HN Comment — 20 posts

Comment on: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

HanClinto

Well once I've got an outdoor-capable robot that can drive around the acreage and generally find its way around, the first step would just be inventorying the property and doing things like surveys of plant or animal species (birdsong recognition, etc). But for interaction with…

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Comment on: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

HanClinto

In case anyone else is interested in following along with what I've discovered so far, I went on the Mistral Discord and asked their Miscord bot. Here is what it answered me: Hey there, fellow robot enthusiast! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ:・゚ So, you’re itching to get your hands on Robostral…

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Comment on: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

HanClinto

What is the realistic path to getting to play with this? I would love to hook this up to OpenClaw for hobbyist exploration. My dream has been to embody OpenClaw into a farm robot (been looking at adapting one of those RC lawnmowers that is tracked and built for mowing steep…

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Comment on: Show HN: Neil the Seal Game

HanClinto

This is pretty hilarious. :D Feels like a combination of Untitled Goose Game and Goat Simulator. Vibe-coded? It's pretty impressive.

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Comment on: For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

HanClinto

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"

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Comment on: MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

HanClinto

Paper plates of software development.

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Comment on: Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

HanClinto

Some of the coding-specific fine-tunes were really impressive boosts. Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct is also available [0] -- if it's not too much to ask, I'd be curious how more general models stack up in your benchmark? [0] - https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct

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Comment on: I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline

HanClinto

Setting up good book publishing pipelines with version control + CI/CD might sounds simple, but I don't think it's trivial. One of the best examples of this that I've ever seen is The Sourdough Framework [0] -- really impressed with the way that versioning and publishing is…

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Comment on: Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser

HanClinto

If the phone had broken comms, how did you get the code onto the phone to run?

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Comment on: Show HN: A (de)compiler and parser/engine for custom Magic: The Gathering cards

HanClinto

This is very cool! If you're looking for a good test suite, I wonder if you might be able to adapt any of the tests available in XMage? They have a pretty extensive test suite (such as for copy effects [0]) and if you point your agent at their code, I wonder how many could be…

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Comment on: Show HN: Cardcast.gg – Play paper Magic: The Gathering over webcam

HanClinto

Oh cool! I've been doing similar experiments lately (using ViT's) to do card recognition, and so far it's been working really well for me. If you want to compare notes, I've open-sourced my code / weights [0] and written some blogs about how mine works [1]. I'd love to see if we…

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Comment on: Write some software, give it away for free

HanClinto

Thank you! If you want to test out my tool, here's a link to the web version that is built for scanning in lists of cards: https://hanclinto.github.io/CollectorVision/ It's still super rough (doesn't support foil-toggling yet, still some issues with double-sided cards, crashing…

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Comment on: Write some software, give it away for free

HanClinto

Thank you -- I appreciate that. :)

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Comment on: Write some software, give it away for free

HanClinto

it seems i either take them to a shop and get lowballed, or spend hours meticulously researching each card and then figuring out how to sell it for what it’s worth. Well if you want to use the scanner for something useful, you can run the web version here:…

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Comment on: Write some software, give it away for free

HanClinto

I resonate with this blog post a lot. I think there is something to be said for monetizing ones' hobbies, but I've recently been taking some forays into this world of "build something amazing and give it away for free" as well. I recently took a very big experimental plunge in…

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Comment on: Grok 4.3

HanClinto

It's not just about web search though -- there's another element too. I go to Grok to find things I have failed to find with web search. I agree with GP -- if I want sourced commentary on current events, Grok is my go-to above the other models. For whatever reason, its search…

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Comment on: United Wizards of the Coast

HanClinto

This is seriously impressive!! What are you planning on doing with this? Where should I follow along?

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Comment on: Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

HanClinto

This sounds delightful and wholesome. :D I think it's easy to lose sight of these pockets of mundane goodness, and I appreciate you highlighting them.

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Comment on: They're made out of meat (1991)

HanClinto

Bad URL, but this YouTube clip works for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usXhX0zaO4

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Comment on: Harrier – Microsoft Open-Sources Industry-Leading Embedding Model

HanClinto

Microsoft releases a new open-weight model that tops the MTEB leaderboard for the largest model (27b), but also includes smaller models that are top of their respect "weight" classes (hah!) -- 0.6b (embedding size 1024) and 270m (embedding size 640). All have best-in-class…

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