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oldgregg··on Why copyright makes no sense
It’s been about control of culture and rent seeking for a long time
oldgregg··on DIY Soft Drinks
Jumps through 100 hoops to make coke... doesn't add cocaine?! :)

Add modifinil and peptides and you'll have your latest soylent startup.

oldgregg··on Why I Vibe in Go, Not Rust or Python
Add air for auto reload and ur golden
oldgregg··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
Get bought out by military control grid --> Instantly kill popular consumer devices.
oldgregg··on Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries
Would this be a good fit to replace FTS for hybrid search? Biscuit + Vector?
oldgregg··on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
There is tons of fear-mongering around a natural process-- I had a 24 yo friend deliver his first child off grid by himself. There are also a ton of independent midwives out there where you can deliver either at home or a midwife center for a fraction of the cost.
oldgregg··on Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent
AI is game changer for the wildly detailed ffmpeg command line-- just tell gpt what you want to do and it will spit out the ffmpeg command 10/10.
oldgregg··on Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go
looks great! would love to see benchmark with bleve and a lightweight vector implementation.
oldgregg··on RIP: Amazon Prime Benefits Sharing Ends on Oct 1, 2025
How can they tell if someone is a teen in their household vs someone else?
oldgregg··on FFmpeg 8.0
LLMs have really made ffmpeg implementations easy-- the command line options are so expansive and obscure it's so nice to just tell it what you want and have it spit out a crazy ffmpeg command.
oldgregg··on Open-source framework for real-time AI voice
No demo? No demo video? Nothing?
oldgregg··on Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
Great project, will give it a try, we've been using another open source trello clone that has been pretty solid and very closely clones the trello UI.

https://github.com/plankanban/planka

oldgregg··on Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
Nice work, I like the lightweight web front end and your implementation of VAD.
oldgregg··on A single line of code cost $8000
What's in that payload when they check for updates every 5 minutes?!

Novel dark pattern: You unchecked "Let us collect user data" but left "Automatically Update" checked... gotcha bitch!

oldgregg··on Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
Build it. Use Go. Maybe nknorg/nnet for P2P. Signed HLS segments. Have Go also serve the web front-end with a WASM web worker. Public nodes can run on a very lightweight VPS/server with an autocert domain. Viewers browser join the swarm with WASM-- this way people can just type in a web address so it's very user friendly but the domain doesn't actually have to serve any data. I would just use a trusted pubkey to sign P2P updates so nodes can block naughty IP addresses. Should get you very friendly user experience, easy node deployment, pretty low latency, and bittorrent level of legal resilience.
oldgregg··on Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
Been running Cool for about a year. Drop a couple thousand on a 1U and throw it on a $100/mo colo and it's crazy bang for the buck. It makes it so easy to spin up new projects it's hard not to like it. Definitely when launching some containers and open source projects it's not as seamless as it could be-- can require fiddling with vars and compose files-- but on the whole very stable, lightweight, fast deploys, and conceptually pretty simple.

One thing I've noticed is I've starting using much more open source software for various things. When you can just jump into the UI, paste in the github link, and have it running on a wildcard domain in 60 seconds I find myself giving OSS a try more often before looking elsewhere.

oldgregg··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
Kingdom Quest | Austin, TX (irl) | Full-time | https://kingdom.quest/

We're building a real-world realtime immersive interactive gaming experience.

- Unity devs

- React Native / Javascript devs

- Go devs

- AI devs-- LLMs, generative, STT, TTS, vector DBs, vision

- Event Planners

- Set Designers

Drop a line: play@kingdom.quest

oldgregg··on Hann: A Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Library for Go
Great lib... now is there a Go-native way to generate vectors from text?
oldgregg··on The Last Drops of Mexico City
Also Valle De Bravo is the Hamptons of Mexico
oldgregg··on Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
Somebody should just scrape all the most popular images from getty then setup a pipeline to regenerate them with flux/controlnet/loras. Charge $10/mo for unlimited licensing or find ancillary way to generate revenue. If most of revenue comes from editorial images start there-- most people won't even care if it's a bit off.
oldgregg··on I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
There is a video of Zuck denying they "recording peoples microphone" -- but how he said it with a smirk I took him to mean "we do on-device transcription and only send back keywords"
oldgregg··on Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ
I love the go+alpine+htmx+templ GAHT stack as long as I have defined and limited interaction needs. Things get tricky when you need more complex interaction because there isn't much example/LLM code out there for complex situations. Then you end up having your view code split between the server and some random JS on the front end and it kinda kills the simple GHAT fun.
oldgregg··on Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
Anyone else remember when HackerNews had an adventurous libertarian ethos before the school marms infested the place with irrelevant and low vibrational commentary?
oldgregg··on Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
So thought out, feels like watching a kubrick film
oldgregg··on Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
Insane reframing. Big tech and politicians are pushing this, pulling the ladder up behind them-- X and new decentralized networks are a threat to their hegemony and this is who they are going after. Startups will not be able to afford whatever bullshit regulatory framework they force feed us. How about they mandate any social network over 10M MAU has to publish their content algorithms.. ha!
oldgregg··on A Technical Look at BitMessage: Learning From a Dead Project
less secure indeed
oldgregg··on Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide
ted kaczynski alternate timeline
oldgregg··on Lynn Conway has died
#1 Most Talented Female Engineer
oldgregg··on My grandfather Paul Tillich, the unbelieving theologian
^^^ you are here.
oldgregg··on Blazer: Business intelligence made simple
An AI front-end to this would be phenomental.
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