Hacker News: raajg

New comment by raajg in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

raajg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:22:24 +0000

Telegram -> 1 Group/agent -> OpenClaw running on an old laptop

Using it for journaling and capturing ideas. Previous workflow as iPhone Memos. Now it's

voice message -> openclaw -> transcribe using parakeet -> git repo

Meta is killing off the metaverse. It lost $80B

raajg — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://qz.com/meta-metaverse-mark-zuckerberg-horizon-worlds-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445966

Points: 11

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New comment by raajg in "Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?"

raajg — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:59:10 +0000

I've been dabbling with STT quite a bit and built my own tool using Deepgram. But just tried Handy and it's SO FREAKING FAST! Love it.

New comment by raajg in "Why do we need dithering?"

raajg — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:53:21 +0000

This was recently shared on HN: https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1/

For anyone interested in seeing how dithering can be pushed to the limits, play 'Return of the Obra Dinn'. Dithering will always remind you of this game after that.

- https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/653530/Return_of_the_Obra...

New comment by raajg in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

raajg — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:37:34 +0000

Time to set up Pi-Hole on my Rapsberry Pi 4

https://pi-hole.net/

New comment by raajg in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

raajg — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:42:35 +0000

I think that local search, retrieval, and filing will become much easier with LLMs.

There are already tools and products in the market that allow you to rename and organize files. I believe this is the future.

We have developed various systems over decades, but I anticipate with LLMs it'll be so easy to file and retrieve things that we won't even have to think about it.

New comment by raajg in "Ask HN: How much energy does generating a single Genmoji cost?"

raajg — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:48:54 +0000

Ref: google.com/search?q=answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything

New comment by raajg in "Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth it"

raajg — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 05:47:00 +0000

More than a Roman character, Catalina reminded me of "Howard Roark" from The Fountainhead. It's been at least a decade since I last read it, but I thought the movie was quite influenced by that book.

New comment by raajg in "Show HN: Ell – A command-line interface for LLMs written in Bash"

raajg — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:39:35 +0000

Been using the LLM cli by simonw and love it.

https://github.com/simonw/llm

https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/

Pro tip: Use $pbpaste to inject clipboard contents in a prompt

New comment by raajg in "Ask HN: How do people track/save interesting Githubs?"

raajg — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:30:11 +0000

I just 'star' the repos

New comment by raajg in "Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver"

raajg — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:27:56 +0000

looks promising, but after looking at the website I'm yearning to learn more about it! How does it compare to alternatives? What's the performance like? There isn't enough to push me to stop using ChatGPT and use this instead. Offline is good, but to get users at scale there has to be a compelling reason to shift. I don't think that offline capabilities are going to be enough to get significant number of users.

Another tip, I try out a new chat interface to LLMs almost every week and they're free to use initially. There isn't a compelling reason for me to spend $10 from the get to for a use case that I'm not sure about yet.

New comment by raajg in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

raajg — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:14:06 +0000

Been 4 months and I'm pretty happy with the following setup: PiHole + RaspberryPi + Tailscale

With Pihole running on a tailnet all my devices use it by default as long as they're on the same tailnet. That way I have seamless ad-blocking even when I'm on cellular data or my friends' wifi networks.

New comment by raajg in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"

raajg — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:38:15 +0000

Recently bought a Raspberry Pi 4, spun it up and installed various things on Ubuntu running from an SD Card. I now have a server running in my room again after probably a decade!

I'm not 16. :p

New comment by raajg in "WebP is so great except it's not (2021)"

raajg — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:45:27 +0000

On my 14in Macbook Pro I CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE AT ALL

New comment by raajg in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023"

raajg — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:05:17 +0000

Manual coffee grinder + French press

New comment by raajg in "Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source MAC layer"

raajg — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:51:41 +0000

For someone unexperienced with ESP32 but wanting to dip your toes, I'd highly recommend M5Stack - https://m5stack.com/ . No affiliation whatsoever, but I started playing with some basic boards last year for the first time and the the tiny devices they build have so many different sensors, transmitters, etc that you can start with a lot of early experiments just using a single device and a USB-C cable.

New comment by raajg in "Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source MAC layer"

raajg — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:46:55 +0000

Pretty barebones but working web servers are possible. Example: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-web-server-arduino-ide...

New comment by raajg in "Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes starting December 4"

raajg — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:27:57 +0000

I read this article last year and found it to be a pretty good in-depth analysis of how Evernote had a lot of potential but lost in so many ways:

- [Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential |The Full History](https://nira.com/evernote-history)

New comment by raajg in "Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file"

raajg — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:52:13 +0000

oh wow, I would have never imagined that 'that' would be preventing me from running llama + llava! Confirming that I have Crowdstrike running too.

New comment by raajg in "Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file"

raajg — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:55:15 +0000

Yep, same issue. and the error message is unhelpful