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New comment by kbrisso in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

kbrisso — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:03:32 +0000

The reason for the drop, I think you might be keto adapted. If you had < 20 grams of carbs you might be using all the ketones in your blood. If you can tolerate MCT oil you can use it as a ketone boost.

New comment by kbrisso in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

kbrisso — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:02:36 +0000

I'm 56 and have been experimenting with it. It definitely helps me stay laser focus on a task. I take between 10 to 15 grams a day in multiple doses. It does help with brain fatigue if you don't sleep well either. I'm also on keto diet and it helps me at the gym. Here is the thing everyone's DNA is different - keto works for me because I have tried it on and off. I have way more energy off carbs. I can also tolerate creatine, some people can't.

New comment by kbrisso in "Show HN: LocalRAG – Ask AI about your own documents (iOS/Android)"

kbrisso — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:13:52 +0000

This is not completely local and not private. You are still sending info to third parties. Local definition is everything runs local, it does not include sending info to third parties.

New comment by kbrisso in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

kbrisso — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:35:01 +0000

I agree. The amount of cameras and tracking has gotten out of control. If America actually becomes an "authoritarian" country (seems almost likely) I imagine all these Flock pics with other data mining techniques will be used to send Communist Progressives to reeducation camp.

New comment by kbrisso in "CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)"

kbrisso — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:44:36 +0000

AI does CSS well!

New comment by kbrisso in "So you wanna build a local RAG?"

kbrisso — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:15:02 +0000

The vector search works great once you figure it out. I wanted to focus on writing the application and not have to rewrite a document store.

New comment by kbrisso in "So you wanna build a local RAG?"

kbrisso — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:39:45 +0000

I built this for local RAG https://github.com/kbrisso/byte-vision it uses llama.cpp and Elasticsearch. On a laptop with 8 GB GPU it can handle a 30K token size and summarize a fairly large PDF.

New comment by kbrisso in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

kbrisso — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:29:08 +0000

It's like a bad dream.

New comment by kbrisso in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

kbrisso — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:28:29 +0000

I'm a libertarian until it comes to human safety and corruption. We need regulations to regulate greed. I also believe in privacy and personal freedom as long as you don't hurt others. If you want to come to this country and work - please come and do so. Freedom isn't a flag on a truck or to poison the well and the and die from drinking poisoned water.

New comment by kbrisso in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

kbrisso — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:10:59 +0000

The scary thing? Who says Trump is going away?

New comment by kbrisso in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

kbrisso — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:09:20 +0000

Who needs mandatory id systems? State ID's and passports work just fine. What if I don't want an ID?

New comment by kbrisso in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

kbrisso — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:03:41 +0000

I agree.

New comment by kbrisso in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

kbrisso — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:03:11 +0000

What if they scanned you and the result was illegal alien? How would you feel?

New comment by kbrisso in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

kbrisso — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:01:34 +0000

This is America and we shouldn't have to put up with this. We shouldn't allow mask men running around terrorizing people because of race. But we can't stop it. American freedom is about being free from this form of harassment. American freedom is about being left alone to make something for yourself and your family. America is built on a bad marriage and is not perfect but to let this administration continue to do these types of illegal acts and cause one constitutional crisis after another is the down fall of this country in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned there will be no more elections in the future. What do we do then?

New comment by kbrisso in "Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails"

kbrisso — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:59:51 +0000

Free trade along with capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than any other economic theory/system. It's not perfect but you can't deny it's impact.

Show HN: I made a MCP server in Go that runs Llama.cpp local

kbrisso — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:20:35 +0000

Hello everyone, To learn more about MCPs, I decided to build a server to run Llama.cpp locally. Currently, it functions as an inference server. I thought others who are interested in learning how this works might find it useful. I didn't find anything similar on the web.

I used this SDK to build it: https://github.com/metoro-io/mcp-golang

Thanks! Kevin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711737

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kbrisso in "Show HN: I built a Privacy First local AI RAG GUI for your own documents"

kbrisso — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:55:25 +0000

I chunk the documents and use Elasticsearch to store the vectors. On a laptop with 8GB of GPU I can have a pretty large context window and not hallucinate.

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

kbrisso — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:23:41 +0000

Byte-Vision is a privacy-first document intelligence platform that transforms static documents into an interactive, searchable knowledge base. Built on Elasticsearch with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) capabilities, it offers document parsing, OCR processing, and conversational AI interfaces.

https://github.com/kbrisso/byte-vision

Show HN: I built a Privacy First local AI RAG GUI for your own documents

kbrisso — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:35:12 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702496

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by kbrisso in "They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)"

kbrisso — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:50:03 +0000

With Teeth is his first sober album. He wanted the stripped back rock feel so it would sound different from the previous.