Hacker News: pickleballcourt

New comment by pickleballcourt in "CrankGPT"

pickleballcourt — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:11:17 +0000

I always kind of wondered if you were out on an island would this help with survival

New comment by pickleballcourt in "The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History"

pickleballcourt — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:59:28 +0000

Good read, interesting choice as there are a lot of such examples

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

pickleballcourt — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:45:03 +0000

The only possible counterpoint I’d say is SAT math is quite trivial and also can be prepared for? Not that I think there are better alternatives out there.

New comment by pickleballcourt in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

pickleballcourt — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:43:03 +0000

I’m curious if its actually difficult or trivial for Temu to enforce

New comment by pickleballcourt in "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month"

pickleballcourt — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:40:31 +0000

Haven’t used herzner but heard good things

New comment by pickleballcourt in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

pickleballcourt — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:35:19 +0000

Reminds me of the movie the great arch where the main lead who was an architect refused to use computer simulations.

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980"

pickleballcourt — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:49:34 +0000

Did not expect such an insanely detailed blog, crazy how even the computers for Spacelabs had such history.

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

pickleballcourt — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:39:17 +0000

Is this supposed to replicate the typewriter experience?

Show HN: USD Accounts for Pakistani Freelancers

pickleballcourt — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:17:31 +0000

Hey everyone, Tom here. My co-founder Mahmood and I have spent the past few months building Rizq, a financial platform for Pakistani freelancers.

After speaking with 50+ freelancers, we saw a clear gap: despite issues like high fees and account freezes, many still rely on Payoneer because no alternative offers the same experience. Most end up juggling multiple tools just to make it work. Existing solutions focus a lot on USD accounts but we want to go a step further and offer invoice tooling and getting the details right for freelancers.

Rizq aims to simplify everything into one platform with lower fees.

What we’re building:

- Virtual USD accounts

- Payment links for clients

- Virtual cards

- P2P transfers

- Access to global stocks & ETFs

We’re still early, but the waitlist is live. If you have any feedback would love to hear it.

Join here: https://www.rizqfinance.com/

Big thanks to everyone who shared feedback on reddit, it helped shape Rizq.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012653

Points: 2

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New comment by pickleballcourt in "GitHub Is Down"

pickleballcourt — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:29:25 +0000

Is this trending in relation to Ghostty moving away from github?

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

pickleballcourt — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:24:33 +0000

I think the important thing here is you weren't just approaching completely cold but people who you've seen a few times before, which then somewhat makes sense. I think if someone approached completely cold in gym it might not come of as well.

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

pickleballcourt — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:33:41 +0000

Love the title

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference"

pickleballcourt — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:40:42 +0000

While your throughout is around 2x you still cost more then vercel ai model pricing for example for GLM-5: https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models?q=glm

Is this a result of renting more expensive gpus?

The journey of how we built Manus [video]

pickleballcourt — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:01:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm-WgmYRgmI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898722

Points: 1

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New comment by pickleballcourt in "Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG"

pickleballcourt — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:53:10 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray"

pickleballcourt — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:52:40 +0000

Reminds me of smallpond from deepseek

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG"

pickleballcourt — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:45:07 +0000

Is there a major difference between pgvector and shapedql?

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video"

pickleballcourt — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:53:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Makes sense to go with latency first.

New comment by pickleballcourt in "Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video"

pickleballcourt — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:45:32 +0000

One thing I've learnt from movie production is actually what separates professional from amateur quality is in the audio itself. Have you thought about implementing personaplex from NVDIA or other voice models that can both talk and listen at the same time?

Currently the conversation still feels too STT-LLM-TTS that I think a lot of the voice agents suffer from (Seems like only Sesame and NVDIA so far have nailed the natural conversation flow). Still, crazy good work train your own diffusion models, I remember taking a look at the latest literature on diffusion and was mind blown by the advances in last years or so since u-net architecture days.

EDIT: I see that the primary focus is on video generation not audio.

Why 'Thank You' Might Be the Best Metric in AI Products

pickleballcourt — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:01:46 +0000

Article URL: https://flopsandfinance.substack.com/p/why-thank-you-might-be-the-best-metric

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314372

Points: 2

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