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New comment by polishdude20 in "Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices"

polishdude20 — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:30:42 +0000

One category of calculator they're missing is "Food Based Calculator". Imagined the front panel of a calculator being made out of a Graham cracker.

New comment by polishdude20 in "Human brain changes after first psilocybin use"

polishdude20 — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:46:01 +0000

5 grams of mushrooms is not the same as 5 grams of psilocybin. When taking about mg, I think they mean psilocybin. When talking about grams, it's mushrooms

New comment by polishdude20 in "Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters"

polishdude20 — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:34:33 +0000

Is there a good cloud provider for these open models that I can easily swap my Claude library in python to?

New comment by polishdude20 in "Solar Eclipse Map"

polishdude20 — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:55:56 +0000

This is crazy slow on mobile.

New comment by polishdude20 in "For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa"

polishdude20 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:56:18 +0000

I mean, the studies are still out in the world and homeless. Moving to another country doesn't change that.

New comment by polishdude20 in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

polishdude20 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:26:36 +0000

If I ly excessive gas didn't cause crazy painful cramps for me.

New comment by polishdude20 in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

polishdude20 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:26:05 +0000

Yes.

New comment by polishdude20 in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

polishdude20 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:51:00 +0000

Bruce here from the Twitter team.

I got finally fired.

New comment by polishdude20 in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

polishdude20 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:16:46 +0000

Its less about "crimes" and more about a moral or ethical boundary that people feel is being crossed.

New comment by polishdude20 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

polishdude20 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:47:56 +0000

What is structured water?

New comment by polishdude20 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

polishdude20 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:52:43 +0000

Yeah looks like the cli also retries as well. I was able to get it working using a higher timeout.

New comment by polishdude20 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

polishdude20 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:56:39 +0000

Thanks! Just tried it on a 40 page pdf. Seems to work for single images but the large pdf gives me connection timeouts

New comment by polishdude20 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

polishdude20 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:25:18 +0000

How do you extract the content? OCR? Pdf to text then feed into qwen?

I tried something similar where I needed a bunch of tables extracted from the pdf over like 40 pages. It was crazy slow on my MacBook and innacurate

New comment by polishdude20 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

polishdude20 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:19:17 +0000

Hey in really interested in your pipeline techniques. I've got some pdfs I need to get processed but processing them in the cloud with big providers requires redaction.

Wondering if a local model or a self hosted one would work just as well.

New comment by polishdude20 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

polishdude20 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:05:02 +0000

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00115488

New comment by polishdude20 in "Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat"

polishdude20 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:18:00 +0000

A few years ago I did a bit more of a crude flow.

Play the footage on a tv in a dark room. Place a 4k camera on a tripod and record the tv with audio into the camera audio port.

Worked perfectly.

New comment by polishdude20 in "Improving Composer through real-time RL"

polishdude20 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:02:23 +0000

I'd love to see some data for how much it has improved via this process in the last week

iBook Clamshell

polishdude20 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:34:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ibook-clamshell.com/index.php/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477938

Points: 73

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New comment by polishdude20 in "Tesla's Terafab chip fab ambitions ignore its lack of semiconductor experience"

polishdude20 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:05:15 +0000

Surely this Musk project will happen in the time he says it will.

New comment by polishdude20 in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

polishdude20 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:26:43 +0000

It's probably because usually normal people don't but routers because they get them included in their internet subscription. So the people buying them have a specific reason to that normal routers don't do