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vivzkestrel··on Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification
- posts page got 404?

- https://cairnc.github.io/posts/

vivzkestrel··on Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games
- posts page is down?

- https://log.schemescape.com/posts/

vivzkestrel··on Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac
- anyone got a real time "original voice" to "AI voice" implementation using parrot or parakeet or whatever bird is flying this month?

- bonus if it works with OBS studio

vivzkestrel··on 192GB Framework Desktop open for pre-order
are framework machines available in tier 1 cities in india? anyone got any ideas?
vivzkestrel··on Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
- 404? on blog page

- https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog

vivzkestrel··on Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants
- i have some big questions if you dont mind answering

- first of all top tier work there, lets say i want to build something like this from scratch, what does the first few steps and requirements look like

- mind ya, i have no plans of making anything competing. i dont even use photoshop. what I am curious about is how to make a large software project like this

- what do your requirements on day 0 look like? do you try to open every feature in photoshop and note it down on paper?

vivzkestrel··on Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”
- blog page not working?

- https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/

vivzkestrel··on Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr)
- big question to the experts out there reading this

- obviously anyone can code a discord clone, instagram clone or whatever

- how do you solve the 3 body problem? you need people and their people and their people on the platform to use the platform

- how do you go about getting the 1st 1000 people for something like this?

vivzkestrel··on Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built
i approve of the data center, can you please give me a mac studio with max configuration instead of 10000$
vivzkestrel··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
- please dont take this in the wrong way, just curious

- what is your obsession with XMPP?

- why are half the posts on your blog about XMPP?

vivzkestrel··on Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles
- i dont understand the algorithm, can someone kindly explain

- are all circles supposed to be one inside another?

- is each circle always going to rotate around the bigger circle?

vivzkestrel··on Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about
- part of a major reason i want all the IPOs for frontier AI to crash badly is because I want it take out the AI hype completely from HN and go back to interesting stuff

- I am sorry to say this but "here is our new model XYZ with benchmarks ABC" is only interesting the first 65535 times you read it. after that my mind overflows

vivzkestrel··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
- 404? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog
vivzkestrel··on Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
- big questions to you guys

- how do you actually go about reading one of these IEEE or arxiv papers?

- do you read only the abstract for most?

- do you read everything in 1 scan and what do you about references? do you follow through all the references?

- do you ask a GPT to help explain? what does your prompt look like?

vivzkestrel··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
- you can thank tyson foods and their allies for crushing the entire industry
vivzkestrel··on A font that reads what you wrote
- 404 on posts page? https://rohanadwankar.github.io/posts
vivzkestrel··on Why are AI leaders calling for a slow down? [audio]
- because of this https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/frontier-labs-are-selling...
vivzkestrel··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
- it ll take you 64 yrs to recover that cost

- https://sunkcost.ai/s/mac-studio-m5-max-128/qwen3.8-27b-q4/?...

vivzkestrel··on How high is current immigration to the United States in historical perspective?
- arent native americans the only real american?

- isnt everyone else just an immigrant?

vivzkestrel··on Don't Use AI to Write
- why stop at writing? put this advice for coding too

- sure its good to ask AI feedback about your module or code review or identify vulnerabilities or better ways of doing your existing code

- but maybe stop asking AI to generate entire projects from scratch?

vivzkestrel··on Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
- special and maybe even a stupid request

- can someone skilled and passionate look into doing some of the older ubi titles?

- like maybe rainbow six vegas 1/2 or

- splinter cell games?

vivzkestrel··on Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals
- one quick suggestion, make that entire next button clickable and not just the "Next" text

- I added this to my HN collection of s-tier stuff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183198

vivzkestrel··on We are unconsciously becoming someone else
- unpopular opinion: wipe out every comment and every post made on X, instagram and tiktok from every hard drive on the planet and you ll be absolutely blown away by how much the society ll change within a week
vivzkestrel··on A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig
hey thank you for the insight, i think i found a pretty decent post on HN itself that explains first principles thinking https://fs.blog/first-principles/
vivzkestrel··on A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig
- stupid question, what exactly are first principles?

- i see this phrase everywhere but i dont know what it means

vivzkestrel··on The most important product decision is what you don't build
dude i get 4 calls a day from spammers and its very annoying. an email is not a phone call. you are sitting on your desk and your phone starts ringing. block a number and they come back from another
vivzkestrel··on The most important product decision is what you don't build
how exactly do you propose handling spam calls then? all spam callers are using auto generated numbers. block one and they come back from another
vivzkestrel··on The most important product decision is what you don't build
- one thing i also started doing is indirectly ask about the idea on expert subreddits on reddit and see what people have to say

- one of my latest ideas was to handle spam calls on my android phone

- the way i wanted to do this is to have an app pick up the phone call automatically everytime and ask a bunch of user defined questions

- for example, caller: hi i am angel from XYZ spam company

- audio streams through the app with an LLM processing every word and it asks back "who are you trying to reach?"

- caller doesnt answer in 30 seconds or wrong answer. call dropped automatically and the phone is not even ringing yet

- caller says ABC and the autoresponder immediately asks the next question

- "what is the password to reach abc"

- caller doesnt answer or gives incorrect answer within 30 seconds and call is dropped immediately

- caller gives correct answer and now the phone starts ringing

- obviously the questions are set by the user and it ll change from user to user

- imagine by biggest disappointment when I found out from the r/androiddev group that the permission to actually audio process a phone call is simply not available unless you root your android phone. Its a no-go even on the iphone

- Even if you do root the phone, I haven't gotten a conclusive answer from anyone either on reddit or even here on HN so far on the feasibility of implementing such a feature

- Thank god I did not burn 100 hrs into this

vivzkestrel··on Canto: A speech model built for the real world
- since we are on the topic i ll ask again here

- i want to record my voice for gaming sessions but i have a horrible voice

- i want to speak and convert my voice in real time to one of the good quality AI voices out there

- bonus points if it can be an OBS plugin. even if such a plugin doesnt exist I am happy to code one

- anyone got any recommendations for a library that solves this issue? most of the whisper and other stuff out there is non real time and I am looking for something open source

vivzkestrel··on DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
404 on the blog page? https://zartbot.github.io/blog/
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