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by zachlatta 7d ago
I just got one of these ( https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartpho... ) that I'm hoping to try and make my weekend phone. It's a small Android phone. It runs WhatsApp / Google Maps. I a
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by zachlatta 9d ago
The AI companies should all make visionary donations to the Internet Archive.
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by zachlatta 13d ago
For teens ages 13-18, Hack Club is running a free grant program to help kids learn to solder! They can sign up and get a free kit from us at https://solder.hackclub.com/
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by zachlatta 1mo ago
One easy answer to the slopification of hackathons is to turn to the same method that game jams use - peer voting. We made this switch in 2022 for nearly all Hack Club hackathons and it’s hugely helped project quality.
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by zachlatta 2mo ago
If you go to https://hackclub.com/clubs , there’s an application form. Once you fill it out you’ll get a response within a week. If anything comes up, please email jared@hackclub.com who runs the clubs program (or post in t
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by zachlatta 2mo ago
If you go to https://hackclub.com/programs , there are a bunch of things you can join right now! Another commenter mentioned it - but you should also join the Hack Club Slack at https://slack.hackclub.com
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by zachlatta 2mo ago
If you have any ideas on how we can better orient the community around self expression and self actualization, please email me! It’s really important to me that Hack Club is a space that helps teens become the people they want to become vs.
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by zachlatta 2mo ago
Hey, you should join Hack Club! I was just at an event where a high schooler designed and built a continuous variable transmission ( https://outpost.hackclub.com ). You’ll meet a ton of interesting, friendly teens who are all help
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by zachlatta 3mo ago
I once set up a 1 month hotspot with Verizon when I moved into a new place that didn’t have internet yet. After the month, I returned the hotspot to the store and they told me I was all good (in writing too!). Then I started getting monthly
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by zachlatta 3mo ago
At Hack Club we have made tremendous investments to help teenagers get into electronics and design their own PCBs over the last 2 years. It’s much harder to fake and in many situations much more exciting than software, especially for beginn
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by zachlatta 3mo ago
If you check the post on Pangram it shows up as 100% AI written.
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DOS Running in a PDF(crabby605.github.io)
14 points by zachlatta 4mo ago|7 comments
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by zachlatta 4mo ago
Make sure you open it with a Chromium browser. Made by a 17 year old Hack Clubber. Repo here: https://github.com/crabby605/DOSPDF
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by zachlatta 4mo ago
This is how you get bad stuff. This mindset will turn the software ecosystem into mechanical / electrical engineering. Closed source, bad, and expensive tools.
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by zachlatta 5mo ago
Two founders of a small startup in Europe trying to build a new decentralized git forge and open sourcing their code are anti-democracy? Come on.
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by zachlatta 5mo ago
Just like engineering, monetizing is an iterative process. As long as they don't make it hard to move off their platform, IMO it's completely fine for them to try different monetization models. We should celebrate people building
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by zachlatta 5mo ago
This kind of absolutism is crazy. People who are doing 90% of what we want them to do should be greatly celebrated and rewarded. Else we penalize idealistic people who are not perfect instead of penalizing the people who are actually doing
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by zachlatta 5mo ago
This is a website created by a professional lobbyist who still has an active role taking lobbying contracts through a firm they founded called Steinhauser Strategies.
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by zachlatta 5mo ago
Running a nonprofit is really, really hard and I commend them for doing it. I hope they get through this crisis. Hack Club almost went insolvent in 2017. We would have, if it wasn’t for 2 friends who stepped in near the end and saved us. To
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by zachlatta 5mo ago
AI slop. Please see the Hacker News guidelines on writing with AI.
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I Trained a Chess Model on Just $14(mostlime.pages.dev)
2 points by zachlatta 6mo ago|1 comments
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by zachlatta 6mo ago
You are barking up the wrong tree. Ryan can't do anything to make government grants for this kind of work exist. It would be a huge public service if you could get more public support for open source. Maybe you could do it instead of
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by zachlatta 6mo ago
This is really not true. It’s important that when people say this, we hold them to it and reward them when they see it through. The internet has a tendency to penalize people who try to do bold things. As a result, it’s too often strategic
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by zachlatta 6mo ago
This project was made by a teenager in https://blueprint.hackclub.com , a nonprofit program I'm helping run that helps teenagers learn PCB design and get up to $400 USD in funding to prototype and manufacture their designs!
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PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug(github.com)
262 points by zachlatta 6mo ago|69 comments
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by zachlatta 7mo ago
Watsi is an incredible organization doing incredible work. Chase and Grace are both incredible people. When I was 15 and first starting Hack Club, I went to Startup School 2013 and watched Chase’s talk. It was the first time I had ever seen
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by zachlatta 7mo ago
That’s awesome! The specific thing that was causing the long latency was the image LLM call to describe the current context. I’m not sure if you’ve tested Handy’s post-processing with images or if there’s a technique to get image calls to b
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by zachlatta 7mo ago
It takes a screenshot of the current window and sends it to Llama in Groq asking it to describe what you’re doing and pull out any key info like names with spelling. You can go to Settings > Run Logs in FreeFlow to see the full pipeline
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by zachlatta 7mo ago
I just learned about Handy in this thread and it looks great! I think the biggest difference between FreeFlow and Handy is that FreeFlow implements what Monologue calls "deep context", where it post-processes the raw transcription
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by zachlatta 7mo ago
Wow, Handy looks really great and super polished. Demo at https://handy.computer/

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