Hacker News: heltale

New comment by heltale in "Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits"

heltale — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:33:03 +0000

This reminds me of DeepGrove AI’s ternary weight model: https://github.com/deepgrove-ai/Bonsai

Is there a particular difference that I might be missing here?

New comment by heltale in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

heltale — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:48:31 +0000

Location: Baltimore, MD, USA

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes, anywhere in the US.

Technologies: Languages[Python, Golang, TypeScript, Rust], Data Engineering Stack [DuckDB, Spark, Polars, FastAPI], GIS [Wails, React, Cesium], AI [HuggingFace, PydanticAI, PyTorch, vLLM, Transformers, OpenCV]

Resume: https://heltes.com/resume.pdf

Email: dat.adithya@gmail.com

New comment by heltale in "Project Vend: Phase Two"

heltale — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:31:35 +0000

The entire experiment just reminds me of Manna. We’re progressing a little too fast for comfort.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

New comment by heltale in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

heltale — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:08:35 +0000

Hey Peter, I’m an F1 visa student and I’m trying to found a company with two Americans while being an Indian citizen. I plan on taking significant equity and will be part of the cofounders. Are there any significant hurdles that I should be on the lookout for here? I’d like to sign the founders agreement and found the company while I’m still pursuing my education but I’m not sure whether my visa status would throw any wrenches here.

New comment by heltale in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

heltale — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:16:54 +0000

It’s pretty much all you see nowadays on LinkedIn. Instagram is infected by AI videos that Sora generates while X has extremist views pushed up on a pedestal.

New comment by heltale in "Can you save on LLM tokens using images instead of text?"

heltale — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:13:35 +0000

I suppose it’s only worth 256 words at a time right now. ;)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929

New comment by heltale in "Auraphone: A simple app to collect people's info at events"

heltale — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:39:08 +0000

Hey, that's a pretty cool concept!

I work on developing technology to solve sales and real-estate problems and streamlining/populating connections with people is a big issue. Exporting these to an excel sheet/csv is something that sales folk would absolutely kill for to make things easier to manage.

However, the hurdle to have enough get the application and have it running on both parties' systems while at the event is certainly a pretty strong bottleneck.

New comment by heltale in "Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer"

heltale — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:21:08 +0000

Some vim user too! oil.nvim is a pretty popular package that does this.

New comment by heltale in "How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned"

heltale — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:35:54 +0000

I have largely the same setup but use neovim instead of obsidian.

A friendly tip: you don’t have to populate the metadata yourself and can use ‘hugo new

/.md’ to create the file with the metadata.

New comment by heltale in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

heltale — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:33:21 +0000

That's good to know!

Thanks for sharing, it feels nice to know that people actually have an interest in the concept.

New comment by heltale in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

heltale — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 01:29:38 +0000

Just went through the company's website, and I like how well the software ties into the company's motive/direction.

I'd appreciate an intro, thanks! I could send an email, or you can find mine on my bio :D

New comment by heltale in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

heltale — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:49:49 +0000

Indeed, I intend on having the user take over after identifying the food that we're working with.

The idea is to reduce the amount of redundant work (clicking a button to add a single ingredient over and over again), and rather push for minor modifications instead.

New comment by heltale in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

heltale — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:48:29 +0000

Oh yeah, manual input is going to be a big part of it. The system should ideally try to map the image to a standard recipe with the ingredients and then hand over control to the user to make any modifications they like.

Computing the nutrients from the ingredients should be reasonably accurate post this because that has a direct mapping in the USDA FoodCentral dataset.

New comment by heltale in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

heltale — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:47:00 +0000

Thanks! I'll send you an email sometime if I make any progress on it! :D

New comment by heltale in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

heltale — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:01:47 +0000

I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros.

Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where you cannot change the ingredients used.

Weit ideally provides a seamless experience in taking a picture to retrieving ingredients to retrieving macros per ingredient. Once that's sorted, food tracking should be granular enough to build intelligence around it to improve one's diet based on their requirement.

Honestly, I used to constantly struggle with the realisation that none of my ideas are unique and whenever I see someone having built something similar, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm getting better at dealing with it now though.