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mclightning··on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
It is a lot more complicated than that. Your content is not simply used, copied, or even just simply distributed. The very terrain that you produce, distribute, represent your content has shifted due to the mechanics of it. Anything you produce is grabbed into AI summaries. They're grabbed into the training data. Humans produce free/open materials for many reasons. A lot of them don't have room to breathe and gain structure due to AI siphoning the entire atmosphere of web; eg communities
mclightning··on Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
Another reason to buy a Chinese android phone.
mclightning··on PGLite Evangelism
This is why I built https://db4.app. This solves the biggest hurdle with using a PGLite instance from your browser, by giving you a universal postgres url. You can connect to it from anywhere with your credentials. Your data and queries are fully encrypted end-to-end. So it is only between your app, and your browser tab. Your data stays with you and db4.app provides the relay basically.

You can also host the Relay app yourself locally, if you'd like.

It comes with support for PG-vector, so you can use it for RAG in LLM Studio. We have a few MCP applications already built in the community apps section.

Happy to answer any questions.

mclightning··on App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
That is not a real account.
mclightning··on Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
I made the biggest donations in my life via Watsi. Thank you for building this site. I love you guys have an API as well. I thought of building an app on top of your API but never got round to complete it. If you are curious, I can share; I think there may be an opportunity to capture value in free giveaways and turn it into charity. Many people try to give away their things quickly on fb marketplace or letgo, ...what if they could ask for a donation to a charity? I know there are challenges like, what if they want to return. But there has to be a way to solve this with an escrow service or something. A similar model already works in used, 2nd stores that work for charities.
mclightning··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
Demographics and political complexity of Cyprus is not compareable to Greenland
mclightning··on Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed
based on what their CEO is saying...he repeats like a broken record; "we do what other companies won't because of ethics and morals"
mclightning··on Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed
Magic sauce is absolute lack of moral values.
mclightning··on Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify
Vercel has been outdated for sometime and it is refreshing to see alternatives coming up. This one seems like superior to Vercel already, definitely worth the switch.
mclightning··on Sora 2
It is very underwhelming. It seems like a step backward. Scam altman should be replaced before he runs the company to bankruptcy.
mclightning··on Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
I came here to write this will get flagged, and I was already too late. We need a new "HackerNews"
mclightning··on Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
how do I join? :D are you guys hiring at cloudflare per chance?
mclightning··on Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200
built something like this around 10 years ago, went viral for a while, it didn't last long.
mclightning··on Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me"
definition is not the dangerous part, nor surpassing any predefined definition.
mclightning··on Nvidia's Blackwell Reworked – Shipment Delays and GB200A Reworked Platforms
not great news in light of USTech100 & SP500 downturn
mclightning··on Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
you follow HN, and some guy posts a video editing js library, another guy builds an app taking that library further, you get inspired and build something even bigger.
mclightning··on Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
everything is literal in programming communities, lmao.
mclightning··on Low Cost Robot Arm
this is why servo-powered robotic arms are not interesting to me at all. I want one with brushless motors and harmonic or planetary drive gearbox. unfortunately you cant build those under $750 as far as I have seen so far. that's putting aside the added complexity. but I will definitely build one some day. there are quite few opensource projects with that setup.

I believe it offers higher torque, better precision and ability to just stick to a position with relatively low/or no power due to gearing-side resistance.

mclightning··on Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
I am sure folks at /r/selfhosted would love it.
mclightning··on Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
can this be self-hosted?
mclightning··on Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone
This comment hit the nail in the head. Content marketing at its best.
mclightning··on StreamDiffusion: A pipeline-level solution for real-time interactive generation
as a frontend developer, you understood how folks complain about the changing frontend landscape, through....changes in ML, a completely different landscape to that of your own?

Are you an LLM?

mclightning··on Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth
nice to see the maker culture is alive and well. I need to get back to building some hardware projects in spare time.
mclightning··on MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data
you will be shocked when you try Rewind then...
mclightning··on The pro-Israel information war
What a load of BS.
mclightning··on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
dumpster fire for who?
mclightning··on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
imagine the next hitler... as an immigrant with his data on 23andme, I am pretty scared. I am sure 1 out of the 10 ethnicities that I am affiliated with, will be eventually hated by some group.
mclightning··on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive
@overactor account was created only 5 hours ago and this is their first submission. interesting.
mclightning··on Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?
PR move is in motion guys. Regulatory capture will be justified only through this new persona/identity the OpenAI will be dressed up in. I am not buying none of it.

Only money and profit makes the mountains move. Not moral stature. I don't believe that optimistic take for a second.

None with a moral stance to take such action stays quiet so long, without alternate motives.

mclightning··on Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral
Original, original, clone
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