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Nora23

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Software engineer. Building PAVO, an AI audio travel guide app.
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Nora23··on FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
How does this compare to GPT version in terms of interactive capabilities?
Nora23··on Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them
How does this handle images with different compression formats?
Nora23··on East Germany balloon escape
How long did it take them to plan this escape?
Nora23··on ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
Does this mean Langfuse will now have better ClickHouse integration?
Nora23··on Show HN: Pavo Travel – AI Audio Tours Using Gemini Grounding and Places API
Good catch! Yeah, it's about ~20 seconds right now with Flash 3.0. Definitely on the slower side.

I'm hoping to move to Flash Lite when it's out, that should help a lot. Also thinking about adding some better loading feedback so it doesn't feel quite so long while you wait.

Nora23··on My Gripes with Prolog
Same here. The metainterpretation stuff is fascinating but dense.
Nora23··on Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
Makes sense for dev boxes you spin up weekly but don't actually use 24/7. Like staging environments.
Nora23··on Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
By the time GPT 5.5 landed we were already on 5.1, honestly they seem to converge on similar limitations around compositional reasoning.
Nora23··on Ask HN: When is Gemini 3.0 Flash Lite coming out?
Fair point! I was hoping maybe there'd be some rumors or speculation floating around, but you're right. Thanks anyway!
Nora23··on Show HN: 0xCal – A calorie tracker where you just describe what you ate
Thanks! That's a really smart approach, showing the assumptions upfront makes it transparent.
Nora23··on Show HN: Azurite – Triage Linear and GitHub issues using MCP (Deck of Cards UI)
context switching between tools is painful. card-based triage sounds smart.
Nora23··on Can Wikipedia Survive?
been relying on it for 25 years now. hope it sticks around.
Nora23··on Chess Programming Wiki
nice resource. been using this for years when building chess engines.
Nora23··on Ask HN: Why does it still make sense to review stupid bugs at PR time?
pre-commit hooks catch the easy stuff. code review is still useful for architecture and logic though.
Nora23··on Show HN: 0xCal – A calorie tracker where you just describe what you ate
The natural language input is a nice touch. I always found traditional calorie trackers tedious with all the database searching. How does it handle portion sizes? Like if I say "had a burger" vs "had a big burger"?
Nora23··on Ask HN: What travel apps do you use while traveling?
PAVO uses location-based grounding with Gemini to generate local guides in your native language. So it's less about "travel utility tools" and more focused on deep local knowledge and cultural context.

But you're right - Google Maps handles destinations well, but there's no reason we couldn't use Gemini with grounding for transit guidance too. That's a really interesting idea, thanks! Definitely going to explore that.

Nora23··on Ask HN: What travel apps do you use while traveling?
This is really helpful, thanks! The offline aspect keeps coming up. PAVO currently generates content in real-time with Gemini, which obviously doesn't work without connectivity.

Thinking I should add a "pre-download" feature where users can generate audio guides and itineraries over WiFi before heading out. Would that solve the offline problem, or do people need the flexibility to explore spontaneously without planning ahead?

Nora23··on Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
Smart approach to AI agent security. The balance between convenience and protection is tricky.
Nora23··on Crafting Interpreters
One of the best resources for learning compiler design. The web version being free is incredibly generous.
Nora23··on Rubik's Cube in Prolog – Order
Prolog's pattern matching makes this elegant. The constraint-based approach for state space pruning is clever.
Nora23··on Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL
The pure SQL approach is impressive. Would be interesting to see performance comparisons with traditional QR libraries at scale.
Nora23··on Sun Position Calculator
This is great for photographers planning golden hour shoots. The neighborhood-level zoom is particularly useful.
Nora23··on I built justRead because existing reading apps ignore what readers want
Nice!