... maker of CropPass ( croppass.com ). After getting a visa photo rejected for a slightly uneven shadow and feeling uneasy uploading my biometrics to random cloud tools, I built a local-first alternative. You add a photo you took at home. CropPass finds your face, crops it to the size your country wants (35 45 mm for a UK passport, 2 2 in for the US) and checks head size, eye line, centring, light

... retrieval (let the model decide what to fetch next, over multiple turns) beats static top-k retrieval on every eval I've run, just at higher latency cost. Fine-tuning got more accessible again. For narrow, stable domains, a lightly fine-tuned small model + light

... years by people who cared about how it feels to use. Dark, considered interfaces. Whitespace that isn't accidental. Content that is the product, not decoration bolted onto a spreadsheet. The short answer to "what's the best LinkedIn alternative in 2026" is this: builders aren't looking for another feed. They're looking for a professional network that was actually designed, not just maintained. That's the gap forg.to is built to close. Here's why the gap exists ... ... already starting to look dated by 2015. LinkedIn is that same shape, just wearing a suit. A vertical feed. Text posts from people you loosely know. Ads wedged in every few scrolls. A notification bell that never stops lighting

... that webcam-based eye tracking is a fundamentally different problem from hardware-based tracking. Hardware trackers use infrared illumination to precisely detect the pupil and corneal reflections. A webcam gives you RGB frames of a face, at whatever lighting conditions exist in the user's environment, at whatever angle they happen to be sitting at.    The challenge isn't just detecting where the eyes are. It's detecting the gaze vector the direction the person is actually looking ... ... image that varies with head position, lighting

... what actually sets you apart? As for what I m building: I m creating VertoX , the world s first real-time speech translation system that preserves the speaker's original voice, tone, and emotions. We have no direct competitors in what we are doing. Our ICP is literally the entire world. It doesn't matter if you're an enterprise company, a student, a traveler, or a government agency; VertoX is here to completely eliminate the language barrier globally. Comment ... ... oxidation only becomes measurable after you normalize the light

... like telegram more than the whatsapp for chatting :) VS Code : i do code . Comment from mono.(@shakutovbekzat): Here s my stack for building mobile apps today: Antigravity + Codex (AI Agent): Switched to this setup recently. Previously, VS

... find it easiest to throw it back at AI to understand if it's AI-produced Comment from Riley Hansen(@riley_hansen): @saad_el_gueddari  Agree! I actually think that's a good thing. It's not AI vs human anymore. It's effort vs

... need to reach a break even. - How much revenue you want to get. That could help you shape the target of your commercial services. Comment from M nevver Ertun (@munevver_ertuncc): I like the way you framed it around general vs tailored value, that s a really clean way to think about it. For products, it often feels similar: free should help users understand the value, while paid should unlock outcomes they can t easily get on their own. The tricky ... ... free has to remove friction completely. It has to let them solve the problem right away without thinking too much. If they hit limits too early, they ll just leave for a competitor

... term vibe coding , I had a visceral reaction namely, a full-body cringe. As a developer who takes pride in actually understanding my code, the phrase sounded like a bad joke. Coding by vibe? What does that even mean light some incense, play lo-fi beats, and let the code write itself? In my mind, AI coding assistants were meant to assist me (suggest a snippet here, autocomplete a line there), not replace the real work. The idea of surrendering ... ... vibe coding. When I learned it was Andrej Karpathy yes, the AI guru and former director of AI at Tesla I did a double take. Karpathy is known for deep technical expertise and meticulous work, not throwing buzzwords around lightly