Hacker News: thatxliner

New comment by thatxliner in "Claude Opus 5"

thatxliner — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:12:33 +0000

> Doing testing with it now, specifically for image->html conversion.

I wonder if there exists a benchmark for that.

New comment by thatxliner in "NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR"

thatxliner — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:35:34 +0000

This was originally implemented wayyy before AI got good; I just never bothered to package it for HN until today.

Also, it was an excuse to learn Unity :P

A faster streaming protocol is definitely up next though

New comment by thatxliner in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

thatxliner — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:31:13 +0000

How is this different from what that feature OpenRouter does?

New comment by thatxliner in "NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR"

thatxliner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:55:58 +0000

it's useful on planes (that was my personal use case). also, privacy

AI 2027

thatxliner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:55:35 +0000

Article URL: https://ai-2027.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027174

Points: 1

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New comment by thatxliner in "NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR"

thatxliner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:08:53 +0000

I mean...it isn't that bad. The actual limitation is the resolution of your smartphone screen

New comment by thatxliner in "NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR"

thatxliner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:08 +0000

useful on planes imo

NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR

thatxliner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:02:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ThatXliner/NerdLens

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022790

Points: 21

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New comment by thatxliner in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

thatxliner — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:50:54 +0000

audio??? can it listen to music

New comment by thatxliner in "Show HN: Super Dario"

thatxliner — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:17:44 +0000

a perfect representation of the situation

New comment by thatxliner in "Self-Hosted VPN Servers"

thatxliner — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:18:49 +0000

Works in China; at least when I set it up, my brother in China was able to use YouTube.

On the Google speed test, he hit 46 mbps download

Self-Hosted VPN Servers

thatxliner — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:17:40 +0000

Article URL: https://bryanhu.com/easyVPN/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894899

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Hologram, photo management and culling built with Tauri

thatxliner — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:10:33 +0000

Hello Hacker News photographers! Yes, this is essentially my take on photo colling and management, similar to the features that Lightroom and Darktable already have.

Because I shoot in JPEG+RAW, my workflow looks like me going through my JPEG images and then eliminating the JPEGs I don't like afterwards in addition to their corresponding RAWs. At least on my old MacBook, the JPEGs were faster to load than the RAW photos (probably a combination of CR2, the file my EOS 40D, not having embedded JPEG previews and my buggy macOS version). Hologram would be my way of making this workflow easier to do, especially with keyboard shortcuts.

I also never liked the star-based system on Lightroom or Darktable, so I implemented Pick and Reject instead (which matches what I would otherwise do with deleting photos to my system trash when I cull in the Finder app)

Anyways, with my new R7 I found that bursts got more annoying to cull so I decided to create autocull on Hologram as well. This would analyze your photos and help you suggest which photos in a burst to keep, or which photos to keep in a shoot in general.

Currently, this is not notarized or whatever, but let me know what you guys think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885810

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban

thatxliner — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:10:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/policy/964342/fcc-crack-down-dji-front-companies-xtra-skyrover-sgs-lab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867901

Points: 3

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New comment by thatxliner in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

thatxliner — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:25:28 +0000

Starlink is currently partnering with United Airlines for Wi-Fi coverage, so that's one thing.

New comment by thatxliner in "PostHog FOSS"

thatxliner — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:49:11 +0000

Oh thanks for the clarification

New comment by thatxliner in "Just Pay the Subscription"

thatxliner — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:35:17 +0000

No, I'd argue that this applies even for a mobile app: they can be shut down and become unavailable on the App Store or whatever.

On Android the solution is side loading if you have the APK. But on iPhone, unless you have the source code or IPA, you're stuck

New comment by thatxliner in "Just Pay the Subscription"

thatxliner — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:29:35 +0000

Right, the issue is that we are owning our stuff less and less. You used to be able to even buy a copy of an OS on a CD. Thus, I don't think a subscription justifies the cost of maintenance, and a lot of app models don't do subscriptions for app updates.

Of course, if there is a cloud component, that's a different story because there are recurring costs to hosting a server. Or maybe a user uses the service enough to justify the subscription (e.g. Apple Music subscription vs paying per song on iTunes or how Claude Code and Codex are actual subscriptions that are extremely worth it for the user).

New comment by thatxliner in "PostHog FOSS"

thatxliner — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:26:27 +0000

Does anyone know what the context for this is? Because https://github.com/PostHog/posthog exists as well

PostHog FOSS

thatxliner — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:17:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-foss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846293

Points: 94

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