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wferrell··on I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
https://iliashaddad.com/blog/i-indexed-669-gb-of-my-gopro-vi...
wferrell··on Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness
You might try Decisionlayer.ai

We built a way to make contracts enforceable and resolve disputes without the high cost of litigation. Specifically, by adding our arbitration clause to your contracts or using our "case by consent" you can get AI driven court-enforceable arbitration decisions in 7 days for a $500 flat fee - no lawyers required. This compares to the $30k or $40k you would otherwise spend on a lawyer+ JAMS/AAA arbitration fees. For your HOA, I suspect the case by consent would be the best approach - two parties come to the website, both agree to use DecisionLayer to resolve the dispute and then present the issue and each side's argument.

We have free case simulator on our site. Check it out at https://www.decisionlayer.ai/simulate

wferrell··on Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
Can you share the warning? I made a public page and would say it was not clear to me this was a consequence of doing that. The warning as I remember it (a month ago) makes it sound like the information on this page is going to be public -- not - oh yeah the email addresses of everyone who edited this page will also be leaked.
wferrell··on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
Great post. Thank you.

How/where did you find your suppliers/factories?

wferrell··on Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
Looking forward to more launches! Thank you
wferrell··on Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
Do you plan to offer an image service?

Great write up!

wferrell··on Leaving Intel
So...oai or google?
wferrell··on Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud
Really nice release. Excited to see this out in the wild and hopeful more companies leverage this for better end user privacy.
wferrell··on Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
Not a public company.
wferrell··on Vibe engineering
@simonw

Great post. I've thought about what I want for better Vibe Engineering:

Each agent needs to deliver a fully working App/URL/Build so the functionality can be tested & verified.

Today AI IDEs deliver the diff + an explanation. Excellent. But give me the full build, a build I can share. A build that represents what it would be like shipped. When it comes to user facing functionality, a real build is how product owners verify a feature is complete.

Learn from Vercel -

A key part of Vercel’s magic is the automatic deployments for each branch. When working on a project with per branch vercel deployments - a team gets the immediate value of:

Shareable work - now others can see/test/give feedback on the great new feature you’ve developed - and their only work is to click a link (not git pull a branch and attempt to run locally)

No more “it works on my machine”. It either works or it doesn’t.

Confidence that if released, you know exactly what the user will experience. Give me automatic deployments for each agent, for each PR. And keep them available to spin up / re-use later.

I want to be able to re-launch it 3 months later and it just works. The reason we don’t do this today is the cost of the engineering - but with docker et al + AI agents, the cost of the eng work drops 99%

Deliver the deployment in such a way that immediate feedback to the AI could be given. This way minor tweaks can be executed immediately by the AI meaning that I can just wait for the minor tweak, review and then merge. This means the PR gets shipped NOW.

wferrell··on Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
I did. Were you trying to get VCs to know about you? Or more like a twilio billboard that just said ask your devs?
wferrell··on Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
Out of interest, what is the thinking behind sending a physical mailer to what feels like a large fraction of San Francisco?

Both why send it and why send it with very little info included on the page?

wferrell··on Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
Nice André!
wferrell··on Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025
I wonder which customer triggered this…
wferrell··on Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI
Happy paying user of Chroma Cloud here. Congratulations Jeff, Hammad and team!

We were lucky to get early access and have saved a bundle.

wferrell··on Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks
I have 3 for our google cloud account and we spend like 5k a month.
wferrell··on Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks
I think the real reason was there was no path to promotion for working on this. For better or worse the incentives were not aligned for great work to happen.
wferrell··on Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks
They had an internal CRM. It was buggy, missing key features and engineers didn’t really want to work on it.
wferrell··on Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
It is not genuine to say that Notion cannot listen in. Notion can listen in. Anytime it wants. Yes on Macs an indicator will be displayed - but not always prominently depending on what other apps/devices are being used (for example using continuity camera)

Source: I built the same listening infrastructure into other meeting note taking apps. Our team spoke at length about this security issue with Apple.

wferrell··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
Are you going to have it be local only?

I think you would be interested in seeing what Flo has done using OHTTP: https://oblivious.network/ohttp

wferrell··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
Are you using OHTTP? If there are cloud aspects - I think you would want to. Learn more: https://oblivious.network/ohttp
wferrell··on Two new PebbleOS watches
Who did the product design (cad, picking components, etc) for both of these watches? Is this in house? (shout them out!) or did you work with an outside firm, and if so which one?
wferrell··on Show HN: I built an AI voice agent for Gmail
Is there a YouTube of this?
wferrell··on Flipper Zero Gets Major Firmware Update, Can Eavesdrop on Walkie-Talkies
We were not using car mounted antennas. We will try this next time!
wferrell··on Flipper Zero Gets Major Firmware Update, Can Eavesdrop on Walkie-Talkies
Cool!

What sort of radio do you use?

My friend and I tried to do -- the two of us in different cars driving down the same stretch of highway this with GPRS radios and very quickly we were not able to pick up the other's broadcast. We assumed it was that we didn't have big enough antennas and were not using a repeater.

Note - others were driving we were each a passenger in our respective cars.

wferrell··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Genuine question - how do you get 1Password to stop re-asking for the typed in password. It is a pain in butt.
wferrell··on Making the Strofara
This is beautiful
wferrell··on Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
What browser? Works in safari and Chrome (latest and latest) on macos. Genuinely curious what isn't working as that seems like a real mistake.
wferrell··on So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide
X?
wferrell··on Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display
Kath - so cool to see this is you! What a great project. Well done.
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