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by melvinmelih 5mo ago
That's the only trade-off, the app bundle is about 340MB for the first download but once you have it on your phone it will always work offline and load all assets instantly.
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Show HN: Early Reader – Free open source reading app I built for my 4-year-old(github.com)
5 points by melvinmelih 5mo ago|2 comments
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by melvinmelih 8mo ago
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by melvinmelih 8mo ago
“Sir, you have the vote of every thinking person.” “That’s not enough — I need a majority.” — Adlai Stevenson
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by melvinmelih 8mo ago
Why not build a receipt scanner then?
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by melvinmelih 8mo ago
I’m in Colombia right now and they actually have a great food labeling system. It just warns you if a product contains too much sugar, salt, additives etc, without trying to score. Whereas the European labels give you a false sense that eve
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by melvinmelih 11mo ago
> because they are trained on multilingual data But they were not trained on government-sanctioned homegrown EU data.
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by melvinmelih 1y ago
> After all, it's not like they could possibly identify every single living person and tie them to their likeness. Wasn’t he literally scanning eye balls a couple years ago?
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by melvinmelih 1y ago
I recently had to build a production-ready workflow in N8N - it ended up being a spaghetti flow of custom code nodes and custom http requests (because none of the provided connectors did exactly what we needed) that I was left wondering if
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by melvinmelih 1y ago
> we could solve this dead time problem and start doing things on the go Interesting idea, but how do you address car safety concerns? Studies consistently show that cognitive distraction, even with voice interfaces, can significantly in
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by melvinmelih 1y ago
> We identified a total of 1,862 MCP servers exposed to the internet. From this set, we manually verified a sample of 119. All 119 servers granted access to internal tool listings without authentication. The tool listings are not necessa
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by melvinmelih 1y ago
> Driving is not a general problem, though. But what's driving a car? A generalist human brain that has been trained for ~30 hours to drive a car.
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by melvinmelih 1y ago
> Modern games provide much stronger feedback. Now, when you hit an enemy, you might see: > the crosshair briefly changes to confirm the hit, damage numbers pop up above the enemy, sound effects, enemy death animations, a progress bar
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by melvinmelih 1y ago
> or be in epistemically different worlds where international competition is irrelevant (eg clearance filters based in nationality, government and military, market that has exotic languages, etc). I like this hedging strategy, can probab
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by melvinmelih 1y ago
According to Dutch law, you lose your Dutch citizenship if you accept another nationality. The Dutch embassies (who are responsible for renewing Dutch passports abroad) are well aware of this law and have processes in place to refuse a pass
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
Great, thanks!
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
This is interesting but why do you make it so hard to view the actual agents.json file? After clicking around in the registry ( https://wild-card.ai/registry ) for 10 minutes I still haven't found one example.
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
Video mirror in case you missed it: https://x.com/cdolan92/status/1894216778126959027?s=46
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
I do not understand how: 1) Someone actually thought this was a good idea 2) Someone actually built it 3) YC actually funded it
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
Yeah but the MagSafe charger I've spent $150 on doesn't work without the magnetic part.
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
26 hours of battery life but you still have to charge it with a cable (they didn't add MagSafe). This might be a deal breaker for me…
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
In about 2 weeks since OpenAI launched their $200/mo version of Deep Research, it has already been open sourced within 24 hours (Hugging Face) and now being offered for free by Perplexity. The pace of disruption is mind boggling and ma
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
> On modern social media platforms, each person gets their own, personalized feed. I notice this with streaming platforms like Netflix as well, there is no longer a channel that we all watch (not even in the same household), so a lot of
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
After many years of dealing with chat bots, I think we can all agree that we don't want chat-based interfaces to order our pizza (clicking buttons and scrolling through lists of options is way way faster). I can't think of many ot
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
Someone else had the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31815204
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
Initially, I thought it was a solution for companies to manage their miscellaneous software licenses, but after some time I figured out it's a solution if you want to offer your own licensing. The gen-z ultra-wide fonts didn't hel
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A Day in the Life of an Agentic Marketing Manager(melvintercan.com)
1 points by melvinmelih 2y ago|0 comments
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The Shortcomings of Modern Automation(melvintercan.com)
1 points by melvinmelih 2y ago|0 comments
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
I always see these videos [1] about helical movement of the bodies, which intuitively make more sense to me rather than assuming that the Sun itself is static and the bodies moving in a static circle around it. Is that really true? https:&
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by melvinmelih 2y ago
This paper has been available for a few weeks, and I wrote an article [1] exploring how to apply its inner workings to the design of multi-agent systems. If you can design "reasoning" at the model level, you can also design "

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