HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

mpaepper

646 karma · joined November 12, 2013

www.paepper.com/blog twitter.com/mpaepper
submissionscomments
mpaepper··on Anthropic S-1
Who would be among those 5? Are these big tech? Or large corporates?
mpaepper··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
It would be fun if many shipped in some $ for this to be a realistic bounty, but then again, OP could just take the money him/herself...
mpaepper··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Someone doubled the bitcoin amount :D
mpaepper··on Meta Muse Glimmer – Open weights 30B local coding model
Why did you decide for the 5070 Ti? You will always suffer compared to the 5090?
mpaepper··on A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review
There seems to be no hold out data for test, so this is just overfitting?
mpaepper··on GPT-5.5
I switched from CC to Codex a few days ago. I get limited much less and the code quality is similar, so not looking back
mpaepper··on Air is full of DNA
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/scientists-discover-well-pres...
mpaepper··on Ask HN: Gemini app activity vs. AI training
Whoops, seems like my question got removed while posting, so here goes:

It seems Gemini couples app activity (I can see my chat history) with AI training.

This is horrible...

Any way around it to make Gemini usable without my data being used for training?

mpaepper··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
It says 24y in his profile - is that really the more senior at Ars?
mpaepper··on Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
How are the runs isolated? Can I run multiple parallel sessions on the same repo? What about security / sandboxing to avoid exfiltration of data etc? Thanks!
mpaepper··on How to effectively write quality code with AI
Yes and no I'd say. It's still the case that now only by iterating and testing things with the AI you get closer to an actually good solution. So up front big spec will also not work so well. The only exception maybe if you already have a very clear understanding and existing tests (like what they did with the Claude's building the rust c compiler to compile the Linux kernel)
mpaepper··on Change news.ycombinator to news.gcombinator to get copyable context
Maybe, however, they might not care as the API is freely available anyways
mpaepper··on Change news.ycombinator to news.gcombinator to get copyable context
For example this post here becomes: https://news.gcombinator.com/item?id=46780583
mpaepper··on Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators
How much memory do you need locally? Is a rtx 3090 with 24gb enough?
mpaepper··on Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
You should look into the new Nvidia model: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/

It has dual channel input / output and a very permissible license

mpaepper··on European Alternatives
Free generator for e-invoices here: https://www.e-rechnung-online-erstellen.de/kostenlos/e-rechn...
mpaepper··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
You mentioned needing 40k tiles and renting a H100 for 3$/hour at 200tiles/hour, so am I right to assume that you spend 200*3=600$ for running the inference? That also means letting it run 25 nights a 8 hours or so?

Cool project!

mpaepper··on Show HN: Matrix style morphing into ASCII art rendering of myself
Hi everyone, inspired by Alex' cool article about ASCII rendering (https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering), I revamped my hero section. It now consists of a matrix style rain of characters which transitions into a pseudo random ASCII rendering of an image of myself.
mpaepper··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Seems like the merging with Replit didn't work so well :p
mpaepper··on Leaving Meta and PyTorch
He might already have enough money, so doesn't care if he gets the absolute best resources.
mpaepper··on Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments
What about the security aspects, can it run anything?
mpaepper··on Nue 2.0 Beta released! The Unix of the web
This seems awesome, will try.
mpaepper··on VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
Unfortunate naming given I named my repo which does open source locally running speech to text vibevoice 7 months ago:

https://github.com/mpaepper/vibevoice

mpaepper··on Fast
That's why we all code with voice now, because it's faster, right? Right?
mpaepper··on Ask HN: How to Block Spam Mails?
Yeah, Cloudflare is a good idea, that should probably help block them before even getting to the site.
mpaepper··on Ask HN: How to Block Spam Mails?
I've just added it :D

But I would guess that there will be new domains that I don't have in my blocklist and then I need to add them again and I would like to have this as a crowdsourced effort.

mpaepper··on Ask HN: How to Block Spam Mails?
I mean I run a SaaS and get many fake registered users / bots.

What I did for now is:

- Added a honeypot field (invisible to users, but bots might fill it) -> if it's filled, instant reject - Added a check for spammy domains -> if it's from such a domain, instant reject

mpaepper··on Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
Are languages other than English also supported? Or is this for English only?
mpaepper··on Show HN: I compressed 10k PDFs into a 1.4GB video for LLM memory
Nope... It IS using a vector database / faiss embedings for the semantic search.

Check the indexer: https://github.com/Olow304/memvid/blob/main/memvid/index.py

mpaepper··on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
Moin Tom,

Thanks for putting up with the work - let's go!

Page 1 of 5Next →