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Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera(publicdomainreview.org)
4 points by vitonsky 2d ago|0 comments
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by vitonsky 3mo ago
> GPU sharing with docker and VMs Yeah, we really live in age of Internet Explorer 6 yet. We already have cool features in browsers, like transparent backgrounds, rounded borders, and even HTML 5 video elements, but we still cannot use V
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Show HN: Transly – Cache-driven incremental translation(github.com)
1 points by vitonsky 5mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Leviathan-crypto – WebAssembly cryptography library for TypeScript(github.com)
1 points by vitonsky 6mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Nano Queries, a state of the art Query Builder(vitonsky.net)
1 points by vitonsky 8mo ago|0 comments
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by vitonsky 9mo ago
Yet another promotional post of Mullvad team. Nice story, but I don't buy it. Email is fine when it is an option. Mullvad have even option to pay with a credit card & PayPal. That's more sensitive data than Email.
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Well, somebody must validate data on top level. So that's fine to have packages like `is-number`/`is-arrayish` etc.
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Good idea. Probably nowadays this would not work due to changes in chrome extension API? They have limit a network interception API.
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Current incident confirms that we can't trust to authors of DuckDB, because they can't evade a trivial phishing attack. Tomorrow they will do it again, and attackers will replace binary files that users download with this random
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Just for context. DuckDB team is consistently ignores any security practices. The single one method how to install DuckDB on laptop is to run `curl https://install.duckdb.org | sh` I've requested to deliver CLI as standard
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Is there any real games with LLM dialogues? Recently I've tried Baldur's Gate 3, gameplay looks nice, but options in dialogues written by 12 y.o. kid. It would be nice to talk via LLM that would have the described character person
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Integrate any translation service into the browser(linguister.io)
1 points by vitonsky 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Pedantify – Simple CLI for proofreading text files via LLM(npmjs.com)
3 points by vitonsky 1y ago|0 comments
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by vitonsky 1y ago
No, thanks. I already spent time to write tests while implementing a features, now I have a lot of tests that proof the feature is works fine, and I no more fear to make changes, because tests keep me safe of regression bugs. The typical pr
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by vitonsky 1y ago
I have couple open source NPM packages I develop together with other developers. In some of this packages I have less than 50% contributions in code. But I listed as contributor on NPM, just because I found this packages and did not update
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Huh, I just checked stats on ecosyste.ms It looks they consider as maintainer only those people who listed on package.json, not a real number of contributors on github or anything. So all conclusions in this post is based on wrong assumptio
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by vitonsky 1y ago
It looks like whisper + google translate + google TTS. Typical "quality" for that stack, bad latency, no any privacy. I'm developer of "Linguist", a browser extension for translation in browser, and I say you that n
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by vitonsky 1y ago
> The old URL redirects to the new one, so in theory existing posts/backlinks keep working. We also agreed the original creator wouldn’t reuse the “unity-mcp” repo name under his GitHub profile, which could break redirects. Why? A l
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by vitonsky 1y ago
How exactly this vision will make money for you? Currently it sounds you just a kid who want to be paid. Is there anything more except "you all owe to me" in this claim?
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by vitonsky 1y ago
One yet another narrative that claim all people owe to an open source. I believe, once in deep future, an open source developers will grown and stop repeating this sectarian mantra. No one owes you anything. If you do opensource and you nee
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Check discussion in GitHub issue https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-bot-sdk/issues/363 Quote > Decryption of messages in encrypted rooms always end with error `Error: Can't find the room key to decry
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by vitonsky 1y ago
No, as i wrote in issue title and explained twice in this thread, the problem is bot SDK does not support encryption. It must work by default, for "privacy focused" application. Chat with no encryption must be an option, not defau
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Matrix community scam everyone when claim a matrix is a privacy-focused. And you are part of this community who deceive people. The fact that anything is open source is not make it "privacy focused". Literally everything in Matrix
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by vitonsky 1y ago
Yeah, Matrix UX is disgusting in every aspect. Every client looks bad, works slow and most of them have only subset of features. At 2025 year I still can't see online status when I use most popular server and client. When I use SDK as
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Show HN: DOMTranslator package to translate text nodes in DOM(github.com)
3 points by vitonsky 1y ago|0 comments
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by vitonsky 1y ago
I tried to use this model in my package with translators kit https://github.com/translate-tools/core/pull/112 It runs very slow. Test case that run translation for text in 3k chars multiple times, takes about
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by vitonsky 1y ago
As maintainer of https://linguister.io/ , should I start work on polyfill for that API? If this API will be implemented in next few years, there will be browsers who hold up the world in progress. Linguist have enough many u
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Show HN: Open-source and privacy focused offline translation in the browser
6 points by vitonsky 2y ago|0 comments
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by vitonsky 2y ago
Today your view match with a product, but tomorrow the product reach out a new investor and to favor with them inject a backdoors against the people with your view. It is how a "software political view" works in a real world
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by vitonsky 2y ago
Huh, we see an arguments against of this point every year. The projects like https://yuzu-emu.org/ (deleted from github and now lives as https://suyu.dev/ ) or youtube-dl (been suspended on github for some t

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