Hacker News: pvo50555

New comment by pvo50555 in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

pvo50555 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:24:37 +0000

Local, small-batch RAM! Top fermenting Get it at your local farmer's market!

New comment by pvo50555 in "The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)"

pvo50555 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:30:57 +0000

I loved Thief 1/2, these games were way ahead of their time and defined the genre for years to come.

New comment by pvo50555 in "Monorail – Turn CSS animations into interactive SVG graphs"

pvo50555 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:37:54 +0000

shows map with only those cities labelled

New comment by pvo50555 in "Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26"

pvo50555 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:13:50 +0000

I am consistently shocked at how bad Apple Notes is. I like the features it has and I like the iCloud sync between devices... I use it daily. But it's so damn buggy. It's a notes app! Why do new lines on a moderately-long note cause half the text to disappear until I hit the carriage return a few times? I also wish it simply converted copied text to plaintext by default rather than trying to preserve formatting.

New comment by pvo50555 in "The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition"

pvo50555 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:07:55 +0000

You are not my son.

New comment by pvo50555 in "Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app"

pvo50555 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:29:43 +0000

For my purposes, all of the data was also available in HTML format, so the OCR wasn't a problem. I think the issue is the RAG pipeline doesn't take the entire corpus of knowledge into its context when making a response, but uses an index to find one or more relevant documents that it believes are relevant, then uses that small subset as part of the input.

I'm not sure there's a way to get what a lot of people want RAG to be without actually training the model on all of your data, so they can "chat with it" similar to how you can ask ChatGPT about random facts about almost any publicly available information. But I'm not an expert.

New comment by pvo50555 in "Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app"

pvo50555 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:10:26 +0000

What differentiates this from Open WebUI? How did you design the RAG pipeline?

I had a project in the past where I had hundreds of PDF / HTML files of industry safety and fatality reports which I was hoping to simply "throw in" and use with Open WebUI, but I found it wasn't effective at this even in RAG mode. I wanted to ask it questions like "How many fatalities occurred in 2020 that involved heavy machinery?", but it wasn't able to provide such broad aggregate data.

New comment by pvo50555 in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

pvo50555 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:39:17 +0000

What does "throw everything into the model" entail in your context?

How much data are you able to feed into the model in a single prompt and on what hardware, if I may ask?

New comment by pvo50555 in "Push Notifications for Decentralized Services"

pvo50555 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:35:12 +0000

> Regarding iOS, they have made some progress in adopting webpush, but it does not seem possible to push for mobile applications with it yet.

This is a key point right at the very end. It has always been much easier to implement push notifications to Android devices, even when only Web Push is implemented. Google has been the main force behind the adoption of PWAs as Native apps on devices, even by immediately showing a "Install this app?" popup when navigating to a PWA-enabled website/web app.

iOS permits "Installing to home screen" but there is no popup shown natively, nor any indication from the OS that the website you're visiting is a PWA. The user has to go through several steps to add the app to his device.

Once it is added, it's possible for the device to receive web push notifications and show them as native push notifications (IIRC), even with the app is closed, however the reliability is inconsistent. Sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't. At least that was my experience still about 6 months ago when I tried implementing web push with PWA for iOS.

I gave up trying to go the pure PWA route and instead wrapped my web app with PWABuilder into a native app, and went through the whole process of submitting to the App Store, getting APN, registering the web app in Firebase, then sending the push notifications to the native app via Firebase Messaging. Works great then, but it's a lot more work than keeping everything simply as a web app and using web push.

New comment by pvo50555 in "Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery"

pvo50555 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:52:25 +0000

When did you manage to get that? I tried signing up for the ARM server several times but it always says it's unavailable at the moment in my region (East - Toronto) and I should try a different region... however you can't switch regions after you set up your account. I talked to their support and they said it's unavailable for the foreseeable future... choose a different configuration.

Are people still able to provision those instances in other regions? If so, which one(s)? I'm just using the legacy free one for now, the 2GHz AMD with 0.5GB RAM.

New comment by pvo50555 in "Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics"

pvo50555 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:06:00 +0000

You know those guys? My friend and I used to come to tears to these during the old DubToons days. It's the only reason I know what a Middlesborough accent is. We still quote them!

New comment by pvo50555 in "I've acquired a new superpower"

pvo50555 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:46:04 +0000

I can't believe this has 1587 points (already). Has no one here grown up with those Magic Eye books?

New comment by pvo50555 in "How I run LLMs locally"

pvo50555 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 06:28:21 +0000

Is it actually able to generate all the files and directory structure, etc? Or did the author just take all the responses he got from multi-shot prompting and eventually assemble it into the final product? I believe I used LlamaCoder some time ago to build the scaffolding of an app, but I'm not sure about the state of that project now.

New comment by pvo50555 in "How I run LLMs locally"

pvo50555 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:15:02 +0000

There was a post a few weeks back (or a reply to a post) showing an app entirely made using an LLM. It was like a 3D globe made with 3js, and I believe the poster had created it locally on his M4 MacBook with 96 GB RAM? I can't recall which model it was or what else the app did, but maybe someone knows what I'm talking about?

New comment by pvo50555 in "Introducing ChatGPT Search"

pvo50555 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:25:33 +0000

Axel Springer! Now that's high-quality news sources...

New comment by pvo50555 in "I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business"

pvo50555 — Wed, 29 May 2024 23:44:02 +0000

My findings are the same - having spoken to a founder working in robotics, with a successful product and a sizable customer base, he has spent a very long time looking for funding.

New comment by pvo50555 in "Dijkstra on real map data with raylib"

pvo50555 — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:59:26 +0000

You can try one of the Quickstart guides on that page. Just type in "San Francisco" in the search bar on the map on this page: https://overpass-turbo.eu/ and then run your search query (drinking fountains by default). The bounding box should be whatever is in view of the map on the right. Then you can click the Data tab to see exported XML.

New comment by pvo50555 in "Dijkstra on real map data with raylib"

pvo50555 — Tue, 14 May 2024 14:38:01 +0000

What would be the best way to generate custom maps for use with an algorithm like Dijstra's or A*? I have seen some methods using various game level editors to output to a grid, but is there an easy way to draw custom maps, such as indoors locations, and create your node map with additional JSON data visually?

New comment by pvo50555 in "WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code"

pvo50555 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:23:52 +0000

couldn't* care less

New comment by pvo50555 in "Rare Ovarian Tumor Discovered in Egyptian New Kingdom Burial"

pvo50555 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 02:27:32 +0000

>The tumor, which contained two deformed teeth and likely produced pain and swelling, appeared as a bony mass about the size of a large grape during the excavation of the woman’s pelvis.