Hacker News: riquito

New comment by riquito in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

riquito — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:48:23 +0000

> CO2 levels are locally elevated in the area where you exhale.

That's the same area we inhale from... Wouldn't be right to measure there then? It's not like we're interested in the amount of CO2 on the ground (in this discussion)

New comment by riquito in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

riquito — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:28:31 +0000

I whis you the best, you teached me a lot with your blog posts and code, and your software had an impact in how I use computers. You are probably the only developer alongside Torvalds that my wife knows by name (well, nickname) since whenever you do something cool I feel the urge to share my excitement with her

New comment by riquito in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

riquito — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:33:15 +0000

Then you should expect any positive comment to be replied negatively by a competition's puppet or bot too

New comment by riquito in "Why I love NixOS"

riquito — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:37:39 +0000

I was looking at hyperland in Fedora this week. I wanted to try out the latest release (released two weeks ago give or take). It wasn't available yet (maybe it isn't still). That's ok, but I checked what would I have needed to do to build it myself, and I didn't want to mess with a bunch of dev dependencies I didn't really care about and that I would have forgotten, so I ended up not trying it

New comment by riquito in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

riquito — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:38:31 +0000

This part I don't understand. I want to allow for a couple minutes, the time to install a unregistered app, and then go back to deny. I don't want to allow "for 7 days" or "indefinitely". In the text and screenshot of the announcement I see that you can switch these feature "on", but can they be switched "off"?

New comment by riquito in "Show HN: Horizon – GPU-accelerated infinite-canvas terminal in Rust"

riquito — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:02:12 +0000

I love these kind of projects trying out non mainstream approaches! Thanks for sharing

New comment by riquito in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

riquito — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:49:42 +0000

Perhaps he's thinking about "console" / "display server" but the lines blur fast (e.g. you can run GUI in linux console with framebuffer with some limitations)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing_system#Display_serve...

New comment by riquito in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

riquito — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:46:43 +0000

Happens all the time. You and your spouse do the same or similar route (e.g. bring child to school) and a month later you get a ticket. Who was driving that day?

New comment by riquito in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

riquito — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:57:41 +0000

You're forgetting that (1) brings a sense of pride. "I built this". That's not true in many ways if you ask something else to do it

New comment by riquito in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

riquito — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:46:21 +0000

A newspaper that sells you a product to allegedly fix/avoid the issue in the article

New comment by riquito in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

riquito — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:05:40 +0000

You may be interested in gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts

Text in, audio out, so you can merge in a single step LLM+TTS (streamable)

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-2.5-flas...

New comment by riquito in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

riquito — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:39:15 +0000

> we need something like wikipedia for news content

Interesting idea. It could be something that archives first and releases at a later date, when the news aren't as much new

New comment by riquito in "I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency"

riquito — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:54:12 +0000

> Cost is reduced because far fewer requests hit S3

I wonder. Given how cheap are S3 GET requests you need a massive number of requests to make provisioning and maintaining the cache server cheaper than the alternative.

New comment by riquito in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

riquito — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:05:11 +0000

I think he implies that because one can borrow hypothetically any book for free from a library, one could use them for legal training purposes, so the requirement of having your own copy should be moot

New comment by riquito in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

riquito — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:53:29 +0000

Probably not even the best ones, but among some recent models I find Dia and Orpheus more natural

- http://dia-tts.com/

- https://github.com/canopyai/Orpheus-TTS

New comment by riquito in "Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI"

riquito — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:07:21 +0000

Closed source, without 3rd party independent review and people should just trust you? As if your app cannot start sending data away in a month or attempt to detect monitoring software, to name a couple

New comment by riquito in "Apple introduces AppleCare One"

riquito — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:20:28 +0000

> no other PC or mobile phone manufacturer is providing warranty service (for consumer hardware) that remotely matches Apple's.

Maybe, but Apple is also among the worst companies for repairability of their hardware. If a PC (which you mention) breaks is usually only one part to be replaced (without looking at actual repairs), and any individual with necessary know-how can do it

New comment by riquito in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

riquito — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:49:36 +0000

Not that people are obligated to use IntelliJ IDEs, but it's sad that it boils down to "You can have privacy if you can afford it". But admittedly is better to have the option to use it than not being able to use it at all

New comment by riquito in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

riquito — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:45:40 +0000

> > It’s important to note that, if you’re using a non-commercial license, you cannot opt out of the collection of anonymous usage statistics. We use this information to improve our products.

> Well, it's basically true for MS-branded VSCode too. I now use VSCodium.

How's that "basically true"? That's false. You can opt out. In fact there's very good documentation around that

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/telemetry

New comment by riquito in "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency"

riquito — Tue, 06 May 2025 02:56:10 +0000

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

A couple questions: - any thought about wake word engines, to have something that listen without consuming all the time? The landscape for open solutions doesn't seem good - any plan to allow using external services for stt/tts for the people who don't have a 4090 ready (at the cost of privacy and sass providers)?