Hacker News: saltysalt

New comment by saltysalt in "Audacity 4.0"

saltysalt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:36:19 +0000

I hope aup4 is smaller than aup3, because my number one headache with Audacity is file size bloat. Otherwise I love it!

New comment by saltysalt in "RAG Is Simpler Than You Think"

saltysalt — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:20:36 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, and that's a great idea I should have done that! They are extracted and added each turn, all handled by the same middleware proxy that also handles the retrievals. I put the full code for that (memory_proxy.py) in the article.

New comment by saltysalt in "Humans Are Terrible Programmers"

saltysalt — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:31:19 +0000

Yes fair point, I often think about that.

Humans Are Terrible Programmers

saltysalt — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:35:32 +0000

Article URL: https://leadprompt.sh/a/742-Humans-are-terrible-programmers-2026w20

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454603

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by saltysalt in "PageRank explained"

saltysalt — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:38:15 +0000

Let's not forget that PageRank unintentionally spawned the SEO industry.

New comment by saltysalt in "RAG Is Simpler Than You Think"

saltysalt — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:34:34 +0000

If like me you run models locally, it's pretty easy to run your own RAG locally also using a Vector Database like Qdrant for persistence, and a middle-layer like Mem0 for realtime retrial and updates. I documented the set-up steps here: https://leadprompt.sh/a/739-Building-an-Infinite-Memory-Loca...

New comment by saltysalt in "Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history"

saltysalt — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:09:49 +0000

New comment by saltysalt in "The Science Fiction Book Every Systems Architect Should Read [video]"

saltysalt — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:54:36 +0000

My review takes a different angle.

The Science Fiction Book Every Systems Architect Should Read [video]

saltysalt — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:24:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFwCbH0_cyQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304107

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by saltysalt in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

saltysalt — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:35:26 +0000

A human-curated old school web search engine: https://greppr.org/

Whiteboards are better than PowerPoint

saltysalt — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:42:31 +0000

Article URL: https://leadprompt.sh/a/740-Whiteboards-are-better-than-PowerPoint-2026w18

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213062

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by saltysalt in "Qwen 3.0 Image Pro"

saltysalt — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:38 +0000

Will be interesting to see if they release the weights for local deployments. I love running Flux2 locally via ComfyUI.

Building an Infinite Memory Local AI Stack on Fedora

saltysalt — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:37:35 +0000

Article URL: https://leadprompt.sh/a/739-Building-an-Infinite-Memory-Local-AI-Stack-on-Fedora

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126255

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The poisoned pill that killed Greppr indexing

saltysalt — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:27:33 +0000

Article URL: https://leadprompt.sh/a/738-The-poisoned-pill-that-killed-Greppr-indexing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096588

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Lessons from Crawling the Web at Scale

saltysalt — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:55:03 +0000

Article URL: https://leadprompt.sh/a/737-Lessons-from-crawling-the-web-at-scale-2026w17

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059968

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by saltysalt in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

saltysalt — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:13:42 +0000

Yes you are correct, most are horrible. I built my own as a hobby because I wanted to go back to the "ten blue links" model of the early Internet, but freely admit that model is now dead with the majority of end-users asking their AI assistants instead. Gemini is vital to Google as a result.

New comment by saltysalt in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

saltysalt — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:38:04 +0000

Ultimately AI will kill Google's search monopoly, not fines.

New comment by saltysalt in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

saltysalt — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:59:45 +0000

It will be interesting to compare this to Flux 2.

AI as a Factor of Production

saltysalt — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:57:04 +0000

Article URL: https://leadprompt.sh/a/736-AI-as-a-Factor-of-Production-2026w16

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702976

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by saltysalt in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"

saltysalt — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:10:20 +0000

Side topic, but that website is awesome.