Hacker News: deivid

New comment by deivid in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

deivid — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:45:15 +0000

Love the idea, but I can't handle the big screens on these smart watches. To me it feels like having a fisher price toy on my wrist. Hopefully a more open alternative to Withings will emerge

New comment by deivid in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

deivid — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:44:04 +0000

Depending on what data you want, you can try Withings watches. I'm currently reversing the protocol and it mostly works.

New comment by deivid in "Neutrino-1 8B"

deivid — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:56:57 +0000

For me, sloppy content is worse than no content. I'd rather have 3 sentences written by a human than a wall of Claudespeak.

Do you have an RSS or a way to subscribe to the TTS work you are doing? Your newsletter button is just a mailto link

New comment by deivid in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

deivid — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:54:10 +0000

It's supposed to handle acceleration though, if you bring your phone to your face quickly dots get larger. I've done some in-car testing, but things get squeamish quickly so it's not the easiest to validate.

Changing the color / adding some contrast would be quite a simple change

New comment by deivid in "Show HN: Running PrismML's Bonsai inside DRAM by breaking DDR4 timing rules"

deivid — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:52:52 +0000

Interesting project, but the slop readme made me quit reading halfway

New comment by deivid in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

deivid — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:49:33 +0000

send me an email

New comment by deivid in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

deivid — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:49:29 +0000

send me an email

New comment by deivid in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

deivid — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:19:03 +0000

I spent a day fiddling with AI and dropping the expensive layers in kokoro, on phones, on CPU, on MNN, it runs 3x faster.

Quality is very close.

Will vary in your setup, but here is my script: https://github.com/DavidVentura/translator-rs/blob/master/sc...

New comment by deivid in "Mistral OCR 4"

deivid — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:05:18 +0000

I am making (open) finetunes for malayalam and kannada (and bengali, gujarati, hebrew), and need someone to transcribe a few images for me. Could you contact me if you are interested in helping?

New comment by deivid in "Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2"

deivid — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:15:13 +0000

Amazing! I'd recommend using PaddlePaddle OCR models if you want to make your handwriting conversion local, it's definitely fast enough. Probably faster than the Sonnet call.

I tried the model on your handwriting and it worked great. My handwriting is bad enough that it doesn't work :)

New comment by deivid in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

deivid — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:32:21 +0000

Commercial or FOSS? I've been researching the mobile side and it's very exciting!

New comment by deivid in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

deivid — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:41:16 +0000

Sounds great, but if you din't cave to apple/google (eg: graphene, lineage), models are not built-in. Every app needs to ship their own models, and they are not tiny.

Is there a solution for this? I'm currently just making users download onnx models if they want a feature, but it's not smooth UX

New comment by deivid in "Building the deployment tool I wish I had"

deivid — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:41:09 +0000

There's definitely a much smaller, cleaner kubernetes hiding inside the current monstrosity.

LB, Services, pods, DNS gets you like 99% of the way there

New comment by deivid in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

deivid — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:43:25 +0000

How do you manage to finish things? After a while, for me, the novelty high wears out, and instead it becomes a wall. Some project require something silly, like sending 1 email to be completed, and it becomes an impossible task

New comment by deivid in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

deivid — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:21:10 +0000

This captures a lot of how I've been feeling lately. Thanks for sharing

New comment by deivid in "Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines"

deivid — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:44:37 +0000

With this approach I managed to get to sub-10ms start (to pid1), if you can accept a few constraints there's plenty of room!

Though my version was only tested on Linux hosts

New comment by deivid in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

deivid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:39:25 +0000

Have played it a few times, it's really good

New comment by deivid in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

deivid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:38:36 +0000

Working (again) on an offline translator for Android: https://github.com/davidventura/offline-translator

This week I added TTS support, which needed multiple inference pipelines, it was not easy to find models for 50 languages!

At this point, it mostly works as a crude implementation of Google translate+Google lens, but 100% offline and 100% Google-free

New comment by deivid in "Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking"

deivid — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:34:16 +0000

Niiiiiice, I've been working on something like this, but reducing linux boot time instead of snapshot restore time; obviously my solution doesn't work for heavy runtimes

New comment by deivid in "Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for fast sandbox boot times"

deivid — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:19:17 +0000

Says fast, but how fast? Didn't really see any measurements