Hacker News: elvin_d

New comment by elvin_d in "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2"

elvin_d — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:45:47 +0000

why keeping journals as an argument on the tech site that was always less formal with mandatory institutions but more open source. Journals discredited themselves multiple times. tech is expanding boundaries of scientific methods and AI will push it more.

New comment by elvin_d in "Stop Making TUIs"

elvin_d — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:20:25 +0000

Contentious topic but I have hard time comprehending line height scroll instead of smooth Web like experience and everything rendered in the same font size. I guess it’s a habit for people who started early and never got to use web applications enough to develop distaste to TUI scrolling patterns.

New comment by elvin_d in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

elvin_d — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:37:27 +0000

I feel your take will be taken down soon as it’s not the place for such discussion.

Just food for thought: what makes you to feel so entitled to judge people place of living? You know how we are not choosing where to be born and our mobility is restricted a lot of times? Is your separation for man and women comes from religion or other bias to categorize them?

New comment by elvin_d in "Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better"

elvin_d — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:47:41 +0000

Like this but zero copy, easy migration/versioning, Rust and WASM support.

New comment by elvin_d in "Claude Opus 4.6"

elvin_d — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:08:38 +0000

might be only among most popular. https://skills.sh/ is some data point.

New comment by elvin_d in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

elvin_d — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:55:21 +0000

Gemini 3 are great models but lacking a few things: - app expirience is atrocious, poor UX all over the place. A few examples: silly jumps when reading the text when the model starting to respond, slide-over view in iPad breaking request while Claude and ChatGPT working fine. - Google offer 2 choices: your data used for whatever they want or if you want privacy, the app expirience going even worse.

New comment by elvin_d in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

elvin_d — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:25:42 +0000

made this tool to press double control to start and another ctrl to stop which copies to the cliboard

https://github.com/elv1n/para-speak/

New comment by elvin_d in "Claude Opus 4.5"

elvin_d — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:03:46 +0000

Yes, the first run was nice - feels faster than 4.1 and did what Sonnet 4.5 struggled to execute properly.

New comment by elvin_d in "Claude Opus 4.5"

elvin_d — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:00:43 +0000

Great seeing the price reduction. Opus historically was prices at 15/75, this one delivers at 5/25 which is close to Gemini 3 Pro. I hope Anthropic can afford increasing limits for the new Opus.

New comment by elvin_d in "Agent design is still hard"

elvin_d — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:04:42 +0000

My experience with BAML was really good. For structured outputs, JSON schema is slow and sluggish while BAML performs well. Interestingly don't see much attention on HN, wondering is it hype of other SDKs or BAML doesn't deliver enough.

New comment by elvin_d in "German state Bavaria goes all-in on Microsoft cloud"

elvin_d — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:57:58 +0000

This is how Germany pushing towards digital sovereignty.

New comment by elvin_d in "Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software [video]"

elvin_d — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 02:26:02 +0000

I’m glad not completely off with my bet 5 years ago that Rust will get larger chunk of the market. With the spread of AI Rust feels like a good candidate among Typescript and Python giants in a an era of coding assistant tools that needs a good nudge like Rust compiler.

Show HN: Speech-to-text CLI in Rust with Nvidia Parakeet-local, fast, extensible

elvin_d — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:24:54 +0000

Hey HN! I built Para-speak to fit my workflow - I wanted something simple: press shortcut → talk → press shortcut → text appears at cursor.

Existing tooling wasn't sufficient, and at the same time NVIDIA's Parakeet model was showing excellent results online, so I wanted specifically to try that.

Para-speak is a Rust CLI that uses NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT model running locally via MLX on Apple Silicon.

Demo & details: https://elvin.engineering/blog/2025/09-10-para-speak-cli/

GitHub: https://github.com/elv1n/para-speak

Key features:

  - Configurable global shortcuts (double-tap, combinations, sequences)

  - Audio feedback

  - Text insertion at cursor position (emulating cmd+v)

  - Extensible controller system (e.g., manipulate Spotify volume during recording)

  - Idle uses minimal resources - about 10-15 MB of RAM on my MacBook Pro M1 on average load.

Current limitations:

  - macOS only for now

  - Shortcuts pass through to other apps (not consumed)

I've been using it daily for AI-assisted coding. The accuracy is surprisingly good for a small model.

Still very early stage. Would be nice to have daemon mode, proper installation (Homebrew, etc.), and add some UI feedback.

Would love your thoughts!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210730

Points: 3

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New comment by elvin_d in "What makes Europe better than America?"

elvin_d — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:46:05 +0000

I came to the same conclusion and am working out my way back to Europe. I find that France has such a nice quality of life. The only disadvantage for non-native speakers is the need to learn a new language,every country in Europe has its own language which still restrict mobility, and that's the biggest hurdle to becoming part of the community.

New comment by elvin_d in "Local-First Web Development"

elvin_d — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 03:05:04 +0000

imo the ecosystem is weak for a local-first apps. I'm dreaming about e2e encrypted local-first database that would be easy ti plug in and store encrypted on the server. From the tooling perspective, WASM seems a good choice for most likely embracing through Rust.

New comment by elvin_d in "Simple Modern JavaScript Using JavaScript Modules and Import Maps"

elvin_d — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:30:22 +0000

Vue 3 adopting modern features without npm build. You are correct that it's not framework dependent and this is the reason for my comment. The post starting about the build process following by how awesome new Vue is. IMO it two different points and build process is not making Vue unique but the post indeed.

New comment by elvin_d in "Simple Modern JavaScript Using JavaScript Modules and Import Maps"

elvin_d — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 04:43:51 +0000

They are introducing a new framework but making statements like it changing the game. Probably for one that dislike JSX.

New comment by elvin_d in "ChatGPT Plus"

elvin_d — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 04:27:47 +0000

using BTT since discovered in 2016 and it's essential. Time for a lifetime with a new version, there a lot of things how you can make Mac more pleasant for your use. Thank you for the app!

New comment by elvin_d in "Recent improvements to Safari"

elvin_d — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 06:37:22 +0000

Safari on iOS is plainly wrong for users, it's stopping the progress.

New comment by elvin_d in "Debunking common myths about the Autobahn"

elvin_d — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:56:16 +0000

FYI https://www.wsj.com/graphics/are-electric-cars-really-better...