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New comment by jnaina in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

jnaina — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:53:36 +0000

Have been running BirdNet-Go on a Rpi3 with a Jabra Speak 510 device which has omni-directional mic array, along with rtsp audio from two outdoor security cameras, for the last 2 months. Excellent sound pickup quality. 76K detections and 112 species detected.

I live in the east coast of Singapore near changi airport, and also run FlightTracker on another Rpi3 with a cheap RTL-SDR dongle with a 1090 mhz antenna to receive real-time aircraft broadcasts/squawks.

So essentially tracking 2 different types of 'birds'.

New comment by jnaina in "My Friend Aaron"

jnaina — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:58:23 +0000

was it his mom?

New comment by jnaina in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

jnaina — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:03:32 +0000

I did not know until now, that I bought a cold war spy artifact from ebay 20 years ago, and shipped it all the way to Singapore.

New comment by jnaina in "Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose"

jnaina — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:25:20 +0000

Olympus’s raison d’être is to orchestrate GPUs—handling the control-heavy, latency-sensitive workloads that keep Rubin fed and the AI factory running without bottlenecks. Including tool calling and data marshaling.

They are not competing in the CPU space. Different markets.

New comment by jnaina in "Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS"

jnaina — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:05:55 +0000

At this rate, the Amiga will outlive us all, and probably get one last hardware and AmigaOS revision long after our funerals.

New comment by jnaina in "Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore"

jnaina — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:56:38 +0000

Similar. It seems the dish had both Arab and Jewish roots. In colonial Singapore, both communities were small but left an outsized mark.

https://www.peranakanmuseum.nhb.gov.sg/learn/digital-resourc...

New comment by jnaina in "Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore"

jnaina — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:28:47 +0000

Also known as Bamiya or Bamia (okra stew) among the Malay-Arab community in Singapore.

New comment by jnaina in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

jnaina — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:14:22 +0000

in the creative arts business, the work that sells tends to come from people carrying something. a difficult history, a chemical affiliation, some level of quirkiness/flaws, or all of the above.

perfect flawless plain-vanilla creatives tend go work for Hallmark channel and product absolute drab cr*p.

not sure why Netflix HR would want to sabotage their own internal culture that drives their content success strategy.

New comment by jnaina in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

jnaina — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:30:59 +0000

they do. tons of them. https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-mp3-player.html

New comment by jnaina in "Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet"

jnaina — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:32:42 +0000

pre-IPO drama from sama. need to take this with a boulder of salt.

New comment by jnaina in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

jnaina — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:58:56 +0000

Take this as anecdotal, but I started taking 1500 mg of creatine HCl daily about a year ago. Since then, I’ve felt sharper and able to perform mentally at a higher level for longer throughout the day.

New comment by jnaina in "John C. Dvorak has died"

jnaina — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:28 +0000

used to look forward to his articles in Inforworld and PCmag, and his controversial takes therein.

Rest in peace.

New comment by jnaina in "Ask HN: Will Anthropic or OpenAI start offering Chinese open source models?"

jnaina — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:07:22 +0000

nope, never gonna happen. DC treats American AI supremacy as national security, IPO fortunes depend on the "America leads" story and the trump sycophants/toadies/roadies stand to gain millions from the IPO, and everyone thinks Chinese open weights are dumping meant to kill US labs, so Ant and OI will not want to wade into that.

New comment by jnaina in "Ask HN: Will Anthropic or OpenAI start offering Chinese open source models?"

jnaina — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:54:58 +0000

sure, upon the successful launch of porcine aviation

New comment by jnaina in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

jnaina — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:45:40 +0000

You mean the Bowlini and the Pinini families

New comment by jnaina in "People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S."

jnaina — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:55:39 +0000

Just heartbreaking to see the US in decline across so many key areas including income inequality, social mobility, healthcare affordability, education, infrastructure, public safety, political stability, institutional trust, and basic quality of life.

And yet, the US is the key dream destination where the streets are paved with gold, for lots of immigrants escaping poverty/strive from the 3rd world.

New comment by jnaina in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

jnaina — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:12:25 +0000

was lucky enough to snag the Olares One from Kickstarter just before this whole AI induced memory chip price gouging started.

specs are Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX (24 Cores, 5.4GHz),96GB of DDR5 5600MHz RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD.

going to see if I can wring at least 5 tok/s.

New comment by jnaina in "Cloudflare Drop"

jnaina — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:26:19 +0000

wait till anyone remotely mentions apple or apple products. the neckbeards on their thinkpads will come in droves to shit on cupertino's best.

New comment by jnaina in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

jnaina — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:34:08 +0000

for the first time, I'm rooting for the chinese to break the american monopoly on AI. although I have gemini, anthropic and openai subscriptions, I just opened an OpenRouter account and will be using more chinese open weights going forward.

New comment by jnaina in "Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand"

jnaina — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:57:15 +0000

Yes, the QL was another very clean modern design. Too bad the MicroDrives were an utter disaster and the sales tanked because of that