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New comment by pomtato in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

pomtato — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:21:39 +0000

You should give VoiceInk[1] a go. It works great and has decent latency.

https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk

New comment by pomtato in "Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame"

pomtato — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:15:41 +0000

Amen to that. Wish I knew better before I got mine.

New comment by pomtato in "LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers"

pomtato — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:14:23 +0000

Well it kinda did change things up a bit. Me being able to receive payments across borders without significant delay or crazy fees is a decent perk, you can hate crypto culture and grifters trying to make a quick buck but it's applications are very real.

New comment by pomtato in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

pomtato — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:01:22 +0000

wait what? you get morning erections when on low testosterone?

New comment by pomtato in "Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells"

pomtato — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:46:39 +0000

> Human Beings are incentivized to cure

i'm not so sure, insulin for diabetes is a solved problem yet it's costs hundreds of $ all because scumy of pharma corps(looking at you Eli Lily) keep renewing the patent using legal loopholes.

New comment by pomtato in "xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure"

pomtato — Wed, 21 May 2025 05:01:14 +0000

not from a tech field at all but would it do the context window any good to use "think" mode but discard them once the llm gives the final answer/reply?

is that even possible to disregard genrated token's selectively?

New comment by pomtato in "QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning"

pomtato — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:47:20 +0000

it's not a bug it's a feature!

New comment by pomtato in "Starship's Sixth Flight Test"

pomtato — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:27:43 +0000

With all due respect, that's one of the most misguided(i wanna say retarded but.. HN) takes I've seen in a while. How could he even compare the SLS (which costs per launch about as much as it took to develop the entire reusable Starship system) to Starship?

The guy is just blinded by his hatred for Elon to even acknowledge one of the historical achievements SpaceX engineers worked their asses off for.

New comment by pomtato in "Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)"

pomtato — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:18:06 +0000

hahaha gave me a chuckle.

New comment by pomtato in "Show HN: Bullshit Remover"

pomtato — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:59:52 +0000

>Also, if you care to explain, what' the stack used?

a claude prompt apparently haha

New comment by pomtato in "In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)"

pomtato — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:05:46 +0000

well to steal a quote, "Neural networks are second best at almost everything"

New comment by pomtato in "Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative"

pomtato — Mon, 13 May 2024 03:14:56 +0000

Heck make it even better by making that an option, so the user can set the countdown to their preference.

New comment by pomtato in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

pomtato — Wed, 01 May 2024 05:48:12 +0000

haha that reminded of a quote Osho.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5AeO-dKGBLs

New comment by pomtato in "French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000"

pomtato — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 04:12:57 +0000

these are pretty cool! thanks!

New comment by pomtato in "Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio"

pomtato — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:16:05 +0000

New comment by pomtato in "Light can make water evaporate without heat"

pomtato — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:13:20 +0000

Interesting, reminds me of Microwave Emitter from Batman :D

New comment by pomtato in "Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller"

pomtato — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:01:50 +0000

Fortunately yes, recently i've been playing with this https://github.com/rpdrewes/whisper-websocket-server which uses K6nele as frontend on android if you really care about performance.

Tho if you're looking for a standalone app then you can give this a go : https://github.com/alex-vt/WhisperInput and run it right on your phone :]

For now they both run regular openai whisper thus tiny.en but as you can see there's tons of impromvement potential with faster-whisper and now distill-whisper :D

New comment by pomtato in "Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau"

pomtato — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:59:47 +0000

i understand where you're coming from but like any other ecosystem, we'll need a bunch of puzzle pieces and this just happens to be one of them :)

New comment by pomtato in "Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau"

pomtato — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:46:25 +0000

well you're in for suprise!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02901-1

now while this isn't nearly at the level of human cloning, it never ceases to amaze me how far we've come.

New comment by pomtato in "What will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future?"

pomtato — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:36:26 +0000

You can already do that with praktika.ai , they're in ed-tech and got ai avatars of sorts that you can "video-call" to :D