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high_byte··on Show HN: Ellipticc Drive – open-source cloud drive with E2E and PQ encryption
none of the companies shown are actually clients? considering this was setup like yesterday
high_byte··on How Much Does AI Cost?
how much does AI cost?

if you ask AI inference platforms, this is what they tell you:

"$0.0001285 per token per pixel per second per tuesday for 5 runs"

that's why I built this price table with actual human-readable costs

high_byte··on Show HN: NativeBlend – Text to fully editable 3D Models that don't suck
this is interesting. how does the semantic segmentation work? do you generate 3d models and then separate them? or are the separated from the initial generation?

I think since your target is blender it is better as a blender add on, so I can generate directly into my scene. then you can publish it on blender marketplaces.

high_byte··on The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe
more code => more bugs, so talking in absolute numbers is meaningless

show me percentages

high_byte··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
I'm building an ai fitness coach - using pose estimation from camera capture.

still early stage but you can already play with it, works on desktop and mobile:

https://react--gymmyz.netlify.app/

high_byte··on Age verification doesn’t work
welcome to the Age of Scam Verification

the internet is no longer anonymous

high_byte··on How to Give a Good Talk
reminds me of "How to Speak"

https://youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY

high_byte··on Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?
+1 for IQ!
high_byte··on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
can you elaborate on the setup? this is interesting I want the same
high_byte··on Ask HN: What's your most valuable query to an LLM?
a lot changed in a year
high_byte··on Ask HN: What's your most valuable query to an LLM?
another example just from today:

I merely selected entire json file, two word prompt: "generate schema"

one-shotted 600 lines json schema, unsolicited 200 lines typescript schema, 150 lines python dataclass model and a README!!! completely unsolicited!

(cursor agent mode)

high_byte··on Ask HN: What's your most valuable query to an LLM?
was working with mediapipe BlazePose, which gives 33 pose points in world space, but wanted "the pose to always point forward" (virtually this prompt exactly)

it one-shotted 600 lines of code which did the job perfectly. it understood from context the center of body, how to calculate the body normal, to rotate each point around that, all while handling edge cases to avoid errors. would've takens me hours if not days to tweak it manually to work.

high_byte··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
very insightful to read the comments here.

it seems quality isn't universally declining, but the variance in quality is increasing, and finding good quality is nearly impossible in the influx of product offers. reviews are fake, to most short term profit margins are more important than reputation.

high_byte··on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
"unlocking revenue stream" is wild way to say theft
high_byte··on How to get started with writing tech video essays
capcut will fulfill all your video editing needs for the near future, music, ai dub, etc.

now you only need inspiration I'd go for fireship-style videos and just start pushing content

high_byte··on Tailscale is pretty useful
tailscale to expose a port is such overkill. just use ngrok for that.
high_byte··on How Core Git Developers Configure Git
this is amazing. I've been swearing at diffs which I now know are myers algorithm and histogram diffs are exactly what I've been wanting!!
high_byte··on Ask HN: Where can I use DeepSeek from an alternative provider?
also perplexity.ai (pro subscription)
high_byte··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
this is really nice. what's your MRR? do you know anifusion?
high_byte··on Ask HN: Any working Chrome extensions that delay loading of YouTube?
then how do you discover new content to sub to?
high_byte··on In Search of a Faster SQLite
"The benefits become noticeable only at p999 onwards; for p90 and p99, the performance is almost the same as SQLite."

I hate to be a hater, and I love sqlite and optimizations, but this is true.

high_byte··on Preventing Python "Sandbox" Escape?
I didn't use RestrictPython. I did manage to patch the __subclasses__() escape with a hack. if only I can patch the exceptions traceback too I think it will be good enough :)

edit: here are my silly little patches: https://github.com/hananbeer/cpython-toy-sandbox/commit/fa3f...

this is of course assuming exec(globals={..}) without certain builtins and is, again, not expected to use system apis like files or sockets or anything.

high_byte··on Preventing Python "Sandbox" Escape?
thanks, RestrictedPython looks like it could work for me!
high_byte··on Preventing Python "Sandbox" Escape?
as I mentioned on another reply, all those projects also wanted system apis like filesystem and sockets and such.

for me I just want to hijack the interpreter so I don't have to write my own. no imports, no sockets.

high_byte··on Preventing Python "Sandbox" Escape?
I believe that's basically docker which uses linux seccomp, but there are also sandboxes for language specific applications.

ps. browsers basically do that with javascript

high_byte··on Preventing Python "Sandbox" Escape?
but all those projects also wanted system apis like filesystem and sockets and such.

for me I just want to hijack the interpreter so I don't have to write my own. no imports, no sockets.

high_byte··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
these are all great I love that I can now just refer to the razors by name
high_byte··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
I love my Sony XMs. I only ever use the noise cancelling on flights and I don't even use the bluetooth. just plugged and I love them.
high_byte··on Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s
why not? if you change one pixel by one pixel brightness unit it is perceptually the same.

for the record, I found liveportrait to be well within the uncanny valley. it looks great for ai generated avatars, but the difference is very perceptually noticeable on familiar faces. still it's great.

high_byte··on My Headphones Broke into a Megaphone
Sony WH-1000XM4

and before you get discouraged by my story know that my first reaction to this incident was "damn these are my favorite headphones", I had them for years, travelled with them, use them practically daily and they still look brand new.

can't say I'm a big user of the noise cancellation or even ambient sounds or bluetooth. just aux in the laptop and on planes, it's amazing.

9.99/10 ears still ringing, would buy again.

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