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terhechte

4,625 karma · joined February 28, 2010

https://terhech.de https://appventure.me

Mostly Swift, Rust nowadays.

Podcast: https://contravariance.rocks

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terhechte··on Codestral Mamba
Have you tried supermaven? (https://supermaven.com). I find it much better than copilot. Using it daily.
terhechte··on Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
All reality is constructed, has been since the invention of media
terhechte··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
Nah. I used to be a iOS developer. The official native frameworks are buggy as hell. Everything is broken all the time. Occam's razor is on this behaviour being just another bug that receives little attention because everything else is also buggy. I can't even blame them, the iOS api surface is huge, and every year there's new frameworks and every couple of years new devices. Android has the advantage of being open source, which allows external contributions to fix bugs, which oftentimes fixes the small-percentage bugs because one developer ran into it and decided to fix it. On iOS this is impossible, and there's no corporate incentive to fix small-percentage bugs.
terhechte··on iTerm2 3.5.0
You can set a custom URL to use Ollama which is OpenAI API compatible. Llama3 8b runs quite fast for me on a M1 Max. I'll be making use of this feature I think (haven't tried it yet).
terhechte··on Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications
I’d love if Firefox would feed the text content of each website I visit locally and would allow me to RAG search this database. So often do I want to re-visit a website I visited weeks earlier but can’t find it again.
terhechte··on GPT-4o
Random OpenAI question: While the GPT models have become ever cheaper, the price for the tts models have stayed in the $15/1Mio char range. I was hoping this would also become cheaper at some point. There're so many apps (e.g. language learning) that quickly become too expensive given these prices. With the GPT-4o voice (which sounds much better than the current TTS or TTS HD endpoint) I thought maybe the prices for TTS would go down. Sadly that hasn't happened. Is that something on the OpenAI agenda?
terhechte··on Woman found living in Michigan grocery store sign for months
I saw this earlier today https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/wJQ3VBIxmg
terhechte··on Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer
Curious Question: Given the low latency, does it run the computation on device or over the network? If on device, are there minimum CPU requirements?
terhechte··on Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality
I watch all streaming shows on a rowing machine with not-so-high speed and not-so-high resistance. The show keeps me entertained and sometimes I even forget that I'm rowing. Previously I did that with an iPad 12.9" next to the machine, but I've just started watching shows on the Quest 3 and that's way better.
terhechte··on Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types
Thank you! Personally I actually prefer Neovim over vscode, so this is awesome. will try it out.
terhechte··on Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give that a try. Obviously this will not work with large existing codebases; but for new projects I'll try how well it works.
terhechte··on Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types
Something I'd love to see is being able to use the VSCode extension for iOS / macOS development. I wouldn't expect all the bells and whistles of Xcode obviously (e.g. previews, run integration). However I'd love to use VSCode because I prefer their tradeoffs to Xcodes.

The advantage for Swift would be that potentially more developers use the VSCode extension which would hopefully improve the quality and incentivise more of them to maybe contribute to it.

If it's already possible then maybe a section in the readme on how to achieve this? (e.g. how to open an iOS project folder and get completions for Apple's frameworks).

terhechte··on Apple AI researcher boast on-device model that 'substantially outperforms' GPT-4
The full context in the article says that this only applies to the specific task of analysing a screenshot and answering a user prompt based on the information in the screenshot (and some other things). It is fair to say that a small model that can run on the iPhone won't have the world knowledge to compete against GPT4 but it can be better for something like this specific task.
terhechte··on Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust
I build a Mastodon client with Dioxus last year [1] and it was in general a good experience, but it was also clear that lots of things were still missing (I mean, it was also at version 0.2 when I started working on it).

With these 0.5 changes the Dioxus authors remove almost all the complexities that I ran into when working on Ebou. I haven't played around with it yet, but the removal of lifetimes and constant cloning will make it a much more pleasant experience. I'm looking forward to trying it out, congratulations to the team for such an awesome release!

[1]: https://github.com/terhechte/Ebou

terhechte··on Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account
At least in the U.S. business owners have the right to refuse service or turn away a customer to protect their patrons and business.

That's the issue with all these providers. Every couple of weeks there's a story from someone whose Google account was suddenly closed with no way to access their emails or pictures again.

terhechte··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
I bought a Sibionics GS1 recently and am about to use it (SIBIONICS GS1 Sensor Continuous... https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CPDHKGYK?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share). Reading this thread I’m wondering if it is a safe / good product to use. Does anybody happen to have knowledge?
terhechte··on Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
The LLMs will read the actual source code which is way better than the documentation (as any iOS engineer will tell you). For private codebases the companies can provide custom-trained LLMs. Techniques like "Representation Engineering" will at some point also prevent against accidental leakage of private codebase source code.
terhechte··on Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s
Can't Chamath (he's one of your investors, right), do a thing there? Every person I pitch Groq to is confused and thinks its about Elons unspectacular LLM.
terhechte··on Sent – Simple plaintext presentation tool
I also wrote an app like that (macOS only)

https://hyperdeck.io/

terhechte··on Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance
It's a much smaller model, it didn't ingest the knowledge of the world. It is great at working with the information you give it, but if you want to extract information like a search engine, GPT4 is the king because it is so much bigger.
terhechte··on Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance
They have an api and it’s quite cheap. Their model mistral medium is also very powerful. I use it instead of GPT 4 regularly
terhechte··on Details of the new Suzuki Omnichord OM-108
The Atari Lynx required 6 AA Batteries, back in 1989.
terhechte··on An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM
I do this a lot with GPT4 and I can't recall it ever generating an invalid query, and I did have some complicated ones.
terhechte··on Ask HN: Did you pre-order an Apple Vision Pro?
I live in Europe so I couldn’t. But I would have.
terhechte··on Ask HN: Programming Language for Building Slide Decks
I build an app for this some time ago: https://hyperdeck.io

It uses markdown with extensions. There’re also a lot of alternative markdown based slide generators on GitHub. Most use JavaScript though and I wanted something native

terhechte··on Happy New Year HN!
Same, clocking in at 13 years and I still visit this place multiple times a day and enjoy it. Also, learned life-changing things here.
terhechte··on Kagi – Sourcing from Brave Search, improved image search, and new Safari ext
I switched to the Kagi paid search 2 months ago and I'm very happy with it. Of course, Google is free, but "search" is a product that is critical to my job and I use it countless times per day. As such it felt reasonable to me to pay for a better search experience. That's in line with me spending extra for my computer, monitor, keyboard, etc. Because they're my tools of trade and I use them 8+ hours a day. I can recommend giving Kagi a try if you're in a similar position as me.
terhechte··on There is a new version of GPT-4 Turbo now live in ChatGPT
I use it usually 10-20 times per day. 5-10 when I'm not working and like 20-30 when I'm working. It saves me a huge amount of time. It would already make sense at a wage of $20 but I earn more and so it is so much worth it. Even if I earn no wage (say a indie dev working on a game) it would still be useful because I save time which I can invest in other things (or play video games). I'd honestly pay $50-$100 for it as it saves me so much time and gives me so much value.
terhechte··on Halfsies
Congratulations, and here I was happy with my 95% :)
terhechte··on First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
This is one of more than 600 scrolls that could be read afterwards if the method becomes scalable. What's more: "excavations were never completed, and many historians believe that thousands more scrolls remain underground." [0]

[0]: https://scrollprize.org

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