Hacker News: mcbetz

New comment by mcbetz in "Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?"

mcbetz — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:35:41 +0000

OpenCode Go, one subscription (currently 10$/month) with multiple models and fair token limits. Sometimes a bit slow, but good value for your buck.

New comment by mcbetz in "Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters"

mcbetz — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:55:51 +0000

Alternative title: Text to speech in 9.36M, English only.

New comment by mcbetz in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

mcbetz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:24:58 +0000

In Erfurt since 2,5 hours. Out of office train driver keeps us updated from chats with fellow drivers (their sources say it is due to software update), radio is fixed now and trains processed one after another (starting with super fast ones - Munich > Berlin, e.g. - so the tracks get emptied quickly). Other interesting observations: when our train stopped, all hotels were already fully booked, as were coach tickets (Flixbus) that would run in the early morning. Crazy how fast people react to shocks.

New comment by mcbetz in "Mistral OCR 4"

mcbetz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:23:23 +0000

Little on differences other than bounding boxes and double the price compared to their previous OCR v3 model from December - https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3/ - other benchmarks were used back then.

New comment by mcbetz in "Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing"

mcbetz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:32:09 +0000

I observe that music OCR space and the only really good solution so far is soundslice. You scan and review some edge cases and get really good results. Paid service by a small company, very worthy to be supported!

New comment by mcbetz in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

mcbetz — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:03:17 +0000

This reminds me of a learning resource that I can't find again: you start with an assessment of how many words you know and then you get new words in context with every session (and maybe some spaces repetition). It was mostly from newspaper articles and catered for every level of English. It was a website (ca 2013), not an app. Any ideas?

New comment by mcbetz in "Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration"

mcbetz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:58:34 +0000

I like the direction! But why stop with CRM functionality with very limited schema for tasks on the headless when OP has a lot more to offer there? Why stop at CRM plus Project Management then? Why not also schemas for ERP, HR, finance tools and all other business software? And we even bother with a custom made API when PostgreSQL and PostgREST could reduce the full thinking to the database schema?

New comment by mcbetz in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

mcbetz — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:27:05 +0000

Mistral Voxtral has timestamps and diarization and does a good job for German (have not tested for other languages yet).

New comment by mcbetz in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

mcbetz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:27:03 +0000

Have been using it for transactional mails, that was okay. Have not tried it for non-transactional, esp. not in 20+ mio/months.

New comment by mcbetz in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

mcbetz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:21:36 +0000

It's also difficult to find providers for competetive large-scale non-transactional emails, i.e. marketing and newsletter mails.

None comes close to AWS, closest comes are messageflow (PL), elasticemail (PL), brevo (FR). Other players like Scaleway TEM (FR) and Lettermint (NL) don't offer non-transactional.

New comment by mcbetz in "Viral AI Video of Brad Pitt Fighting Tom Cruise Shakes Hollywood"

mcbetz — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:05:23 +0000

The video: https://xcancel.com/RuairiRobinson/status/202139494075720913...

New comment by mcbetz in "Escaping the trap of US tech dependence"

mcbetz — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:17:13 +0000

You might benefit from LMArena's Leaderboard. It does not have Danish (yet), but German and English evaluation might help: https://lmarena.ai/de/leaderboard/text/german

Openrouter.ai shows the location of providers, you can find just a few European services, but also Singaporean and Canadian. Unfortunately, I could not find a way to filter easily.

New comment by mcbetz in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"

mcbetz — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:33:10 +0000

Official source for 2025 Q3: 64,1% renewable 20,6% coal 12% gas

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...

Show HN: Visual Countdown Timer (Open Source)

mcbetz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:39:08 +0000

Inspired by physical countdown timers like TimeTex, I created a minimal open source app with countdowns up to 60min.

I used Tauri, vanilla CSS and JS, the app is ~9mb.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365238

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mcbetz in "Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI"

mcbetz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:02:02 +0000

The project was vibe-coded by the author and hence, likely the LLM created that tagline as well. Your service is around a year old (based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321099) and LLMs might have picked it up already and also the tagline is straight forward business talk, so no big surprise that multiple people and LLMs come up with the same idea.

New comment by mcbetz in "Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI"

mcbetz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:10:55 +0000

Article on the creation: https://www.mikenikles.com/blog/i-vibe-coded-a-database-gui

Author wanted to try vibe coding, despite being a critic. Says that result is unmaintainable.

Show HN: Item Size Comparison Tool - Visualize and Compare Sizes Easily

mcbetz — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:15:51 +0000

While checking out the new Remarkable reader, I wanted to compare sizes against other readers.

I could not find a simple, non-bloated app that helped.

So I built one, together with Aider (Sonnett 3.5 and Deepseek models).

You can add items with different sizes, get a visual comparison and even share the results (as URL). It's not optimized for mobile device usage, works nicely on Desktop only, I guess.

Maybe that's a small app that has use cases (like when looking for a new mobile phone). I'm also sharing my log of pairing with the AI companion Aider.

Use it: https://minthemiddle.github.io/compare-sizes/ Repo: https://github.com/minthemiddle/compare-sizes History of pairing with Aider: https://aider.chat/share/?mdurl=https://gist.github.com/mint... (I lost quite some progress in the middle due to some strange Git commits that I could not revert properly)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41458618

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mcbetz in "E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space"

mcbetz — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 09:50:23 +0000

Any first-hand experiences with the Nxtpaper devices? There's a lot of press coverage of the release official material, especially on the 14 inch model, but few actual reviews. Availability or even infos on availability is an issue, at least in Europe as well.

New comment by mcbetz in "Show HN: LLM-Term – Simple Rust-based CLI assist tool"

mcbetz — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:35:16 +0000

https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd supports Anthropic (and a lot more models) to achieve the same.

New comment by mcbetz in "Show HN: PinkArrows – An open-source Skitch alternative on the web"

mcbetz — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:14:53 +0000

Documentation of processes with annotations. There's lots of steps, each step with a screenshot and ~10 annotations and if steps change, I need to recreate from scratch. Doable, but also lots of manual work.

Yes, exalidraw or tldraw are drop-in replacements for Figma that make it save and easy to share, but they are general purpose tools, I prefer single-purpose tools with limited features.