My computers were connected to an UPS surge projector. Various kitchen machinery and extension sockets that was not doesn't work anymore. The neighbor's TV blew.
There was a bright white flash inside of my living room, just under an open window and directly above the my UPS surge protector and then all my devices turned off including the surge projector. The PSU in one of the computers is gone, but not the motherboard and rest.
I was sitting on the concrete floor in the middle of the room watching it happen.
I live in Thailand in the middle of a big flat coconut groove with only two houses. Except for the palm trees, my house is the tallest structure in a 200 x 200 meters (300 feet)+ area and we have frequent huge thunder storms, but this one was in a category on its own. It made my concrete walls tremble. It was so intense. Spectacular show by nature.
Only two months ago, I bought a socket outlet tester. It reported that my sockets was not grounded. I got an electricians out to fix that. I suspect this is the reason why the lightning chooses me. We have frequent big thunderstorms and haven't had this issue before, but now there is a ground connection.
I don't know if there is a proper grounding rod. There is a cable going from the house into the ground, but I don't know what it is attached too. The rest of the electric installation is amateur's business so could be connected to nothing. The house is a long-term rental and the electric installation came with it, but I can change it regardless of it's is a rental.
The electricity doesn't even come directly from the power company's cables. It goes in to the owners house, where the meter is. From there they have pulled a 200 meter cable into ours. There is a fuse box in my house.
Any suggestions on what to do next? A big metal stick somewhere in the garden?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"Ask HN: My house just got hit by lightning and it fried the PSU in my computer"}},"_tags":["story","author_TowerTall","story_31270349","ask_hn"],"author":"TowerTall","children":[31270509,31270564,31270586,31270601,31270615,31270632,31270633,31270638,31270653,31270679,31270685,31270691,31270694,31270754,31270864,31270987,31271156,31271402,31271552,31271990,31272071,31274070,31274338,31279488,31280930],"created_at":"2022-05-05T06:47:29Z","created_at_i":1651733249,"num_comments":79,"objectID":"31270349","points":74,"story_id":31270349,"story_text":"If everything is wired correctly in my house, should all equipment attached to my UPS have survived this with no impact or is a direct lightning strike so powerful that even high-quality home-grade UPS must give up?
My computers were connected to an UPS surge projector. Various kitchen machinery and extension sockets that was not doesn't work anymore. The neighbor's TV blew.
There was a bright white flash inside of my living room, just under an open window and directly above the my UPS surge protector and then all my devices turned off including the surge projector. The PSU in one of the computers is gone, but not the motherboard and rest.
I was sitting on the concrete floor in the middle of the room watching it happen.
I live in Thailand in the middle of a big flat coconut groove with only two houses. Except for the palm trees, my house is the tallest structure in a 200 x 200 meters (300 feet)+ area and we have frequent huge thunder storms, but this one was in a category on its own. It made my concrete walls tremble. It was so intense. Spectacular show by nature.
Only two months ago, I bought a socket outlet tester. It reported that my sockets was not grounded. I got an electricians out to fix that. I suspect this is the reason why the lightning chooses me. We have frequent big thunderstorms and haven't had this issue before, but now there is a ground connection.
I don't know if there is a proper grounding rod. There is a cable going from the house into the ground, but I don't know what it is attached too. The rest of the electric installation is amateur's business so could be connected to nothing. The house is a long-term rental and the electric installation came with it, but I can change it regardless of it's is a rental.
The electricity doesn't even come directly from the power company's cables. It goes in to the owners house, where the meter is. From there they have pulled a 200 meter cable into ours. There is a fuse box in my house.
Any suggestions on what to do next? 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While reading the BlackBlaze Compute Story I came across, Packet's ARM Offering. (https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/compute/)
Their c1.large.arm offers ARM Cavium ThunderX with 96 Physical Cores running at 2.0 Ghz.
Has anybody used such a configuration for Web Application Servers? Possibly something running Go?
Since many web applications need high concurrency and wait on DB queries, I think having these large number of cores might be beneficial.
Any thoughts and inputs on this will be well appreciated."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"Ask HN: ARM Cavium ThunderX (96 Physical Cores) for Web Application Servers?"}},"_tags":["story","author_pritambarhate","story_16752184","ask_hn"],"author":"pritambarhate","children":[16752453],"created_at":"2018-04-04T05:22:53Z","created_at_i":1522819373,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"16752184","points":2,"story_id":16752184,"story_text":"Hi,
While reading the BlackBlaze Compute Story I came across, Packet's ARM Offering. (https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/compute/)
Their c1.large.arm offers ARM Cavium ThunderX with 96 Physical Cores running at 2.0 Ghz.
Has anybody used such a configuration for Web Application Servers? Possibly something running Go?
Since many web applications need high concurrency and wait on DB queries, I think having these large number of cores might be beneficial.
Any thoughts and inputs on this will be well appreciated.","title":"Ask HN: ARM Cavium ThunderX (96 Physical Cores) for Web Application Servers?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:15:22Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"flatroze"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"ARM Desktop Tower Computer"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thunderx-arm-desktop.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_flatroze","story_16069989"],"author":"flatroze","created_at":"2018-01-04T13:00:01Z","created_at_i":1515070801,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"16069989","points":2,"story_id":16069989,"title":"ARM Desktop Tower Computer","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:54:49Z","url":"https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thunderx-arm-desktop.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rbanffy"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale and HPC Compute"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/"}},"_tags":["story","author_rbanffy","story_17030046"],"author":"rbanffy","created_at":"2018-05-09T14:23:21Z","created_at_i":1525875801,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"17030046","points":3,"story_id":17030046,"title":"ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale and HPC Compute","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:23:42Z","url":"https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"timthorn"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale and HPC Compute"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/"}},"_tags":["story","author_timthorn","story_17020265"],"author":"timthorn","created_at":"2018-05-08T11:45:20Z","created_at_i":1525779920,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"17020265","points":2,"story_id":17020265,"title":"ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale and HPC Compute","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:22:45Z","url":"https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Fjolsvith"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Tinder for apes? Dutch orangutans test out computer dating"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/oddities/tinder-for-apes-dutch-zoo-gives-orangutans-screen-time"}},"_tags":["story","author_Fjolsvith","story_13556739"],"author":"Fjolsvith","created_at":"2017-02-03T01:06:56Z","created_at_i":1486084016,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"13556739","points":1,"story_id":13556739,"title":"Tinder for apes? Dutch orangutans test out computer dating","updated_at":"2024-09-20T00:21:25Z","url":"http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/oddities/tinder-for-apes-dutch-zoo-gives-orangutans-screen-time"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"MediaSquirrel"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"About six months ago, I started working on a project to fine-tune Whisper locally on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio with a limited compute budget. I got into it. The problem I had at the time was I had 15,000 hours of audio data in Google Cloud Storage, and there was no way I could fit all the audio onto my local machine, so I built a system to stream data from my GCS to my machine during training.
Gemma 3n came out, so I added that. Kinda went nuts, tbh.
Then I put it on the shelf.
When Gemma 4 came out a few days ago, I dusted it off, cleaned it up, broke out the Gemma part from the Whisper fine-tuning and added support for Gemma 4.
I'm presenting it for you here today to play with, fork and improve upon.
One thing I have learned so far: It's very easy to OOM when you fine-tune on longer sequences! My local Mac Studio has 64GB RAM, so I run out of memory constantly.
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And so I made this. I hope you have as much fun using it as I had fun making it.
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Gemma 3n came out, so I added that. Kinda went nuts, tbh.
Then I put it on the shelf.
When Gemma 4 came out a few days ago, I dusted it off, cleaned it up, broke out the Gemma part from the Whisper fine-tuning and added support for Gemma 4.
I'm presenting it for you here today to play with, fork and improve upon.
One thing I have learned so far: It's very easy to OOM when you fine-tune on longer sequences! My local Mac Studio has 64GB RAM, so I run out of memory constantly.
Anywho, given how much interest there is in Gemma 4, and frankly, the fact that you can't really do audio fine-tuning with MLX, that's really the reason this exists (in addition to my personal interest). I would have preferred to use MLX and not have had to make this, but here we are. Welcome to my little side quest.
And so I made this. I hope you have as much fun using it as I had fun making it.
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How could I sell or promote this ability?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"I'm 50, can I find a computer job? Some Elixir for getting Agile or Lean?"}},"_tags":["story","author_nottoday88","story_12031205","ask_hn"],"author":"nottoday88","children":[12031392,12032241,12032346,12032670,12034026,12035692,12036181],"created_at":"2016-07-04T15:13:06Z","created_at_i":1467645186,"num_comments":17,"objectID":"12031205","points":19,"story_id":12031205,"story_text":"One thing I can say in my favour is that I'm a deep thinker, I try to understand and grok what is needed. What kind of computer related job would benefit from a deep thinker?,
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Does anyone have experience getting back into tech/startups post-felony?
I have been looking for work since I was released for an assault charge in November 2022.
Previously I worked in Information Security as a SecOps Eng, most recently at Tinder. Between lack of recent job experience, and my record, I have been through a series of offer reneges, recruiters ghosting me, or going into HR resume black holes.
I am eager to get back into tech and feel like my old self adding value to a great team/org.
Anyone have leads on companies that are open to taking chances on good candidates with less than sparkling backgrounds?
NOTE: My offense was not computer/finance/fraud/selling drugs/physical violence/based at all.
Here is my linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saunderscaleb/"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?"}},"_tags":["story","author_publicprivacy","story_38858075","ask_hn"],"author":"publicprivacy","children":[38858297,38858375,38858403,38858429,38858468,38858607,38858671,38858685,38858741,38858749,38858831,38858834,38858840,38858880,38858921,38859014,38859110,38859201,38859257,38859304,38859434,38859462,38859557,38859737,38859837,38859853,38859906,38859939,38860030,38860047,38860464,38860532,38860682,38860709,38860920,38860954,38860996,38861092,38861147,38861164,38861284,38861393,38861720,38861926,38862064,38862260,38862297,38862347,38862470,38862481,38862776,38862841,38862875,38863262,38863583,38863759,38863777,38863920,38864202,38864467,38864848,38865245,38866381,38887195],"created_at":"2024-01-03T18:53:57Z","created_at_i":1704308037,"num_comments":374,"objectID":"38858075","points":355,"story_id":38858075,"story_text":"Hello HN,
Does anyone have experience getting back into tech/startups post-felony?
I have been looking for work since I was released for an assault charge in November 2022.
Previously I worked in Information Security as a SecOps Eng, most recently at Tinder. Between lack of recent job experience, and my record, I have been through a series of offer reneges, recruiters ghosting me, or going into HR resume black holes.
I am eager to get back into tech and feel like my old self adding value to a great team/org.
Anyone have leads on companies that are open to taking chances on good candidates with less than sparkling backgrounds?
NOTE: My offense was not computer/finance/fraud/selling drugs/physical violence/based at all.
Here is my linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saunderscaleb/","title":"Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?","updated_at":"2026-08-22T16:05:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"boysenberry"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"And by change, they mean put them back to however you had them in iOS 26.3. This is for an account I've had for over a decade, used a few phones and computers with, bought things on the App Stores with, pay for iCloud with\u2026
Anyway, I just updated. Didn\u2019t think about it, just wanted to send that Bigfoot emoji to my \u2018Squatcher friend, and get the security updates. However, after the post-install reboot, I see a screen suggesting I confirm that I\u2019m over 18. Yes, I\u2019m over 18, what\u2019s it to you, phone?
The default confirmation method is a credit card. I\u2019m out of luck here because it won\u2019t accept my debit card. After that there\u2019s the option to send a photo of a driving licence or \u201cnational ID\u201d off to somewhere to be deleted soon we promise. Sorry, mysterious trusted Apple partner, I don\u2019t have either of those. How have I lived without them? Pretty easy so far, but that\u2019s really not the issue here is it?
You can defer the confirming, but the bozofied implementation will kindly flip the kids-mode switch for you. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever looked at the content restrictions before, so I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s changed in practice. Things like Tinder show up in the App Store. Is that a kids\u2019 app? I never used it. The National Lottery and Betfred too. I\u2019m not a gambler, so I don\u2019t know the most deranged ones to check. I tried DuckDuckGoing a few variations on \u201cnaked\u201d, like \u201cthe naked ape\u201d, \u201cnaked film\u201d, \u201cnaked Mike Leigh\u201d, \u201cNaked Gun\u201d, \u201cnaked mole rat\u201d, and well, bad news, rodent fans. Desmond Morris got through, though. I guess there\u2019s an OS level block on accessing the obvious websites, because I\u2019m being told nope while using a VPN. I\u2019m curious, are there any news sources etc that are blocked via this method, or is it just adult material?
Won\u2019t get on my soapbox too much about there being something ulterior at the heart of all of these mandated \u201cprotections\u201d, whether it be control, empire, censorship, surveillance, or financial incentive. But that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about, right?
I\u2019ll have to try to roll back to iOS 26.3 for now, but perhaps some of you will know a workaround for this most dopey answer to a very specious requirement?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: In the UK, iOS 26.4 needs an age check to change content restrictions"}},"_tags":["story","author_boysenberry","story_47511919","ask_hn"],"author":"boysenberry","created_at":"2026-03-25T01:14:13Z","created_at_i":1774401253,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"47511919","points":20,"story_id":47511919,"story_text":"And by change, they mean put them back to however you had them in iOS 26.3. This is for an account I've had for over a decade, used a few phones and computers with, bought things on the App Stores with, pay for iCloud with\u2026
Anyway, I just updated. Didn\u2019t think about it, just wanted to send that Bigfoot emoji to my \u2018Squatcher friend, and get the security updates. However, after the post-install reboot, I see a screen suggesting I confirm that I\u2019m over 18. Yes, I\u2019m over 18, what\u2019s it to you, phone?
The default confirmation method is a credit card. I\u2019m out of luck here because it won\u2019t accept my debit card. After that there\u2019s the option to send a photo of a driving licence or \u201cnational ID\u201d off to somewhere to be deleted soon we promise. Sorry, mysterious trusted Apple partner, I don\u2019t have either of those. How have I lived without them? Pretty easy so far, but that\u2019s really not the issue here is it?
You can defer the confirming, but the bozofied implementation will kindly flip the kids-mode switch for you. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever looked at the content restrictions before, so I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s changed in practice. Things like Tinder show up in the App Store. Is that a kids\u2019 app? I never used it. The National Lottery and Betfred too. I\u2019m not a gambler, so I don\u2019t know the most deranged ones to check. I tried DuckDuckGoing a few variations on \u201cnaked\u201d, like \u201cthe naked ape\u201d, \u201cnaked film\u201d, \u201cnaked Mike Leigh\u201d, \u201cNaked Gun\u201d, \u201cnaked mole rat\u201d, and well, bad news, rodent fans. Desmond Morris got through, though. I guess there\u2019s an OS level block on accessing the obvious websites, because I\u2019m being told nope while using a VPN. I\u2019m curious, are there any news sources etc that are blocked via this method, or is it just adult material?
Won\u2019t get on my soapbox too much about there being something ulterior at the heart of all of these mandated \u201cprotections\u201d, whether it be control, empire, censorship, surveillance, or financial incentive. But that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about, right?
I\u2019ll have to try to roll back to iOS 26.3 for now, but perhaps some of you will know a workaround for this most dopey answer to a very specious requirement?","title":"Tell HN: In the UK, iOS 26.4 needs an age check to change content restrictions","updated_at":"2026-03-29T20:16:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"ill_thinker"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"Today I was told by my manager that my arguments come across jumbled and incoherent.
This is not news to me. Since a young age I've found it incredibly difficult to reason about and form an argument for or against a topic. I first encountered this in my high school design and technology exam when I was asked to articulate why I would choose a particular material over another. No matter how much I tried, I simply could not reason about the different materials and which one would be better.
12 years on and I now have a PhD in computer science. I find software development extremely straightforward and the accompanying decision making easy. But during design discussions before development takes place, I still find it very difficult to present a reasoned argument as to why I'd design a piece of software one way over another. I mostly rely on an internal feeling that either provides positive or negative emotions (intuition). Project level decisions are also affected by this.
The absence of reasoned argument is not due to a lack of trying. When I attempt to reason about a problem I struggle to think of the questions I should be asking. Thoughts about a topic do not come naturally, and often they are very cyclic and disjointed. It is only through writing down my thoughts that my argument gains clarity. You can imagine how problematic this thought process is for active oral discussions, my discourse appears sporadic and poorly thought-out.
Is there anything I can do to improve my reasoning skills so I can participate coherently in oral discussions?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How do I get better at creating well-reasoned arguments?"}},"_tags":["story","author_ill_thinker","story_24703551","ask_hn"],"author":"ill_thinker","children":[24703695,24703703,24705516,24709341,24710104,24710920,24712980,24713235,24714340,24728782],"created_at":"2020-10-06T23:14:28Z","created_at_i":1602026068,"num_comments":9,"objectID":"24703551","points":16,"story_id":24703551,"story_text":"Today I was told by my manager that my arguments come across jumbled and incoherent.
This is not news to me. Since a young age I've found it incredibly difficult to reason about and form an argument for or against a topic. I first encountered this in my high school design and technology exam when I was asked to articulate why I would choose a particular material over another. No matter how much I tried, I simply could not reason about the different materials and which one would be better.
12 years on and I now have a PhD in computer science. I find software development extremely straightforward and the accompanying decision making easy. But during design discussions before development takes place, I still find it very difficult to present a reasoned argument as to why I'd design a piece of software one way over another. I mostly rely on an internal feeling that either provides positive or negative emotions (intuition). Project level decisions are also affected by this.
The absence of reasoned argument is not due to a lack of trying. When I attempt to reason about a problem I struggle to think of the questions I should be asking. Thoughts about a topic do not come naturally, and often they are very cyclic and disjointed. It is only through writing down my thoughts that my argument gains clarity. You can imagine how problematic this thought process is for active oral discussions, my discourse appears sporadic and poorly thought-out.
Is there anything I can do to improve my reasoning skills so I can participate coherently in oral discussions?","title":"Ask HN: How do I get better at creating well-reasoned arguments?","updated_at":"2025-10-06T21:07:41Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"krrishd"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"I have a friend, who has an uncanny talent for anything mathematical. He can write formulas and functions to solve the most obscure math problems, and he has the mind of an algorithmic thinker that I and probably many wish they had. Think project Euler, he's really good at those types of problems.
He doesn't actually know any code, but I feel like he would be able to accomplish so many things with it. I've talked to him about it, and he's really interested, but he doesn't know where to start. Due to financial issues, he occasionally does not have Internet, but he does have a decent and functional computer to work with. What books/tutorials/resources should I give him so that he can put his mathematical and problem-solving talent to good use?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN:Friend is math/algorithmic genius, wants to learn programming. Resources?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_krrishd","story_6854663","ask_hn"],"author":"krrishd","children":[6854848,6856927,6856941],"created_at":"2013-12-05T15:00:25Z","created_at_i":1386255625,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"6854663","points":8,"story_id":6854663,"story_text":"I have a friend, who has an uncanny talent for anything mathematical. He can write formulas and functions to solve the most obscure math problems, and he has the mind of an algorithmic thinker that I and probably many wish they had. Think project Euler, he's really good at those types of problems.
He doesn't actually know any code, but I feel like he would be able to accomplish so many things with it. I've talked to him about it, and he's really interested, but he doesn't know where to start. Due to financial issues, he occasionally does not have Internet, but he does have a decent and functional computer to work with. What books/tutorials/resources should I give him so that he can put his mathematical and problem-solving talent to good use?","title":"Ask HN:Friend is math/algorithmic genius, wants to learn programming. Resources?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:13:55Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"BobbyLLM"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"As a handsome local AI enjoyer\u2122 you\u2019ve probably noticed one of the big flaws with LLMs:
It lies. Confidently. ALL THE TIME.
I\u2019m autistic and extremely allergic to vibes-based tooling, so \u2026 I built a thing. Maybe it\u2019s useful to you too.
The thing: llama-conductor
llama-conductor is a router that sits between your frontend (eg: OWUI) & backend (llama.cpp + llama-swap). Local-first but it should talk to anything OpenAI-compatible if you point it there (note: experimental so YMMV).
LC is a glass-box that makes the stack behave like a deterministic system, instead of a drunk telling a story about the fish that got away.
TL;DR: \u201cIn God we trust. All others must bring data.\u201d
Three examples:
1. KB mechanics (markdown, JSON, checksums)
You keep \u201cknowledge\u201d as dumb folders on disk. Drop docs (.txt, .md, .pdf`) in them. Then:
>>attach <kb> - attaches a KB folder
>>summ new - generates SUMM_.md files with SHA-256 provenance baked in + moves the original to a sub-folder
Now, when you ask something like:
> \u201cyo, what did the Commodore C64 retail for in 1982?\u201d
..it answers from the attached KBs only.
If the fact isn\u2019t there, it tells you - explicitly - instead of winging it. Eg:
"The provided facts state the Commodore 64 launched at $595 and was reduced to $250, but do not specify a 1982 retail price. The Amiga\u2019s pricing and timeline are also not detailed in the given facts.
Missing information includes the exact 1982 retail price for Commodore\u2019s product line and which specific model(s) were sold then."
[Confidence: medium | Source: Mixed]
No vibes. Just: here\u2019s what\u2019s in your docs, here\u2019s what\u2019s missing, don't GIGO yourself into stupid.
Then, if you're happy with the summary, you can:
>>move to vault
2. Mentats: proof-or-refusal mode (Vault-only)
Mentats is the \u201cdeep think\u201d pipeline against your curated sources.
* no chat history
* no filesystem KBs
* no Vodka
* Vault-only grounding (Qdrant)
It runs a triple-pass (thinker \u2192 critic \u2192 thinker). It\u2019s slow on purpose. You can audit it. And if the Vault has nothing relevant? It refuses and tells you to go pound sand:
FINAL_ANSWER:
The provided facts do not contain information about the Acorn computer or its 1995 sale price.
Sources: Vault
FACTS_USED: NONE
[ZARDOZ HATH SPOKEN]
Also yes, it writes a mentats_debug.log. Go look at it any time you want.
The flow is basically:
Attach KBs \u2192 SUMM \u2192 Move to Vault \u2192 Mentats.
No mystery meat. No \u201ctrust me bro, embeddings.\u201d
3. Vodka: deterministic memory on a potato budget
Potato PCs have two classic problems: goldfish memory + context bloat that murders your VRAM.
Vodka fixes both without extra model compute.
* !! stores facts verbatim (JSON on disk)
* ?? recalls them verbatim (TTL + touch limits so memory doesn\u2019t become landfill)
* CTC (Cut The Crap)* hard-caps context (last N messages + char cap) and creates a concatenated summary (not LLM) so you don\u2019t get VRAM spikes after 400 messages
So instead of:
\u201cRemember my server is 203.0.113.42\u201d \u2192 \u201cGot it!\u201d \u2192 [100 msgs later] \u2192 \u201c127.0.0.1\u201d
you get:
!! my server is 203.0.113.42`\n?? server ip \u2192 203.0.113.42 (with TTL/touch metadata)
And because context stays bounded: stable KV cache, stable speed, your potato PC stops crying.
There\u2019s more (a lot more) in the README, but I\u2019ve already over-autism\u2019ed this post.
TL;DR:
If you want your local LLM to shut up when it doesn\u2019t know and show receipts when it does, come poke it:
Primary (Codeberg)\nhttps://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
Mirror (GitHub):\nhttps://github.com/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
PS: Sorry about the AI slop image. I can't draw for shit.
PPS: A human with ASD wrote this using Notepad++. If it the formatting or language are weird, now you know why."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: I'm tired of my LLM bullshitting. So I fixed it"}},"_tags":["story","author_BobbyLLM","story_46721773","show_hn"],"author":"BobbyLLM","children":[46722917,46723460,46726285,46730841,46730929],"created_at":"2026-01-22T16:50:09Z","created_at_i":1769100609,"num_comments":9,"objectID":"46721773","points":5,"story_id":46721773,"story_text":"As a handsome local AI enjoyer\u2122 you\u2019ve probably noticed one of the big flaws with LLMs:
It lies. Confidently. ALL THE TIME.
I\u2019m autistic and extremely allergic to vibes-based tooling, so \u2026 I built a thing. Maybe it\u2019s useful to you too.
The thing: llama-conductor
llama-conductor is a router that sits between your frontend (eg: OWUI) & backend (llama.cpp + llama-swap). Local-first but it should talk to anything OpenAI-compatible if you point it there (note: experimental so YMMV).
LC is a glass-box that makes the stack behave like a deterministic system, instead of a drunk telling a story about the fish that got away.
TL;DR: \u201cIn God we trust. All others must bring data.\u201d
Three examples:
1. KB mechanics (markdown, JSON, checksums)
You keep \u201cknowledge\u201d as dumb folders on disk. Drop docs (.txt, .md, .pdf`) in them. Then:
>>attach <kb> - attaches a KB folder
>>summ new - generates SUMM_.md files with SHA-256 provenance baked in + moves the original to a sub-folder
Now, when you ask something like:
> \u201cyo, what did the Commodore C64 retail for in 1982?\u201d
..it answers from the attached KBs only.
If the fact isn\u2019t there, it tells you - explicitly - instead of winging it. Eg:
"The provided facts state the Commodore 64 launched at $595 and was reduced to $250, but do not specify a 1982 retail price. The Amiga\u2019s pricing and timeline are also not detailed in the given facts.
Missing information includes the exact 1982 retail price for Commodore\u2019s product line and which specific model(s) were sold then."
[Confidence: medium | Source: Mixed]
No vibes. Just: here\u2019s what\u2019s in your docs, here\u2019s what\u2019s missing, don't GIGO yourself into stupid.
Then, if you're happy with the summary, you can:
>>move to vault
2. Mentats: proof-or-refusal mode (Vault-only)
Mentats is the \u201cdeep think\u201d pipeline against your curated sources.
* no chat history
* no filesystem KBs
* no Vodka
* Vault-only grounding (Qdrant)
It runs a triple-pass (thinker \u2192 critic \u2192 thinker). It\u2019s slow on purpose. You can audit it. And if the Vault has nothing relevant? It refuses and tells you to go pound sand:
FINAL_ANSWER:
The provided facts do not contain information about the Acorn computer or its 1995 sale price.
Sources: Vault
FACTS_USED: NONE
[ZARDOZ HATH SPOKEN]
Also yes, it writes a mentats_debug.log. Go look at it any time you want.
The flow is basically:
Attach KBs \u2192 SUMM \u2192 Move to Vault \u2192 Mentats.
No mystery meat. No \u201ctrust me bro, embeddings.\u201d
3. Vodka: deterministic memory on a potato budget
Potato PCs have two classic problems: goldfish memory + context bloat that murders your VRAM.
Vodka fixes both without extra model compute.
* !! stores facts verbatim (JSON on disk)
* ?? recalls them verbatim (TTL + touch limits so memory doesn\u2019t become landfill)
* CTC (Cut The Crap)* hard-caps context (last N messages + char cap) and creates a concatenated summary (not LLM) so you don\u2019t get VRAM spikes after 400 messages
So instead of:
\u201cRemember my server is 203.0.113.42\u201d \u2192 \u201cGot it!\u201d \u2192 [100 msgs later] \u2192 \u201c127.0.0.1\u201d
you get:
!! my server is 203.0.113.42`\n?? server ip \u2192 203.0.113.42 (with TTL/touch metadata)
And because context stays bounded: stable KV cache, stable speed, your potato PC stops crying.
There\u2019s more (a lot more) in the README, but I\u2019ve already over-autism\u2019ed this post.
TL;DR:
If you want your local LLM to shut up when it doesn\u2019t know and show receipts when it does, come poke it:
Primary (Codeberg)\nhttps://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
Mirror (GitHub):\nhttps://github.com/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
PS: Sorry about the AI slop image. I can't draw for shit.
PPS: A human with ASD wrote this using Notepad++. If it the formatting or language are weird, now you know why.","title":"Show HN: I'm tired of my LLM bullshitting. So I fixed it","updated_at":"2026-04-29T08:12:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"palish"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"This was a post on Reddit that grew into a little essay. What do you think of it? I'm trying to find the correct answers, so if something is incorrect then please rub it in my face. :)
--
The second system effect is when a designer isn't new on the job anymore (he's made at least one system) and he has an overconfidence in his abilities. Because of that, the second system he designs is usually an overcomplicated mess. There are exceptions. Woz may not have designed an overcomplicated second system, for example. And if you understand how little you understand when you're first starting out, you're more likely to build small, stable systems instead of large, brittle systems. But history has pretty much proven that inexperience + overconfidence = mess, regardless of your profession.
The first system usually goes well because you're careful. You want your first system to go well since you will be judged by it. You keep your opinions to yourself and use proven methods that you fully understand to design your system. After you've designed this beautiful little gem (or not-so-beautiful but working, so the creator may think it is beautiful), you're left with a feeling of accomplishment. In fact, that first system wasn't really hard at all! You read the requirements and delivered a system that did exactly that. But look at how little that first system accomplished. In fact, it was even rigid; it did exactly what was needed without an eye towards extensibility. You know you can do better.
But.. It seems to take a lot of experience to correctly design a large, extensible system. I really hate to say the e-word since (being 19) I hate the idea that there's this magical quality, experience, that you'll only get after a certain amount of time has passed, regardless of anything you do to try to accelerate the process. But it seems true. It seems like to be good designers, we need to immerse ourselves in as many projects as possible; understand that we know very little; and most importantly, get things delivered, even if they are only at the 80% mark.
The Mythical Man Month is a good read. Honestly, it's extremely.. well.. boring. The advice was penned for a very different time, so a lot of it doesn't apply today (a programmer needs a personal secretary? That would be nice, but probably not required). But if you read it through the shades of, \"Wow, he is a really creative thinker!\" then you'll enjoy it a lot. He talks about why the best designers have usually created at least two systems. The first gives them experience, and the second gives them humility.
Choose two: beautiful, meets all requirements, stable.
\"Beautiful, and meets all requirements\" is the second system effect. It's okay to choose this if you're designing a small system.
\"Meets all requirements, and stable\" seems to be how most systems are designed. These types of systems are the moneymakers, so if you're doing a startup, it's probably best to choose this option. As Trevor says, it's more like a model train set instead of an elegant mathematical proof. There can be bumps on the tracks, but they won't stop the train from going 'round. Windows is a good example of this. You might think, \"Windows? Stable? What an idiot.\" But look at its size. It's humongous. It's impressive how much it has accomplished, even if it's far from perfect.
\"Beautiful, and stable\" seems to be the best choice to strive for, once you have the experience. It'll turn out that some of the features you desperately need aren't so critical after all. The Apple II is a great example of this. When it was released, everyone else thought that you needed to sell a monitor with a computer, and that a TV was inadequate. By cutting the need to design a whole monitor, Woz was able to produce something much cheaper and fabulously stable. Also, choosing \"beautiful and stable\" results in a system that \"is beautiful, is stable, and meets all requirements\", since you've just trimmed half of your requirements.
From my very limited two years of experience, this seems to be a decent design process for complicated systems:
1. Accept that you don't know as much as you need to know. Look for battle-tested components that other people have already designed, and use those. Copying is not cheating in the world of design. (Give credit where credit is due, though. If you created all your components, fabulous. That's incredibly impressive. But don't claim to have designed everything even if you've made them all work together.)
2. Cut as much from the requirements as possible, and even a little bit beyond what's comfortable. Think to yourself, \"How can I avoid designing a new monitor?\"
3. Focus on simplicity. Keep the adage \"form follows function\" in mind. If the implementation is small and simple, it will be far more stable than a big, extensible system that does a lot more. And people will probably like the smaller system better anyway.
4. These are only guidelines. Just focus on doing what makes the most sense, regardless of any rules. (For C++ programmers, this includes rules against using Boost or STL because \"it's not fast enough\". Take the time to learn your containers, then choose to not use them once you understand them.)
5. Deliver a system when it's 80% complete. (That's 80% complete, not 20% buggy.) Software is powerful because it can be improved later. Draw a sketch, don't paint a painting. The result can always be transformed into a painting later.
What do you think? It's always great to find new things that help designers, so please share your wisdom on all of this."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"How to Design a System"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_palish","story_74725","ask_hn"],"author":"palish","children":[74732,74809,74868,76781],"created_at":"2007-10-31T17:27:45Z","created_at_i":1193851665,"num_comments":5,"objectID":"74725","points":5,"story_id":74725,"story_text":"This was a post on Reddit that grew into a little essay. What do you think of it? I'm trying to find the correct answers, so if something is incorrect then please rub it in my face. :)
--
The second system effect is when a designer isn't new on the job anymore (he's made at least one system) and he has an overconfidence in his abilities. Because of that, the second system he designs is usually an overcomplicated mess. There are exceptions. Woz may not have designed an overcomplicated second system, for example. And if you understand how little you understand when you're first starting out, you're more likely to build small, stable systems instead of large, brittle systems. But history has pretty much proven that inexperience + overconfidence = mess, regardless of your profession.
The first system usually goes well because you're careful. You want your first system to go well since you will be judged by it. You keep your opinions to yourself and use proven methods that you fully understand to design your system. After you've designed this beautiful little gem (or not-so-beautiful but working, so the creator may think it is beautiful), you're left with a feeling of accomplishment. In fact, that first system wasn't really hard at all! You read the requirements and delivered a system that did exactly that. But look at how little that first system accomplished. In fact, it was even rigid; it did exactly what was needed without an eye towards extensibility. You know you can do better.
But.. It seems to take a lot of experience to correctly design a large, extensible system. I really hate to say the e-word since (being 19) I hate the idea that there's this magical quality, experience, that you'll only get after a certain amount of time has passed, regardless of anything you do to try to accelerate the process. But it seems true. It seems like to be good designers, we need to immerse ourselves in as many projects as possible; understand that we know very little; and most importantly, get things delivered, even if they are only at the 80% mark.
The Mythical Man Month is a good read. Honestly, it's extremely.. well.. boring. The advice was penned for a very different time, so a lot of it doesn't apply today (a programmer needs a personal secretary? That would be nice, but probably not required). But if you read it through the shades of, \"Wow, he is a really creative thinker!\" then you'll enjoy it a lot. He talks about why the best designers have usually created at least two systems. The first gives them experience, and the second gives them humility.
Choose two: beautiful, meets all requirements, stable.
\"Beautiful, and meets all requirements\" is the second system effect. It's okay to choose this if you're designing a small system.
\"Meets all requirements, and stable\" seems to be how most systems are designed. These types of systems are the moneymakers, so if you're doing a startup, it's probably best to choose this option. As Trevor says, it's more like a model train set instead of an elegant mathematical proof. There can be bumps on the tracks, but they won't stop the train from going 'round. Windows is a good example of this. You might think, \"Windows? Stable? What an idiot.\" But look at its size. It's humongous. It's impressive how much it has accomplished, even if it's far from perfect.
\"Beautiful, and stable\" seems to be the best choice to strive for, once you have the experience. It'll turn out that some of the features you desperately need aren't so critical after all. The Apple II is a great example of this. When it was released, everyone else thought that you needed to sell a monitor with a computer, and that a TV was inadequate. By cutting the need to design a whole monitor, Woz was able to produce something much cheaper and fabulously stable. Also, choosing \"beautiful and stable\" results in a system that \"is beautiful, is stable, and meets all requirements\", since you've just trimmed half of your requirements.
From my very limited two years of experience, this seems to be a decent design process for complicated systems:
1. Accept that you don't know as much as you need to know. Look for battle-tested components that other people have already designed, and use those. Copying is not cheating in the world of design. (Give credit where credit is due, though. If you created all your components, fabulous. That's incredibly impressive. But don't claim to have designed everything even if you've made them all work together.)
2. Cut as much from the requirements as possible, and even a little bit beyond what's comfortable. Think to yourself, \"How can I avoid designing a new monitor?\"
3. Focus on simplicity. Keep the adage \"form follows function\" in mind. If the implementation is small and simple, it will be far more stable than a big, extensible system that does a lot more. And people will probably like the smaller system better anyway.
4. These are only guidelines. Just focus on doing what makes the most sense, regardless of any rules. (For C++ programmers, this includes rules against using Boost or STL because \"it's not fast enough\". Take the time to learn your containers, then choose to not use them once you understand them.)
5. Deliver a system when it's 80% complete. (That's 80% complete, not 20% buggy.) Software is powerful because it can be improved later. Draw a sketch, don't paint a painting. The result can always be transformed into a painting later.
What do you think? It's always great to find new things that help designers, so please share your wisdom on all of this.","title":"How to Design a System","updated_at":"2024-09-19T16:23:24Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"twunde"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"I left my last job because of burnout but now after 2 years here I'm picking up the same bad habits, checking email and doing extra work on weekends. I know one of the triggers was getting a work laptop, which I now use as my primary computer. How do you keep a balance between life and work?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"How do you keep a good work/life balance"}},"_tags":["story","author_twunde","story_11604325","ask_hn"],"author":"twunde","children":[11605423,11606238,11613692,11684464],"created_at":"2016-05-01T00:32:09Z","created_at_i":1462062729,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"11604325","points":3,"story_id":11604325,"story_text":"I left my last job because of burnout but now after 2 years here I'm picking up the same bad habits, checking email and doing extra work on weekends. I know one of the triggers was getting a work laptop, which I now use as my primary computer. How do you keep a balance between life and work?","title":"How do you keep a good work/life balance","updated_at":"2024-09-19T23:06:03Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"brian68"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"As a person with vision problems I sometimes struggle with certain documents that are difficult to read (my computer fonts are usually bold with sizes ~14). I needed to read some RFCs and discovered that the PDF versions use a font smaller and "thinner" (Courier 10?) than what I'm used to. I tried some options to modify the original plain text documents and discovered that modifying their fonts was not as easy as I thought. Finally I created a utility to convert RFCs to PDF allowing the user to change fonts and margins and I wanted to share it. There is also a utility to "bulk convert" a folder with RFCs in plain text.I have converted RFCs to PDFs with two free monospaced fonts: Liberation Mono and Ubuntu Mono, check the releases. Hope you find it useful!."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Rfc2pdf"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/OscarMaestre/rfc2pdf"}},"_tags":["story","author_brian68","story_34700470","show_hn"],"author":"brian68","children":[34704356],"created_at":"2023-02-07T22:06:31Z","created_at_i":1675807591,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"34700470","points":3,"story_id":34700470,"story_text":"As a person with vision problems I sometimes struggle with certain documents that are difficult to read (my computer fonts are usually bold with sizes ~14). I needed to read some RFCs and discovered that the PDF versions use a font smaller and "thinner" (Courier 10?) than what I'm used to. I tried some options to modify the original plain text documents and discovered that modifying their fonts was not as easy as I thought. Finally I created a utility to convert RFCs to PDF allowing the user to change fonts and margins and I wanted to share it. There is also a utility to "bulk convert" a folder with RFCs in plain text.I have converted RFCs to PDFs with two free monospaced fonts: Liberation Mono and Ubuntu Mono, check the releases. Hope you find it useful!.","title":"Show HN: Rfc2pdf","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:09:25Z","url":"https://github.com/OscarMaestre/rfc2pdf"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"wwwlouishinofun"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive
2.iphone
I've long since stopped using an iPhone, so I don't care about the phone mirroring feature that I've experienced for a long time, in essence, the wireless network they use to transmit data is always not the ultimate smooth experience
I'm using a folding screen phone, believe me, a 220G, thinner than the iPhone folding machine is the ideal Internet terminal, watching the content is very comfortable, unless you like the phone to record videos, otherwise I can't think of a reason to continue using the iPhone in 2024
3.ai features and interactions
I'm very tired of making wheels repeatedly, I believe that Apple AI 10,000% is not as good as my GPT4 is a hundred times better, but Apple's advantage is that it can be linked to the hardware of the computer, which has the potential, but it is not enough for me to pay for it at present
4. So far, Apple has few advantages left
UI and other aesthetic design, I give this one full marks
The leader of the ARM chip PC, such as the MacBookM1, the peripheral power consumption is 5W (screen and the like), and the video SOC is only 1W, so that the power consumption of the whole machine is 7-8W, and the 49Wh battery can also play 7 hours of continuous video
Below is the original document, I am afraid that the machine translation is not accurate, I am currently also studying IELTS, but English is really difficult for me, I am now working in Viet Nam, I am very much looking forward to studying in English-speaking countries, no matter what, I expect Apple to continue to improve in software and hardware, do not squeeze toothpaste1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Let's talk in great detail about whether macOS 15 Sequoia is worth upgrading"}},"_tags":["story","author_wwwlouishinofun","story_41564250","ask_hn"],"author":"wwwlouishinofun","children":[41564270,41564561,41564568,41566889],"created_at":"2024-09-17T04:53:10Z","created_at_i":1726548790,"num_comments":7,"objectID":"41564250","points":1,"story_id":41564250,"story_text":"1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive
2.iphone
I've long since stopped using an iPhone, so I don't care about the phone mirroring feature that I've experienced for a long time, in essence, the wireless network they use to transmit data is always not the ultimate smooth experience
I'm using a folding screen phone, believe me, a 220G, thinner than the iPhone folding machine is the ideal Internet terminal, watching the content is very comfortable, unless you like the phone to record videos, otherwise I can't think of a reason to continue using the iPhone in 2024
3.ai features and interactions
I'm very tired of making wheels repeatedly, I believe that Apple AI 10,000% is not as good as my GPT4 is a hundred times better, but Apple's advantage is that it can be linked to the hardware of the computer, which has the potential, but it is not enough for me to pay for it at present
4. So far, Apple has few advantages left
UI and other aesthetic design, I give this one full marks
The leader of the ARM chip PC, such as the MacBookM1, the peripheral power consumption is 5W (screen and the like), and the video SOC is only 1W, so that the power consumption of the whole machine is 7-8W, and the 49Wh battery can also play 7 hours of continuous video
Below is the original document, I am afraid that the machine translation is not accurate, I am currently also studying IELTS, but English is really difficult for me, I am now working in Viet Nam, I am very much looking forward to studying in English-speaking countries, no matter what, I expect Apple to continue to improve in software and hardware, do not squeeze toothpaste1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive","title":"Let's talk in great detail about whether macOS 15 Sequoia is worth upgrading","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:50:56Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"manabovethesky"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"I get that computers can do things quickly, but this massive push into AI and pre-selected candidates seems somewhat misguided. Perhaps for high level areas, but not for something more meaningful or deep? Currently, I'm building this site https://nextcept.com/Feed/Network to help people find others to work with that they get along with. Ie. cofounders, early teams, new hires, etc. I continue to get suggestions that I need to offer suggested or recommended candidates. I suppose I see this to some degree, but am I alone in wanting to be able to wander through candidates, learning about them individually, until I find someone interesting. Obviously we're trying to make this wandering process more efficient, but it seems like something unique or something that stands out would be difficult to capture in an algorithm. Is this a misguided belief? Does everyone want (believe it's possible) the ease of Tinder but the depth of a real connection - magically?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Does everyone agree AI is better than self discovery?"}},"_tags":["story","author_manabovethesky","story_19675119","ask_hn"],"author":"manabovethesky","children":[19675298,19675343,19675373],"created_at":"2019-04-16T16:39:42Z","created_at_i":1555432782,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"19675119","points":1,"story_id":19675119,"story_text":"I get that computers can do things quickly, but this massive push into AI and pre-selected candidates seems somewhat misguided. Perhaps for high level areas, but not for something more meaningful or deep? Currently, I'm building this site https://nextcept.com/Feed/Network to help people find others to work with that they get along with. Ie. cofounders, early teams, new hires, etc. I continue to get suggestions that I need to offer suggested or recommended candidates. I suppose I see this to some degree, but am I alone in wanting to be able to wander through candidates, learning about them individually, until I find someone interesting. Obviously we're trying to make this wandering process more efficient, but it seems like something unique or something that stands out would be difficult to capture in an algorithm. Is this a misguided belief? Does everyone want (believe it's possible) the ease of Tinder but the depth of a real connection - magically?","title":"Does everyone agree AI is better than self discovery?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T04:08:53Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"tlunter"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"Every where people keep telling the newbies of the \"Hacking\" or programming world to keep contributing. If you contribute to open source projects, or scoure GitHub or BitBucket or any other the alternatives you'll certainly find something you can help out and you too can be someone acknowledged and famous and will be the best thing since slice bread. You'll be whisked away to Silicon Valley by entrepenuers hoping that you'll fulfill their wildest dreams. But how do you get there?
I've been around the computer for nearly a decade, programming in a variety of programming languages with ideas here and there but nothing that seems to have sparked the worlds attention. I work part time at a computer repair service for my university and spend most of my time managing servers, multiple Django applications, fixing various errors and searching through the Linux filesystem trying to find the one incorrect config file. But working part time at a computer repair center isn't going to give me any notariety besides around my work and university.
What do people suggest as a way of getting noticed? How can I really get my name out there? If I create a blog, how can I get peoples attention to actually want to come visit? My ideas might not be completely unique, but I always try and find a way to pull together something new."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"What would make me so interesting?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_tlunter","story_4145167","ask_hn"],"author":"tlunter","children":[4145275,4145317],"created_at":"2012-06-22T02:48:30Z","created_at_i":1340333310,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"4145167","points":1,"story_id":4145167,"story_text":"Every where people keep telling the newbies of the \"Hacking\" or programming world to keep contributing. If you contribute to open source projects, or scoure GitHub or BitBucket or any other the alternatives you'll certainly find something you can help out and you too can be someone acknowledged and famous and will be the best thing since slice bread. You'll be whisked away to Silicon Valley by entrepenuers hoping that you'll fulfill their wildest dreams. But how do you get there?
I've been around the computer for nearly a decade, programming in a variety of programming languages with ideas here and there but nothing that seems to have sparked the worlds attention. I work part time at a computer repair service for my university and spend most of my time managing servers, multiple Django applications, fixing various errors and searching through the Linux filesystem trying to find the one incorrect config file. But working part time at a computer repair center isn't going to give me any notariety besides around my work and university.
What do people suggest as a way of getting noticed? How can I really get my name out there? If I create a blog, how can I get peoples attention to actually want to come visit? My ideas might not be completely unique, but I always try and find a way to pull together something new.","title":"What would make me so interesting?","updated_at":"2023-09-06T20:38:55Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dennis_jeeves"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Looking to freeload (in a manner speaking ). I'm seeking existing established businesses where the people at the helm of affairs are searching to augment their key members with level headed, non-political individuals. (Well, it's lonely up there isn't it?). \nCertainly I'm open to people who are wage slaves like me who would like to get off the wage slavery bandwagon for any future potential partnerships.
I'm 43 years old, a computer programmer by profession and surrounded by regular (and younger) folks who "just don't get it". Never been an employee material, but being an entrepreneur or starting a business is fraught with risks that could leave one devastated in an irrecoverable manner, hence this post. Essentially I'm trying to ensure my long term livelihood, survival, and sanity.
What's in for you? Essentially you get a 'critical' thinker who upholds and enforces ( if I have the authority) some values that are not obvious to most people in a common workplace. For example:\n- Mindless pursuit of profits/sales figures at the expense of other important things, for example health and well being.\n- Way too many meetings.\n- promotion of talkers over thinkers. ( there are exceptions to this)\n- Frequently promoting short term fixes over long term ones.\n- Falling for hype and buzzwords( for example most of the "big data" topics/implementations are BS).\n- confusing overwork with productivity.
etc...
It is important to note that I can actually do work ( like programming) as opposed to be an armchair philosopher."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Businesses looking for partners/successors?"}},"_tags":["story","author_dennis_jeeves","story_15424617","ask_hn"],"author":"dennis_jeeves","children":[15425631],"created_at":"2017-10-07T17:12:07Z","created_at_i":1507396327,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"15424617","points":1,"story_id":15424617,"story_text":"Looking to freeload (in a manner speaking ). I'm seeking existing established businesses where the people at the helm of affairs are searching to augment their key members with level headed, non-political individuals. (Well, it's lonely up there isn't it?). \nCertainly I'm open to people who are wage slaves like me who would like to get off the wage slavery bandwagon for any future potential partnerships.
I'm 43 years old, a computer programmer by profession and surrounded by regular (and younger) folks who "just don't get it". Never been an employee material, but being an entrepreneur or starting a business is fraught with risks that could leave one devastated in an irrecoverable manner, hence this post. Essentially I'm trying to ensure my long term livelihood, survival, and sanity.
What's in for you? Essentially you get a 'critical' thinker who upholds and enforces ( if I have the authority) some values that are not obvious to most people in a common workplace. For example:\n- Mindless pursuit of profits/sales figures at the expense of other important things, for example health and well being.\n- Way too many meetings.\n- promotion of talkers over thinkers. ( there are exceptions to this)\n- Frequently promoting short term fixes over long term ones.\n- Falling for hype and buzzwords( for example most of the "big data" topics/implementations are BS).\n- confusing overwork with productivity.
etc...
It is important to note that I can actually do work ( like programming) as opposed to be an armchair philosopher.","title":"Businesses looking for partners/successors?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:27:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"weakgeekinseek"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"i am an entrepreneurial sharp business mind in search of a technologically savvy counterpart. i have many ideas including a previous sold at in excess of $200 million. i am a thinker with a knack for financial gains but very limited to my software development knowledge. i am looking for a computer wiz to help develop my ideas and form partnerships for all possible ventures possible with your skills. my email is 150mikkimase@gmail.com and my cell is 6467097799. please contact me, Mikki, at any time suitable for you. i look forward to your inquiries and am excited to move forward with my new partner(s)."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Entrepreneur searching for developer counterpart"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_weakgeekinseek","story_9620290","ask_hn"],"author":"weakgeekinseek","created_at":"2015-05-28T18:54:42Z","created_at_i":1432839282,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"9620290","points":1,"story_id":9620290,"story_text":"i am an entrepreneurial sharp business mind in search of a technologically savvy counterpart. i have many ideas including a previous sold at in excess of $200 million. i am a thinker with a knack for financial gains but very limited to my software development knowledge. i am looking for a computer wiz to help develop my ideas and form partnerships for all possible ventures possible with your skills. my email is 150mikkimase@gmail.com and my cell is 6467097799. please contact me, Mikki, at any time suitable for you. i look forward to your inquiries and am excited to move forward with my new partner(s).","title":"Entrepreneur searching for developer counterpart","updated_at":"2023-09-07T02:51:02Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dennis_jeeves"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"\tLooking to freeload (in a manner speaking ). I'm seeking existing established businesses where the people at the helm of affairs are searching to augment their key members with level headed, non-political individuals. (Well, it's lonely up there isn't it?). Certainly I'm open to people who are wage slaves like me who would like to get off the wage slavery bandwagon for any future potential partnerships.\nI'm 43 years old, a computer programmer by profession and surrounded by regular (and younger) folks who "just don't get it". Never been an employee material, but being an entrepreneur or starting a business is fraught with risks that could leave one devastated in an irrecoverable manner, hence this post. Essentially I'm trying to ensure my long term livelihood, survival, and sanity.
What's in for you? Essentially you get a 'critical' thinker who upholds and enforces ( if I have the authority) some values that are not obvious to most people in a common workplace. For example: - Mindless pursuit of profits/sales figures at the expense of other important things, for example health and well being. - Way too many meetings. - promotion of talkers over thinkers. ( there are exceptions to this) - Frequently promoting short term fixes over long term ones. - Falling for hype and buzzwords( for example most of the "big data" topics/implementations are BS). - confusing overwork with productivity.
etc...
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What's in for you? Essentially you get a 'critical' thinker who upholds and enforces ( if I have the authority) some values that are not obvious to most people in a common workplace. For example: - Mindless pursuit of profits/sales figures at the expense of other important things, for example health and well being. - Way too many meetings. - promotion of talkers over thinkers. ( there are exceptions to this) - Frequently promoting short term fixes over long term ones. - Falling for hype and buzzwords( for example most of the "big data" topics/implementations are BS). - confusing overwork with productivity.
etc...
It is important to note that I can actually do work ( like programming) as opposed to be an armchair philosopher.","title":"Businesses looking for partners/successors?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:31:25Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"thund"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Uses for an old Android device"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"https://www.computerworld.com/article/2487680/20-great-uses-for-an-old-android-device.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_thund","story_32383835"],"author":"thund","children":[32384804,32395035,32395142,32395147,32395171,32395339,32395378,32395426,32395460,32395472,32395616,32395688,32395716,32395848,32395850,32395921,32396016,32396050,32396231,32396859,32397077,32397117,32397174,32397313,32399512,32399687,32400050,32400100,32400218,32401615],"created_at":"2022-08-08T10:00:08Z","created_at_i":1659952808,"num_comments":103,"objectID":"32383835","points":138,"story_id":32383835,"title":"Uses for an old Android device","updated_at":"2026-07-27T04:54:45Z","url":"https://www.computerworld.com/article/2487680/20-great-uses-for-an-old-android-device.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"thund3rp"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Al-Qaida comunications hacked.."},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218050/Al_Qaida_communications_knocked_offline_says_expert_"}},"_tags":["story","author_thund3rp","story_2713224"],"author":"thund3rp","created_at":"2011-06-30T09:16:40Z","created_at_i":1309425400,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"2713224","points":2,"story_id":2713224,"story_text":"","title":"Al-Qaida comunications hacked..","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:47:33Z","url":"http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218050/Al_Qaida_communications_knocked_offline_says_expert_"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"thinxer"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Deep Learning vs. Big Data: Who Owns What?"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"http://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/05/deep-learning-vs-big-data-who-owns-what.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_thinxer","story_9568263"],"author":"thinxer","created_at":"2015-05-19T05:26:29Z","created_at_i":1432013189,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"9568263","points":1,"story_id":9568263,"story_text":"","title":"Deep Learning vs. Big Data: Who Owns What?","updated_at":"2023-09-07T02:47:03Z","url":"http://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/05/deep-learning-vs-big-data-who-owns-what.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"aubryio"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"Hi HN!
I'm Aubry, a software engineer from Switzerland working in the mobility industry. In my spare time I've been building https://isochrone.ch, an interactive map that shows where you can go by public transport from any location in Switzerland.
The idea came from a simple frustration: traditional journey planners are great when you already know where you want to go, but what if you don't? For example, where could I go hiking within 90 minutes of Lausanne? Or which towns could I live in while keeping my commute under 45 minutes?
The interesting part was making this truly interactive. Public transport routing involves large timetables and most solutions rely on server-side routing which introduces latency every time you change something. I wanted to see if I could do the whole routing directly in the browser which led me to develop Minotor (https://minotor.dev), an open-source transit routing library using a compact in-memory representation of the timetable data and implements the RAPTOR routing algorithm. Once the data is loaded, routing calculations happen entirely client-side, making it superfast.
The project uses Swiss open public transport data from https://opentransportdata.swiss.
I first released it early 2025 and have been improving it since. It's completely free with no registration required.
I'd be curious to hear your thoughts :)"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"Show HN: Swiss public transport isochrones computed in the browser"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.isochrone.ch/"}},"_tags":["story","author_aubryio","story_50192366","show_hn"],"author":"aubryio","children":[50198982],"created_at":"2026-10-22T07:35:36Z","created_at_i":1792654536,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"50192366","points":1,"story_id":50192366,"story_text":"Hi HN!
I'm Aubry, a software engineer from Switzerland working in the mobility industry. In my spare time I've been building https://isochrone.ch, an interactive map that shows where you can go by public transport from any location in Switzerland.
The idea came from a simple frustration: traditional journey planners are great when you already know where you want to go, but what if you don't? For example, where could I go hiking within 90 minutes of Lausanne? Or which towns could I live in while keeping my commute under 45 minutes?
The interesting part was making this truly interactive. Public transport routing involves large timetables and most solutions rely on server-side routing which introduces latency every time you change something. I wanted to see if I could do the whole routing directly in the browser which led me to develop Minotor (https://minotor.dev), an open-source transit routing library using a compact in-memory representation of the timetable data and implements the RAPTOR routing algorithm. Once the data is loaded, routing calculations happen entirely client-side, making it superfast.
The project uses Swiss open public transport data from https://opentransportdata.swiss.
I first released it early 2025 and have been improving it since. It's completely free with no registration required.
I'd be curious to hear your thoughts :)","title":"Show HN: Swiss public transport isochrones computed in the browser","updated_at":"2026-10-22T18:08:22Z","url":"https://www.isochrone.ch/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"vishnukool"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Hey HN, I\u2019m Vishnu from Agent37 (https://agent37.com). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox.
You can view a video walkthrough of the product here: https://youtu.be/DK5ISR2tbNo
We started as one of those OpenClaw wrapper companies back in February (yup.. judge me). In time we added more and more harnesses.
One of the goals I had at the time was to offer a free plan to users, so as to gain more market share. But it was too cost prohibitive to do it right away. Especially since we were bootstrapped and servers were running on my savings.
Today we\u2019re actually able to offer the free plan thanks to the optimizations we\u2019ve made since. Over 90% of the new signups we have are just free plan users and they host their personal Hermes/Openclaw/Claude Code etc on our cloud. Our infrastructure cost for the free sandboxes averages around $0.05 to $0.10 per user per month.
Here are some techniques that have worked for lowering cost:
* When you look at agent harnesses, they have certain patterns in the way they consume CPU and RAM. They need CPU in bursts when they\u2019re initializing or performing certain tasks, but beyond that, they\u2019re often not peaking. They need more RAM for things like browser and computer-use tasks. Once the task is done, usage often comes back down. This is a key insight in lowering cost, so by efficiently managing the CPU/RAM utilization we could lower the cost.
* Secondly, you have to skip the hyperscalers when renting the Hosts. I worked at Amazon before and they have 80-90% margins on VMs. So it was an obvious choice once I looked at the prices to go one layer down to vendors like Hetzner and OVH. This alone was probably one of the biggest cost levers in reducing the cost.
* Thirdly, you also want to pick a technology stack that lets you efficiently cache and share resources across the host. We use gVisor for better utilization and fast boot times. It lets us use available host memory across sandboxes without reserving a full VM\u2019s memory for each one. There are tradeoffs: our gVisor sandboxes don\u2019t support workloads like Docker-in-Docker or Android emulators.
* And finally the size and shape of the hosts you buy also makes a big difference. RAM is typically the bottleneck when it comes to cost and not the CPU. This is specifically true for agent harness workloads, so when buying servers, we optimize for packing more RAM into a given host.
We also host full VM sandboxes for workloads that need them, including running Docker at a slightly higher price, but they are still pretty low cost given the rest of the techniques.
Overall, my learning has been that just by focusing on a niche of sandbox usecases, and optimizing for it you can give a much better cost/performance tradeoff.
I was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon and an Engineering Manager at Quantcast. I built Amazon's internal AI chatbot, Diya, and their internal coding harness, Ziya.
If you\u2019re someone who\u2019s looking to run agents on sandbox and are exploring a sandbox vendor, come check us out. We\u2019re particularly looking for developers building messaging agents to try their workloads and challenge the limits and economics of our platform.
Thanks!
https://agent37.com"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) \u2013 Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents"}},"_tags":["story","author_vishnukool","story_50059096","launch_hn"],"author":"vishnukool","children":[50059903,50059919,50060033,50060144,50060163,50060240,50060249,50060422,50060514,50060717,50061240,50061261,50062588,50063391,50063837,50063940,50064023,50064051,50064192,50064886,50065037,50065139,50065149,50065483,50065802,50065960,50066866,50066903,50066993,50067360,50067580,50067623,50067961,50068270,50068295,50068675,50068956,50069352,50070298,50070586,50070631,50070894,50071898,50073959,50076725,50083486,50085671,50089075,50101271,50111787,50119933,50133425,50151499],"created_at":"2026-10-12T16:46:34Z","created_at_i":1791823594,"num_comments":136,"objectID":"50059096","points":163,"story_id":50059096,"story_text":"Hey HN, I\u2019m Vishnu from Agent37 (https://agent37.com). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox.
You can view a video walkthrough of the product here: https://youtu.be/DK5ISR2tbNo
We started as one of those OpenClaw wrapper companies back in February (yup.. judge me). In time we added more and more harnesses.
One of the goals I had at the time was to offer a free plan to users, so as to gain more market share. But it was too cost prohibitive to do it right away. Especially since we were bootstrapped and servers were running on my savings.
Today we\u2019re actually able to offer the free plan thanks to the optimizations we\u2019ve made since. Over 90% of the new signups we have are just free plan users and they host their personal Hermes/Openclaw/Claude Code etc on our cloud. Our infrastructure cost for the free sandboxes averages around $0.05 to $0.10 per user per month.
Here are some techniques that have worked for lowering cost:
* When you look at agent harnesses, they have certain patterns in the way they consume CPU and RAM. They need CPU in bursts when they\u2019re initializing or performing certain tasks, but beyond that, they\u2019re often not peaking. They need more RAM for things like browser and computer-use tasks. Once the task is done, usage often comes back down. This is a key insight in lowering cost, so by efficiently managing the CPU/RAM utilization we could lower the cost.
* Secondly, you have to skip the hyperscalers when renting the Hosts. I worked at Amazon before and they have 80-90% margins on VMs. So it was an obvious choice once I looked at the prices to go one layer down to vendors like Hetzner and OVH. This alone was probably one of the biggest cost levers in reducing the cost.
* Thirdly, you also want to pick a technology stack that lets you efficiently cache and share resources across the host. We use gVisor for better utilization and fast boot times. It lets us use available host memory across sandboxes without reserving a full VM\u2019s memory for each one. There are tradeoffs: our gVisor sandboxes don\u2019t support workloads like Docker-in-Docker or Android emulators.
* And finally the size and shape of the hosts you buy also makes a big difference. RAM is typically the bottleneck when it comes to cost and not the CPU. This is specifically true for agent harness workloads, so when buying servers, we optimize for packing more RAM into a given host.
We also host full VM sandboxes for workloads that need them, including running Docker at a slightly higher price, but they are still pretty low cost given the rest of the techniques.
Overall, my learning has been that just by focusing on a niche of sandbox usecases, and optimizing for it you can give a much better cost/performance tradeoff.
I was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon and an Engineering Manager at Quantcast. I built Amazon's internal AI chatbot, Diya, and their internal coding harness, Ziya.
If you\u2019re someone who\u2019s looking to run agents on sandbox and are exploring a sandbox vendor, come check us out. We\u2019re particularly looking for developers building messaging agents to try their workloads and challenge the limits and economics of our platform.
Thanks!
https://agent37.com","title":"Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) \u2013 Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents","updated_at":"2026-10-23T00:52:52Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"civitasinnovare"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"I run vote.direct, a voting platform for HOAs, churches, nonprofits and unions. I\u2019m a solo founder, bootstrapped, and I built most of it with AI. This months marks my first 5 figure month an 8x growth from the last month. How I got here was through many many conversations, how I got them was with keeping an open door for my customers to call me.
I wanted to have as many customer conversations as possible so I put my work cell number on the homepage. It says call or text and a person picks up. That person is me.
It\u2019s turned out to be one of the most important things I\u2019ve done, and not for the reason I expected.
Most of my customers are volunteer board members. They run an election maybe once a year, the result can be challenged, and if it goes wrong it\u2019s their name on it. The companies I compete with have been doing this a lot longer than I have. I can\u2019t win on track record for now. I can answer the phone.
The calls changed how I build, too. People rarely call about features but sometimes they do and it helps. They call because they\u2019re worried. What if half our owners don\u2019t use email? Is this legal in our state? Who do I call if something breaks the night voting closes? A lot of the site exists now because someone asked me one of those questions on the phone.
Some of the largest communities I work with, over 1,200 homes, started as a phone call.
I expected it to eat my day. It hasn\u2019t. Most people text, and nobody has abused it.
Building with AI made the product cheap to make. The hard part to find was a person who will pick up. My customers taught me that the human behind the product matters more than the product.
If you sell to people who aren\u2019t technical and are afraid of getting it wrong, put your number on the page. Ten calls will teach you more than any dashboard. It also felt natural my previous tech career in roles like a sales engineer, QA and customer success really primed me to take these conversations and do something with them."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I put my cell number on my startup's homepage"}},"_tags":["story","author_civitasinnovare","story_50161537","ask_hn"],"author":"civitasinnovare","children":[50161618,50163109,50163540,50172738,50178943,50189449],"created_at":"2026-10-20T05:00:59Z","created_at_i":1792472459,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"50161537","points":2,"story_id":50161537,"story_text":"I run vote.direct, a voting platform for HOAs, churches, nonprofits and unions. I\u2019m a solo founder, bootstrapped, and I built most of it with AI. This months marks my first 5 figure month an 8x growth from the last month. How I got here was through many many conversations, how I got them was with keeping an open door for my customers to call me.
I wanted to have as many customer conversations as possible so I put my work cell number on the homepage. It says call or text and a person picks up. That person is me.
It\u2019s turned out to be one of the most important things I\u2019ve done, and not for the reason I expected.
Most of my customers are volunteer board members. They run an election maybe once a year, the result can be challenged, and if it goes wrong it\u2019s their name on it. The companies I compete with have been doing this a lot longer than I have. I can\u2019t win on track record for now. I can answer the phone.
The calls changed how I build, too. People rarely call about features but sometimes they do and it helps. They call because they\u2019re worried. What if half our owners don\u2019t use email? Is this legal in our state? Who do I call if something breaks the night voting closes? A lot of the site exists now because someone asked me one of those questions on the phone.
Some of the largest communities I work with, over 1,200 homes, started as a phone call.
I expected it to eat my day. It hasn\u2019t. Most people text, and nobody has abused it.
Building with AI made the product cheap to make. The hard part to find was a person who will pick up. My customers taught me that the human behind the product matters more than the product.
If you sell to people who aren\u2019t technical and are afraid of getting it wrong, put your number on the page. Ten calls will teach you more than any dashboard. It also felt natural my previous tech career in roles like a sales engineer, QA and customer success really primed me to take these conversations and do something with them.","title":"I put my cell number on my startup's homepage","updated_at":"2026-10-23T00:15:38Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"MatthiasNordwig"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"When I founded my business a whistle-blowing-service for enterprises, I\u2019ve seeked for a working solution to block spam bots on that home page. The solution was intended to comply with EU data privacy law, no cookies, no sniffing, light-weight-size, on my webserver only, beeing invisible for my site visitors and no running costs at all.
I came across Hashcash, a proof-of-work approach, to block spam. When I implemented it, it worked immediately and blocked 100 percent without blocking any incoming real posts.
I was astonished, that no solution existed in the ecosystem allready that covered all forms and was for free. Therefore I\u2018ve turned it into a free wordpress-plugin.
It is not only a technical solution, but starts with the business model of spam (mass spamming at low cost), by producing a calculation effort for every single post, that unavoidable. And therefore is not exactly unbreakable but becomes very expensive for the spammer and therefore alows only for targeted high quality approaches that need other treatment. Up to now my own page remains spam free and users report the same.
Now, running since 2022 on 4000+ active installations, it is working with almost every webform and plugin combination that is running on any wordpress instance, using pattern recognition on http-post-level instead of specific proprietary integration for single specific form builders. It ships with 80+ starting patterns for the most relevant form builders and themes, but can be enhanced with any pattern by the user.
The plugin can be previewed directly and immediately on wordpress.org. It ships with14 KB compressed under a GPL-2.0 license.
I\u2019m looking forward to discuss about the proof-of-work approach, form detection, privacy implications, and tradeoffs."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Replacing CAPTCHAs with adaptive proof-of-work in WordPress"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/gdpr-compliant-recaptcha-for-all-forms/"}},"_tags":["story","author_MatthiasNordwig","story_50194762","show_hn"],"author":"MatthiasNordwig","children":[50200185,50201909,50202144,50202336,50202349,50202794,50202826,50204749],"created_at":"2026-10-22T13:03:14Z","created_at_i":1792674194,"num_comments":8,"objectID":"50194762","points":10,"story_id":50194762,"story_text":"When I founded my business a whistle-blowing-service for enterprises, I\u2019ve seeked for a working solution to block spam bots on that home page. The solution was intended to comply with EU data privacy law, no cookies, no sniffing, light-weight-size, on my webserver only, beeing invisible for my site visitors and no running costs at all.
I came across Hashcash, a proof-of-work approach, to block spam. When I implemented it, it worked immediately and blocked 100 percent without blocking any incoming real posts.
I was astonished, that no solution existed in the ecosystem allready that covered all forms and was for free. Therefore I\u2018ve turned it into a free wordpress-plugin.
It is not only a technical solution, but starts with the business model of spam (mass spamming at low cost), by producing a calculation effort for every single post, that unavoidable. And therefore is not exactly unbreakable but becomes very expensive for the spammer and therefore alows only for targeted high quality approaches that need other treatment. Up to now my own page remains spam free and users report the same.
Now, running since 2022 on 4000+ active installations, it is working with almost every webform and plugin combination that is running on any wordpress instance, using pattern recognition on http-post-level instead of specific proprietary integration for single specific form builders. It ships with 80+ starting patterns for the most relevant form builders and themes, but can be enhanced with any pattern by the user.
The plugin can be previewed directly and immediately on wordpress.org. It ships with14 KB compressed under a GPL-2.0 license.
I\u2019m looking forward to discuss about the proof-of-work approach, form detection, privacy implications, and tradeoffs.","title":"Show HN: Replacing CAPTCHAs with adaptive proof-of-work in WordPress","updated_at":"2026-10-23T05:14:38Z","url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/gdpr-compliant-recaptcha-for-all-forms/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"danlcaza"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"CxxDox does not depend on Doxygen as it performs parsing using libClang (bundled in .whl for Windows and Linux).\n100% doxygen compatibility was not a goal, but it has enough features to serve as the documentation engine for a large C++ library, such as KFR.\nAn example of the generated documentation is live at https://docs.kfr.dev/_gen/
Supports:\nC++ and C, with all modern standards (thanks to Clang 21).\nGeneration of symbol pages under any path prefix.\nGroups, global and per-type indexes.\nEasy links to C++ symbols in any .md page.\nTestable snippets.
Works best with mkdocs-material.\nThe plugin is created and maintained by the author of KFR, a C++20 DSP library."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"Show HN: CxxDox, a mkdocs plugin for complex C++ projects"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/kfrlib/cxxdox/"}},"_tags":["story","author_danlcaza","story_50195422","show_hn"],"author":"danlcaza","created_at":"2026-10-22T13:58:53Z","created_at_i":1792677533,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"50195422","points":1,"story_id":50195422,"story_text":"CxxDox does not depend on Doxygen as it performs parsing using libClang (bundled in .whl for Windows and Linux).\n100% doxygen compatibility was not a goal, but it has enough features to serve as the documentation engine for a large C++ library, such as KFR.\nAn example of the generated documentation is live at https://docs.kfr.dev/_gen/
Supports:\nC++ and C, with all modern standards (thanks to Clang 21).\nGeneration of symbol pages under any path prefix.\nGroups, global and per-type indexes.\nEasy links to C++ symbols in any .md page.\nTestable snippets.
Works best with mkdocs-material.\nThe plugin is created and maintained by the author of KFR, a C++20 DSP library.","title":"Show HN: CxxDox, a mkdocs plugin for complex C++ projects","updated_at":"2026-10-22T14:02:08Z","url":"https://github.com/kfrlib/cxxdox/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"TheYahiaBakour"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Hi Hacker News, I\u2019m Yahia. I built Context.dev (https://www.context.dev/) to make it really easy to integrate web data into your products and agents.
Here\u2019s a demo video: https://www.tella.tv/video/build-faster-with-context-dev-api...
Since it\u2019s an API, here are the docs: https://docs.context.dev/quickstart.
You can send us a URL and get back clean Markdown, rendered HTML, screenshots, extracted images, etc.. You can also send us a domain and get company or brand context: name, description, logos, colors, fonts, social links, screenshots, style information, and related metadata. For more custom use cases, you can send a URL plus a JSON Schema and ask us to extract structured data from the site into that shape. For example, you might ask for pricing plans, product categories, office locations, support links, integration partners, or anything else that is visible on the public site.
The goal is to give developers the output they actually want. Raw HTML is rarely the useful thing; the useful thing is usually Markdown for a model, JSON for an application, a logo for a UI, or a structured company profile for an agent.
Before, I worked at Amazon and Sunrun, and co-founded StockAlarm.io & essense.io, both of which were acquired. Also, I built knifegeek.io, which scraped pocket knives from across the internet and listed them easily. The project is outdated now (coming back soon) but back then it hit the frontpage of hacker news and people seemed to like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34604281.
Just before Context.dev, I built Brand.dev. The idea was that your software product should automatically know about your customer if they sign up with a corporate email. The API pulled brand data such as logos, backdrops, name, description, industry, and more from the public web and surfaced it to your product to integrate as part of their onboarding experience. That\u2019s worth doing because conversion rates on onboarding improve dramatically when you go from \u201center all this info\u201d to \u201cconfirm all this info\u201d (and there was never any privacy concern all the information is public).
That was a nifty niche, but the more customers used it, it became obvious that \u201cbrand data\u201d was only one slice of a larger need. People started asking for things like screenshots, structured extraction, and LLM ready data. So I expanded to Context.dev, and applied to YC (got rejected after an interview), then kept going and re-applied at which point I got in as a solo founder.
People use Context.dev in more ways than I can list, but here are some: keeping context up to date on customer websites for chatbots - building beautiful brand assets/ads for customers - enrichment flows using agent harnesses like eve.dev - crawling customer websites into chatbot knowledge bases - turning GitHub repos into branded docs sites - academic journal and PDF crawling. There are a ton more examples at https://www.context.dev/customers.
We know that many crawlers are not behaving like good citizens on the web, and the entire space has a bad reputation as a result. At the same time, customers are not usually trying to buy \u201cscraping\u201d. They are trying to make a support bot work, personalize onboarding, enrich CRM records, generate docs, monitor leads, or let an agent research a company. There are lots of legit use cases. We want to satisfy those while being respectful of everyone involved.
We maintain a caching layer and avoid hammering websites. Customers can configure the cache, but if we find we\u2019re sending too many requests to a url in a certain amount of time, we step in and tone it down. Websites can opt out of our service, and we respect these requests and add them to our block list.
We focus on customers who want to build cool things for their users. Enriching onboarding is a popular use case. So is integrating context about their own websites (things like support bots), and building agents that can automatically reason about complex tasks involving the internet.
We only allow customers to use brand data to identify a specific customer on their software, you cannot use it in your own materials or to imply endorsement.
I'd love to hear your feedback about the product in the comments, thanks!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) \u2013 API to get structured data from any website"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.context.dev"}},"_tags":["story","author_TheYahiaBakour","story_48847562","launch_hn"],"author":"TheYahiaBakour","children":[48847924,48847960,48847990,48848008,48848174,48848319,48848331,48848664,48848668,48848796,48849010,48849410,48849500,48849884,48850088,48850758,48851199,48851219,48851318,48852310,48852878,48854342,48854442,48854559,48855590,48855940,48856375,48856896,48857293,48857649,48858050,48858081,48858260,48858683,48859062,48859106,48859110,48861674,48863623,48866507,48872010,48882331],"created_at":"2026-07-09T15:28:39Z","created_at_i":1783610919,"num_comments":86,"objectID":"48847562","points":119,"story_id":48847562,"story_text":"Hi Hacker News, I\u2019m Yahia. I built Context.dev (https://www.context.dev/) to make it really easy to integrate web data into your products and agents.
Here\u2019s a demo video: https://www.tella.tv/video/build-faster-with-context-dev-api...
Since it\u2019s an API, here are the docs: https://docs.context.dev/quickstart.
You can send us a URL and get back clean Markdown, rendered HTML, screenshots, extracted images, etc.. You can also send us a domain and get company or brand context: name, description, logos, colors, fonts, social links, screenshots, style information, and related metadata. For more custom use cases, you can send a URL plus a JSON Schema and ask us to extract structured data from the site into that shape. For example, you might ask for pricing plans, product categories, office locations, support links, integration partners, or anything else that is visible on the public site.
The goal is to give developers the output they actually want. Raw HTML is rarely the useful thing; the useful thing is usually Markdown for a model, JSON for an application, a logo for a UI, or a structured company profile for an agent.
Before, I worked at Amazon and Sunrun, and co-founded StockAlarm.io & essense.io, both of which were acquired. Also, I built knifegeek.io, which scraped pocket knives from across the internet and listed them easily. The project is outdated now (coming back soon) but back then it hit the frontpage of hacker news and people seemed to like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34604281.
Just before Context.dev, I built Brand.dev. The idea was that your software product should automatically know about your customer if they sign up with a corporate email. The API pulled brand data such as logos, backdrops, name, description, industry, and more from the public web and surfaced it to your product to integrate as part of their onboarding experience. That\u2019s worth doing because conversion rates on onboarding improve dramatically when you go from \u201center all this info\u201d to \u201cconfirm all this info\u201d (and there was never any privacy concern all the information is public).
That was a nifty niche, but the more customers used it, it became obvious that \u201cbrand data\u201d was only one slice of a larger need. People started asking for things like screenshots, structured extraction, and LLM ready data. So I expanded to Context.dev, and applied to YC (got rejected after an interview), then kept going and re-applied at which point I got in as a solo founder.
People use Context.dev in more ways than I can list, but here are some: keeping context up to date on customer websites for chatbots - building beautiful brand assets/ads for customers - enrichment flows using agent harnesses like eve.dev - crawling customer websites into chatbot knowledge bases - turning GitHub repos into branded docs sites - academic journal and PDF crawling. There are a ton more examples at https://www.context.dev/customers.
We know that many crawlers are not behaving like good citizens on the web, and the entire space has a bad reputation as a result. At the same time, customers are not usually trying to buy \u201cscraping\u201d. They are trying to make a support bot work, personalize onboarding, enrich CRM records, generate docs, monitor leads, or let an agent research a company. There are lots of legit use cases. We want to satisfy those while being respectful of everyone involved.
We maintain a caching layer and avoid hammering websites. Customers can configure the cache, but if we find we\u2019re sending too many requests to a url in a certain amount of time, we step in and tone it down. Websites can opt out of our service, and we respect these requests and add them to our block list.
We focus on customers who want to build cool things for their users. Enriching onboarding is a popular use case. So is integrating context about their own websites (things like support bots), and building agents that can automatically reason about complex tasks involving the internet.
We only allow customers to use brand data to identify a specific customer on their software, you cannot use it in your own materials or to imply endorsement.
I'd love to hear your feedback about the product in the comments, thanks!","title":"Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) \u2013 API to get structured data from any website","updated_at":"2026-10-23T01:36:53Z","url":"https://www.context.dev"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ericmags"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Hey Hacker News! I'm Eric, the founder of Consus. We route all AI requests to ITAR restricted and controlled unclassified information (CUI) compliant infrastructure.\nConsus itself satisfies ITAR restrictions, and we recently completed our FedRAMP equivalency audit against the 410 FedRAMP High controls. FedRAMP High is the U.S. government\u2019s strictest security baseline for cloud services handling sensitive unclassified data. A breach of this data could cause severe or catastrophic harm. Achieving FedRAMP equivalency, or authorization, is required before processing CUI information.
Demo: https://youtu.be/6MYxJe6P4oY
Aerospace and defense is experiencing rapid growth. Unfortunately, most companies are struggling to use AI because of necessary data protections & compliance risk. These companies can move even faster if they could use the AI tools that most other industries take for granted.
I spent most of my career prior to Consus in aerospace & defense. I launched national security payloads at SpaceX, and was an early employee at Castelion. I\u2019ve watched first hand how compliance red-tape makes it difficult for companies to adopt new technologies and trust vendors that touch their sensitive data. For example, I worked with a satellite manufacturer that doesn\u2019t allow any AI tools, even for non-sensitive work.
Even as AI has become extremely useful over the past 9-12 months, I was surprised by how many aerospace & defense companies refused to touch it. They could see how it could be helpful, but they were scared about model providers training on their data, violating an ITAR rule, or risk losing new business because of a failed cyber assessment. These are all rational fears.
There were a lot of ways to solve some/all of these problems, but we focused on building a compliant AI inference layer that can "plug" into any AI tool or workflow. Just as OpenRouter integrates with most tools, Consus can connect to tools like ChatGPT or Claude, open source tools including the Pi coding agent or Open WebUI, or integrate with applications built and maintained by individual organizations.
Almost no aerospace & defense company lives in all three major GovClouds (AWS, Azure, Google). When I mapped where frontier models can legally run for ITAR and CUI work, each provider had some subset of models, and each model achieved varying levels of compliance. Our customers don\u2019t think in terms of cloud providers. They think about the data controls they require, and the model they want to use.\nThat is why we built the compliance suffix. Under the hood, every request hits a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint, where keys are verified and policy is enforced before anything touches inference. Every model name must carry a compliance suffix, such as gpt-5.6-sol:fedramp-high or claude-opus-5-5:itar, and any bare model name is rejected. We never proxy to the standard commercial endpoints.
Our customers are also able to build an allowlist of models, and assign spend & model restrictions to individual users in the organization. This is all handled through our Consus Portal where teams can manage spend, keys, and policies.
A typical question we hear is why not just use Bedrock in AWS GovCloud or Azure Government directly. For small teams, just getting access to these platforms is difficult. For larger organizations, GovCloud lets you inherit some but not all of the controls needed to handle sensitive data. Also, models are split across providers: GPT-5.6 Sol is only available in Azure Government, while Claude Opus 5.5 is served through Bedrock in AWS GovCloud. If you want both, you are standing up and securing two separate government cloud environments. We run all of them behind one endpoint so customers don\u2019t have to pick a cloud, and we handle the compliance work for each one.
Given the data sensitivities, Consus does not store any customer data at rest. All prompts and completions stay in memory only for the length of the request and are never logged or written to disk. Zero data retention is strictly enforced both on ourselves and the infrastructure/model providers. We do keep metadata on each request and response for billing and audit purposes.
Consus is not self-serve by design. ITAR requires us to know exactly who is on the other end of every key, so we verify every organization and put a contract in place before issuing API keys. We charge our customers a compliance fee starting at $40/mo/seat plus AI tokens at cost.
We are actively serving customers, and would love any feedback from security experts, or developers/engineers working in highly regulated industries!
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Demo: https://youtu.be/6MYxJe6P4oY
Aerospace and defense is experiencing rapid growth. Unfortunately, most companies are struggling to use AI because of necessary data protections & compliance risk. These companies can move even faster if they could use the AI tools that most other industries take for granted.
I spent most of my career prior to Consus in aerospace & defense. I launched national security payloads at SpaceX, and was an early employee at Castelion. I\u2019ve watched first hand how compliance red-tape makes it difficult for companies to adopt new technologies and trust vendors that touch their sensitive data. For example, I worked with a satellite manufacturer that doesn\u2019t allow any AI tools, even for non-sensitive work.
Even as AI has become extremely useful over the past 9-12 months, I was surprised by how many aerospace & defense companies refused to touch it. They could see how it could be helpful, but they were scared about model providers training on their data, violating an ITAR rule, or risk losing new business because of a failed cyber assessment. These are all rational fears.
There were a lot of ways to solve some/all of these problems, but we focused on building a compliant AI inference layer that can "plug" into any AI tool or workflow. Just as OpenRouter integrates with most tools, Consus can connect to tools like ChatGPT or Claude, open source tools including the Pi coding agent or Open WebUI, or integrate with applications built and maintained by individual organizations.
Almost no aerospace & defense company lives in all three major GovClouds (AWS, Azure, Google). When I mapped where frontier models can legally run for ITAR and CUI work, each provider had some subset of models, and each model achieved varying levels of compliance. Our customers don\u2019t think in terms of cloud providers. They think about the data controls they require, and the model they want to use.\nThat is why we built the compliance suffix. Under the hood, every request hits a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint, where keys are verified and policy is enforced before anything touches inference. Every model name must carry a compliance suffix, such as gpt-5.6-sol:fedramp-high or claude-opus-5-5:itar, and any bare model name is rejected. We never proxy to the standard commercial endpoints.
Our customers are also able to build an allowlist of models, and assign spend & model restrictions to individual users in the organization. This is all handled through our Consus Portal where teams can manage spend, keys, and policies.
A typical question we hear is why not just use Bedrock in AWS GovCloud or Azure Government directly. For small teams, just getting access to these platforms is difficult. For larger organizations, GovCloud lets you inherit some but not all of the controls needed to handle sensitive data. Also, models are split across providers: GPT-5.6 Sol is only available in Azure Government, while Claude Opus 5.5 is served through Bedrock in AWS GovCloud. If you want both, you are standing up and securing two separate government cloud environments. We run all of them behind one endpoint so customers don\u2019t have to pick a cloud, and we handle the compliance work for each one.
Given the data sensitivities, Consus does not store any customer data at rest. All prompts and completions stay in memory only for the length of the request and are never logged or written to disk. Zero data retention is strictly enforced both on ourselves and the infrastructure/model providers. We do keep metadata on each request and response for billing and audit purposes.
Consus is not self-serve by design. ITAR requires us to know exactly who is on the other end of every key, so we verify every organization and put a contract in place before issuing API keys. We charge our customers a compliance fee starting at $40/mo/seat plus AI tokens at cost.
We are actively serving customers, and would love any feedback from security experts, or developers/engineers working in highly regulated industries!
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It's so easy to add incremental features nowadays, and most seem useful. There's nothing obviously wrong with them.
On top of that, people are using the software, and they appreciate how complete it is. The UX is cluttered, but 99% of interactions don't use it, so who cares.
How do you decide to cut scope when in the current setup there's nothing to lose? Am I simply to old school?
For context, this is the project: https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How do you decide to cut scope when AI makes it so easy to add?"}},"_tags":["story","author_harlequinetcie","story_50161914","ask_hn"],"author":"harlequinetcie","children":[50161941,50162107,50162516,50162764,50168645,50171471,50186983,50187754],"created_at":"2026-10-20T05:59:33Z","created_at_i":1792475973,"num_comments":10,"objectID":"50161914","points":2,"story_id":50161914,"story_text":"I've been having this conversation with my co-founder for months.
It's so easy to add incremental features nowadays, and most seem useful. There's nothing obviously wrong with them.
On top of that, people are using the software, and they appreciate how complete it is. The UX is cluttered, but 99% of interactions don't use it, so who cares.
How do you decide to cut scope when in the current setup there's nothing to lose? Am I simply to old school?
For context, this is the project: https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm","title":"Ask HN: How do you decide to cut scope when AI makes it so easy to add?","updated_at":"2026-10-22T18:51:23Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"nitishr"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"t9xt.com - 4 letters, a .com, short and a meme (not in [redacted]'s opinion)
t9xt.com for a AI text detector - might find cool at first but search engines heavily penalised us for it. but why? most search engines use a modified version of Damerau\u2013Levenshtein algorithm. This is super useful for spelling errors, but also misclassifies some words that are intentionally spelt differently - penalising creativity and pushing for "standardization". We faced this on day 1, and day 90. Here's what happened:\nAt first we thought it's because our domain is new, (we shifted over from slopyard.com) which had a good DR but was about to expire - we wanted a brand more meaningful. but (after buying another new domain to test our hypothesis, we became curious) what was the search engine doing? It was auto-inferring t9xt as text (as intended) but since we were t9xt and not text, we kept being skipped from search. Ok that's fine, it's just a new domain, what happened next? So search engines use a framework for "entity-recognition" under the hood, this takes input queries, extracts entities - matches the relevant entity from its index based on context, and redirects the search filters to return more relevant results to use (this is really useful) - but, not for us. By first auto-correct all queries "t9xt" as "text", the entity recognition engine skipped us completely. In fact, at first - even searching by domain would return a result of there is no active website by this name (AI). A clear mismatch with the index.\nA second reason we hypothesised, but now rely on it's own AI search tool's answer -> when documents were first OCRd, many OCR tools would mistake e and 9, leading to breakout pattern -> prompting the t9xt to text almost always.
The lesson we learnt here, cool is great - but no point if you're not going to be indexed properly. Thankfully there are many other ways of correcting this, but we wanted to share this little piece as a caveat before buying a cool domain that may have unintended interpretations.
Taken from https://t9xt.com/writings/why-search-engines-penalised-us-for-having-a-cool-domain"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Why search engines penalised us for having a cool domain name"}},"_tags":["story","author_nitishr","story_50179018","ask_hn"],"author":"nitishr","children":[50179049,50179085,50202877],"created_at":"2026-10-21T11:19:50Z","created_at_i":1792581590,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"50179018","points":2,"story_id":50179018,"story_text":"t9xt.com - 4 letters, a .com, short and a meme (not in [redacted]'s opinion)
t9xt.com for a AI text detector - might find cool at first but search engines heavily penalised us for it. but why? most search engines use a modified version of Damerau\u2013Levenshtein algorithm. This is super useful for spelling errors, but also misclassifies some words that are intentionally spelt differently - penalising creativity and pushing for "standardization". We faced this on day 1, and day 90. Here's what happened:\nAt first we thought it's because our domain is new, (we shifted over from slopyard.com) which had a good DR but was about to expire - we wanted a brand more meaningful. but (after buying another new domain to test our hypothesis, we became curious) what was the search engine doing? It was auto-inferring t9xt as text (as intended) but since we were t9xt and not text, we kept being skipped from search. Ok that's fine, it's just a new domain, what happened next? So search engines use a framework for "entity-recognition" under the hood, this takes input queries, extracts entities - matches the relevant entity from its index based on context, and redirects the search filters to return more relevant results to use (this is really useful) - but, not for us. By first auto-correct all queries "t9xt" as "text", the entity recognition engine skipped us completely. In fact, at first - even searching by domain would return a result of there is no active website by this name (AI). A clear mismatch with the index.\nA second reason we hypothesised, but now rely on it's own AI search tool's answer -> when documents were first OCRd, many OCR tools would mistake e and 9, leading to breakout pattern -> prompting the t9xt to text almost always.
The lesson we learnt here, cool is great - but no point if you're not going to be indexed properly. Thankfully there are many other ways of correcting this, but we wanted to share this little piece as a caveat before buying a cool domain that may have unintended interpretations.
Taken from https://t9xt.com/writings/why-search-engines-penalised-us-for-having-a-cool-domain","title":"Why search engines penalised us for having a cool domain name","updated_at":"2026-10-23T03:46:24Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"infinitetrooper"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Hey, I'm Akhil, co-founder of Tessary. An open-source agent reliability platform that monitors every production trace, detects issues that sampled evals miss, and investigates to find the root cause.
We started up about a year ago building synthetic users for usability testing of B2B software, we built the agents that would personify real users and use the software but, we were never able to make them work reliably enough for long running sessions. We had built a massive eval set to tune our agents but, then the evaluation itself got prohibitively costly - like 5x costlier than actually running the agent since we needed to grade across the many narrow intents of our agent. That's where Tessary originated, we wanted to make agent reliability both cover more ground and be simultaneously less costly to run.
Tessary works on 2 layers.
L1 classifiers - which look at every agent trace and flag potentially erroneous ones extremely cheaply. We are talking 2-3 orders of magnitude cheaper than running the actual agent.
L2 agents - which triage and find the root cause of the issue from the erroneous traces. These are run on SOTA models but, because we run them on already flagged traces, the time and $ spent finding the cause is much cheaper than running grading on even 1% of traces. In our testing on complex agents, at 1M traces, this approach was 5x cheaper than sampled evaluations and as your agent gets more reliable, the cost of reliability also goes down.
we are open source and can be self-hosted so, you don't need to send your traces to us. We support existing `gen_ai` spec and ingestion over OTLP so, you can add this as a new exporter to your existing setup. We have a cloud version, you can quickly try the features with a $10 credit.
We are looking to build more classifiers and enable people to build custom classifiers for their needs and would love to hear feedback on common failure modes people have built solutions or evaluation for
Repo: https://github.com/tessaryai/tessary\nWebsite: https://tessary.ai\nTry for free: https://app.tessary.ai"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Tessary \u2013 Find the AI agent failures your sampled evals miss"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/tessaryai/tessary"}},"_tags":["story","author_infinitetrooper","story_50033189","show_hn"],"author":"infinitetrooper","children":[50155253],"created_at":"2026-10-10T14:09:36Z","created_at_i":1791641376,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"50033189","points":1,"story_id":50033189,"story_text":"Hey, I'm Akhil, co-founder of Tessary. An open-source agent reliability platform that monitors every production trace, detects issues that sampled evals miss, and investigates to find the root cause.
We started up about a year ago building synthetic users for usability testing of B2B software, we built the agents that would personify real users and use the software but, we were never able to make them work reliably enough for long running sessions. We had built a massive eval set to tune our agents but, then the evaluation itself got prohibitively costly - like 5x costlier than actually running the agent since we needed to grade across the many narrow intents of our agent. That's where Tessary originated, we wanted to make agent reliability both cover more ground and be simultaneously less costly to run.
Tessary works on 2 layers.
L1 classifiers - which look at every agent trace and flag potentially erroneous ones extremely cheaply. We are talking 2-3 orders of magnitude cheaper than running the actual agent.
L2 agents - which triage and find the root cause of the issue from the erroneous traces. These are run on SOTA models but, because we run them on already flagged traces, the time and $ spent finding the cause is much cheaper than running grading on even 1% of traces. In our testing on complex agents, at 1M traces, this approach was 5x cheaper than sampled evaluations and as your agent gets more reliable, the cost of reliability also goes down.
we are open source and can be self-hosted so, you don't need to send your traces to us. We support existing `gen_ai` spec and ingestion over OTLP so, you can add this as a new exporter to your existing setup. We have a cloud version, you can quickly try the features with a $10 credit.
We are looking to build more classifiers and enable people to build custom classifiers for their needs and would love to hear feedback on common failure modes people have built solutions or evaluation for
Repo: https://github.com/tessaryai/tessary\nWebsite: https://tessary.ai\nTry for free: https://app.tessary.ai","title":"Show HN: Tessary \u2013 Find the AI agent failures your sampled evals miss","updated_at":"2026-10-22T08:27:51Z","url":"https://github.com/tessaryai/tessary"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Anish2910"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Hi HN, I'm Anish. I built Mnemolith because the AI coding tools I use (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) either forget my project between sessions, or remember things that quietly stopped being true. Tell the agent "we use Postgres", migrate to MySQL two weeks later, and it keeps building on the old fact.
How it works:
- It's an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor and Codex share one memory per project (keyed by the git repo).\n- When the agent saves a memory, it can link it to the files it depends on. Mnemolith stores each file's git blob hash. If the file's contents change (committed or not), the memory is set aside and flagged for review, so the agent stops relying on it.\n- A local dashboard shows what the agent remembers, where each memory came from (tool, session, file versions), and its full history. You can confirm a memory is still true, or retire it and say what's true now.\n- Contradictions are judged by the agent, not by a similarity threshold. In my calibration, "we use Postgres" vs "we migrated to MySQL" only scored 0.30 similarity, so a threshold can't tell a contradiction from an unrelated fact.\n- Current memories can sync into a managed section of AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md, so they get reviewed in PRs.
Under the hood it runs on an engine I wrote from scratch in Java: a Redis-compatible server with a built-in memory model and an HNSW vector index. Embeddings run locally (all-MiniLM-L6-v2). Everything stays on your machine.
It's early (v0.2.1). There's no team sync yet beyond the AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md files, and it needs Java 11+ (it downloads a private copy if you don't have one).
I'd really like feedback, especially from people running coding agents on real codebases. What does your agent keep getting wrong?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Mnemolith \u2013 AI coding memory that goes stale when your code changes"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/anishchugh05/mnemolith"}},"_tags":["story","author_Anish2910","story_50199581","show_hn"],"author":"Anish2910","created_at":"2026-10-22T18:59:50Z","created_at_i":1792695590,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"50199581","points":1,"story_id":50199581,"story_text":"Hi HN, I'm Anish. I built Mnemolith because the AI coding tools I use (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) either forget my project between sessions, or remember things that quietly stopped being true. Tell the agent "we use Postgres", migrate to MySQL two weeks later, and it keeps building on the old fact.
How it works:
- It's an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor and Codex share one memory per project (keyed by the git repo).\n- When the agent saves a memory, it can link it to the files it depends on. Mnemolith stores each file's git blob hash. If the file's contents change (committed or not), the memory is set aside and flagged for review, so the agent stops relying on it.\n- A local dashboard shows what the agent remembers, where each memory came from (tool, session, file versions), and its full history. You can confirm a memory is still true, or retire it and say what's true now.\n- Contradictions are judged by the agent, not by a similarity threshold. In my calibration, "we use Postgres" vs "we migrated to MySQL" only scored 0.30 similarity, so a threshold can't tell a contradiction from an unrelated fact.\n- Current memories can sync into a managed section of AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md, so they get reviewed in PRs.
Under the hood it runs on an engine I wrote from scratch in Java: a Redis-compatible server with a built-in memory model and an HNSW vector index. Embeddings run locally (all-MiniLM-L6-v2). Everything stays on your machine.
It's early (v0.2.1). There's no team sync yet beyond the AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md files, and it needs Java 11+ (it downloads a private copy if you don't have one).
I'd really like feedback, especially from people running coding agents on real codebases. What does your agent keep getting wrong?","title":"Show HN: Mnemolith \u2013 AI coding memory that goes stale when your code changes","updated_at":"2026-10-22T19:07:37Z","url":"https://github.com/anishchugh05/mnemolith"}],"hitsPerPage":50,"nbHits":44,"nbPages":1,"page":0,"params":"query=Thunder+Compute&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":14,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":17},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":4,"total":5},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":2,"total":2},"total":2},"total":2},"fetch":{"query":9,"scanning":1,"total":11},"total":14},"query":"Thunder Compute","serverTimeMS":20}