<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vulkoingim</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vulkoingim</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:06:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vulkoingim" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you!<p>Some parts are, but easily abstractable. I do have it on my list to support other services, but haven't had much time lately to tackle new features.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:41:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754656</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Been working on and off on a Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of Spotify’s repetitive recommendations.<p>You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.<p>It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created. If you don't follow much or any artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to be useful, as right now that's the only pools of artists the recommendations are based on.<p><a href="https://riffradar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://riffradar.org/</a></p>
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<p>I've been working on and off on something [1] that tries to address this problem through somewhat manual curation. You choose what genres you're interested in, and get auto updated playlists created from your music library.<p>I have a few other experimental features in the pipeline that will expand the music selection, but they are not there yet.<p>[1] <a href="https://riffradar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://riffradar.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:23:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386325</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used iCloud in the past, but found that syncing between a few devices sometimes left my notes in a weird state - sometimes overwritten, missing, etc. I switched some time ago to <a href="https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save</a> with backblaze and I periodically sync to a git repo for a second backup. No issues since then.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:31:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199916</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Built my own Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of Spotify’s repetitive recommendations.<p>You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.<p>It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created - if you don't follow much or any artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to be useful.<p><a href="https://riffradar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://riffradar.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:48:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943104</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm using <a href="https://spokenly.app/" rel="nofollow">https://spokenly.app/</a> in local mode, which is free. Very happy with it. It supports a bunch of models, including whisper and parakeet. Right now I'm mostly using parakeet v3 on my desktop, but it tends to do a bit more errors, although it is very fast. I cycle betwen it and Distil-Whisper Large V3.5, which is a bit slower.<p>On iOS I'm also using the same app, with the Apple Speech model, which I found out to be better performing for me than the parakeet/whisper. One drawback for the apple model is that you need iOS/Mac 26+ - and I haven't bothered to update to Tahoe on my mac.<p>Both of the models work instantly for me (Mac M1, iphone 17 Pro).<p>Edit: Aaaand I just saw that you're looking for speech-to-speech. Oops, still sleeping.</p>
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<p>Looks cool!<p>One suggestion - in the demo mode it would be nice if you provide a sample GPX file which you can try right away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:31:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586547</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately not. I oversaw that this was a separate scope when I requested my initial permissions for the app and am still to request an extension.<p>But if you have any kind of playlists - it would work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579779</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, at least not at this point. I have quite a few ideas that are waiting to be implemented, before I can think of anything ML related - if ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:33:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578287</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Built my own Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of Spotify’s repetitive recommendations.<p>You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.<p>It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists you follow or you've created - if you don't follow much or any artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to be useful.<p><a href="https://riffradar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://riffradar.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578026</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Working on a little project to make Spotify recommendations better.<p>You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.<p><a href="https://riffradar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://riffradar.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:46:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266714</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "I can't recommend Grafana anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure where you saw that Victoria Metrics uses object storage. It doesn't - it uses block storage and it runs completely fine on HDD, you don't even need SSD/NVMe.<p>There are multiple ways to deal with ingestion floods. Kafka/distributed log is one of them, but it's not the only one. In cluster mode VM is a distributed set of services that scale out independently and buffer at different levels.<p>Resource usage for ingestion/storage is much lower than other solutions, and you get more for your money. At $PREVIOUS_JOB, we migrated from a very expensive Thanos to a VM cluster backed by HDDs, and saved a lot. Performance was much better as well. It was a while ago, and I don't remember the exact number of time series, but it was meant to handle 10k+ VMs (and a lot of other resources, multiple k8s clusters) and did it with ease (also for everybody involved).<p>I don't think you have really looked into VM - you might get pleasantly surprised by what you find :) Check out this benchmark with Mimir[1] (it is a few years old though), and some case studies [2]. Some of the companies in the case studies run at significantly higher volume than your requirements.<p>[1] <a href="https://victoriametrics.com/blog/mimir-benchmark/" rel="nofollow">https://victoriametrics.com/blog/mimir-benchmark/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/casestudies/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/casestudies...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:34:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937732</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "I can't recommend Grafana anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have a look at Victoria Metrics - have run it at a relatively high scale with much more success than any other metric stores. It's one of those things that just work. It's extremely easy to run at in a single-instance mode and handles much more than you would expect. Scaling it is a breeze too.<p>(I'm not affiliated, but a very happy user across multiple orgs and personal projects)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:22:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935666</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not directly, no. I still rely on the data that Spotify gives me that relates to artists' information; and it's not great a lot of the time. E.g. there are obvious cases where artists belong to genres that they should not belong to. I do have some ideas for improvement, but they are still WIP.<p>What it allows you to do, though, is create your playlists with extended filters. E.g. you can select genres, and at the same time exclude genres - that helps with the "cross-contamination". You also get a view of all the artists that match your selections and you can add exclusions for them as well. It is a bit of manual work, but it works pretty good for me personally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873550</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Working on a little project to make Spotify recommendations better.<p>You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.<p><a href="https://riffradar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://riffradar.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:58:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873184</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Working on and off on a little project to make Spotify recommendations better.<p>You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.<p><a href="https://riffradar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://riffradar.org/</a></p>
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<p>I would argue sensor size is what's most impotant to look for in a camera.<p>Have a look at this thread [1] I have bookmarked. I found it quite informative. I already got some cheap cameras and set them up, but I wish I would have found it earlier. The ones I got are 4MP with 1/3" sensor and perform absolutely terribly in night setting.<p>[1] <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/getting-cameras-with-the-right-mp-to-sensor-size-ratio.67642/post-731686" rel="nofollow">https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/getting-cameras-with-the-right...</a></p>
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<p>Oops that's embarassing - it should be good now :) Thanks! That was a classic case of fixing one thing and breaking another, which my tests didn't catch :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568755</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got tired of Spotify recommending me the same songs, from the same artists, over and over again.<p>So I built Riff Radar - it creates playlists from your followed artists' complete discography, and allows you to tailor them in multiple ways. Those playlists are my top listened to. I know, because you can also see your listening statistics (at the mercy of Spotify's API).<p>The playlists also get updated daily. Think of it as a better version of the daily mixes Spotify creates.<p><a href="https://riffradar.org/" rel="nofollow">https://riffradar.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:25:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45565283</link><dc:creator>vulkoingim</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45565283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45565283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulkoingim in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not currently, no - I might potentially include it at some point, but I feel like the Spotify UI is better tailored for that, so I'm not sure.<p>The current functionality revolves around genres, and artists are derived from those selections. There are some additional filters where you can filter down based on album/track release dates, exclude genres or specific artists - but it all comes from your library, not from the whole Spotify pool. It was a deliberate decision, as my gripe was the fact that I have a massive library, and was not listening to its entirety.<p>You can achieve a somewhat similar functionality by creating a playlist, and adding a single song from any artists you want in that playlist.<p>As to the following list - the podcast/artists libraries are not the same and you can access them at different places in Spotify. If you click on your profile and go to following you'll only see artists/friends. Moreover they are behind separate APIs/access scopes and I only scrape the aritsts you follow.<p>If you want give it a go, you might find it useful. You can delete your account at any time - I don't keep any of your data once you delete your account.</p>
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