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popalchemist commented on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?    · Posted by u/hussein-khalil
popalchemist · a day ago
Gamification actually can help create habits. Seems odd to not leverage that.
popalchemist commented on Umbrel – Personal Cloud   umbrel.com... · Posted by u/oldfuture
ugh123 · a day ago
The entire UI seems lifted from icloud and osx. I can't even tell the difference
popalchemist · a day ago
Personally I'm cool with that. Originality is overrated. Do whatever works.
popalchemist commented on Stephen Miller's Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State   newrepublic.com/article/2... · Posted by u/tastyface
db48x · a day ago
The fact that you think that his statement is representative of “White Nationalism” is sad.
popalchemist · a day ago
It is, though. The premises of white nationalism, like any form of fascism, require an "out-group," and at the same time a mechanism for convincing the "in-group" that hating them is morally acceptable. The framing of empathy as a vice does that job. It is literally part of their stochastic terrorism strategy. That's why they're so "anti-woke", despite not ever (literally not once) defining what "woke" is. They don't care what it is, or what their constituents think it means. They only care that there is buy-in on the idea that caring for others and being sensitive to their needs is bad. Because that is the prerequisite of the rest of their plans.
popalchemist commented on Umbrel – Personal Cloud   umbrel.com... · Posted by u/oldfuture
popalchemist · a day ago
This looks really well done. The software is both well-designed (from UX / UI pov) AND it's OSS AND it's just an SSD / NAS underneath it all, I think this kind of thing is a welcome addition to the market.
popalchemist commented on Show HN: Open-source customizable AI voice dictation built on Pipecat   github.com/kstonekuan/tam... · Posted by u/kstonekuan
kstonekuan · 2 days ago
Thanks for the feedback, probably should have been clearer in my original post and in the README as well. Local inference is already supported via Pipecat, you can use ollama or any custom OpenAI endpoint. Local STT is also supported via whisper, which pipecat will download and manage for you.
popalchemist · 2 days ago
Rad. put that front and center on the readme.
popalchemist commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
krlx · 2 days ago
If there's a demand for it to become open-source, why not? But I'll have to improve code quality first. As the presence of french labels indicates it, i18n is not properly implemented for this project.
popalchemist · 2 days ago
I'm definitely interested! My family would love this.
popalchemist commented on AI agents are starting to eat SaaS   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/jnord
Aurornis · 2 days ago
RLHF is a training step.

Inference (what happens when you use an LLM as a customer) is separate from training.

Inference and training are separate processes. Using an LLM doesn’t train it. That’s not what RLHF means.

popalchemist · 2 days ago
I am aware, I've trained my own models. You're being obtuse.

The big companies - take Midjourney, or OpenAI, for example - take the feedback that is generated by users, and then apply it as part of the RLHF pass on the next model release, which happens every few months. That's why they have the terms in their TOS that allow them to do that.

popalchemist commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
krlx · 2 days ago
https://mytinycafe.com/

An PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available beverages and everything is ready when they're here.

It was also a good playground for me to implement Web Push notifications (to never miss new orders).

It's a basic Nuxt 3 app with Appwrite as the backend with rough edges, but much enough for our household use !

If you want to spam my phone with notifications, please visit my café : https://mytinycafe.com/alix

popalchemist · 2 days ago
LOVE this. Are there any plans to open-source? I'd love to run my own instance.

Also some feedback: the ordering buttons are inexplicably in french despite everything else being in English. Choice of language or defaulting to English would be expected...

Also - multi-select and nullable options. So that I can create options like Taco / Steak / Pasta, and add side options that are relevant only when one of those is selected.

u/popalchemist

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