Hacker News: karolist

New comment by karolist in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

karolist — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:58:12 +0000

calculator shows $35,712 instead? https://imgur.com/a/CNurw0v

New comment by karolist in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

karolist — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:31:09 +0000

based on documentary style interviews I've seen of drug addicts in Lithuania, there's supposedly no more old school heroin left on the streets, it's been pushed out by fent.

New comment by karolist in "Platform-independent SIMD in Go"

karolist — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:28:30 +0000

Already using this for foreground estimation of cutouts in my project, around 30% speedup over non-SIMD, but the algorithm is probably not very optimised yet.

New comment by karolist in "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"

karolist — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:33:33 +0000

I'm pretty happy with Seaweed, running that on prem, rock solid so far. Moved off MinIO when the licensing shenanigans started

New comment by karolist in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

karolist — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:26:08 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the quote was taken out of context when they were speaking about vertical integration. "We own the glass" was meant to say that they manufacture the panels themselves and not source them from a 3rd party.

New comment by karolist in "iPhone Duo"

karolist — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:25:10 +0000

Underappreciated Dropbox memory lane

New comment by karolist in "OpenLogi"

karolist — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:41:23 +0000

The FAQ technique is LLM/SEO crumbs because people usually search for questions, if you have the exact likely question text that maps to user's search you're more likely to rank. It's unfortunate but it works, like open mouth YouTube thumbnails.

New comment by karolist in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

karolist — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:36:41 +0000

I have a Zalman ZM-1000 from 2007 that's still working, my coworker at my first job lost interest in desktop PCs and gave it away to me. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/zalman-zm1000-hp/2.html

New comment by karolist in "Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)"

karolist — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:07:22 +0000

> there seems to be a violent agreement of how stuff actually happens and that it's almost never fully made possible in either industry or academia.

what does this mean?

New comment by karolist in "Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model"

karolist — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:32:54 +0000

paid 2.7k € for this same build new in Dec 2023, that was also sweet (still is)

New comment by karolist in "Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model"

karolist — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:31:03 +0000

Parent used "pulled the plug", are you saying it's applicable here and not "pulled the trigger" like suggested?

New comment by karolist in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

karolist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:38:18 +0000

I’m working on PhotoFig: https://photofig.com, a recently launched product-photo editor for online sellers who need to clean up hundreds of images.

It was inspired by my wife having to carefully mask product photos for her online shop. Existing tools could remove backgrounds automatically, but didn’t give her enough control when the result needed correcting. So masking is a first-class feature, with SAM-assisted selection and a precise manual brush.

The backend and storage are self-hosted on hardware I own. Along the way I’ve had to solve some interesting infrastructure problems, including writing a Kubernetes operator that bin-packs GPU workloads across workers. I’m planning a technical write-up on the architecture.

New comment by karolist in "Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates"

karolist — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:07:18 +0000

-4: initiate a Big Bang to generate the spacetime substrate

New comment by karolist in "Apple won't let me show my app"

karolist — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:36:37 +0000

Exactly. I think this may be a trap of solo development without external feedback. You can easily logic your way down a rabbit hole, and without a second set of eyes to call you out, you end up building something that makes perfect sense to you but is completely alien to an uninvested person.

New comment by karolist in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

karolist — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:24:20 +0000

sadly it's not multimodal

New comment by karolist in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

karolist — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:24:58 +0000

They also use a large ring attached to the first zipper to help the robot grab it. This is not a realistic zipper, but I do appreciate them being honest and showing that grabbing small objects is still not perfect

New comment by karolist in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

karolist — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:20:43 +0000

I replied to another comment, but I do have 3 kids.

New comment by karolist in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

karolist — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:19:54 +0000

FYI I do have 3 kids, no, it doesn't take that long (we share this with the wife), in a few years the kids will be able to help us with this task so it's gonna be even less time. Doing household chores is good for the kids. I wouldn't wan't this robot driving around my household when I have small children anyway...

New comment by karolist in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

karolist — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:25:53 +0000

Of all the tasks I do, folding clothes takes a ridiculously small slice of my time. Is this and all the other robotics videos aimed at H&M staff?

New comment by karolist in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

karolist — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:07:50 +0000

"please do things the way I want things to be done"