Hacker News: mvac

The Emperor's New Xerox

mvac — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:36:48 +0000

Article URL: https://ianreppel.org/the-emperors-new-xerox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891779

Points: 2

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SuperCmd – Open-source launcher for macOS with Raycast-compatible extensions

mvac — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/SuperCmdLabs/SuperCmd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740527

Points: 2

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I still build apps for myself

mvac — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kulman.sk/why-i-still-build-ios-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695405

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Jaspr – Web Framework for Dart

mvac — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://jaspr.site

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958834

Points: 1

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Animated LLM – Understand the Mechanics of LLMs

mvac — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://animatedllm.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375306

Points: 3

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New comment by mvac in "East German cities offer free stays to fight depopulation"

mvac — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:42:16 +0000

The town of Görlitz is truly charming. I visited after discovering that many scenes from my favorite movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, were filmed there (https://www.discovergoerlitz.com/grandbudapest/)

New comment by mvac in "Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown"

mvac — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:44:45 +0000

Correct link for Docext: https://github.com/NanoNets/docext/blob/main/PDF2MD_README.m...

New comment by mvac in "Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown"

mvac — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:43:10 +0000

How does it compare to Datalab/Marker https://github.com/datalab-to/marker ? We evaluated many PDF->MD converters and this one performed the best, though it is not perfect.

New comment by mvac in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

mvac — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:52:56 +0000

In my experience Uber/Lyft/Bolt in their race to the bottom started tolerating cars in bad shape and drivers that don’t care about driving safely. Really hoping to see Waymo or any other robo-taxi in Europe soon.

New comment by mvac in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

mvac — Tue, 06 May 2025 12:35:19 +0000

This exemption is only there for "reader apps"

" 3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video). ... Reader app developers may apply for the External Link Account Entitlement to provide an informational link in their app to a web site ...

Consuming an edible led to long-lasting anxiety

mvac — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:28:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gq.com/story/edible-anxiety

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844941

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Browser‑based MCP Chat – run MCPs without local setup

mvac — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:55:34 +0000

We built a tiny web app that lets you connect to any MCP server and chat with it right from the browser.

It spins up MCP servers in E2B sandboxes and converts the stdio to SSE. The chat app executes on the client‑side, so your API keys are sent directly and only to their respective services (E2B, model providers) - never to our server.

Since everything is client-side, you need an OpenAI/Anthropic API key and an E2B API key to try it [https://e2b.dev].

Try it here: https://netglade.github.io/mcp-chat/

We made it as a hackathon project and won the 1st price with it, though we're not really sure what would be a meaningful way to move it forward, so we welcome all types of feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716122

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mvac in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

mvac — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:15:54 +0000

It reminded me a part of the "The Tar Pit" esssay from The Mythical Man-month:

> Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? > First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design.

...

> The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by the exertion of the imagination.

New comment by mvac in "Mistral OCR"

mvac — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:09:46 +0000

Yes, i have. The problem with using just an LLM is that while it reads and understands text, but it cannot reproduce it accurately. Additionaly the textbooks I've mentioned have many diagrams and illustrations in them (e.g. books on anatomy or biochemistry). I don't really care about extracting text from them, I just need them extracted as images alongside the text, and no LLM does that.

New comment by mvac in "Mistral OCR"

mvac — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:34:08 +0000

Great progress, but unfortunately, for our use case (converting medical textbooks from PDF to MD), the results are not as good as those by MinerU/PDF-Extract-Kit [1].

Also the collab link in the article is broken, found a functional one [2] in the docs.

[1] https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU [2] https://colab.research.google.com/github/mistralai/cookbook/...

New comment by mvac in "We're forking Flutter"

mvac — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:38:27 +0000

Yes, it is. I was just thinking about what happened when other companies did something similar.

New comment by mvac in "We're forking Flutter"

mvac — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:31:58 +0000

Very sad article to read. I just expect the original Flutter will now die a slow death. I applaud the effort and hope they will be able to find a monetization model that works to support the development. There have been similar projects based on technologies that Microsoft has killed (Silverlight -> OpenSilver and various .NET-based cross-platform technologies) that serve their customers well. Unfortunately, none of them are in any way "mainstream" like Flutter is today.

Metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor split water to generate 'dark oxygen'

mvac — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:05:45 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-07-metallic-minerals-deep-ocean-floor.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039214

Points: 21

# Comments: 4

Markdown Any Decision Records

mvac — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:52:22 +0000

Article URL: https://adr.github.io/madr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746852

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mvac in "Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]"

mvac — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:03:05 +0000

Don't you think it's also a problem of the corporate-kindergarten culture, where everyone and everything is considered great, even though, as a salesperson, they haven't closed any deals in the last four months?