Linux Desktop got so much better in recent years but it also stayed the same. If you’re trying to be productive and not just switching between editor and terminal windows there are still endless frustrations that never end.
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halotrope commented on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else? · Posted by u/Crazyontap
> A automatic visual scraper that can get arbitray information from any website (e.g go to target and get the top 3 milk prices or get the licensing information from this opensource project)
Sounds interesting. How does this work exactly? How do I input that I want the top 3 milk prices, and how does it retrieve that data?
it works with a llm/visual model and is integrated with a control for the browser. it works surprisingly well i might do a shown if its interesting for other people
halotrope commented on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else? · Posted by u/Crazyontap
Yes many things actually.
- A mac app to generate to read text as playlists from openai tts api (my gf can't use the api)
- A automatic visual scraper that can get arbitray information from any website (e.g go to target and get the top 3 milk prices or get the licensing information from this opensource project)
- An ETL tool (called tabmaster) that can sync arbitrary json apis into postgres tables. with automatic schema inference and deduplication logic
- A really good OCR tool that enriches scanned PDFs with accurate words and not the bs that adobe ships
all really useful and used daily.
EDIT: formatting
halotrope commented on Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing? bbc.com/news/articles/cd1... · Posted by u/makaimc
cloud computing is way too expensive for what it is. you'll have most of the benefits with a managed database and a good cdn
halotrope commented on OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership openai.com/index/openai-a... · Posted by u/serjester
IMO this really feels like the Facebook / Twitter integration from early iOS. That only lasted a few years.
Apple clearly thinks it needs a dedicated LLM service atm. But still thinks it is only supplemental as they handle a bunch of the core stuff without it. And require explicit user consent to use OpenAI. And Apple clearly views it as a partial commodity since they even said they plan to add others.
Tough to bet against OpenAI right now...but this deal does not feel like a 10 year deal...
yeah somehow it reminded me of the fb integration too. we‘ll see how well it works in practice. i was hoping for them to show the sky demo with the new voice mode that openai recently demoed
we have an internal api at markets.sh for ingesting large financial reports and newspaper data. solves this exact problem. i‘ll be happy to give you test access. drop me an email at max at markets.sh
halotrope commented on Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event markets.sh/notifications/... · Posted by u/halotrope
Almost certainly, tab click with language names should change code snippet value in text area. Not trigger different highlighting.
Yeah totally! this was a bug as that i introduced when persisting langauges so that you don't have to always click. it's now fixed. thank you for reporting!