Hacker News: oldgregg

New comment by oldgregg in "DIY Soft Drinks"

oldgregg — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:23:43 +0000

Jumps through 100 hoops to make coke... doesn't add cocaine?! :)

Add modifinil and peptides and you'll have your latest soylent startup.

New comment by oldgregg in "Why I Vibe in Go, Not Rust or Python"

oldgregg — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:34:44 +0000

Add air for auto reload and ur golden

New comment by oldgregg in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

oldgregg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:43:02 +0000

Get bought out by military control grid --> Instantly kill popular consumer devices.

New comment by oldgregg in "Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries"

oldgregg — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:54:59 +0000

Would this be a good fit to replace FTS for hybrid search? Biscuit + Vector?

New comment by oldgregg in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

oldgregg — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:44:42 +0000

There is tons of fear-mongering around a natural process-- I had a 24 yo friend deliver his first child off grid by himself. There are also a ton of independent midwives out there where you can deliver either at home or a midwife center for a fraction of the cost.

New comment by oldgregg in "Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent"

oldgregg — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:01:03 +0000

AI is game changer for the wildly detailed ffmpeg command line-- just tell gpt what you want to do and it will spit out the ffmpeg command 10/10.

New comment by oldgregg in "Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go"

oldgregg — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:34:56 +0000

looks great! would love to see benchmark with bleve and a lightweight vector implementation.

New comment by oldgregg in "RIP: Amazon Prime Benefits Sharing Ends on Oct 1, 2025"

oldgregg — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:36:20 +0000

How can they tell if someone is a teen in their household vs someone else?

New comment by oldgregg in "FFmpeg 8.0"

oldgregg — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:14:03 +0000

LLMs have really made ffmpeg implementations easy-- the command line options are so expansive and obscure it's so nice to just tell it what you want and have it spit out a crazy ffmpeg command.

New comment by oldgregg in "Open-source framework for real-time AI voice"

oldgregg — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:37:47 +0000

No demo? No demo video? Nothing?

New comment by oldgregg in "Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello"

oldgregg — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:51:30 +0000

Great project, will give it a try, we've been using another open source trello clone that has been pretty solid and very closely clones the trello UI.

https://github.com/plankanban/planka

New comment by oldgregg in "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency"

oldgregg — Mon, 05 May 2025 20:59:28 +0000

Nice work, I like the lightweight web front end and your implementation of VAD.

New comment by oldgregg in "A single line of code cost $8000"

oldgregg — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:46:46 +0000

What's in that payload when they check for updates every 5 minutes?!

Novel dark pattern: You unchecked "Let us collect user data" but left "Automatically Update" checked... gotcha bitch!

New comment by oldgregg in "Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?"

oldgregg — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:01:44 +0000

Build it. Use Go. Maybe nknorg/nnet for P2P. Signed HLS segments. Have Go also serve the web front-end with a WASM web worker. Public nodes can run on a very lightweight VPS/server with an autocert domain. Viewers browser join the swarm with WASM-- this way people can just type in a web address so it's very user friendly but the domain doesn't actually have to serve any data. I would just use a trusted pubkey to sign P2P updates so nodes can block naughty IP addresses. Should get you very friendly user experience, easy node deployment, pretty low latency, and bittorrent level of legal resilience.

New comment by oldgregg in "Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative"

oldgregg — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 22:27:03 +0000

Been running Cool for about a year. Drop a couple thousand on a 1U and throw it on a $100/mo colo and it's crazy bang for the buck. It makes it so easy to spin up new projects it's hard not to like it. Definitely when launching some containers and open source projects it's not as seamless as it could be-- can require fiddling with vars and compose files-- but on the whole very stable, lightweight, fast deploys, and conceptually pretty simple.

One thing I've noticed is I've starting using much more open source software for various things. When you can just jump into the UI, paste in the github link, and have it running on a wildcard domain in 60 seconds I find myself giving OSS a try more often before looking elsewhere.

New comment by oldgregg in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)"

oldgregg — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:09:45 +0000

Kingdom Quest | Austin, TX (irl) | Full-time | https://kingdom.quest/

We're building a real-world realtime immersive interactive gaming experience.

- Unity devs

- React Native / Javascript devs

- Go devs

- AI devs-- LLMs, generative, STT, TTS, vector DBs, vision

- Event Planners

- Set Designers

Drop a line: play@kingdom.quest

New comment by oldgregg in "Hann: A Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Library for Go"

oldgregg — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:27:27 +0000

Great lib... now is there a Go-native way to generate vectors from text?

New comment by oldgregg in "The Last Drops of Mexico City"

oldgregg — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:57:24 +0000

Also Valle De Bravo is the Hamptons of Mexico

New comment by oldgregg in "Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge"

oldgregg — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:34:01 +0000

Somebody should just scrape all the most popular images from getty then setup a pipeline to regenerate them with flux/controlnet/loras. Charge $10/mo for unlimited licensing or find ancillary way to generate revenue. If most of revenue comes from editorial images start there-- most people won't even care if it's a bit off.

New comment by oldgregg in "I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone"

oldgregg — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:37:37 +0000

There is a video of Zuck denying they "recording peoples microphone" -- but how he said it with a smirk I took him to mean "we do on-device transcription and only send back keywords"