Hacker News: evilelectron

New comment by evilelectron in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

evilelectron — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:23:57 +0000

WOW! What a lovely way to explore the character map.

New comment by evilelectron in "What we learned building 100 API integrations with OpenCode"

evilelectron — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:45:30 +0000

This is the way.

I am doing something similar where I have a parser which looks for changes in documentation, matches them with the GraphQL schema and generates code using Apollo. In a nutshell it is a code generator written using Claude to generate more code and on failure goes back to Claude to fix the generator and asks a human for review.

New comment by evilelectron in "Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth"

evilelectron — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:19:13 +0000

Hello again dot.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

New comment by evilelectron in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

evilelectron — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:25:59 +0000

Yes, they are all linked using Drupal's AI modules. I have an OpenCV application that removes the old paper look, enhances the contrast and fixes the orientation of the images before they hit llama.cpp for OCR and translation.

New comment by evilelectron in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

evilelectron — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:01:56 +0000

I run llama.cpp with Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_S.gguf with mmproj-F16.gguf for OCR and translation. I also run llama.cpp with Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-GGUF for embeddings. Drupal 11 with ai_provider_ollama and custom provider ai_provider_llama (heavily derived from ai_provider_ollama) with PostreSQL and pgvector.

People on site scan the documents and upload them for archival. The directory monitor looks for new files in the archive directories and once a new file is available, it is uploaded to Drupal. Once a new content is created in Drupal, Drupal triggers the translation and embedding process through llama.cpp. Qwen3-VL-8B is also used for chat and RAG. Client is familiar with Drupal and CMS in general and wanted to stay in a similar environment. If you are starting new I would recommend looking at docling.

New comment by evilelectron in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

evilelectron — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:09:47 +0000

Daniel, your work is changing the world. More power to you.

I setup a pipeline for inference with OCR, full text search, embedding and summarization of land records dating back 1800s. All powered by the GGUF's you generate and llama.cpp. People are so excited that they can now search the records in multiple languages that a 1 minute wait to process the document seems nothing. Thank you!

New comment by evilelectron in "Postmarks and Postal Possession"

evilelectron — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:55:36 +0000

Keep in mind for next time, the date you drop the mail in your local post office might not be the date it is postmarked. Impacts voting, bank fees, IRS and more.

Postmarks and Postal Possession

evilelectron — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20740/postmarks-and-postal-possession

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451151

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by evilelectron in "Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market?"

evilelectron — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 21:16:07 +0000

Look up JOBS act (https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/jobs-act.shtml) With a strong business plan, this could be a viable and great starting point. Good luck!

New comment by evilelectron in "Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"

evilelectron — Sat, 29 May 2021 22:25:40 +0000

Sad news indeed :(

New comment by evilelectron in "OpenPOWER Foundation announces LibreBMC, a POWER-based, fully open-source BMC"

evilelectron — Mon, 10 May 2021 22:02:57 +0000

How about Pi-KVM (https://pikvm.org/)? Secure, flexible and extendible.

New comment by evilelectron in "wxWidgets 3.1.5"

evilelectron — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:25:40 +0000

wxWidgets is a wrapper over the native GUI toolkit. It allows you to write a OS independent GUI code and because it is a wrapper you get most of the benefits of native toolkit like dark mode.

New comment by evilelectron in "Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people)"

evilelectron — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:23:47 +0000

Add _nomap to your SSID to stop Google from using your access point for location services.

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en

List of important publications in computer science

evilelectron — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:50:51 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications_in_computer_science

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23962767

Points: 30

# Comments: 2

New comment by evilelectron in "Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t"

evilelectron — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:05:53 +0000

Why is Microsoft not interested? Or they are and it has not been reported?

ARM should fit well with them, plus it would give them a way to enter the mobile space again, this time by owning the IP and not making hardware.

New comment by evilelectron in "The KDE community is moving to GitLab"

evilelectron — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 03:21:55 +0000

Absolutely, diff (Differential) based patch review is a great workflow for adding changes

New comment by evilelectron in "The KDE community is moving to GitLab"

evilelectron — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 03:18:02 +0000

Not as per their git commit history https://github.com/phacility/phabricator

New comment by evilelectron in "What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find"

evilelectron — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 03:15:27 +0000

Great write up. Thanks for posting this.

There’s rumor that due to a large number of people taking ML courses, there will be far more people with ML skills than ML jobs.

I hope this is true. There are so many areas where ML skills could be useful. The sad part would be that some industries would be changed forever. The animation industry for example might not even exist the way it is today.

New comment by evilelectron in "Booting embedded Linux in 0.37 seconds on an ARMv7-A CPU at 528 MHz"

evilelectron — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:00:16 +0000

The rear view camera system almost always runs independent of the main Head Unit (HU) or In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI). In most cases the rear view camera view is a single application specifically coded for the target micro processor (SuperH for example) and is the only thing running on that micro processor. The HU and the rear view camera share the display. While you are driving in R the HU is booting Linux or QNX and when you move to D the screen switches to the HU. The rear view camera application keeps running uninterrupted.

New comment by evilelectron in "How I Make Yogurt (2019)"

evilelectron — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:42:55 +0000

How I do it:

  1. Heat 14oz of milk for 2 minutes in a 700W microwave
  2. Add 4oz of cold milk to a container
  3. Add 2 spoons of Yogurt (I use Pavel's full cream) to the cold milk and mix
  4. Pour the hot milk in the container and stir it
  5. Put away in a place where the temperature won't fluctuate much and container won't be disturbed for next 12-18 hour. 
     I use an oven for this with no per-heating or temperature control.