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hbcondo714on Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator

I just remembered I created a website via Solo when it was released a couple years ago: https://soloist.ai/amarkota

Please note the Reviews are auto-generated

Taking a quick look at the network traffic, the site does a POST to https://america.gov/api/chat with a JSON payload when submitting a query:

  {"language":"en","id":"VSvMeyCMKTX05oLW","messages":[{"parts":[{"type":"text","text":"how do I register my new business?"}],"id":"oHub5UDJ3iYARhao","role":"user"}],"trigger":"submit-message"}

So the user's query is hitting a server so to answer my own question, the answer is No to local inference / models.

Edit: PDF attachments and voice input are processed locally according to the site's privacy policy[1]. But they still use 3rd party 'AI Providers' that abide by a ZDR.

[1] https://america.gov/privacy-policy

hbcondo714on America.gov

> Your personal information isn’t collected or stored, and your conversation disappears when you leave.

I am left to wonder how this is technically accomplished. Is inference running in the browser? Is the model downloaded to the user’s machine?

hbcondo714on Python Workers are now generally available

Thanks, we've been using firecracker VMs with AWS MicroVM[1] and Fly.io Sprites[1] but interested in using Workers instead

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642510

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825

hbcondo714on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

That is a nice sequence diagram[1]; I like how each endpoint param values are written out and the color distinctions. What tool did you use to create it?

[1] https://storage.ghost.io/c/b8/53/b853e3d4-3186-409d-9c7f-7da...

hbcondo714on Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back

> Hosting companies can change...Point your domain somewhere else when you need to move. That is a much healthier relationship with technology.

I went from Azure to Github for hosting so I guess my relationship with Microsoft ended up staying the same?

[1] https://amarkota-com-www.azurewebsites.net

[2] https://github.com/hbcondo/hbcondo

hbcondo714on Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

Our tenants live in our property that is in a known Airport Influence Area ("AIA")[1] but this year, they reported to us the noise associated with the airport's Instrument Approach Procedures have increased. Airplanes arriving at the airport fly less than 1,000 feet in elevation right above our neighborhood. Even worse, airplanes come in consecutively so the noise is back to back w/o much reprieve.

The Noise and Capacity Office allows to manually report[2] such aircraft but I'm wondering if this device can detect these aircrafts which can lead to report submission. Any insight on doing this is appreciated!

[1] https://lacounty.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7cb3fb165...

[2] https://viewpoint.emsbk.com/lgb7

hbcondo714on Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology

@SubiculumCode, thanks for this comment and helping us understand better. Is there by chance a way to contact you about your research & expertise or would you mind contacting me using my profile info? I built https://behavior.today and would love to connect on this topic. Thanks!

hbcondo714on Oura ring misleads consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy

I was gifted an Oura 4 last year and thought it accurately tracked my sleep. But a couple months ago, the sleep debt metric went flat to 0 even when I tagged poor nights of sleep (mainly due to child care).

hbcondo714on Leopold Aschenbrenner unwinds all public stock positions after steep losses

Some discussion here:

Citadel Buys Situational Awareness's Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111879

hbcondo714on Citadel Buys Situational Awareness's Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI

More precisely, 23 new positions were reported in their latest filing just a couple months ago, most of those being semiconductors:

https://last10k.com/sec-filings/2045724

hbcondo714on Claude Opus 5

> You are an elite frontend engineer and design-to-code specialist. The design image is the primary source of truth; your code is the translation layer. Do not reinterpret or "improve" the design into something generic — reproduce it faithfully.

Thank you for sharing this. I was just using OpenAI's Product Design plugin[1] to create designs but it just didn't reproduce it in code faithfully so will need to try this.

[1] https://openai.com/business/plugins/product-design/

hbcondo714on Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?

Maybe try Ollama Cloud, Prompt or response data is never logged or trained on:

https://ollama.com/pricing

hbcondo714on Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

I’ve been using the Observable Framework[1] for this kind of work but it doesn’t appear to be actively developed anymore so will look into Datasette.

[1] https://github.com/observablehq/framework

hbcondo714on Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages

Is there by chance a way to password protect the generated site?

hbcondo714on OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

> LLMs and VLMs, Running Inside OpenCV…Qwen 2.5, Gemma 3, PaliGemma, and the GPT-2 / GPT-4 family

Why these specific models / versions?

hbcondo714on ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion

This article is from a couple weeks ago, the same day ADT submitted "Other Information" to the SEC about unauthorized access:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1703056/000170305626...

hbcondo714on How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude

Not to be picky but the careers page is saying Live in production. 10M+ SEC filings

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kepler-ai

I just wanted to learn more about the company but reside in California and open roles are in New York

hbcondo714on How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude

> Indexed 26M+ SEC filings

But the https://kepler.ai website says 10M+

hbcondo714on Tesla discloses $2B AI hardware company acquisition in filing

Link to actual filing with Note 14 highlight:

In April 2026, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire an AI hardware company for up to $2.00 billion in Tesla common stock and equity awards, of which approximately $1.8 billion is subject to certain service conditions and/or performance milestones dependent on the successful deployment of the company's technology.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000162828026...

hbcondo714on Health AI Startup Has Helped Reverse Denied Health Insurance Claims

This is for Claimable:

We make it easy to appeal denied health claims

https://www.getclaimable.com

hbcondo714on Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

> The term - kokushobi - has been translated as "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot" day by Japanese and international media.

hbcondo714on They See Your Photos

Yeah, here is their Show HN from a few years ago:

We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439

hbcondo714on Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT

The also removed Chat mode (from their Codex VSCode extension):

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/11007

hbcondo714on Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

Thank you!

hbcondo714on Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

Gorgeous! I can search flights at LAX but I don't see the smaller airports around it like SNA or LGB listed. Any chance those could be added?

Also, is there by chance a way to do historical flights?

hbcondo714on Show HN: Figma for Coding Agents

Why do new designs need to go through a manual + paid request:

https://getdesign.md/request

Moreover, the contributing.md doesn’t mention new designs:

https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-design-md/blob/main/CON...

Also, folks are creating issues in the repo requesting new designs and leaving their actual email address:

https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-design-md/issues/201

hbcondo714on US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock

> Michael declared in March 2025 that he had a position in xAI valued between $500,000 and $1m...He sold those holdings on 9 January for between $5m and $25m, according to disclosures filed with the office of government ethics (OGE).

The transaction disclosures for this fellow aren't directly available on OGE[1]. You must manually "Request this document".

[1] https://www.oge.gov/web/OGE.nsf/Officials%20Individual%20Dis...

hbcondo714on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)

https://behavior.today

I'm building this site to display behavioral therapy data better for parents / caregivers. The site itself is just Next.js but the essence is ETL and data visualizations using the Observable Framework[1]. There is an opportunity to apply AI for Q&A.

[1] https://github.com/observablehq/framework

hbcondo714on Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

https://behavior.today

[1] https://github.com/observablehq/framework