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heyalexej··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Long story, I have humongous zai GLM 5.2 token budget that I'm using in a similar fashion as many comments explain here. GPT 5.6 or Fable 5 for planning, GLM for implementing, researching, extracting and many other tasks I consider grunt work. Very happy with the performance, speed isn't all that good though. I'd be curious to hear from someone who works with both, DeepSeek and GLM side by side.
heyalexej··on Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
Quick glance; FreeFlow already saves WAV recordings for every transcript to ~/Lib../App../FreeFlow/audio/ with UUIDs linking them to pipeline history entries in CoreData. Audio files are automatically deleted though, when their associated history entries are deleted. Shall be a quick fix. Recently did the same for hyprvoice, for debugging and auditing.
heyalexej··on Show HN: MailPilot – Freedom to go anywhere while your agents work
No affiliation and didn't get around to use it yet, but clawdbot[1] does WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, and WebChat.

[1]: https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot

heyalexej··on Is the golden age of Indie software over?
Humanity will clearly also survive without cars and shoes. What's your point?
heyalexej··on Go ahead, self-host Postgres
Without stating actual numbers if not comfortable, what was the % savings one over the other? Happy with performance? Looking at potential of doing the same move.
heyalexej··on Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)
- How matryoshka do you want to parasite?

- Yes!

heyalexej··on Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
Here's a smaller scale water battery that heats an entire house year round. The water tank itself is placed in the center of the house across all 3 floors and actually makes for a quite nice design element as well. The energy is generated in the warm seasons and the volume of water is large enough to last through the entire winter. It's a German vid but subtitles are quite accurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBLiNHsod8Y

heyalexej··on Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?
Absolutely not knocking this project. Was just a somewhat unexpected result from such a simple site. Asked GPT-4 to write a scraper just to compare and it produced a quite usable boilerplate.
heyalexej··on Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?
Gave this a go. Just so happened that I had the page of an eBay seller open. Wondered if it could manage to do something as simple as extracting all 240 listed products on that page. Instead of determining that the most important data on this page would be the products, it identified these properties: categoryName, subCategories, link.
heyalexej··on Rivet nut for composite materials (2020) [video]
Impossible to even create an account from within Germany as a consumer. This is what their registration form says: (Only for business people and companies - section 14 of the German Civil Code - with location in Germany - not for consumers)
heyalexej··on Rivet nut for composite materials (2020) [video]
Fundamentally, yes. A tube shaped anchor with a designated/predetermined crumple zone. They're widely used in sheet metal fabrication, where thin walls wouldn't allow for sufficient thread engagement. Where spot welded nuts aren't possible, for instance in a long, thin walled tube etc..
heyalexej··on Rivet nut for composite materials (2020) [video]
For composites, if the back side is accessible, a standard rivet nut + tightly fitting washer on the back side works quite well to alleviate the risk of stress fractures.
heyalexej··on Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use
Quite a lot of windshield wipers have metal inserts with the same properties & dimensions. Perfect to open your older car when you forgot the keys inside.
heyalexej··on Cameo's CEO on how he plans to disrupt Hollywood
Interesting side note: Self proclaimed gurus and scammers of every possible kind love cameo's services, too. Makes the programs so much more desirable if your favorite celebrity endorses it, or gives shout outs to the gurus for their "amazing work". Here's one quick example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2BCT01STn8
heyalexej··on Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?
If you're comfortable with PHP, Shopware & Sylius (both built on Symfony). For Python, look at Saleor. If you don't want to live in a world of pain ( see looping__lui), use a SaaS solution like Snipcart or BigCommerce (which has very competitive rates vs. Shopify). Use the time to learn how to market your product, run ads, create content and grow your business.
heyalexej··on Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay
Reminds me of Big Sister [1], a brothel where customers could use the women's services for free, subsidized by paying Internet viewers, DVD sales & such.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sister_(brothel)

heyalexej··on I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe
Slightly off-topic and not doubting this particular story. Posts from this blog get submitted every few minutes it seems. Is anyone checking and verifying the numbers these companies and "startups" claim to make? If so, how?
heyalexej··on Life After Prison, on YouTube
Article could have included a few other great examples. Titan Gilroy of TITANS of CNC for example. Among many other programs, he has helped building a huge CNC school/shop at San Quentin State Prison.

https://www.youtube.com/user/titanamericanbuilt/videos

heyalexej··on I started an online subscription business from Malaysia

   >I coded the web app from the ground up using what
    I’ve learned from the coding bootcamp and launched the 
    service on the 22nd of September 2019.
Something doesn't add up here. Ahrefs shows rankings going back as far as September of 2016 with the first archive.org snapshot on September 14 2015 showing a landing page for a subscription box.
heyalexej··on Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free
Looking forward to this. I've just spent two weeks in Kiev, where they block a large section of Khreschatyk St. (8 car lanes plus very wide side walks) around Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) plus some of the side roads each weekend. It makes for an amazing atmosphere and lots of people come out to socialize, chill, shop etc. and I'm almost certain business is better on pedestrianized days vs. 8 lanes full of cars for no good reason.
heyalexej··on Kern Microtechnik: Accurate CNC Machines [video]
Found out about them through Nick and Josh Hacko of https://www.instagram.com/nicholashackowatch/. They use a wire EDM made by Kern to manufacture watch parts.

If you're into this kind of precision, https://www.instagram.com/robinrenzetti/ and https://www.instagram.com/stefan_gtwr/ are great to follow.

heyalexej··on HTML Parser – Flat HTML to Pug, Jinja2 and Blade Templates
What's the purpose of this submission though?
heyalexej··on HTML Parser – Flat HTML to Pug, Jinja2 and Blade Templates
Great work! A readme with a link to a landing page linking back to the readme.
heyalexej··on Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
A technique described in this podcast[1] may lock up quite some time with these people.

[1]http://pca.st/yWw5

heyalexej··on China’s New Lenders Collect Invasive Data and Offer Billions
Slightly over a year ago there was an interesting post up on HN where lenders used nude pictures as IOU¹. Wonder if this trend progressed with the companies they write about in this piece.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13003838

heyalexej··on Lyft Self-Driving
The only way to travel in a SDC is with a set of diagonal pliers and screwdriver in you pocket.
heyalexej··on Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies
The nature is very similar to yours, except I use another social network as a content provider. I use a combination of the top ad networks and optimize placements based on payouts for a particular country. I do try to pop every page.
heyalexej··on Tesla becomes most popular automaker in Norway
Genuinely curious why you assume this is a PR stunt vs. say, a logistics related thing. The effects of such a PR stunt are likely negligible vs. potentially losing out on hundreds or thousands of sales due to long and unnecessary waiting times.
heyalexej··on Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies
I run a network of a handful of sites that amass roughly 1MM hits per day. Over the last 14 days, my Ø CPM for pops is $2.74 across all countries, with the top CPMs being:

   Country	CPM
   US	  $11.175
   Nigeria	$5.519
   Italy	$4.104
   Iran   $3.636
   Japan	$3.596
   Grenada	$3.591
   Australia	$3.217
   Canada	$3.198
   Egypt	$2.459
   Panama	$2.384
   Germany	$2.244
   France	$2.199
   Israel	$2.146
   UK	  $2.109
   South Africa	$2.035
   Denmark	$1.733
   Finland	$1.732
   Sweden	$1.617
   Portugal	$1.579
   New Zealand	$1.545
   UAE	 $1.528
   Korea	$1.480
   Switzerland	$1.476
   Norway	$1.354
   Latvia	$1.233

EDIT: formatting
heyalexej··on Dutch-Russian cyber crime case reveals how the police tap the internet
Private Interne Acceess¹ uses Leaseweb quite a bit. I wonder if people using their services got intercepted, too.

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com

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