Hacker News: 5kyn3t

New comment by 5kyn3t in "DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp"

5kyn3t — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:32:34 +0000

Frontend Dev? I do not really understand. do you let the models analyze the webpages you are working on? or for testing?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp"

5kyn3t — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:23:07 +0000

For what do you guys use vision in those models? surveillance is the obvious use case... but are there some "nicer" ways to use it?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "Why haven't local-first apps become popular?"

5kyn3t — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:43:25 +0000

local first: could actually be a downloadable index.html file, that runs locally only your browser.

New comment by 5kyn3t in "How I code with AI on a budget/free"

5kyn3t — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:48:06 +0000

Why is Mistral not mentioned. Is there any reason? I have the impression that they are often ignored by media, bloggers, devs when it comes to comparing or showcasing LLM thingies. Comes with free tier and quality is quite good. (But I am not an AI power user) https://chat.mistral.ai/chat

New comment by 5kyn3t in "Take the pedals off the bike"

5kyn3t — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:28:03 +0000

We had those woom bikes without pedals and my children could immediately ride a "real" bike bevor they got 3 years old.

Training wheels always seemed to me like a wrong technique from a last century.

New comment by 5kyn3t in "Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome"

5kyn3t — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:35:31 +0000

Is it possible to have some kind of electron/tauri/,.. based runtime, but without the actual app? The users would need to install this runtime only once. The apps would need to be installed separately. The apps could be just the plain html/js/css/assets maybe packed within a zip, with a dedicated extension. The runtime would take care of the installation. That way the devs could develop with their FE-stack of their choice and ship just the small packages. Does this make sense?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans"

5kyn3t — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:17:45 +0000

Why would Rust create a technological advantage for the EU?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law"

5kyn3t — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:07:45 +0000

hmm I disagree. I found the article, quite an eye opener for me. I also thought that he cookie banners is what the EU forced the web-site owners to show.. but it clearly isn't. It is just about consent. This consent could be given in a non-annoying way, but clearly the involved companies don't want to.

New comment by 5kyn3t in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

5kyn3t — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:50:10 +0000

Are there some realistic Text-To-Speech voice models out there that I can use locally and for free?

I know that ElevenLabs, Microsoft, of course OpenAI have some nice voices. But I would like to use them locally, or maybe in an app?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech"

5kyn3t — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:04:03 +0000

I often ask myself that too. The talent and infrastructure definitely exist in Europe. (until the people leave for the US) Is it the big VC money, or some magical governmental support (military-industrial complex)? is it the english language that gives the US-companies an advantage? is it the different mindset? I really do not know.

It's very weird and also sad and a bit frustrating to see that the market is in favor of one country that seems to get everything. I'm still crying for Nokia.

New comment by 5kyn3t in "A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools"

5kyn3t — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:53:51 +0000

What is the value of Figma ($24 / month for Designing product mocks..) Why not just get the Adobe Suite with Illustrator, Photoshop,... I am really curious, as I am trying to create a design tool too. What is so great about it? Is there some USP?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

5kyn3t — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:21:12 +0000

Did you implement the payment process on your own, or does it come within a CMS that you are using? what kind of technology are you using to enable subscriptions after payments arrives?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "How Voxels Became ‘The Next Big Thing’"

5kyn3t — Mon, 28 May 2018 06:45:12 +0000

Is there somewhere a "hello World" code about how to create such a voxel in same sense as this article suggests?

Are they just creating "boxes" or "cubes" for each voxel?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy"

5kyn3t — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:52:47 +0000

I got the same notification

New comment by 5kyn3t in "Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy"

5kyn3t — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:13:41 +0000

I think it is great news. Europe is so much behind the US in the IT-Sector. Even russia has a successful search-engine.

The default view is a bit overloaded in my opinion...

Lite version: https://lite.qwant.com/

A plus point is that qwant also supports hashbangs like duckduckgo.

New comment by 5kyn3t in "Quitting Caffeine"

5kyn3t — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:07:56 +0000

I think the supplements and alternatives, which are mentioned in the article are a bit weird...I think those are sports-products, and not real alternatives to coffee.

I also want to reduce my caffeine/coffee intake, but I want to have the "same feeling" as when I drink coffee...

For this I drink the following: * My girlfriend showed me Caro Coffee (wheat-basis): http://amzn.to/2w8RhDu You make it like instant coffee with hot water (and milk/sugar)

* Yogi Tea (chocolate-taste) http://amzn.to/2wZCVSP Usually I drink this in winter.. But I'm not sure whether it is completly caffeine free.

* Eimalzin (malt-cocoa) http://amzn.to/2i3bTrs ok thats just cocoa.. still I like it from time to time

* Zotter (various drinking chocolates) http://amzn.to/2w5W7SD hmm very tasty! but a bit "heavy", so I only drink them from time to time.

But I am always happy to find good tasting alternatives to coffee... Do you have any suggestions?

New comment by 5kyn3t in "New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies"

5kyn3t — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:55:26 +0000

The news usually shows China as the bad-bad hacker-land, which is evil because of their IT-espionage. So what is the US now?