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tbesedaon Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

I think these products (Jev and the inevitable offerings from Anthropic, OpenAI, etc) want to become more than end-user output machines. They'd benefit from being in the hotpath of other services. Not backgrounded generation but in-band, request-time work.

1M x $0.50 == 1B x $0.0005

tbesedaon Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

If I had to guess, it's already built and is just waiting on Product's/Marketing's desk. How do you position this without looking like your roadmap is being determined by newcomers? Probably don't want to adopt the same verbiage+acronyms - but also can't be seen to be just sherlocking features.

tbesedaon Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

For _your_ classification it's unacceptable. The OP seems to have anticipated this and mentions you can fine tune it for your use case. Did you try that?

I don't think the point is to displace Jev, but to show it's possible to build an MVP on open weights without years of work and millions of dollars.

Why (presumably) an engineer would dismiss exploring a lightweight, custom alternative to locking into a fashionable PaaS, I'll never know.

tbesedaon Homebrew 7.0.0

Long term it matters very much if your car is Toyota or BMW or Kia or John Deere though.

I think some users are also conscious about the longevity of their tooling related to LLM usage, too. Whether it has an effect or not, we've yet to find out.

tbesedaon Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

Keep an eye on Neptune. I used Swiftfin, switched to Infuse, and am now using Neptune daily. It's coming along really nicely.

https://neptuneplayer.com

tbesedaon A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M

Technically, "the top house of the bottom 1/3rd is at least $1m"

The title of the article is not helpful.

Even "In 242 cities[1], 2/3 of homes are more than $1M" is better.

[1]where "city" is ambiguous

tbesedaon Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Firefox might need my support, but Mozilla does not.

tbesedaon Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Vivaldi (not affiliated) kinda aims to do this. At least they build the blocker in. It uses the Blink engine, too. I don't think this move by Google will adversely affect Vivaldi in the same way it does Chrome.

tbesedaon Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

I converted my web app to a SwiftUI macOS app https://hnr.app

It has less features (no OG media or title/story analysis via Bedrock) but it focuses more on the features I like/need from an HN client

tbesedaon The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

I just want to note how fast this page is.

806kB transferred. 766ms to finished. I hit the DFW AWS CloudFront pop from here.

Similar page for BK https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu

31MB transferred. 6.5s to finished. Hits the DEN pop (but it's a "miss").

I am in Colorado. uBlock is on.

Even if you don't count the 7.5MB of fonts on the BK page, that's wild.

tbesedaon So where are all the AI apps?

Sorry, I'm not sure how this relates to the content of the article. Sounds like an interesting experience, but this is an analysis of the Python ecosystem pre+post ChatGPT.

tbesedaon Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable (2025)

ratio of upvotes to comments is oddly high...

tbesedaon Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'

Directly to CDN. Put it in a CloudFront distribution and it would be a fraction of a fraction of that Vercel bill.

Remember kids, they're incentivized to get you to build something to burn as much compute as possible.

tbesedaon Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?

I'd try and figure out how to make a living converting older, everyday cars/trucks to EVs. Restomod I guess; but not just classic sports cars and big trucks (though I love those too). I think a 1989 Mazda Protege deserves a new life as an affordable commuter car. Tape deck and all.

tbesedaon My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)

Agreed. I'm working on a small GUI that just appends to a local .ndjson file. A user just posts with a text box into a feed. Like a one person chat or tweeting into the void. And a local LLM picks apart metadata, storing just enough to index where answers to future questions will be. Then you can use slash commands to get at the analysis like "/tasks last month" or "/summarize work today" etc.

tbesedaon I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars

> But the cloud is not too expensive - you're paying for stuff you don't need. That's an entirely different kind of error.

Agreed. These sort of takedowns usually point to a gap in the author's experience. Which is totally fine! Missing knowledge is an opportunity. But it's not a good look when the opportunity is used for ragebait, hustlr.

tbesedaon Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW

> as a consumer I could care less if you put your soul and years into producing art vs the one I can get a lot of today

a quantity over quality argument with regard to art is wild.

tbesedaon Tech CEOs Take Turns Praising Trump at White House Dinner

https://archive.li/4pWuk

I'm surprised Cook was there. I'm sad that I'm surprised Cook was there.

I can likely get away from macOS by EOY. But this phone has a stranglehold on my mobile, digital life.

tbesedaon I want to be left alone (2024)

I get your point but my Apple devices (Macs, iPhone, even my Vision Pro thing) aren't exactly "calm" either. The app stores are constantly trying to rope me into gacha games or promote some subscription wellness platform. Apple News subscription is floating click-bait Hollywood articles no matter how much I tap the thumbs down. Maps clutters my commute with suggested places and guides. Don't get me started on Podcasts and Music showing me topics and genres it's bizarrely certain I want to listen to.

tbesedaon The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know

You could probably consider a broader interpretation of ActivityPub for something like this; or the underlying ActivityStreams format.

It was conceived for social networking, but social networking doesn't have to be just 140 characters in a timeline.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

tbesedaon Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

They're also the past...

tbesedaon Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

Including the military. Hell, even the constitution.

tbesedaon The Chrome Speculation Rules API allows the browser to preload and prerender

I mean that's generally the curve of performance across those devices where "fast", "decent", and "slow" are relative.

tbesedaon Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

Agreed. Charm has a solid track record of great TUIs. While I appreciate a good DSL, I don't think React for a TUI (via ink) is working out well.

tbesedaon Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

I wonder if it correlates to the rollout of T-Mobile satellite services. They just exited their trial phase, so a global config update might make sense.

tbesedaon XMLUI

I don't mind XML but the release is 4.23 MB. Minified. There are 90 dependencies (931 fully resolved).

Also, the Docs link to home.xmlui.com and don't resolve

tbesedaon Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network

My Notion install (macOS) asked to discover devices on my network. I'm assuming this permission is related to "monitoring network traffic".

tbesedaon Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

I just want to point out that the .app is only 14MB. This is the way. Nice work, OP