far from profitable. So it is logical to assign GPU time to more profitable business.
bbayer··on Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon
This is actually my first impression while I am reading the post. Mentions "open source" everywhere but dude how the earth it is open source without training data.
bbayer··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
For some tips :) https://theunscrambled.com/anagram-solver
bbayer··on Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch
Another alternative is to use ESP32's deep sleep mode. You can tell ESP to sleep until some event occurs. There are many options for waking up the microcontroller.

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32c...

It uses little power, so standard 18650 battery could last years with single charge.

https://www.programmingelectronics.com/esp32-deep-sleep-mode

bbayer··on Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]
I am really impressed by how young speakers are. It is really fascinating to see how somebody collect such technical knowledge at such a young age.
bbayer··on Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
Do you mind to share genre?
bbayer··on How to get a heart attack while using JEB decompiler (2022)
Why would a decompiler execute code that has decompiled?
bbayer··on KiCad 7.0
I want to learn PCB design, mostly with ARM and ESP based designs. How would I learn basics? I know theory part but I really couldn't figure out why they determine which component and which value they have to use. I mean there are resistors, capacitors all over the place but I really want to learn reason behind it. Also I guess there are some basics related power, battery, UART, USB etc. Is there any source that covers all of these concepts?
bbayer··on Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]
Such modular design is tricky. Some parts require close distance to specific components like clocks. OP did a good job by solving such problems.
bbayer··on Ask HN: How to make an extra $50k+ per year without changing jobs?
I think starting a side project with a goal of revenue is not practical. For me, doing side project is doing something that you can't normally do in day to day job. So, it has to something that I love to spend time for. On the other hand, I always think about making many part when I start something new. My side projects are generally about making games and mobile applications, search engine optimization, writing programs that transform data from one form to another. When I finish a side project, I don't hesitate to putting some ads and make passive income. It is lovely to make money while you are sleeping from something that you have enjoyed creating it.
bbayer··on Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
It reminds me the joyful moments while I plugged my Commodore 64 to TV set.
bbayer··on Show HN: I co-wrote a novel with GPT-3 in 118 hours
> Peter has adopted the code and molded it for years, Anakin to a digital C3PO. He'd grown attached to his creation. He loved Art more than anyone else alive.

True gold.

bbayer··on Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
Flash Player itself has a lot of security vulnerabilities but Adobe Flash as IDE still has no competitor even today IMHO. There is no such tool that combines code and graphics with ease like Adobe Flash. You can use it as an animator, you can use it as graphic designer, you can use it as developer. All these features just came together perfectly and it made sense. I am still missing this usability.
bbayer··on Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
Actually speaking yes. I spent a lot of time to think about it. Here is my little thought process to keep my motivation;

Why am I working? Why am I spending my 1/3 of my time with my daily job. Is career real thing or other words is it really necessary to make money? Does it really matter to have high work satisfaction even though you earn little? I am working because of money. Money doesn't bring happiness but it brings freedom. At the end of the day what I need is freedom. It doesn't matter if I have shinny career if I can earn same money with something else. I have limited time and more money to become free. So I need to use my time wisely to get more money to become free eventually. It doesn't matter if I am using shiny programming language, technology or IDE. At the end of the day nobody will give a shit about what I am using. Quickest is the best because I have counted days in my life. I don't have time to learn new things every time I start a new projects. I already know everything I need to make money. Learning is not a goal but it is a reward when I become free.

bbayer··on Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
After several years of struggling with side projects I found one thing that motivates me: money. I don't even start a project if there is no possibility of some revenue. %99 of ideas got eliminated immediately. Every people have their own motivation though but having side income from a side project even you are sleeping is different thing. I have limited time for side projects. I always think I have one bullet so trying to use it wisely.
bbayer··on Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’
I have been in Bangalore and I really couldn't understand who is honking to me because everybody honk. It is just chaos.
bbayer··on Show HN: Flash replacement
It is definitely something but not Flash replacement.
bbayer··on Tesla Cybertruck
Yes. I suspect that production line will be designed to be built on Mars. Design of the car also looks like it is built for high dust environments (non-flat rooftop). Solar charging, shell with same material with Starship also supports this thesis.
bbayer··on Tesla Cybertruck
I understand what Tesla is doing here. Outer shell manufacturing cost is very low. No paint, minimal bending process. Just laser cut the material and it is ready to be mounted. If you want to manufacture something in a low resource environment ( like Mars ) it might be the clever move.
bbayer··on Ask HN: Which stack will get my MVP API off the ground fastest?
Usually, I cannot finish what I have started because of debating over which shiny new framework/stack I need to use. I overoptimize things and always try to code for worst case. I cannot resist to think about hundreds of users, peak performance, hn traffic of death etc. Eventually it never finishes or I loose interest.

Best thing you can do is to make something that just works in fastest way possible. Anything that can print out text will work. You will always have a chance to make it better once it starts to get some traction.

bbayer··on Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
Adobe Air could produce executables iOS and many other operating systems and environments. I have seen many successful mobile games done with Air. Flash Player is a virtual machine and swf is compiled bytecode. It could be ported to any hardware and OS. Death of Flash is not technical, it is political. SWF format and Flash Player is proprietary. They chose to kill it instead of supporting someone else's technology.
bbayer··on Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI
Do you have any plans to be more developer friendly? Do you plan to give some sort of API to make custom development? It can bring lots of opportunities to devs if it provides some sort of hackability.
bbayer··on I quit my job today to make video games full time
Hallway and cubicle just make me think that probably he works for an established defence company.
bbayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
Can you please share an email address? I couldn't manage to get validation email from Smart Recruiters.
bbayer··on Google Cloud Is Down
I think nobody mentioned but Adsense also is not updating for couple of hours.
bbayer··on Google Cloud Is Down
I wasn't aware that outage and had small heartattack when I saw huge drop of visitors. I think other metrics are also affected.
bbayer··on Show HN: Create thousands of videos from a Google sheet
Yeah I spent same effort with reveal.js but I found it not very convenient. Assuming you have used phantomjs for capturing frames. I preferred screen capture since my requirement is to use sound and synchronize slide timings to length of sounds. I skipped extra step of capturing frame-by-frame and merging sound and pictures with separate process. Screen capture part made my pipeline semi-automated. I was searching good approach since then but cannot find any solution elegant than Flash. It is dead tech but even today I cannot find real alternative to Flash in terms of asset management, scripting, exporting, IDE and motion graphics. It won't took more than an hour to create an simple application with Flash that consumes data dynamically and create video out of it.
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