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attilakun

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attilakun··on World Emulation via Neural Network
Amazing project. This has the same feel as Karpathy’s classic “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks” blog post. I think in 10 years’ time we will look back and say “wow, this is how it started.”
attilakun··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Thank you. I got something (but not the full method) working. However, I ended up abandoning this approach because I realized that the SDS process is too slow. It'd take at least 10 mins to generate a single SVG.
attilakun··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I was trying to reproduce the NeuralSVG paper but it's hard. In the process I had to learn about diffusion and flow matching.
attilakun··on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
I was experiencing discomfort while staring at the computer in my glasses. In the end the solution was quite simple: there was a bend in the frame of my glasses. The second optician straightened the frame manually, so the lenses now line up without much of a curve. After this, my symptoms went away.
attilakun··on Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal
I built something like this but for the web: https://www.sqltab.com/demo
attilakun··on Bluesky Is Booming in Japan
These are great. I'm working on something related, a hashtag tracker for Bluesky [1]. Japanese posts are often among the top hashtags.

[1] https://www.butterflystats.com/

attilakun··on Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media
> I fear the recent US election is going to kill it, though.

How? Aren’t there a lot more people migrating to Bluesky now in light of Musk’s antics on X?

attilakun··on Show HN: SQLTab – Chat with your SQLite database
It's probably because it's trying to guess what the filter condition should be and uses the wrong casing for the genre (should be "Sci-Fi", not "sci-fi"). At least that's what happened when I tried your prompt a couple of times.

Sometimes it gets the casing correct by accident straight away, other times it struggles. When it does struggle, I just keep typing "fix" in the chat, and eventually it figures it out. Sometimes it asks me to run a query to determine the distinct set of genres, sometimes it just decides to lowercase the genre column in the filter condition.

attilakun··on Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object
Does CloudFlare have proper spending caps? If they have, I'd be open to try DOs but if they don't, it's a non-starter for an indie dev as I can't risk bankruptcy due to a bad for loop.
attilakun··on Show HN: Detect if an audio file was generated by NotebookLM
Is it this one? https://x.com/omooretweets/status/1840251853327741138
attilakun··on SQLitebrowser: First update in three years (July 2024)
I'm working on something related but for the web: https://www.sqltab.com/

It's an alpha version and barely works at this point but at the very least you can use it to browse SQLite tables without installing anything on your computer.

It uses the WASM build of SQLite with OPFS for persistence. The main focus of this will be to manipulate JSON stored in an SQLite table. I need this for one of my existing workflows. In particular, I want the ability to flatten a JSON tree into tabular format: https://youtu.be/z0QvxyMybKA

attilakun··on Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet
Do you evaluate JS using a web worker in the browser? https://github.com/quadratichq/quadratic/blob/qa/quadratic-c...

How effective is this as a sandbox, are there any know (security) tradeoffs? I was using QuickJS for my previous projects but I'm wondering if yours is a better solution (it's certainly more performant).

attilakun··on Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet
They seem to execute JS locally in the browser. Google Sheets makes a network call for this, which results in a laggy experience. I ran into this while I was developing my own Google Sheets add-on [1] which allows inline definition of JS within Sheets but the lag makes the UX subpar.

[1]: https://www.evaljs.net/

attilakun··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
In a way it's not surprising that people are getting vastly different results out of LLMs. People have different skill levels when it comes to using even Google. An LLM has a vastly bigger input space.
attilakun··on The 4-chan Go programmer
I used it too. It's useful to implement Promise-like semantics in Go.
attilakun··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
If only there was a rich 3-dimensional physical environment we could draw training data from.
attilakun··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
I made a Google Sheets add-on to evaluate JavaScript inline: https://www.evaljs.net/

It uses QuickJS compiled to WASM in the backend to sandbox JavaScript execution.

attilakun··on Swift Homomorphic Encryption
Is there a good primer that explains the math basis of this?
attilakun··on Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
I do something similar in my file-renamer app (sort.photos if you want to check it out):

1. Render first 2 pages of PDF into a JPEG offline in the Mac app.

2. Upload JPEG to ChatGPT Vision and ask what would be a good file name for this.

It works surprisingly well.

attilakun··on Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
What's the labor?
attilakun··on SF's AI boom can't stop real estate slide, as office vacancies reach new record
Long: you buy a stock, hold it, later on sell for profit or loss.

Short: you borrow a stock, sell it, hold the money and later on buy the stock back at a lower or higher price you originally sold it for. Then return the stock to the person who lent it to you.

attilakun··on Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots
Why is Golang questionable for web backends? I thought it was designed for that.
attilakun··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
Why was the investor okay with this?
attilakun··on Stable Diffusion 3
Is there a Guassian splat model that works without the "Structure from Motion" step to extract the point cloud? That feels a bit unsatisfying to me.
attilakun··on Go run
I often feel like Docker shouldn't even be needed for Go apps. It's just so easy to have your dependencies in order if everything is statically linked.
attilakun··on Sora: Creating video from text
I agree. Skepticism usually serves people well as a lot of new tech turns out to be just hype. Except when it is not and I think this is one of those few cases.
attilakun··on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
I'll have to look into whether there's some public API to pull cpubenchmark score as I agree, it'd be immensely useful.

To your other point, EPYC and Threadripper are listed now:

https://www.cpuscout.com/?Processor+Type=Epyc

https://www.cpuscout.com/?Processor+Model=AMD%2520Ryzen%2520...

attilakun··on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
AMD SP3 is added now: https://www.cpuscout.com/?Socket+Type=SP3
attilakun··on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
I don't understand their worries. What are they trying to achieve with this? I can understand e.g. not wanting to have affiliate links on fraudulent/deceptive websites, but how is a search interface hurting anybody?
attilakun··on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
I remember checking out pongo2 briefly before deciding on templ, but my lack of familiarity with its syntax kept me away. I guess the calculus is much different if you have prior experience, but for me it was attractive that templ uses Go syntax in its templates (with some exceptions).

Yeah, passing data if for some reason you can't use templ's `script` block can be annoying, if that's what you meant! I think they should make sure that the `script` block works in every situation and then it's going to be way less awkward.

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