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eMPee584··on OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it
"The profession" actually is a wide variety of trades, not just architects and contractors. Electricians, plumbers etc. where CAD is not yet widely spread. Which hopefully will change in the near future, with open source BIM tool chains, boosted by generative/agentic AI.. Finally, a huge source of confusion and execution hiccups will be overcome.
eMPee584··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
local backups is responsible
eMPee584··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
As usual, root and sshfs make this all a lot more bearable. Alas, no online-banking or digital health insurance services, lol.
eMPee584··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
The server, and plausibly at least one secret service. Telegram datacenters are located in Florida, Amsterdam and Singapure.. guess local jurisdiction applies.
eMPee584··on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
Because of all the laggy javascript, wasting precious compute and gigawatts of power just to make buttons dance, track us and shove ads up ours?

Websites used to be below 100KiB - now they come with MEGABYTES of obfuscated JS.. wtf

Though obviously, it's not the individual developer to blame but the incentive system.

eMPee584··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
PostmarketOS is a complete degoogled mobile ecosystem, actually. How about we commit resources into that?
eMPee584··on VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]
With a bit of reading between the letters it seems obvious that for us anthropocentrics, humans are the implicit baseline measure for intelligence.
eMPee584··on Show HN: Tortuise – Gaussian splatting in your terminal, no GPU required
Gone already?
eMPee584··on Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
"I've only had alien mushrooms show up once" gonna be my reassuring quote of the day, thanks : )
eMPee584··on YouTube as Storage
But to whom, I have no followers and a blog update has been on my TODO list for two decades..
eMPee584··on YouTube as Storage
Well the time filters (before/after:date) still seem to work, but for controversial / hot topics, somehow, more recent videos tend to still show up at the top. Try "scandal after:2010 before:2012"..
eMPee584··on YouTube as Storage
I've stumbled upon very valuable content with very low view numbers - the algorithms spiral around spectacularity and provocation, not quality or insight.
eMPee584··on Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal
> can’t help with anything involving harming an animal or figuring out how to destroy a body.
eMPee584··on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
.. examples?
eMPee584··on FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
Even if well intended, isn't that a matter of reach? whom of the aforementioned vulnerable individuals will ever cross the HN comments section? How many of the HN regulars will not already be weary of any and all LLM outputs?
eMPee584··on Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser
Unexpected side quests are so much more enticing when equipped with the skill set to dig deep – but also, much more time-consuming.. Thanks for sharing! : )
eMPee584··on Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser
All the better FreeCAD continues to steadily plow forward..
eMPee584··on FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
Would you mind showing some compassion for the unintelligent, it's none of their fault.. It's incentives, sociodynamics and manifold other preconditions that bring about these symptoms.
eMPee584··on Heaps do lie: debugging a memory leak in vLLM
Skilled unwrapping of a stubborn memory leak's source using the full set of SOTA tools.. Kudos!
eMPee584··on Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity
Don't wait.. vibe-code, it's 2026!!1
eMPee584··on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
What do you think about the sparse voxel approach, shouldn't it be more compute efficient than computing zillions of ellipsoids? My understanding of CGI prolly is t0o shallow but I wonder why it hasn't caught on much..
eMPee584··on Show HN: Bazinga – Enforced engineering practices for AI coding
well the conceptual graphics look neat.. much neater than the formatting of this post .. xD

Curious to see how it performs against other agent frameworks.. A gallery of example projects would also be helpful.

eMPee584··on Boston Dynamics and DeepMind form new AI partnership
> The common man will never see a household robot

– for small durations of never.

eMPee584··on Ask HN: What are the most convincing resources about climate change?
klimafakten.de if you know german..
eMPee584··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
not that the internet had contained any misinformation or FUD when the training data was collected

also, statments with certainty about fictitious "honey pot prompts" are a problem, plausibly extrapolating from the data should be more governed by internal confidence.. luckily there are benchmarks now for that i believe

eMPee584··on Android developer verification: Early access starts
OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING is the premier solution.. again.
eMPee584··on Ask HN: What kind of TUI would you use if it existed?
A block-based visualization of live I/O traffic, like `pagemon -a` does for process memory..
eMPee584··on Top US billionaires' collective wealth grew by $698B in past year – report
Spark a debate about ways to (in light of the coming wave of cheap machine labour that would outcompete human on most fields within few years, thus tanking the current societal organisation) switch to a post-commercial open-access open-source commons-based post-scarcity economy! Switching from profit/cost to quality/joy as prime optimization targets and readjusting focus to build planetary infrastructure instead of upping shareholder value.. Chances are the majority of people is fed up with the money system and a campaign for "commons economy 2030" can go viral. So we an seize the moment – or wait and see others do it, to their advantage.
eMPee584··on I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
At the end of this day.. and of the next. But at some point, the tool will "suddenly" turn into a versatile agent, and that time might be a lot sooner than most expect (c.f. "exponential growth surprise factor"...)
eMPee584··on Complete Digitization of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus
ocrmypdf (rocks!)
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