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New comment by rahimnathwani in "I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI"

rahimnathwani — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:06:02 +0000

Nico Bailon (author of many extensions for Mario's Pi coding agent) has something that might be a good starting point for this:

https://x.com/i/status/2043054831947198640

https://github.com/nicobailon/pi-model-switch

New comment by rahimnathwani in "OpenOats – A meeting note-taker that talks back"

rahimnathwani — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:33:16 +0000

I somehow missed this when it was posted as a 'Show HN' a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425646

Until recently I was using MacWhisper (a paid app that originally used Whisper but now also supports Parakeet).

But OpenOats (i) displays the transcript in real-time rather than at the end of the call, and (ii) has a simpler and less confusing UI.

I've used it only for one meeting so far, and it did a good job with that one.

OpenOats – A meeting note-taker that talks back

rahimnathwani — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:29:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/yazinsai/OpenOats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735143

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

rahimnathwani — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:38:36 +0000

It was a long time ago. Perhaps I submitted using a different form?

New comment by rahimnathwani in "I Hate Tailwind and Love Bootstrap"

rahimnathwani — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:46:42 +0000

"Bootstrap takes the opposite approach by limiting flexibility and embedding decisions into predefined components."

If you choose tailwind, nothing is stopping you from using components. You can choose to use predefined components, or you can create your own. Or some mix.

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

rahimnathwani — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:48:09 +0000

I don't see any notifications. When I go to https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/suggested_purchases I see only:

Showing 0 suggestions.

10 of 10 suggestions left

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

rahimnathwani — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:27:01 +0000

"There are worse ways for a city to spend money."

Yes, San Francisco does all of those, too.

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

rahimnathwani — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:34:34 +0000

I've only suggested a purchase a couple of times. I've never heard back, so I assumed whatever I submitted was being ignored.

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

rahimnathwani — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:38:28 +0000

Sorry, too late to edit. You probably spotted that I should have written $20/month, not $10/month.

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

rahimnathwani — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:22:12 +0000

It might not seem like a lot, but it is a lot when you consider that most residents don't use the library at all, and that adult book collections aren't great.

850,000 people have to share just 2 copies of Thompson's Calculus Made Easy. (I didn't cherry pick this: I looked up at my bookshelf and picked the first book I saw.)

Very little of the money is spent on books. Only 15% of the money is spent on 'collections', and much of that is spent on things other than books.

SF libraries are nice for children (lots of copies of kids' books, lots of desks to do homework when waiting for parents to get back from work).

But I personally don't find them a convenient source for reading material as, if I want a particular book, they usually don't have it.

SFPL's own stats say they see over 10,000 visitors per day and check out over 12 million items annually. Let's say you allocate 50% ($100M) to each of those two missions: serving as a community space vs. lending materials.

That gives you:

- As a community space: $100M ÷ (10,000 visitors × 365 days) = ~$27 per visit. You could hand every person who walks in a $27 gift card to a coffee shop with free Wi-Fi and they'd arguably get a comparable experience for many use cases.

- As a lending library: $100M ÷ 12,000,000 checkouts = ~$8.30 per checkout. You could just buy most paperbacks and many e-books for that price and give them away.

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

rahimnathwani — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:50:58 +0000

In San Francisco, the annual library budget is ~$200,000,000. That's about $10/month for each San Francisco resident (including babies, elderly people etc.).

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

rahimnathwani — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:45:55 +0000

The vertical resolution of a DVD is either 480 (NTSC) or 576 (PAL). This usually matched the visible vertical resolution of the TV you were using.

A 1080p screen has 6 times as many pixels as an NTSC DVD.

A 4k screen has 24 times as many pixels as an NTSC DVD.

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

rahimnathwani — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:23:23 +0000

Yes, and the app they're recommending emulates that swipe, but really really fast, so it looks instant. And you don't have to swipe 8 times to go from #1 to #9.

New comment by rahimnathwani in "PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement"

rahimnathwani — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:20:35 +0000

How do the personas work? Does the board direct the Z80 to an alternate ROM stored in the flash?

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

rahimnathwani — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:49:08 +0000

It's in the footer but yeah

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

rahimnathwani — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:01:53 +0000

There's a fork of FluidAudio that supports the recent Cohere model: https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidAudio/tree/B/cohere-coreml...

It's used by this dictation app: https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice/

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating"

rahimnathwani — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:08:29 +0000

This reminds me of:

https://taketest.xyz/confidence-calibration

The same site also has something with a fixed confidence level: https://taketest.xyz/ci-calibration

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

rahimnathwani — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:01 +0000

Right, and if you're on MacOS you can use it for free with Hex: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

New comment by rahimnathwani in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

rahimnathwani — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:30:17 +0000

You're suggesting that 100% of the income tax burden is shifted from employees to employers.

The incidence of taxation (which party bears the burden of the tax, irrespective of who 'pays' it) is widely studied. As it relates to payroll taxes (paid by the employer) and income taxes (paid by the employee) most research finds that employees bear most (but not all) of the burden. This is the opposite of your claim.

New comment by rahimnathwani in "What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router"

rahimnathwani — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:32:28 +0000

When regular people say 'router', they assume this one box will be all three of these things:

- router

- NAT gateway

- DHCP server

In a typical scenario, turning IP forwarding on will do nothing unless:

- DHCP has given the devices on the 'inside' IP addresses and told them the gateway address, and

- the router is set up to do IP masquerading