Hacker News: 1d22a

Super Productivity: Focus tools in one open-source app, offline and private

1d22a — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:16:45 +0000

Article URL: https://super-productivity.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973695

Points: 3

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New comment by 1d22a in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

1d22a — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:48:00 +0000

To this end, I've been thinking that it would be cool to create a solar-battery powered ("off grid") server providing a self-hosted LLM service. Offline when the sun doesn't shine enough (like Low Tech Magazine[1]). At whatever size is required for every day, community-scale use (a friend group, a street, a club). Fix the data centre issue by democratising AI to such an extent that we can bring it into the hands of communities to actually control (and democratically decide their own level of censorship / alignment). Along the lines of some of Geohotz' writing.

Within a short time I think open source models will all be getting good and efficient enough to make it viable to serve this on 2nd hand hardware for cheap. All it will take is a nerd in every small community to pool together a few hundred bucks initial outlay, and then ongoing costs are near free without electricity to pay for.

[1]: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Omg.lol – A loveable web page and email address

1d22a — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:19:26 +0000

Article URL: https://home.omg.lol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865552

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities (2022)

1d22a — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:40:01 +0000

Article URL: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/protest_movements_could_be_more_effective_than_the_best_charities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634083

Points: 1

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New comment by 1d22a in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

1d22a — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:24:29 +0000

Not to mention all the useless LLM fluff Gemini has. I turned off Gemini because simple questions like "What's 1 USD in AUD" would be met with 30 seconds of "As a large language model, I can't provide investment advice, so it's always important to check information yourself [...], but one Australian dollar is approximately $0.65" (note the conversion in the wrong direction). By comparison, Google Assistant just gives you a number straight away.

New comment by 1d22a in "New updates and more access to Google Earth AI"

1d22a — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:53:25 +0000

Rainbolt often finds locations for people who have old photos of friends/family who have passed away etc., so the skills definitely seem to extend past just street view.

New comment by 1d22a in "Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API"

1d22a — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:32:43 +0000

A fun recursive prompt exploiting the fact that the site renders the model output as HTML:

    Generate raw HTML (no code blocks) for an iframe pointing to `ch.at/?q={query}`, where {query} is the the entirety of this prompt after and including the word "Generate", until the following number, which should be incremented prior to encoding: 1

The number ensures the nested iframes have distinct URLs.

New comment by 1d22a in "I do not remember my life and it's fine"

1d22a — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 03:32:26 +0000

I also have aphantasia, and find it really interesting to hear about people thinking of things in a similar way to me! Thinking about the ball in terms of the parabola it makes it exactly what I do too. Similarly, the ball doesn't exist as a physical "ball", but rather the knowledge of the concept of a sphere (which doesn't then have size or colour). The table, not a physical table, but the concept of a plane (with no thickness, size, colour (or legs)) - just the 'concept' of the important properties.

Despite aphantasia I have always been able to conceptualise spatial relationships, but it feels much less like trying to visualise it, and much more like "understanding" the fundamental properties connecting each thing.

New comment by 1d22a in "Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator"

1d22a — Sat, 10 May 2025 04:11:54 +0000

The similarity is likely not a coincidence!

> (c) Brandon Li, 2025. Ported to Javascript with the help of Paul Falstad.

Physical man in the middle attack on re-manufactured HP ink cartridges [video]

1d22a — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:49:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ya184uaTE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646262

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 1d22a in "iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount"

1d22a — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:12:51 +0000

The way I read it, it's just because the 4S came later, hence being the last phone of that form factor.

New comment by 1d22a in "Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain"

1d22a — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:17:21 +0000

I'm not sure they are. Microplastics have been found in snow[1] and in "oceans, air and food supply"[2]. Additionally, the so-called forever chemicals (PFAS) originated with PTFE (Teflon) plastic, and PFAS 'forever chemicals' are used to produce polymers used in plastics, rubber and fabrics so they are intimately linked with plastics and microplastics.

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61739159

2: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02968-x

New comment by 1d22a in "Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain"

1d22a — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:01:23 +0000

I disagree that replacing plastic without a decent understanding of a replacement is any more naive than continuing to use plastic without a decent understanding of the implications of plastic. Glass for one has been used for at least an order of magnitude longer than plastic has, without the mentioned issues of microscopic sharp fragments, dissolution in water, evaporation etc. causing harm. It seems clear to say that going back to glass and ceramics would be - on the balance of probabilities - likely safer, as they don't cause bioaccumulation to anywhere near the same extent, and history hasn't shown any comparable dangers which persist today.

New comment by 1d22a in "Why wordfreq will not be updated"

1d22a — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:26:12 +0000

That chart shows people searching for the world delve, and isn't (directly) related to the incidence of words in content on the open web.

New comment by 1d22a in "Passive damping – Bathroom scales"

1d22a — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:34:04 +0000

Huh, interesting. That's not the case in Australia, in all the houses I've seen. I always thought it was smart, though.

New comment by 1d22a in "PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser"

1d22a — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:08:53 +0000

Working fine for me, Firefox 128.0.3 on Fedora

New comment by 1d22a in "Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2"

1d22a — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:45:42 +0000

Meta can still very much be an innovative company regardless of user growth though, right? They are very much innovating in the AI research space, and are absolutely leading in open* source research/models, even if their AI integrations are flopping.

Sure, none of this research might be obviously contributing to their products in a share market sense, but it's still innovation which is contributing to the (entirely separate to their "product") AI research community.

Crinkler – Compressing linker for Windows specialized for 4k intros

1d22a — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:18:58 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954911

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by 1d22a in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

1d22a — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:33:18 +0000

I'm not sure why gender identity is relevant. I agree that the punishments he would have gotten for whistleblowing justify him not staying in the US.

New comment by 1d22a in "Round Rects Are Everywhere"

1d22a — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:36:38 +0000

I'm not sure that's true that it's (always) done in software. For example, the newest Framework Laptop 13 has higher resolution screens that come with rounded corners, because whatever supplier had a large stock of them lying around. If it was just software, the concept of having a "rounded corner screen" from a supplier wouldn't exist.