Hacker News: victords

New comment by victords in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

victords — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:19:31 +0000

I was interested in learning more about reverse image search, so I built audioguide.london. It’s a simple image search where you take a photo of an artwork in a gallery, tries to ID it and returns a pre-generated audio and a link to the museum website.

The audios were all generated locally, essentially looking at the contents of the website, running it through a LLM to generate a script and Kokoro for TTS.

I’ve built it as an app for myself almost a year ago, so I deployed it as a vibe coded website in here: https://audioguide.london/

New comment by victords in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

victords — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:29:22 +0000

As mentioned before, I think Apple hardware is the best alternative right now.

Mac Studio, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, you can find even some used ones with enough RAM that will run models like Qwen reasonably well.

I'm using a M1 Max MacBook Pro and it runs Qwen 3.5 on Ollama (without MLX) at a decent speed.

New comment by victords in "The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible"

victords — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:43:52 +0000

A fun project doesn't need to be original, IMO.

URL Shortener is still one of the most popular System Design questions, building this project is a great way to have some experience / understanding of it, for example.

New comment by victords in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

victords — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:39:18 +0000

Loved the idea!

New comment by victords in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

victords — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:37:37 +0000

VictorSantiago.me

Only actual update I do is to change my title / company when I change jobs, otherwise it's just a landing page to link to my GH, LinkedIn, etc. No blogs or anything exciting.

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

victords — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:10:08 +0000

When AWS released the S3 Vectors last year, I wanted to try it since I had no experience with Vector DBs, so I built a simple audioguide app to play around with it.

Basically, just use it to identify artworks from a photo, then return a pre-generated AI-Audio for that artwork based on the data on their site. I put up a basic live version on my site for The National Gallery in London: https://victorsantiago.me/audioguide/national_gallery.html

(If you want to try it, you can open it on your phone and take a picture of some painting on the National Gallery Website, e.g.: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gog... )

It was pretty fun to try it out and play with different LLMs and TTS models to generate the output. Might make a it a proper web app some time soon!

New comment by victords in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

victords — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:06:55 +0000

Are you able to sponsor visa? Already based in London, but would need visa to switch jobs.

New comment by victords in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

victords — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:28:03 +0000

The way you put it, looks like IBM is a pretty good place to work at

New comment by victords in "Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games"

victords — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:27:30 +0000

The homebrew scene still exists today, just moved consoles.

I was just playing around with the Xbox Dev Mode this weekend and trying out different emulators.

New comment by victords in "Gemini 1.5 outshines GPT-4-Turbo-128K on long code prompts, HVM author"

victords — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:44:49 +0000

> The fact this tech is becoming g democratized is good.

The issue is that it's only democratized if you have the money.

New comment by victords in "Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1"

victords — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:25:39 +0000

I'd imagine not everything can be paid on a credit card. E.g.: Rent.

New comment by victords in "Gang crisis shaking Sweden"

victords — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 21:30:12 +0000

> most locals want to go to UK and the US to live

Absolutely not the impression I got when I lived there.

New comment by victords in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

victords — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:01:32 +0000

You don't need to be badly paid to enjoy free lunch.

New comment by victords in "Binance lays off over 1k Employees"

victords — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:52:22 +0000

They did pay their bonus in some Binance crypto coin, but at least their base salary was relatively high.

New comment by victords in "Is 40 the New 60?"

victords — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:11:38 +0000

> Out of the two signals, "this person was successful at 8 different companies" versus "this person stuck in one place for almost three decades", which do you imagine is going to get hired?

Why is the assumption not the opposite?

"This person failed at 8 companies" vs "This person was success at one for almost three decades"?

Why is it a sign of success if you are at a company for a short stay before going to the next? If anything, I'd imagine that a short stay would be more likely related to getting PIPd or unable to get promoted/grow there.

New comment by victords in "Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people"

victords — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:26:54 +0000

Why is it even suspected to be her? Just because of the account name?

New comment by victords in "Robinhood is facing nearly 50 lawsuits over GameStop frenzy"

victords — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:29:42 +0000

Why fiasco?

New comment by victords in "GitHub Actions is experiencing degraded performance"

victords — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:31:30 +0000

Not agreeing with his points, but funnily enough, I think Sony does use Azure.

New comment by victords in "WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update"

victords — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:10:00 +0000

So, in other words is not one person who is pushing to remain on Whatsapp, but instead only one person pushing to leave.

New comment by victords in "2020 Game"

victords — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:35:16 +0000

Worked until the end for me. Nice little retrospective game.