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by russ 3y ago
It really depends on the use case. In vanilla WebRTC, all media is transmitted directly between peers. In practice, this doesn’t scale beyond 5-10 users in a session. Most home internet connections can’t sustain that amount of upstream band
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by russ 3y ago
Twitter has been and still is, its own worst enemy.
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by russ 3y ago
I agree — I’d love that.
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by russ 3y ago
Yeah! Wanted a really fast/frictionless way for people to jump into a context based on signals in their environment. This was also around the time of Color (the photo app which raised 40m or something off just a pitch deck) — “ambient
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by russ 3y ago
Hah! Working backwards would yield some hits for sure. “Feather” (a play off a quill) was my prototype (I built a lot of prototypes there in my “spare” time :)) for a richer, write/tweet only app. You could author long-form content, qu
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by russ 3y ago
Yeah, this is fair. It’s a slippery slope. What are your thoughts on CCTV in London/UK?
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by russ 3y ago
There’s a big graveyard of products/companies that have tried to kill Larry over the years. Meta has been trying since 2009. Back then, a former, well-known Facebook employee once told me not to join Twitter (thankfully, I didn’t liste
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by russ 3y ago
Lol, I built this exact thing as a 120% project at Twitter in 2011. It was called “Flocks”. It even had transient/temporal flocks based on geo check-in and sound-fingerprint flocks for movies, tv shows, and events. We implemented the S
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by russ 3y ago
iirc owner access to the cameras on Teslas is pretty limited (and finicky). I thought it would be great if Tesla footage could automatically hook into the AMBER alert database.
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by russ 3y ago
Pretty sure there have never been “230-foot-long” sperm whales.
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by russ 3y ago
Hope George pulls this off. Just sent this to my dad, who turned down starting ATI with the Lau family on account of me being born. =)
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by russ 3y ago
Might be just over a decade, but how about the Oculus Rift DK1?
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by russ 3y ago
Just learned that JT Nimoy, the lead code artist who worked on the TL visuals passed away in 2020. Her work was incredible. RIP JT. Edit: some more technical details about the effects JT built https://web.archive.org/web&#x2
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by russ 3y ago
Nice! We should combine it with: https://github.com/livekit-examples/kitt
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Show HN: Live conversations with ChatGPT using WebRTC(github.com)
6 points by russ 3y ago|0 comments
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by russ 4y ago
The one exception is probably speed. GPT-4 is noticeably slower than GPT-3.5. https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1639029709395886080?s...
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by russ 4y ago
In 2004 or 2005, Gordon came to UCD and gave a talk about computing — both history and future. It was unintentionally intimate: the overhang of the dotcom bust lead to the CS department’s lowest enrollment in history. Gordon had a really th
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by russ 4y ago
That looks cool! I also randomly found and enjoyed the Computer Games Museum in Berlin: https://www.computerspielemuseum.de/
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by russ 4y ago
I remember my dad’s friend joined 3dfx in ‘94 and we became testers for all their prototype cards. Being able to play Virtua Fighter on our PC still ranks as one of the most magical moments I’ve had with technology.
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Show HN: A Rust library for cross-platform video apps using WebRTC and LiveKit(github.com)
9 points by russ 4y ago|0 comments
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by russ 4y ago
Never thought I’d say this but, I miss the fail whale.
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by russ 4y ago
You certainly could, there are some folks in the community building Twitch-like livestreaming experiences with LiveKit. One of my teammates built a mobile livestreaming demo app, perhaps I can convince him to release the code. ;) Update: Gi
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by russ 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer to that project, we'll take a look. =) On your recommendation of Rust over C++, is the thought to deal with the double-bridging (platform-sdk => rust => libwebrtc) until webrtc.rs gets to a point where libw
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by russ 4y ago
It certainly would be nice! Having a common layer for signaling (whether Rust or C++), which could be used across client SDKs is something we're evaluating. You'd still need a (albeit thinner) platform-specific SDK for the final i
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Show HN: Clubhouse-style audio room in ~200 LOC(livekit.io)
3 points by russ 5y ago|0 comments
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by russ 5y ago
Hey HN! One of the founders of LiveKit here. I've worked on two companies now, fifteen years apart, that needed realtime audio/video infrastructure. Turns out that even in 2021, there aren't many modern, flexible and inexpens
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by russ 15y ago
http://subtlepatterns.com/?p=904
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by russ 15y ago
Another difference: Samurai's front page is far more confusing.
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by russ 15y ago
This makes me think of 'Daemon' by Daniel Suarez.
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by russ 16y ago
Someone should get started on the 'YC Reject Reject' fund.

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