Hacker News: purplecats

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model"

purplecats — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:21:06 +0000

and caching is related to performance too ofc

New comment by purplecats in "Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help"

purplecats — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:35:31 +0000

You make some good points, but the best one is the one you might not be aware you've made.

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown"

purplecats — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:30:37 +0000

neat. why not screenshot and tesseract (videos/images/viewport/etc)

New comment by purplecats in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

purplecats — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:52:28 +0000

anyone notice the jokes they put in?

* bot: "im nervous. is that a microphone?"

* bot: "great job, you're a machine!" (said to another bot, a machine)

* bot: clicks "i am [not] a robot" button on a computer

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

purplecats — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:14:36 +0000

but u wouldnt get caching savings

New comment by purplecats in "Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft"

purplecats — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:16:41 +0000

background

New comment by purplecats in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

purplecats — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:08:18 +0000

i love this rule, but then again everything i agree with is 'common sense' to me!

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

purplecats — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:06:56 +0000

the tracks arent grounded to the map, they slide all over, and would it cool if we could use satellite view

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript"

purplecats — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:09:26 +0000

doesnt work. https://lightwave.so/undefined

New comment by purplecats in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

purplecats — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:56:24 +0000

shrinkflation

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI testing your PR, embedded in GitHub"

purplecats — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:03:13 +0000

seems trivial for antigravity to do

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

purplecats — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:30:36 +0000

this is unironically useful bc if it works well, can use that algo to instead of serving ads, enrich ai responses by adding image and media previews appropriately at the right spots (layout modifications)

New comment by purplecats in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

purplecats — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:45:18 +0000

does this work on people

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus"

purplecats — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:59:53 +0000

watch link?

New comment by purplecats in "Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study"

purplecats — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:41:22 +0000

its all a scam. every year everything gets more energy efficient but the cost of energy gets jacked up so u never win

New comment by purplecats in "Jeff Bezos hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud"

purplecats — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:26:32 +0000

yes, you are an outlier, and one day (presumably <50 years) your hands will be cold and dead, along with your representation in the holdout resistance movement. you must make a bigger impact than standing your (individual) ground

New comment by purplecats in "Google Gemini will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube"

purplecats — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:15:49 +0000

isn't this expensive for them

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage"

purplecats — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:36:45 +0000

why do u need my number? why not just a webapp

New comment by purplecats in "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"

purplecats — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:10:44 +0000

https://ytmp3.ai/

New comment by purplecats in "Rats Play DOOM"

purplecats — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:45:31 +0000

i think its just people being out of touch with reality. perhaps engineering minds not thinking enough product. its too commonplace for me to even complain about. someone builds something primarily visual - a robot, a GUI application, etc. and links to their github/etc but they ensure that there are no visuals included.