Hacker News: kiproping

New comment by kiproping in "EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe"

kiproping — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:39:59 +0000

I see it's a portal tracking bird data from other websites. I am doing the same but for East Africa, not live birds but generally monitoring biodiversity, what is happening from ebird, to Xeno-canto to iNaturalist every week. Any new research grade species, new updates to ebird and XC sound additions. East Africa is very under monitored compared to other places. Still work in progress. https://platform.maiyoinstitute.org/

New comment by kiproping in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

kiproping — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:19:52 +0000

Wait, isn't that just a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, why would you pay $4 for that?

New comment by kiproping in "Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests"

kiproping — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:59:50 +0000

That's how I read it too.

New comment by kiproping in "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27"

kiproping — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:17:55 +0000

From a cursory glance on huggingface, the files don't add up to 2+TB. Unless it adds up to that when you extract the multiple ~17GB files, if that's the case then that's some crazy compression.

New comment by kiproping in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

kiproping — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:55:34 +0000

Why is China's government corrupt? specifically when it comes to solar? Are they not accused of the opposite, overdoing solar? Help me understand your critique.

New comment by kiproping in "Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language"

kiproping — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:03:34 +0000

Thank you, I was also looking for a better source and a link to the paper. I thought the paper was this older one https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06394-9 from 2018.

New comment by kiproping in "Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants"

kiproping — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:46:16 +0000

The videos are amazing. Sadly I think theses types of adaptations make it easier for the species to go extinct since its so highly specialized.

New comment by kiproping in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

kiproping — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:44:07 +0000

So are you telling me that a certain country that banned Crypto entirely might have been right?

New comment by kiproping in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

kiproping — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:39:20 +0000

First its the "Chinese" then it will be people using "cyber" capabilities, or "jailbreaking" or "going against Dario" or any other thing they find "objectionable".

New comment by kiproping in "DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Change"

kiproping — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:38:13 +0000

I have not seen the official deepseek communication to this effect.

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

kiproping — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:50:30 +0000

Its really good.

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

kiproping — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:19:51 +0000

I am on iNaturalist helping to identify organisms.

New comment by kiproping in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

kiproping — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:25:24 +0000

I wonder which model they used, it's stupid but clever in some aspects.

New comment by kiproping in "macOS Container Machines"

kiproping — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:26:11 +0000

Thank you for mentioning this, I have been suffering under the yoke of docker.

New comment by kiproping in "Avian Visitors"

kiproping — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:43:23 +0000

I know google has general sound classifiers like Yamnet, trained on youtube data but they are not very good for specific usecases. So you would have to create a custom model for you usecase.

- https://www.tensorflow.org/hub/tutorials/yamnet

New comment by kiproping in "Avian Visitors"

kiproping — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:40:46 +0000

thanks, how is your work going. Any interesting papers you did, what is an area you think needs more research.

New comment by kiproping in "Avian Visitors"

kiproping — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:33:53 +0000

I wanted to do something similar to this, then I started doing some research on birds in general, and those in my locality, then I started learning about Audio and spectograms and Nyquist Theorem and many other interesting audio stuff.

Then I started going through the Intro to Conservation Bioacoustics by Cornell course, and started watching Bioacoustic Talks by the K. Lisa Yang Center cornell center.

And now I am almost at the point where I cant start manually tagging audio sets, for target species so that I can train custom classifiers to identify birds in Rwanda which are poorly detected by birdnet.

TLDR: Being jobless can lead you into interesting ventures.

* Nyquist Theorem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZJQXlbm2dU

* Intro to Conservation Bioacoustics https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/pam-materials

* Bioacoustic Talks https://www.youtube.com/@CornellSounds

New comment by kiproping in "Avian Visitors"

kiproping — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:21:11 +0000

Birdnet-go is really good and actively maintained. Shout out to tphakala.

New comment by kiproping in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

kiproping — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:23:32 +0000

This would be a better page to link to https://github.com/esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix/blob/main/docs...

They explain some of the the reasons why they have a better solution and why they are very opinionated

>Automatic prefix caching activates only when the exact byte prefix of the previous request matches. Most agent loops reorder, rewrite, or inject fresh timestamps each turn — cache hit rate in practice: <20%.

So they optimize on this plus other techniques to improve cache hits, making it cheaper.

Annotations in Xeno-Canto

kiproping — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:07:56 +0000

Article URL: https://xeno-canto.org/article/318

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238590

Points: 7

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