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Interesting Audio Recorder

Haeuserschlucht — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:59:46 +0000

So there's this really unique product I wanted to draw your attention to. I'm not really sure if it's a prank, if it's real. So it looks like somebody went along and bought the cheapest parts he could buy in 1960, assembled them, drilled a little and is now selling it for 370. It's an audio recorder, it says it has 365 days of battery and what is especially fascinating is it records in WAV, it doesn't have mp3 it doesn't have m4a and it says it's for iPhone iPad Android PC Mac Windows so they add Windows to PC. And it has this old-fashioned button on top and two things in the middle it could also be an explosive device the way it looks like. And then they have pictures With AI and They are putting this extremely ugly device that could as I said also be an explosive device or a remote control for an explosive device of TV series in the 70s to current devices and they say "Our unique sales proposition is that it's voice activated, nobody else has that and look at our awesome device that records in WAV and it's still available"

I Mean they're saying only three are left And it's a proud American product.

https://www.amazon.de/Black-Activated-Digital-Recorder-Battery/dp/B0CKD2TTLZ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990180

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Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?

Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:08:28 +0000

Do you ask AI your most challenging problems, it delivers some good answers and you act on none of them?

Are you secretly assuming problems would solve themselves in your sleep?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902499

Points: 8

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New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "He Had No Medical Degree. His Mom Had Stage 4 Cancer. He Used Free AI Tools"

Haeuserschlucht — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:48:33 +0000

She died anyway, so AI is only as good as the sources it gets.

New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer"

Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:26:21 +0000

Please create it for wood as in "this is the wood you need to obtain or cut as in lwh. Then, how many screws do you need where" and so on.

3D printing this is too expensive in even a little bigger quantity. Maybe a combination of 3D print and wood, but 3D print is way too powerful to be wasted on even surfaces that could better be created with wood.

Ask HN: What are your accomplishments you didn't give yourself credit for?

Haeuserschlucht — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:45:39 +0000

What was the last time you realized that what you did was actually a great accomplishment and you didn't even realize it at that time?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413437

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Ask HN: Has AI, especially cloud LLMs, ever given you good dating advice?

Haeuserschlucht — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:52:31 +0000

I discussed about it in length and while it was much better following than the average participant at a forum, it was still not really helpful, and it took a long time to be somewhat decent. As LLMs are full of billions of books and articles, does that mean that most books are bad for dating advice, even indirectly?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274359

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New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "LLMs can run on tiny computers offering the same power and more than cloud LLMs"

Haeuserschlucht — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:35:21 +0000

You seem to have done a lot, but it was always on a high level. It always started at the point, at the assumption, that you needed a lot of parameters to get good answers. Now tell me this. Who says that? So obviously you lack the hardware to train a model from scratch. So you don't know the mathematics behind what training from scratch means. You maybe know programs, but somebody created those programs. That wasn't you. So you are a consumer. You are not a creator in the original sense. I'm only willing to continue with this if you don't go ad hominem.

LLMs can run on tiny computers offering the same power and more than cloud LLMs

Haeuserschlucht — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:40:29 +0000

I propose a theory. My theory is that LLMs do not require a lot of computing power. What they do require is a small computer, but it's blown out of proportion with unnecessary information to artificially increase demand for high power hardware. So the reality why models are the way they are, especially local models, is because they actually suck at optimizing on purpose. As I said, it's even added to complexity to increase sales of hardware.

What are your pros and what are your cons? And do not refer to secondhand information as in "well I was told" or "well I read a paper".

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180385

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New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "Do You Care?"

Haeuserschlucht — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:56:08 +0000

The solution is to exercise information minimalism without caring about how you are perceived.

That being said, my brainstorming-style writing is not easy to follow and I want my ideas spread and not my wording. Therefore I often dump a raw brainstorming session into chatgpt and tell it to make it understandable.

Gets the job done, it's great help.

New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?"

Haeuserschlucht — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:23:27 +0000

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Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:10:58 +0000

AI studio is pretty much a paywall now. Which alternatives do you use?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836371

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New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "Have you ever been able to code in the first place?"

Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:05:30 +0000

That is not conclusive to being able to code. If you don't put yourself out there and your code for judgement, a lack of occupation is no rebuttal of ability.

But if you generalize this by asking, isn't code just a set of descriptions, have you written a tutorial and people used that? Then I would say, yes.

Of if you share some snippet and 1000 people see that and some upvote, are you able to code? Also refer to my other replies in this thread for clarification.

New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "Have you ever been able to code in the first place?"

Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:01:53 +0000

Thank you for your compassion, I really appreciate that.

Yet it is not so much about downplaying myself than rather thinking about whether what I did was useful, even necessary. Is there inherent intellectual value in fixing dependency issues? Or is the real value in the actual idea? In the perfect description of the problem? Basically the antithesis to the old-age statement of "Ideas are worth nothing, execution is what counts"?

Have you ever been able to code in the first place?

Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:42:20 +0000

Have you ever been able to code in the first place?

It started like this. I programmed in Pascal when I was in school. I learned basic. I learned assembler. I literally assembled code. Sometimes I thought it out, planned it, and created for that time quite elaborate code, controlling a panoramic head, for instance, things like that. So at this time, I was really proud of myself. I was good at this. I was getting better.

And fast forward to today, you have AI and vibe coding. Back in the day, often when I got an error message, I just looked on the internet and tried something out, did trial and error. After a while, it worked either with my own code or with code from a GitHub repository.

Today I don't even do that. All I do is I start the Gemini CLI and have it code for me. And then I watch some video unless it has some issues. I noticed that the code is better and it all comes down to good description of the problem.

I noticed the problems that I fought with for ages, that I spent hours with debugging and shit. It just created in 15 minutes. So I was wondering, was I even ever able to code? Or was it just a huge waste of time?

Because now I can see it from the outside and see the amount of time that I would have used to debug this and to write it in the first place, then copy paste it from other sources, which might be outdated. I would have done something for five days.

Partly I would be excited about this. Yes, sure, it's challenging your brain, but ultimately you have something and you're probably not even that excited about it.

Have you ever been really able to code? Or was it more like trying something, it doesn't really work, you ask in a forum like Stack Overflow, and if that still doesn't work, you just do something else?

I had Pascal in school, later at university Java for the first time. I programmed a little afterwards for Android, given that it was also Java. But often it was Stack Overflow here, Stack Overflow there, trying to match my source code with what I found online, looking at manuals or whatever. It was tedious. Just tedious.

Ultimately I had something that was fun for five minutes at best. Often I just wanted to see if I liked something, but for that I had to create a prototype. And this prototype didn’t work. It didn’t compile.

I saw some repository, wanted it to work, then there was a compilation error. This module was lacking. This dependency wasn’t there. All of this shit.

So I’m coming back to it. Was I ever able to code? Or what is the benchmark for coding? And is it really a disservice to my intellect if I stop doing that and just have AI create it?

There are changes all the time. Repositories are not up to date. Libraries don’t work with each other. One updates, the other doesn’t. Then you have to fix it. It’s depressing and annoying, and I don’t really see the drawback of doing it differently now.

If a repository doesn’t do what I want, I load it, start Gemini CLI, and have it corrected. Reverse engineering protocols or hardware, in my experience, is disgusting. Really hard and frustrating.

So what is your take on the whole situation?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566103

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New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "How do I find flagged posts?"

Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:42:06 +0000

I flagged your response.

How do I find flagged posts?

Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:56:51 +0000

Entering [flagged] in search did not yield results.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476017

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New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials"

Haeuserschlucht — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:04:01 +0000

Who benefits from living in the uk anyway?

New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "Ask HN: Who is using local LLMs in a production environment here?"

Haeuserschlucht — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:42:54 +0000

Intersting, not my government though as I am in Germany. But are those huge deepseek models worth it? It seems that only proprietary models can match up.

On the other hand, we need to talk specifics. Measure up, how and regarding which benchmark.

Ask HN: Who is using local LLMs in a production environment here?

Haeuserschlucht — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:26:18 +0000

I'm asking because it seems that nobody really does that. Yes, there are some projects here and there, but ultimately everybody just jumps over to cloud LLMs. Everything is cloud. People pay for GPU usage somewhere in the middle of nowhere. But nobody really uses local LLMs long term. They say, "Well, it's so great. Local LLMs work on small devices they even work on your mobile phone."

I have to say there's one exception for me and that's Whisper. I actually do use Whisper a lot. But I just don't use local LLMs. They're just really, really bad compared to cloud GPUs.

And I don't know why, because for me it seems that having a speech-to-text model is much more challenging to create than just a model that creates text.

But it seems that they really cannot remove the differences and have it run on consumer computers. And so I also go back to cloud LLMs, all privacy aside.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46463734

Points: 8

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New comment by Haeuserschlucht in "How do you turn messy notes into something usable?"

Haeuserschlucht — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:16:43 +0000

I'm also on this track and I'm having this issue of seeing a wall of text and because I'm exposed to a lot of walls of text it is just too much information and I cannot comprehend the gist of it what I wanted to say. But on the same token, I think you are not really making it easier with this visual approach of mindmaps. But I don't really feel like sharing a better approach because your question is commercial.