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hbcondo714on Show HN: I built TicketData – Ticket price trends and data for Sports & Concerts

> using data from sites like StubHub, Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, etc

Congrats! That is inspiring you kept the passion for this for over 14 years. I’m assuming your data needs changed over this timespan so how did you end up getting this data? APIs, scraping, something else?

hbcondo714on University of the People Is the First TuitionFree American-Accredited Online Uni

> (WASC) accreditation. This puts it in the same league as the University of Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, and more.

That tells me something

hbcondo714on Micro Center and iFixit Team Up to Make Tech Repair More Accessible

I assumed Micro Center went out of business like Fry's[1] but I happened to drive by one of their locations[2] and was pleasantly surprised to see its parking lot full with folks going in and out of the store. I need to go back and relive my childhood memory of walking down the aisle seeing motherboards in the flesh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Electronics

[2] https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/tustin.aspx

hbcondo714on Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal

Yeah, you can see the statsapi.mlb.com endpoints in the files of the features folder.

hbcondo714on Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite

The author replied to one of my comments[1] here on HN a few months ago when I asked about doing ANN on the edge; nice to see it arrive!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063950

hbcondo714on Windows ML is generally available

> Windows ML is the built-in AI inferencing runtime optimized for on-device model inference...lets both new and experienced developers build AI-powered apps

This sounds equivalent to Apple's announcement last week about opening up access for any developer to tap into the on-device large language model at the core of Apple Intelligence[1]

No matter the device, this is a win-win for developers making & consumers getting privacy-focused apps

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/new-apple-intelligenc...

hbcondo714on Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?

It would be great to have the vector database run on the edge / on-device for offline-first and be privacy-focused. https://objectbox.io/ does this but i would like to see AWS and others offer this as well.

hbcondo714on Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy

Thanks but this is only one study and they even conclude that some non-genetic factors may also contribute to causing autism

There are many causes of autism. Research suggests that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) develops from a combination of:

Genetic influences and

Environmental influences, including social determinants

Source: https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-causes-autism

hbcondo714on Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy

> Since autism is hereditary

Do you have a scientific source for this?

hbcondo714on Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS

Mind me asking what your thoughts are on the overall quality of Apple's on-device LLMs? I've found that LanguageModelSession always returns very lengthy responses:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/789182?answerId=85...

hbcondo714on Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras

Also discussed here on HN greatly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794508

hbcondo714on Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python

> book.load_url("input.html")

Shouldn’t this be a URL like https://example.com

Also, is there support for creating a linkable table of contents?

hbcondo714on Unstract: Open-source platform to ship document extraction APIs in minutes

I learned about Unstract after learning about Google’s LangExtract here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44735059

hbcondo714on Everything to know about UniFi OS Server

Here’s the discussion about this on HN from a couple days ago:

Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746603 (300+ comments)

hbcondo714on Why not to use iframes for embedded dashboards

FWIW, Observable Framework has iframe embeds too: https://observablehq.com/framework/embeds#iframe-embeds

hbcondo714on Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk

> This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

https://theconversation.com/why-do-some-autistic-people-walk...

hbcondo714on Claude for Financial Services

FWIW, OpenAI has an offering called “Solutions for financial services”:

https://openai.com/solutions/financial-services/

hbcondo714on Apple's MLX adding CUDA support

> "write once, use everywhere"

So my MLX workloads can soon be offloaded to the cloud!?

hbcondo714on Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

> The crash is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history…caused by a faulty repair by Boeing technicians

Extremely sad to learn this. It could have been prevented.

hbcondo714on Show HN: Swift Scribe: On-device AI scribe using Apple's new Foundation Models

Thanks for posting this. I tried using your Guidelines instructions format[1] in my app but no matter what, the LanguageModelSession always returns very lengthy / verbose responses. I set the maximumResponseTokens[2] option to various small numbers but it doesn't appear to have any effect. Did you by chance encounter this issue as well?

[1] https://github.com/slipboxai/swift-scribe/blob/7952c9e845cff...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels/g...

hbcondo714on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

> You don’t have to worry about the exact tokens that Foundation Models operates with, the API nicely abstracts that away for you [1]

I have the same question. Their Deep dive into the Foundation Models framework video is nice for seeing code using the new `FoundationModels` library but for a "deep dive", I would like to learn more about tokenization. Hopefully these details are eventually disclosed unless someone else here already knows?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/301/?time=1...

hbcondo714on Showh HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript

> Every SQLite Cloud database comes with the sqlite-vec extension pre-installed. sqlite-vec is currently built and optimized for brute-force vector search. This means there is no approximate nearest neighbor search available at this time[1]

Darn, ANN would be awesome to have on the edge.

[1]: https://docs.sqlitecloud.io/docs/vector

hbcondo714on Ask HN: Facing unemployment – what now?

If you haven't already, reach out to the non-profit Multiple. Since you already have a tech background & savings, create a startup & apply to their workforce accelerator: https://www.multiplehub.org/projects/autism-x-workforce-deve...

hbcondo714on Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)

Congrats! Any chance Helixdb can be run in the browser too, maybe via WASM? I'm looking for a vector db that can be pre-populated on the server and then be searched on the client so user queries (chat) stay on-device for privacy / compliance reasons.

hbcondo714on How encryption for Cinema Movies works

> 31. May 2024

I’m trying to understand the timeline here; the article was originally written last year and the latest spec is also from 2024 but the article has a link to this HN thread created yesterday?

hbcondo714on Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

Yeah, it's a SCP/SFTP service managed by a consulting company:

https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/public-dissemination-serv...

hbcondo714on UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill

Might as well call it PreCrime just like in Minority Report

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0181689

hbcondo714on Ask HN: Is There a Crypto Equivalent to Tracking Politician's Transactions?

They do have a page that tracks crypto categorized as an asset type: https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades?assetType=crypto

hbcondo714on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

My non-technical co-founder is in NY for Antler's 6-week residency program[1] to validate & launch a startup for autism. She just published https://brightpathforautism.com using https://lovable.dev

[1] https://www.antler.co/residency

hbcondo714on Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Maybe 'paywalled' is not the best word but using their Identity Based Crawling feature with Managed Browsers[1], you can use an existing account and scrape content that requires authentication. This may not sound like anything new but IMHO, crawl4ai's workflow is easy to follow.

[1] https://docs.crawl4ai.com/advanced/identity-based-crawling