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New comment by maybe_pablo in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

maybe_pablo — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:10:39 +0000

The sensor watch is actually awesome, if only for turning a cheap casio into a super-accurate quartz watch with temperature compensation.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:30:18 +0000

In HuggingChat (https://huggingface.co/chat) you can test open models for free and even test specific providers.

From there I collected the following US providers currently serving GLM 5.2:

- Together (https://www.together.ai/models)

- Fireworks (https://fireworks.ai/models)

- Featherless (https://featherless.ai/models)

New comment by maybe_pablo in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:35:50 +0000

Weight quantization, n-expert capping, routing to smaller model, context window truncation, aggressive sampling constraints, lossy speculative decoding and probably more.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "Codex for open source"

maybe_pablo — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:32:44 +0000

icloud+ hide my email for $0.99

New comment by maybe_pablo in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:40:08 +0000

Sure they are, if the human expert follows instructions from a manager or a client, if they are of utility to anybody, then they are vulnerable to social engineering and malicious input. An attack may be easy or hard depending on the expert's training, but nobody is flawless.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:26:06 +0000

By "heard of social engineering?" I meant that humans are vulnerable to malicious input too. Prompt injection is basically a simplified form of social engineering for language models. It looks different because models operate over much smaller and more explicit contexts than humans do and are explicitly trained to follow instructions, but the general idea is similar: malicious input tries to manipulate how the system interprets trust and instructions. This is why we need protocols, permissions, and opsec for both agents and humans. That said, I’m not criticizing how you choose to use, or not use, these models, though.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:14:51 +0000

Sure, and I don’t disagree, but goods and services still need to scale to billions of people. Most people aren’t going to start knitting their own clothes, or have the time to, just like most companies probably won’t rely on fully hand-written software if cheaper automated alternatives are good enough. What you want or enjoy is one thing; the reality of society is another.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:54:16 +0000

That’s fair. I do think, however, that the software industry may become a bit like the clothing industry: there will still be an artisanal market for people who want human-made software, but to be honest I wouldn’t expect it to remain the mainstream option.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:42:32 +0000

Ever heard of social engineering? Also, models nowadays are way sharper than they were even a year ago. They’re not going to make stupid mistakes like that unless you basically ask them to. GPT-5.x for example would bend over backwards to avoid even reading your passwords into context.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "How to turn anything into a router"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:56:33 +0000

I did kind of the opposite, I made my main beefy gaming computer the router, then connected to it a nice wireless AP in bridge mode to serve internet to the rest of the computers. That way I can have a local llm agent manage my network and firewall by simply asking.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line"

maybe_pablo — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:37:48 +0000

Very interesting! I made just yesterday a track with Yamanote's Shinagawa melody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haV1O8hqaaE (using Suno)

New comment by maybe_pablo in "Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today"

maybe_pablo — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:17:08 +0000

Reminds me of "If Architects had to work like Programmers".

https://archive.is/r4l6C

New comment by maybe_pablo in "Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor"

maybe_pablo — Sat, 25 May 2024 16:23:20 +0000

No problem, please do share any interesting part of your workflow if you have the time!

> Did you know ffmpeg has a non free Encoder (libfdk_AAC) thats sounds slightly better?

Ah yes. I'm not sure it sounds better than the audiotoolbox encoder though, at least it is reported that it doesn't here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC#aac_at although the hydrogenaudio source of this claim seems to be down, is still readable on the web archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20240407200855/https://wiki.hydr...

New comment by maybe_pablo in "Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor"

maybe_pablo — Sat, 25 May 2024 02:37:52 +0000

I do something similar to OP but do the final transcoding to HE-AAC VBR 64kbps (ffmpeg params `-c:a aac_at -profile:a 4 -b:a 64k -aac_at_mode 2`). The tracks sound more than acceptable to me and this way I can easily store my entire collection (+80k tracks) into my iPhone. Modern codecs are wonderfully efficient.

Mircscripts.org Screenshots

maybe_pablo — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:06:01 +0000

Article URL: https://imgur.com/a/0QptMyQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302732

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Level Devil

maybe_pablo — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:14:07 +0000

Article URL: https://poki.com/en/g/level-devil

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38926395

Points: 2

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New comment by maybe_pablo in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"

maybe_pablo — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:18:04 +0000

If you want to expose a single web service you can do it via tailscale funnel[1] easily.

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/reintroducing-serve-funnel

New comment by maybe_pablo in "Ask HN: Flac/MP3 listeners: How do you store/play your music?"

maybe_pablo — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:06:40 +0000

You're welcome! Finamp is very good, then there's also https://github.com/leinelissen/jellyfin-audio-player which is also worth trying.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "Ask HN: Flac/MP3 listeners: How do you store/play your music?"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:24:57 +0000

For automatic playlists that make at least some sense I used https://github.com/teticio/Deej-AI in the past, is not human-level good but the results are enjoyable.

New comment by maybe_pablo in "Ask HN: Flac/MP3 listeners: How do you store/play your music?"

maybe_pablo — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:30:42 +0000

I use jellyfin, is great for this and there are even phoone apps that can cache a certain ampunt of music on device.