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New comment by philipphutterer in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

philipphutterer — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:29:23 +0000

I agree to others that the intent of this study could be written more expressively, but honestly, doesn't this show exactly one thing to the people in the tech world? We need better education and communication for people without technical knowledge about what to use which AI models for and what NOT to do with them. For me, quite often I try to give quick help and information on what to expect from an LLM for given input whenever someone non-tech close to me is running into unexpected output. AI just seems so simple and non-complex to most people, it's shocking.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

philipphutterer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:21:23 +0000

I've never tried LibreTube. I am used to the new pipe interface and had all my subscriptions managed their so the move to Tubular was easy.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

philipphutterer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:01:00 +0000

I prefer Tubular with Sponsorblock

New comment by philipphutterer in "So where are all the AI apps?"

philipphutterer — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:53:59 +0000

https://archive.md/tM9Kg

New comment by philipphutterer in "Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)"

philipphutterer — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 05:41:47 +0000

Or given the number of unscanned books, even just give it the controls for a book scanner, the books and probably some robot arms. Then let it figure out the scanning first in some layers. Shouldn't be that hard.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Saying Goodbye to GitHub"

philipphutterer — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 06:45:22 +0000

Not sure about this, but training a model on the website that displays the code is not quite the same as training it specifically on just the code. Moreover, (raw) repo content files might not even be included in crawled datasets (e.g., look at https://gitlab.com/robots.txt). I think there is something specific to GitHub as it being part of Microsoft that makes processing that data much easier.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Show HN: CliGPT – Less Time Searching, More Time Commanding"

philipphutterer — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:07:13 +0000

New comment by philipphutterer in "I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one"

philipphutterer — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:23:37 +0000

    the whole planet upgrade their electronics at least every decade is just an obviously stupid thing and not enough people talk about it

This is so true! How can we developers make this a bigger thing? Isn't there a market for this by now?

New comment by philipphutterer in "New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates"

philipphutterer — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:24:47 +0000

This! And I thought I'm just too stupid to use this search, ha! Search is hard, for sure, but come on. But you actually reminded me to just use Google Dorks for that with inurl:https://f-droid.org/packages/.

New comment by philipphutterer in "The E-Ink Badge"

philipphutterer — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:20:10 +0000

There was some information only recently on HN about reversing those Electron Shelf Labels [0] that was quite interesting, but your comment makes me wonder if you could eavesdrop these wifi price updates in such stores. Also, searching for that term on HN gives some other fun projects.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34738649

New comment by philipphutterer in "Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls"

philipphutterer — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:01:55 +0000

Is that really practical? In the video it looks not very useful to me as it does not seem to be very efficient. The mouse is so integrated into MacOS it looks hard to efficiently replace it. Are you or is anyone else actually using this regularly?

Also, I think the other mentioned alternatives look quite similar to that regard.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls"

philipphutterer — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 10:55:10 +0000

I use caret mode, visual selection and P quite often to search for the text in visual selection in a new tab with the preferred search engine. I also like yf for yanking a link to clipboard.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Fastbook: Listen to audiobooks faster (2020)"

philipphutterer — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:49:16 +0000

Cool, I like the idea and I actually use this feature a lot in Google Podcasts.

However, I believe there is a way to do this with a single ffmpeg command. I remember watching lecture videos with higher speeds wondering about the huge amount of silence that made it still pretty annoying. I didn’t find anything simple to trim silence on audio and video combined and finally only listened to the audio with trimmed silence using ffmpeg.

Edit: It's literally just an audio filter in ffmpeg, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/29411973

New comment by philipphutterer in "Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480"

philipphutterer — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:48:55 +0000

It didn't say so in the post but I suspect 8GB RAM were just not enough and an upgrade was necessary anyway? And future upgrading was mentioned. In my opinion this is a valid point actually and should be very much considered when buying any of the modern all-fixed-no-upgrades machines, I mean its not just the Apple machines.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited"

philipphutterer — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:58:24 +0000

> I'd prefer my victories to be against the frontier of knowledge, and to win universal truths.

You wouldn't need to tear down barriers if the people that built them thought the same in the first place. Nonetheless, keep up that attitude.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited"

philipphutterer — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:47:06 +0000

> However you can also get those videos by logging in, which the author doesn't mention.

> Also not mentioned in the article is that you can actually take the throttled URLs as is, and download pieces concurrently for a pretty good result.

The author mentioned both, the login option as well as the chunking mechanism. Sorry, but did you actually read the blog post?

New comment by philipphutterer in "Hand-Tracking with Three.js"

philipphutterer — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:21:16 +0000

This is really cool to see. I don't have any problems or bugs using it, but it seems like the 3d rendering of the virtual hands is not quite as fast as the tracking itself. I wonder if and how this could be used in a meaningful way. As a feature for things like Google Quick Draw it would be fun.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes"

philipphutterer — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:30:36 +0000

The idea is just great. Keep in mind what people expect from this type of website (and clear up any misconceptions), as this may lead to unnecessary churn. I would like to see some degree of customizability, e.g. weighting of features or something like that. (Nitpick: wrap the play svgs in a button tag like the "similar" button)

New comment by philipphutterer in "Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?"

philipphutterer — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:01:28 +0000

True, from a technical point of view, this should actually be quite simple. But I'm referring more to the administration overhead caused by the large amount of small banks that are considered their own credit institution. In a lecture, we were once shown a chart comparing the costs of financial operations in the European countries. Germany had by far the highest costs. This mess will not survive the next 10 years.

New comment by philipphutterer in "Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?"

philipphutterer — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:16:29 +0000

I didn't know about Nordigen, but how are they able to support the absurd amount of 1222 banks in Germany? Looks like a good indicator how broken the digital world of banks here really is.