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ronyfadel

1,738 karma · joined August 9, 2011

https://fadel.io/ for your Mac app needs
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ronyfadel··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
Deep Think not DeepSeek
ronyfadel··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
Care to give more details?
ronyfadel··on We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
Who’s “we” in this case? Amazon (AWS)?
ronyfadel··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
how?
ronyfadel··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Right? and the app has existed for 5 years already. Plenty of time for Apple to Sherlock it.
ronyfadel··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
My 2 Mac Apps bring about $700/mo each:

Tubbie [1] is a simple and clean Mac YouTube downloader.

Mission Control Plus [2] fixes something stupidly simple: it adds closing, minimizing and quitting apps functionality to macOS' Mission Control.

[1] https://www.fadel.io/tubbie

[2] https://www.fadel.io/missioncontrolplus

ronyfadel··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
I am working on https://vidcap.app/
ronyfadel··on Report shows that AAA games for iPhone and iPad aren't a hit with users
There’s a slew of services that estimate download counts and revenue. The estimates are fairly accurate.
ronyfadel··on Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time
I’m surprised the Phoenicians are not mentioned in the article, as they’re the first to use it, and Tyre was in Phoenicia.
ronyfadel··on Ask HN: How to Transition from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer
I’ve seen the fast.ai course recommended over and over here.
ronyfadel··on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
I made TextShot [1] in a weekend. It’s a free utility that allows you to copy text on screen that you otherwise can’t copy (from an image or a video), with a simple key command.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textshot/id6444068061

ronyfadel··on Show HN: RAM Prices
It’s not loading for me
ronyfadel··on Replicate vs. Fly GPU cold-start latency
The coding paradigms that Modal imposes make it very hard to develop for, in comparison to, say, Replicate or Runpod.
ronyfadel··on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
I guess after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066480 showed up on HN, every hacker with some spare time wanted to replicate diskprices.com for other commodities.
ronyfadel··on IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired
It's a reference to the Matrix movie
ronyfadel··on Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
You can list windows and detect the front window using macOS APIs instead of taking a screenshot and running OCR/detection.
ronyfadel··on Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
It still does a much better job at translation than llama 2 70b even, at 6.7b params
ronyfadel··on Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
For translation jobs, I've experimented with Llama 2 70B (running on Replicate) v/s GPT-3.5;

For about 1000 input tokens (and resulting 1000 output tokens), to my surprise, GPT-3.5 turbo was 100x cheaper than Llama 2.

Llama 7B wasn't up to the task fyi, producing very poor translations.

I believe that OpenAI priced GPT-3.5 aggressively cheap in order to make it a non-brainer to rely on them rather than relying on other vendors (even open source models).

I'm curious to see if others have gotten different results?

ronyfadel··on Film Review: BlackBerry
What similar movies to you recommend watching? Part nerdy, part business.
ronyfadel··on G9.js: Automatically Interactive Graphics
This is simply stunning!
ronyfadel··on Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
I’d be more worried about mid-level devs that will be replaced by a junior++ armed with an LLM.
ronyfadel··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
> How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.

They will probably use their Italian in-house dev teams instead?

ronyfadel··on DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube
Can't this be automated by having an LLM summarize the video's transcribed text into a concise, non-clickbait title?
ronyfadel··on Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business
Let's say that I fell for the "Twitter hustle bros" spiel, and after a lot of trying, it eventually worked out.

It was hard AF, but eventually I managed to get a 1 person business running, one that doesn't rob me of my time and I have several flywheels in action now that generate decent income (I won't shill, you can check my profile if you're curious).

ronyfadel··on Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business
Can I plug myself? :)

I run an indie app business where overall I make more than what I used to make working a FAANG job [1]

[1] https://fadel.io/

ronyfadel··on Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming
But then the marketing team is out of a job
ronyfadel··on Ask HN: What do you use for ML Hosting?
How does Modal perform, latency-wise? Since it has to spin up an instance/GPU, does it take long to return results?
ronyfadel··on macOS Internals
How does reversing WindowServer allow you to make rcmd control Stage Manager?

Figuring out which CG calls WindowServer is making?

Wouldn't these calls fail unless you have special entitlements?

ronyfadel··on Ask HN: Why are there no 5G USB-C dongles for laptops?
You’re right, it’s 180% and I guess extra 90% for the 622, which makes Apple’s offering a bit ridiculous IMO (60% additional charge for double the price of the 622)
ronyfadel··on Ask HN: Why are there no 5G USB-C dongles for laptops?
That kills my MBP’s battery, as it would be charging my phone as well.
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