Hacker News: FloatArtifact

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it"

FloatArtifact — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:16:37 +0000

I appreciate your reply. So its value really comes down to the cost and not really its openness. You might be thinking, well, it's because it's open that I can have such a low cost, but that's not really what the user thinks when looking at the web page.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it"

FloatArtifact — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:12:54 +0000

It's got the word 'open' everywhere, yet it doesn't show any documentation about self-hosting. Functionally, it might as well be closed-sourced sass using PaddleOCR-VL.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

FloatArtifact — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:44:27 +0000

For context, mine are close to 3 grand a year. For plot, just big enough to fit the home and a little yard in town

New comment by FloatArtifact in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

FloatArtifact — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:42:30 +0000

> I really don't feel great how people in high density housing subsidize home ownership costs for the people in the burbs.

That's a good point, and it's why I qualified my statement by saying under a certain income. You say high density as if it's a bad thing.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

FloatArtifact — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:55:49 +0000

Get rid of property tax or somebody below a certain income.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

FloatArtifact — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:48:08 +0000

Consider ambient listening in hospitals. Encounters are recorded then AI creates a summary. Those audio recordings then can be used for any other purpose. Consider the ramifications, A panopticon of metrics derived from AI. Imagine a AI used as a review tool across all ecounters a nurse performed in a year. IA will transform how data is stored in healthcare. It's going to move towards the data lake model storing information in its raw form for post analysis.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software"

FloatArtifact — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:08:50 +0000

The user is not at fault for installing an offered update.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

FloatArtifact — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:32:35 +0000

Thank you all involved! Bring it to our cars next! I'm looking at you, electric vehicles!

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Immich 3.0"

FloatArtifact — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:47:56 +0000

Thank you for supporting Open Source as a professor!

New comment by FloatArtifact in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

FloatArtifact — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:44:49 +0000

It's simple. If I want to support you, I buy your merchandise.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?"

FloatArtifact — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:49:47 +0000

Should I thank my washing machine for washing clothes? I'm careful not to project humanity onto an inanimate objects.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward"

FloatArtifact — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:08:27 +0000

Intel Arc Pro B70 32gb for $999ish https://www.newegg.com/intel-arc-pro-b70-32gb-graphics-card/...

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

FloatArtifact — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:23:22 +0000

Have you tried to get an EV part independent of a dealership?

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

FloatArtifact — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:20:42 +0000

The biggest threat isn't the bomb, bioweapon or AI supremacy. The true threat is AI's impact on human learning and development.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

FloatArtifact — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:17:54 +0000

Frankly, they've been asking for the AI industry to be regulated. They just didn't expect it would be just them. Although I'm going to say here now that I think this is going to have a broader ripple effect all the way down to open source and foreign countries developed models.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

FloatArtifact — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:15:21 +0000

> Such as? If there is dependency on proprietary software, you can install it on GOS if you want and consider it more "safe".

Again, this isn't about me. I'm fine giving up some convenience, but I know other people aren't. The average person is just going to simply install the app. Part of me asking this questions is gauging average user experience.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

FloatArtifact — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:09:30 +0000

This is not really about me, but understanding if these apps have issues running under the OS. These type of apps typically have extra "security" features.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "DIY crane bot that tidies up a room"

FloatArtifact — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:02:44 +0000

Oh, this made me laugh so hard. I wonder if metas segment anything 2 would be an improvement.

New comment by FloatArtifact in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

FloatArtifact — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:07:56 +0000

Any issues with banking insurance or healthcare applications?

New comment by FloatArtifact in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

FloatArtifact — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:19:59 +0000

Open source all you want! It doesn't change the fact that they're spying the contents of your screen no matter what input is being used with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology

https://docs.roku.com/published/acrservicepolicy/en/CA