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New comment by selfsigned in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

selfsigned — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:15:56 +0000

Two (very quick) minutes on their GitHub repo and it's pretty obvious that they're using firebase-analytics and at the very least seem to be sending URLs[1] and infos such as the model you download or the capacities[2] you use.

[1] https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery/blob/main/Android/...

[2] https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery/blob/main/Android/...

New comment by selfsigned in "Musician says AI company is cloning her music, filing claims against her"

selfsigned — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:54:48 +0000

I don’t think it holds up beyond passive listening for me, the violins sound quite off and break the illusion from the get go. But different strokes for different folks

New comment by selfsigned in "Musician says AI company is cloning her music, filing claims against her"

selfsigned — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:55:05 +0000

Legitimately curious, do you have some examples of great AI music ?

After getting bombarded with it in public spaces (namely cafés), I’ve come to see it as a worse copyright-free replacement for muzak. I’ve even subconsciously begun avoiding these places. When my brain randomly decides it wants to pay attention to the music, the whole shtick sounds grating in an uncanny valley kind of way that’s almost impossible to un-hear.

Trying Lyria 2 after that ordeal might’ve also amplified my bias against it, as everything I prompted ended up sounding like a robotic top 50 pastiche.

Maybe there’s a parallel to made with LLM prose here ?

(disclaimer: while not a musician I do enjoy listening to human-made less-mainstream music)

New comment by selfsigned in "Ask HN: Why are people paying so much for Vercel?"

selfsigned — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:07:20 +0000

It leverages AWS’ infrastructure, your app code runs on lambda and you get a cloudfront (AWS CDN) distribution link.

You can add to the built-in constructs via CDK (urgh) or pulumi (with SST ion).

New comment by selfsigned in "Ask HN: Why are people paying so much for Vercel?"

selfsigned — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:04:07 +0000

I’ve found that a lot of developers would rather not have to think about where their application is going to run. This is a real shame, especially when there are free tools like SST that bridge the DevOps gap, making things like AWS and IAM less of a pain. Even better, there are complete self-hostable platform solutions like Supabase or the classic Docker Compose. However, the shared downside with these solutions is that they require some setup when it comes to deploying, unlike the magic of Vercel.

I do wonder when we started losing interest about where our code is actually being executed ?