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iagooar commented on Gemini 3 blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek

ttul · a month ago

My favorite benchmark is to analyze a very long audio file recording of a management meeting and produce very good notes along with a transcript labeling all the speakers. 2.5 was decently good at generating the summary, but it was terrible at labeling speakers. 3.0 has so far absolutely nailed speaker labeling.

iagooar · a month ago

What prompt do you use for that?

iagooar commented on One Handed Keyboard github.com/htx-studio/One... · Posted by u/doppp

iagooar · a month ago

I saw the keyboard to be operated by the left hand only and here is my (totally personal and somewhoat adjacent) problem with it.

My left hand is the one which has suffered the most the many hours of using a keyboard over the last +-25 years. While the right hand has the occasional break from the keyboard when using the mouse, the left hand is constantly glued to the keyboard.

It also has a much tougher job - all the cmd, ctrl, alt and shift + combinations are mostly done using the left hand - e.g. on Mac you cannot cmd+shift+ select text with the arrows - you must use the left hand - so it ends up doing so much more work.

I wonder if there are other people with the same problem. My right hand never hurts after many hours of computer work - but the left hand does. It hurts even now that I am typing and I haven't even spent more than an hour doing it.

iagooar commented on Rust in Android: move fast and fix things security.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/abraham

iagooar · a month ago

Rust has been such a "pain" to learn - at least compared to other, more straight-forward languages. But boy does it feel good when you know that after a few back and forths with the compiler, the code compiles and you know, there is not much that is going to go wrong anymore.

Of course, I am exaggerating a bit - and I am not even that experienced with Rust.

But after coding with Ruby, JS/TS and Python - it feels refreshing to know that as long as your code compiles, it probably is 80-90% there.

And it is fast, too.

iagooar commented on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/... · Posted by u/tedsanders

iagooar · a month ago

For the longest time I had been using GPT-5 Pro and Deep Research. Then I tried Gemini's 2.5 Pro Deep Research. And boy oh boy is Gemini superior. The results of Gemini go deep, are thoughtful and make sense. GPT-5's results feel like vomiting a lot of text that looks interesting on the surface, but has no real depth.

I don't know what has happened, is GPT-5's Deep Research badly prompted? Or is Gemini's extensive search across hundreds of sources giving it the edge?

iagooar commented on Ruby already solved my problem newsletter.masilotti.com/... · Posted by u/joemasilotti

iagooar · a month ago

Ruby has a lot of these hidden gems (pun intended).

I wouldn't be as much in love with programming, if it wasn't for Ruby. And although I use many other programming languages these days, Ruby will forever have a special place in my heart.

iagooar commented on Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell github.com/matisojka/qqqa... · Posted by u/iagooar

iagooar · a month ago

What a phenomenal launch it has been! Thanks a lot to everyone, for the many ideas and feedback. It has really made me push harder to make qqqa even cooler.

Since I launched it yesterday, I added a few new features - check out the latest version on Github!

Here is what we have now:

* added support for OpenRouter

* added support for local LLMs (Ollama)

* qqqa can be installed via Homebrew, to avoid signing issues on MacOS

* qq/qa can ingest piped input from stdin

* qa now preserves ANSI colors and TTY behavior

* hardened the agent sandbox - execute_command can't escape the working directory anymore

* history is disabled by default - can be enabled at --init, via config or flag

* qq --init refuses to override an existing .qq/config.json

iagooar commented on Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell github.com/matisojka/qqqa... · Posted by u/iagooar

etaioinshrdlu · a month ago

I can suggest our service (previously here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849129 ) that might be helpful -- If you want a zero-setup backend to try qqqa, ch.at might be a useful option. We built ch.at — a single-binary, OpenAI‑compatible chat service with no accounts, no logs, and no tracking. You can point qqqa at our API endpoint and it should “just work”:

OpenAI-compatible endpoint: https://ch.at/v1/chat/completions (supports streamed responses)

Also accessible via HTTP/SSH/DNS for quick tests: curl ch.at/?q=… , ssh ch.at Privacy note: we don’t log anything, but upstream LLM providers might...

iagooar · a month ago

That would be pretty cool for testing the waters, will give it a thought!

How do you guys pay for this? I guess the potential for abuse is huge.

iagooar commented on Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell github.com/matisojka/qqqa... · Posted by u/iagooar

imcritic · a month ago

If you were unaware that such approach is frowned upon then you might also not know that even if you delete the binary files from your git - they will stay there and thus be bloating your repository forever. To truly cut them away from the repository you will need to use some special instruments that will rewrite git history while trying to remove the bloat and the downside of that is that commits checksums will change and you will essentially have to force push existing commits but with new checksums.

iagooar · a month ago

Point taken. The files were really small, no need to exaggerate.

iagooar commented on Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell github.com/matisojka/qqqa... · Posted by u/iagooar

foobarqux · a month ago

llm cmdcomp is better:

    - it puts the command in the shell editor line so you can edit it (for example to specify filenames using the line editor after the fact and make use of the shell tools like glob expansion etc.) 
    - it goes into the history. 
    - It can use a binding so you can start writing something without remembering to prefix it with a command and invoke the cmd completion at any place in the line editor. 
    - It also allows you to refine the command interactively.

I haven't see any of the other of the myriad of tools do these very obvious things.

https://github.com/CGamesPlay/llm-cmd-comp

iagooar · a month ago

Thanks. I guess it all depends on the perspective. I do not see how editing the command is a good tradeoff here in terms of complexity+UI. Once you get the command suggested by the LLM, you can quickly copy and modify it, before running it.

qqqa uses history - although in a very limited fashion for privacy reasons.

I am taking note of these ideas though, never say never!