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badmonster··on Show HN: An AI zettelkasten that extracts ideas from articles, videos, and PDFs
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badmonster··on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
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badmonster··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
"Code red" feels like theater. Competition is healthy - Google's compute advantage was always going to matter once they got serious. The real question isn't who's ahead this quarter, but whether anyone can maintain a moat when the underlying tech is rapidly commoditizing.
badmonster··on 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
The real insight here is recognizing when network latency is your bottleneck. For many workloads, even a mediocre local database beats a great remote one. The question isn't "which database is best" but "does my architecture need to cross network boundaries at all?"
badmonster··on Show HN: Flowctl – Open-source self-service workflow automation platform
What makes Flowctl different from existing workflow automation tools like n8n or Zapier?
badmonster··on Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites
How does the system visualize the spread of news across different sites? Are there network graphs or timeline visualizations showing propagation?
badmonster··on Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust
What was the specific pixel art problem with Google's Nano Banana that this Rust project solved?
badmonster··on Show HN: An AI zettelkasten that extracts ideas from articles, videos, and PDFs
Does this tool work offline or does it require an API connection to external services like OpenAI?
badmonster··on Show HN: RFC Hub
What RFC standards or protocols can users browse on RFC Hub? Does it include IETF RFCs or is it focused on internal organizational RFCs?
badmonster··on Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
Fair clarification. Does Ghostty's WASM approach have performance advantages over pure xterm.js implementations?
badmonster··on Notes on Bhutan
Interesting parallel. Does this reliance limit Bhutan's sovereignty in practice? What's the trade-off?
badmonster··on How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
Absolutely! For instrumental focus music, check out Nils Frahm or Max Richter. Do you prefer more electronic or acoustic sounds?
badmonster··on Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
Does edge inference really solve the latency issue for most use cases? How does cost compare at scale?
badmonster··on Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
Interesting! Were there other examples from your course that had similar delays in insight? What changed your perspective?
badmonster··on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
Good point. Could usage patterns + inference costs give us proxy metrics? What would be a fair baseline?
badmonster··on Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
Have you found any strategies that help maintain joy while dealing with business constraints? What boundaries work best?
badmonster··on Rootless Pings in Rust
Do these behavioral differences have performance implications? Which approach is more efficient in practice?
badmonster··on Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
What other accessibility features do you wish existed in video AI models? Real-time vs post-processing?
badmonster··on What will enter the public domain in 2026?
True, but wouldn't a sliding scale based on commercial success make more sense? How would you measure "worth it" for smaller creators?
badmonster··on What will enter the public domain in 2026?
Interesting that copyright terms vary so much globally. Are there any notable works from non-Western countries entering public domain in 2026?
badmonster··on When Video Detailed Captioners Evolve Themselves via Agentic Self-Reflection
video captioning without human labels or large teacher models, improving accuracy and efficiency by self-generating and refining captions automatically.
badmonster··on Show HN: Guardian for Wild Mushroom Safety
interesting project!
badmonster··on Marble: A Multimodal World Model
exciting towards world intelligence
badmonster··on The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models
How does BDH handle long-range dependencies compared to Transformers, given its locally interacting neuron particles? Does the scale-free topology implicitly support efficient global information propagation?
badmonster··on Ask HN: Best way to create a searchable knowledge base?
https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex is built for building fresh knowledge base. Detects delta of data sources, apply any transformations, and refresh knowledge, at any scale.

It is open source.

Examples: https://cocoindex.io/docs/examples

badmonster··on We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB
kuzu is a great project.
badmonster··on Multi-Dimensional Vector Support in CocoIndex – Underneath Explained
Hi I've been working on adding multi-vector support natively in cocoindex for multi-modal RAG at scale. I wrote blog to help understand the concept of multi-vector and how it works underneath.

The framework itself automatically infers types, so when defining a flow, we don’t need to explicitly specify any types. Felt these concept are fundamental to multimodal data processing so just wanted to share. This unlocks at scale: images, text, audio, video — all can be represented as structured multi-vectors that preserve the unique semantics of each modality.

breakdown + Python examples: https://cocoindex.io/blogs/multi-vector/ Star GitHub if you like it! https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex

badmonster··on Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids
neat!
badmonster··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
a massive leap forward for real-time world modeling
badmonster··on Explainable Mapper: Charting LLM Embedding Spaces Using Perturbation-Based
Explainable Mapper: Charting LLM Embedding Spaces Using Perturbation-Based Explanation and Verification Agents
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