Hacker News: heyalexej

New comment by heyalexej in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

heyalexej — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:25:58 +0000

Long story, I have humongous zai GLM 5.2 token budget that I'm using in a similar fashion as many comments explain here. GPT 5.6 or Fable 5 for planning, GLM for implementing, researching, extracting and many other tasks I consider grunt work. Very happy with the performance, speed isn't all that good though. I'd be curious to hear from someone who works with both, DeepSeek and GLM side by side.

New comment by heyalexej in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

heyalexej — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:23:09 +0000

Quick glance; FreeFlow already saves WAV recordings for every transcript to ~/Lib../App../FreeFlow/audio/ with UUIDs linking them to pipeline history entries in CoreData. Audio files are automatically deleted though, when their associated history entries are deleted. Shall be a quick fix. Recently did the same for hyprvoice, for debugging and auditing.

New comment by heyalexej in "Show HN: MailPilot – Freedom to go anywhere while your agents work"

heyalexej — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:30:32 +0000

No affiliation and didn't get around to use it yet, but clawdbot[1] does WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, and WebChat.

[1]: https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot

New comment by heyalexej in "Is the golden age of Indie software over?"

heyalexej — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:40:54 +0000

Humanity will clearly also survive without cars and shoes. What's your point?

New comment by heyalexej in "Go ahead, self-host Postgres"

heyalexej — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:15:35 +0000

Without stating actual numbers if not comfortable, what was the % savings one over the other? Happy with performance? Looking at potential of doing the same move.

New comment by heyalexej in "Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)"

heyalexej — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:30:45 +0000

- How matryoshka do you want to parasite?

- Yes!

New comment by heyalexej in "Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town"

heyalexej — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:18:57 +0000

Here's a smaller scale water battery that heats an entire house year round. The water tank itself is placed in the center of the house across all 3 floors and actually makes for a quite nice design element as well. The energy is generated in the warm seasons and the volume of water is large enough to last through the entire winter. It's a German vid but subtitles are quite accurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBLiNHsod8Y

New comment by heyalexej in "Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?"

heyalexej — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:30:15 +0000

Absolutely not knocking this project. Was just a somewhat unexpected result from such a simple site. Asked GPT-4 to write a scraper just to compare and it produced a quite usable boilerplate.

New comment by heyalexej in "Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?"

heyalexej — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:41:06 +0000

Gave this a go. Just so happened that I had the page of an eBay seller open. Wondered if it could manage to do something as simple as extracting all 240 listed products on that page. Instead of determining that the most important data on this page would be the products, it identified these properties: categoryName, subCategories, link.

New comment by heyalexej in "Rivet nut for composite materials (2020) [video]"

heyalexej — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 02:37:46 +0000

Impossible to even create an account from within Germany as a consumer. This is what their registration form says: (Only for business people and companies - section 14 of the German Civil Code - with location in Germany - not for consumers)

New comment by heyalexej in "Rivet nut for composite materials (2020) [video]"

heyalexej — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:30:09 +0000

Fundamentally, yes. A tube shaped anchor with a designated/predetermined crumple zone. They're widely used in sheet metal fabrication, where thin walls wouldn't allow for sufficient thread engagement. Where spot welded nuts aren't possible, for instance in a long, thin walled tube etc..

New comment by heyalexej in "Rivet nut for composite materials (2020) [video]"

heyalexej — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:22:47 +0000

For composites, if the back side is accessible, a standard rivet nut + tightly fitting washer on the back side works quite well to alleviate the risk of stress fractures.

New comment by heyalexej in "Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use"

heyalexej — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:07:51 +0000

Quite a lot of windshield wipers have metal inserts with the same properties & dimensions. Perfect to open your older car when you forgot the keys inside.

New comment by heyalexej in "Cameo's CEO on how he plans to disrupt Hollywood"

heyalexej — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 01:14:37 +0000

Interesting side note: Self proclaimed gurus and scammers of every possible kind love cameo's services, too. Makes the programs so much more desirable if your favorite celebrity endorses it, or gives shout outs to the gurus for their "amazing work". Here's one quick example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2BCT01STn8

New comment by heyalexej in "Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?"

heyalexej — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 05:58:10 +0000

If you're comfortable with PHP, Shopware & Sylius (both built on Symfony). For Python, look at Saleor. If you don't want to live in a world of pain ( see looping__lui), use a SaaS solution like Snipcart or BigCommerce (which has very competitive rates vs. Shopify). Use the time to learn how to market your product, run ads, create content and grow your business.

New comment by heyalexej in "Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay"

heyalexej — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:50:00 +0000

Reminds me of Big Sister [1], a brothel where customers could use the women's services for free, subsidized by paying Internet viewers, DVD sales & such.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sister_(brothel)

New comment by heyalexej in "I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe"

heyalexej — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 05:27:27 +0000

Slightly off-topic and not doubting this particular story. Posts from this blog get submitted every few minutes it seems. Is anyone checking and verifying the numbers these companies and "startups" claim to make? If so, how?

New comment by heyalexej in "Life After Prison, on YouTube"

heyalexej — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 08:09:40 +0000

Article could have included a few other great examples. Titan Gilroy of TITANS of CNC for example. Among many other programs, he has helped building a huge CNC school/shop at San Quentin State Prison.

https://www.youtube.com/user/titanamericanbuilt/videos

Open Source Electric Paramotor

heyalexej — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 06:08:02 +0000

Article URL: https://openppg.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20864054

Points: 2

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New comment by heyalexej in "I started an online subscription business from Malaysia"

heyalexej — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:36:09 +0000

   >I coded the web app from the ground up using what
    I’ve learned from the coding bootcamp and launched the 
    service on the 22nd of September 2019.

Something doesn't add up here. Ahrefs shows rankings going back as far as September of 2016 with the first archive.org snapshot on September 14 2015 showing a landing page for a subscription box.