Hacker News: elephantum

New comment by elephantum in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

elephantum — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:29:10 +0000

That's the issue with Google, no specific user group is significant enough for Google to care

New comment by elephantum in "OpenAI's WebRTC problem"

elephantum — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:32:52 +0000

My biggest frustration with WebRTC was precisely captured in the article: even if you don't need p2p and your video source is the process on the same host with your browser, you have to dance around connection setup like you're on a different side of a planet

New comment by elephantum in "Ukraine fakes commander's death to trick Russia into paying $500k bounty"

elephantum — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:59:22 +0000

Making this case public should drop a shadow of doubt onto other Ukraine statements

Probably it would be wiser not to brag about this one

New comment by elephantum in "SQLite as an Application File Format"

elephantum — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:50:42 +0000

You do know, that you can create more than one table in SQLite and have references from one to another? Even recursive references work

New comment by elephantum in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

elephantum — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:52:25 +0000

I do not see direct statements that they will stop maintaining sources in open source.

We'll see :)

New comment by elephantum in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

elephantum — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:50:54 +0000

It looks like setting up a mirror and CI/CD on top of Github might work for some time. ghcr is free for public images

New comment by elephantum in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

elephantum — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:44:39 +0000

They write in the press release, that the sources remain under Apache 2 license, they just stop distributing prebuilt images for free.

Edit: As I see it's true.

Source code for OCI images: https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami

Charts: https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/main/bitnami

New comment by elephantum in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

elephantum — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:43:14 +0000

So, are they evil because they decided to stop sponsoring free network egress?

New comment by elephantum in "RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector"

elephantum — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:46:21 +0000

I tried to do brick sorting (because we have great detection and classification models at https://brickit.app/)

It turned out to be much more complex than I expected.

The biggest issue was grabbing. Typical approach for this type of task is to use vacuum suction actuator, but it does not work for Lego parts, because they have stubs and prevent suction from working.

Also there are issues of part separation.

We abandoned this idea, but I still hope that we can return and achieve something working some day.

New comment by elephantum in "RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector"

elephantum — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:40:05 +0000

Everything runs on device in tflite and it gives us some headaches, especially Android ecosystem.

We do not use anything fancy, detector is ssd-like, and classifier is either resnet or efficientnet depending on your device capability

New comment by elephantum in "RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector"

elephantum — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:35:45 +0000

The use case "let me reassemble all the parts that I have" is out of scope of Brickit app. It works explicitly with the contents of a single scan, that's why you see small ideas to build: it's just what fits into the parts you scanned.

But! We recognize the intent, and we have something in the works which will be released very soon, stay tuned!

New comment by elephantum in "RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector"

elephantum — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:43:31 +0000

This one actually works :)

Source: I'm responsible for ML development at Brickit

New comment by elephantum in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

elephantum — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:33:28 +0000

Anoop, first of all: thanks for your efforts, we switched to Bruno from Postman and are quite happy!

And a question: can you share your plans about Vscode extension? It seems to be broken for a while, do you have plans/capacity to revive it?

New comment by elephantum in "Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS"

elephantum — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 05:26:28 +0000

Interesting, is there a possibility of something like class-action where iPhone owners sue Apple for restricting access to Fortnite? I bet there should be a plenty of angry gamers.

New comment by elephantum in "From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity"

elephantum — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:29:17 +0000

I read this and cannot believe that I can optimize our $5-6K GCP egress bill to zero. Just wow.

New comment by elephantum in "Inkscape Cloud Architect"

elephantum — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 14:50:16 +0000

There's a plugin for VSCode that brings draw.io editor for local .drawio files. IMO it's the best of both worlds: nice editor and git version control.

Also this plugin works fine in github.dev so it's like a better version of draw.io official site.