Hacker News: almogo

New comment by almogo in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

almogo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:20:23 +0000

Yesterday I helped a maaaaybe 40 year old woman connect to the wifi at my local library so she could get on a zoom call. Made me realize most of the world is exactly like that.

New comment by almogo in "Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI"

almogo — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:21:00 +0000

Criminally claude-authored. All the typical watermarked shit. Getting real tired of this.

New comment by almogo in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

almogo — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:50:42 +0000

Man, it's so important to read sometimes. I really hope HN people passing by this comment take a second to contemplate what's being said here.

The claim: "the models are tuned to align with one side of the issue, he is an article from ArsTech about it"

The reality: grok got mass-reported on X by pro-Israel accounts, leading to an automated suspension, which was undone by the X team shortly thereafter.

Absolutely nothing to do with the models aligning to one side or the other on this conflict. The claim is unfounded.

New comment by almogo in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

almogo — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:41:26 +0000

It's not that the models disagreed, the models reflected exactly the reality of the situation.

Sample output: "However, the definitive, legally binding determination of Israel’s responsibility under the Genocide Convention has not yet been made by the International Court of Justice"

The United Nations never made a ruling. You can have opinions about whether it should have, but the models are not lying to you, and at least the two examples above make very good efforts to explain the current accusations and claims made by both sides.

New comment by almogo in "Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb"

almogo — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:02:27 +0000

Stt/tts systems always seem to me so promising, but I pretty much never use voice to interface with a computer. Sometimes instead of typing on my phone, I use a voice dictation. I would be keen to use voice to control Claude code, but I've always felt that the way I speak is different from the way I write good prompts.

Fishing for anecdotes here, does anyone have any good tts/stt experiences?

New comment by almogo in "Dopamine Fracking"

almogo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:17:57 +0000

If the corporate berries are really so bad, the invisible hand will push the company in the direction of society's aggregate wallet vote. Sounds like most people are fine with them. Outside of truly autocratic systems, sounds like these berries are WAI.

New comment by almogo in "Hacker News, Sans AI"

almogo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:31:08 +0000

Probably by bots :)

New comment by almogo in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

almogo — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:29:23 +0000

Victimhood stopped being a valid excuse on the 7th.

I hope your friend over there is doing well, and hopes for peace as much as we all do over here. Maybe then we'll see an end to all this.

New comment by almogo in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

almogo — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:44:27 +0000

This reminds me of the Jewish Sabbath. Here in Tel Aviv, Saturday means no shops, much fewer restaurants, less programming on TV, gyms/etc open late/close early.

The parks and beaches are full of people just existing.

Meta lays off ~8k employees

almogo — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:34:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/layoff-meta-severance-details-cobra-jobs-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204368

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by almogo in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

almogo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:03:13 +0000

I did something similar. My computer crawls lite.cnn.com each Saturday. I feed it all into Gemini who composes a "front page" with links in HTML. Then the whole thing is converted to a PDF and uploaded to my Google drive with the day's date as the title. My Boox reader (some Chinese company) is synced to my Google Drive and I just open it from there. I didn't even code any of this, Gemini did.

It's a nice thing to read on Saturday morning with a coffee.

New comment by almogo in "Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor)"

almogo — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:41:53 +0000

Yeah, I second this. Like other comments have mentioned, you'd expect a human to add a video to such a post. I wonder what urged this robot to post this to HN.

New comment by almogo in "Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push"

almogo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:29:33 +0000

Was going to post this too:

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/01/28/tech/amazon-layoffs-ai

New comment by almogo in "Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials"

almogo — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:59:12 +0000

Ukraine was historically more or less a free-for-all as far as front-line cinema is concerned.

I have to imagine the situation in Iran is more difficult for a few reasons:

1. Gen AI is much better today than it was in 2022. So, both sides can generate much more realistic fakes.

2. There was an article here on HN about Iran's internet slowly coming back on a whitelist basis. We're probably getting more pro-Government videos now than we were at the beginning of the current events.

3. Further crackdown on Starlink minimizes authentic leaks (I only heard about this and have no way to confirm how impactful this really is)

I'll add my own anecdotal agreement with your suspicion though - the footage coming out of Iran has been, for me, more difficult than other conflicts to piece together into a cohesive story. Western countries are claiming 30k+ dead, and while I don't necessarily reject the claim, the situation on the ground is still very blurry to me.

New comment by almogo in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

almogo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:00:36 +0000

Speaking from an American perspective, many left-leaning commentators I've seen are focused on the ICE situation in the states right now.

But that's the most optimistic take I can conjure.

New comment by almogo in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

almogo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:53:44 +0000

Does anyone know how Iranians are _actually_ communicating right now? I remember seeing here on HN (admittedly a long time ago) some Bluetooth-mesh technologies that promised decentralized solutions to these very type of problems

New comment by almogo in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

almogo — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:34:47 +0000

I moved all my friends to Wire about a decade ago. Pretty, but the actual user experience was awful. We moved to Telegram and since then to Signal.

I didn't actually know Wire was FOSS.

You'll soon be able to shop Walmart's catalog on ChatGPT

almogo — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:33:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/tech/walmart-openai-chatgpt-shopping-partnership

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582031

Points: 4

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New comment by almogo in "Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat"

almogo — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:25:35 +0000

Very interesting to see "Technical Analysis" in this list. I'm no expert in the field, and TA always seemed like quackery to me, but I suspect many more people believe in it than for example Cryptozoology. I personally know someone who even took a course in TA, couldn't imagine anyone taking a course in looking for Bigfoot.

New comment by almogo in "Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat"

almogo — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:17:37 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa%27s_genocide_case...

Except the one that matters.