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abstract257··on Ask HN: What would you name your own LLM?
That's exactly the analogy I use:

The overeager PhD, knowing everything and having no business sense or expierence.

abstract257··on Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages
Thanks
abstract257··on Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages
Curious how it does on multi-page scanned PDFs vs. single screenshots? The ORT vision/decoder split is the part that usually makes or breaks CPU VLM OCR...
abstract257··on AI Makes Adding Features Faster – So Why Not Add Just One More?
I know this so well. When is good, good enough?
abstract257··on Ask HN: How do small teams securely share env files?
I started to use the croc tool to sent the .env files.
abstract257··on Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
Seams we had a similar urge recently. I like the simplicity of your approach. Will post a show a little later about my approach to notetaking and LLM integration.
abstract257··on Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?
Similar for me, just no perplexity and I try to utilize more of Qwen for my coding, instead of cursor/claude, but i see my lazyness. This brings the advantage of having to go back to the basics aswell e.g. Search and Replace instead of just a brainless prompt...
abstract257··on Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm
these 55K pictures is soemthing i can get lost in. thanks for building.