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YC Graveyard5y agoToolB2B SaaS

In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

TL;DR I'm looking for advice regarding browser-based frontend development from people with practical e-ink UI experience. My specific device is a Bigme Hibreak Pro BW but I'm aiming for relatively broad compatibility.I've recently switched to a black-and-white e-ink smartphone with the motivation of withdrawing from the attention economy somewhat and it's a genuinely cool piece of hardware. While the majority of my needs are met by this device there are a few things I'd like to have which don't work terribly well with the e-ink screen. I'm planning to implement a couple of projects to fill these gaps, at the moment I'm planning a Lemmy frontend and an OpenRouter frontend specifically for e-ink. Both are to be browser-based rather than native, to maximise compatibility and because I'm much more familiar with the web than Android development.I would like to study the principles of sound e-ink UI design before approaching these projects to avoid creating unusable slop, in particular I am not entirely sure how to approach treating the refreshes as a first-class aspect of the design when I can't control them from the browser, and how to apply comprehensible UI conventions when a greyscale, high-contrast display is the target.Some specific problems I have out of the gate are:* Streaming LLM output to the screen is basically the worst-case scenario for e-ink, I need to buffer it and paint it in chunks without this becoming horrible to use.* Ghosting is a serious problem, browsing HN on the device is a particularly obvious example. Ideally I want to avoid scrolling as far as possible and rely on pagination instead, which I feel has the potential to become annoying if not done well.* Given I must rely exclusively on layout and type to carry the UI, what design languages emphasise these qualities best? My gut says the early Mac OS versions wouldn't be a bad place to start, this seems relevant given the display constraints

Hacker News1mo agoArticleAI

SKIP

28FL score

Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

Hacker News1mo agoToolMarketing & Sales

Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything

Hi HN! We’re Zack and Tommy the Co-Founders of Keet (https://trykeet.com). We are building a mobile app that generates courses on any topic, with short videos for explanation and games for reinforcement. Courses mirror a real curriculum to help you learn over an extended period of time.Tommy and I met in linear algebra class in college and spent the next 4 years taking classes together. Our friendship was formed around learning new things. In school, someone else designs the curriculum, delivers the content, and writes the assessments. All you have to do is show up. Learning without this structure was frustrating, and there was a lot of friction to get started.Zack has a coffee obsession and struggled to assemble youtube videos, conversations with ChatGPT, and the books he was reading into a coherent understanding of all of the different variables that go into brewing a cup of coffee. His attempts gave him the freedom to follow his curiosity, but the instructional design was difficult. Every piece of content either presumed some prerequisite knowledge or none at all.Keet is our attempt at providing the autonomy to teach yourself anything while adding a structure conducive to learning. It finds a custom starting point and sequences lessons in a logical order.We have found Keet most useful in the following scenarios:- You have a subject matter interest that you enjoy passively learning about. (i.e. you really enjoy learning about medieval history and generate courses on medieval engineering)- You want to explore a niche topic of a subject area you already know a lot about. (i.e. You know a lot about biology but want to explore how migratory animals sense Earth’s magnetic field.)- You see a really niche topic get mentioned somewhere you want to explore more (i.e History of Penny Universities, Double Entry Book keeping or Robert Moses and the creation of the BQE)When you create a course we ask some questions about how difficult it should be, how much depth the

Hacker News1mo agoToolAI

Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline

Hacker News1mo agoToolOther

Prescription Drug Cost Comparison & Alternatives Finder

Patients struggle to find cheaper medication alternatives and compare prices across pharmacies. A tool connecting generic/alternative drug options with real-time pharmacy pricing could save users money while helping them discuss options with doctors. [Google Search suggestion]

Google Trends1mo agoToolMedicine & HealthUS

Plant-based dairy alternatives

Creating better-tasting, better-performing plant-based dairy products that can compete with or replace conventional dairy

YC Graveyard8y agoToolFood & Beverage

Plant-fiber sugar alternative

Creating viable sugar alternatives made from plant fiber that taste and perform like sugar, reducing health risks of conventional sugar

YC Graveyard8y agoToolFood & Beverage

Payment processing gap in emerging markets

Former Soviet Union countries lack accessible, modern payment infrastructure comparable to Stripe, limiting online commerce growth and creator economy participation

YC Graveyard5y agoToolFintech

Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

Hi HN, we’re Eren, Berat and Kaan. We’re building Stoa (https://www.stoaexchange.com), a marketplace for new and used GPUs and AI servers.GPUs are the collateral in the data center buildout. Today, financing terms mostly depend on the offtaker, meaning the company that has committed to use the compute.If that company is a hyperscaler, the financing can look investment grade. If it’s a smaller cloud or startup, terms get expensive fast, even with the same hardware as collateral.The lender’s problem is pretty reasonable. If the borrower defaults and we need to sell these servers, what can we actually get for them? There isn’t a good answer today.We started brokering GPU deals to understand why. It was much more manual than we expected. The hardware is still traded through phone calls, forwarded spreadsheets and long email threads.One week, a seller quoted us $200k for a server node and another quoted $240k for what looked like the same thing. Neither was necessarily wrong. They had different information and could only see their own corner of the market.Before we could compare the quotes, we had to sort out the configuration, condition, warranty, location and delivery terms. It’s the same information Kelley Blue Book attaches to a used-car price through the year, trim, mileage and condition. “An H100 server” isn’t enough information to know what something is worth, just as “a used BMW” isn’t.This is also just a bad way to buy or sell hardware. A buyer looking for the best price shouldn’t have to contact several brokers and dealers separately, repeat the same request and then untangle a pile of different quotes. Sellers shouldn’t have to search for demand one buyer at a time. A market of this size deserves better liquidity.Stoa puts the request into one format and sends it to dealers that have gone through know-your-business (KYB) checks. We verify the company, who owns it and who is allowed to trade for it. Before the request goes out, the buyer confirms the

Hacker News1mo agoToolAI

Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

Hey HN,Henry from Cactus here!We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the suggestions to release Needle 2.The whole model is a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM; 45m parameters at 2bit compression. Needle hits 500 tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5, sits between 400-1,500 tokens/sec on VR devices like Meta Quest 3S and Apple Vision Pro, and ranges 300-700 on sub-$200 phones such as the Samsung A-Series.On the tool call and mobile device use benchmarks, Needle 2 trades wins with closest small models like LFM2.5 230M and Apple Foundation Model, at 5x to 70x smaller, both at f16 vs Needle 2 at 2bit. Needle is based on Simple Attention Networks from our paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18363).Edge AI has lately meant Macs and PCs, but that is just 1.5 billion of over 21 billion connected IoT devices in the world today, and in emerging markets most phones ship under $200, no NPU, cheap GPUs. These include budget phones, Raspberry Pis, microcontrollers, wearables, small robots like Reachy Mini, and connected home devices.A conventional transformer of Needle's width and depth spends 164 MFLOPs per token, and even one squeezed down to Needle's parameter count spends 87, Needle spends 70. Even on a high-end phone, an always-on assistant lives inside a power budget; every MFLOP is milliwatt-hours, and Needle spends 7x to 85x fewer of them per token than the smallest performant LLMs. More about the architecture in the link.When we structure intelligence for consumer devices as functions with typed parameters, the only hard part is mapping a messy sentence onto them; which function, with which values. Our research found that when framed that way, the problem needs no world knowledge and no open-ended prose

Hacker News1mo agoToolAI

Users struggle with managing too many browser tabs

People, especially developers and power users, have difficulty organizing and switching between numerous open browser tabs, leading to inefficiency and lost context.

X1mo agoToolProductivity

Builders face distribution as the primary barrier to getting first users

Even after building a product, creators struggle to make people care or find their work, with no audience, connections, or launch plan, turning distribution into the core unsolved issue.

X3mo agoArticleDev

Misalignment in crypto markets between traders, creators, protocols, and communities

In crypto, traders chase volume, creators chase attention, protocols chase fees, leaving communities without fair value or alignment in market designs.

X1mo agoToolFinance

Vendors lose sales due to buried WhatsApp customer messages

Small vendors and businesses lose potential sales when customer inquiries on WhatsApp get buried under dozens of chats, making it hard to respond promptly and close deals.

X1mo agoToolE-Commerce

Homeowners and contractors struggle to connect for local jobs

Customers find it hard to post jobs and find reliable local contractors, while contractors struggle to source qualified leads efficiently without middlemen.

X1mo agoToolBusiness

VSCode / VS Code / Virtual Studio Code Embedding

I largely use the VSCode integrated terminal when developing, due to the easy integration into my workflow and ability to lay out within the VSCode UI. It'd be great to use Warp, either as the terminal for the integrated terminal prompt (using a custom profile, see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal#_terminal-profiles) or even as a separate extension.

GitHub5y agoToolProductivity