HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

camjw

641 karma · joined October 20, 2018

Cracking on.
submissionscomments
camjw··on Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
I guess this is why they acquired https://www.limitless.ai/ ?
camjw··on Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
What are your specific gripes with cargo?
camjw··on Ozzy Osbourne has died
Law hasn’t passed yet fyi, waiting second reading in the house of lords
camjw··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
I'm working on Hispi (https://www.hispi.app) which is an AI powered tool to help people design custom jewellery (starting with rings). We use some image models and some text models to build the ring, estimate materials etc and then work with real jewellers in London to actually make and ship them!
camjw··on Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
Thank you for your feedback, will probably move the login screen a bit later.

For context, people have (unsurprisingly?) been putting some pretty gnarly things into the search box so its not obvious to me whether its good to let people put in things like "an octopus hentai ring" and pay to generate that or not. Probably there is a better solution.

camjw··on Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
Thank you this is extremely helpful and now fixed
camjw··on Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
Ha I only added this because my wife doesn't have gmail. I think this is a problem I don't particularly care about for now - I think the parent commenter is correct in saying that the account wall is in the wrong place, so if I move the wall to where the value is (speak to a jeweler) I can defer email verification for a while.
camjw··on Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
Thank you, this feedback is so so useful to me. Login gate when you ask to speak to a jeweller maybe?

> Probably also worth adding [..] a newsletter that aggregates the best designs every week.

Yep this is a great idea, thank you.

> Also, it wasn't obvious to me that the examples in the "Need inspiration?" section were generated, or that I could tweak those designs.

No, its not. I will work on this too, thank you.

camjw··on Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
It does! I had this running on a potato and I didn't realise people were actually going to see this! Very exciting!

EDIT: can you be a bit more specific about which part takes too long to load?

camjw··on AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
100% but in this case they uh… didn’t work on it, it seems?
camjw··on Working on databases from prison
That is the point of saying "innocent until proven guilty"? Who does the proving? How can it not be interpreted in this way?
camjw··on Working on databases from prison
The point is that people should be able to use their own judgement on a wide variety of issues and not be forced to delegate their decision making power to the courts/third parties.

There's a difference between "we want to lock this person up and take away their liberty, so we should be basically certain" versus "look man he's been done for drugs and she ended up with a broken arm, I don't trust this person".

camjw··on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
Ah good, I thought you were trying to imply there is an equivalent problem in the EU. Which would seem to be intentionally dense of course.
camjw··on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
I would love to know what you do for a living and whether you personally have taken any smart risks that have lead you to financial success, or whether you just like sniping on HN about school shootings and pretending to be superior.
camjw··on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
There have been 11 mass shootings in the US in the last 7 days so I don't think this disgusting competition is one you're likely to win.
camjw··on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
Completely agree - I always thought the framing of "exercises" is the right one, the point is that your brain grows by doing. It's been possible for a long time to e.g. google a similar algebra problem and find a very relevant math stackexchange post, doesn't mean the exercises were useless.

"The fact that forklift truck can lift over 500kg should tell you how worthwhile it is for me to go to a gym and lift 100kg." - complete non-sequitur.

camjw··on What does the end of mathematics look like?
> a language for defining relationships between quantities

Could you expand on this? I don't see maths as a language for quantities specifically (i.e. what does symmetry have to do with quantities).

> just too tedious (but not impossible) for a human being to work through the proof.

Already happened with the four colour theorem arguably.

camjw··on UK becomes fastest-growing G7 economy
I think really it means not that much - if you want to start a startup then really you need to think about access to capital and the US is still far ahead there (and growth figures like these don't really change the game.)
camjw··on Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
Thanks this is super useful! Really appreciate it!
camjw··on Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
a bit offtopic but whats your workflow for building macos products using a different editor to xcode? i am new to this and xcode seems awful (?)
camjw··on Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
Matt Levine has a common refrain which is that basically everything is securities fraud. If you were an investor who invested on the premise that Meta was good at AI and Zuck knowingly put out a bad model, is that securities fraud? Matt Levine will probably argue that it could be in a future edition of Money Stuff (his very good newsletter).
camjw··on UK Effort to Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked
Come on pal.
camjw··on UK Effort to Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked
Surely you're not saying that leaving the EU wasn't democratic?
camjw··on Ancient Dagger Up to 2.5k Years Old W Stars/Moons/Geometric Patterns Unearthed
Let's be real this is almost certainly cursed.
camjw··on What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute?
How much funding from the Turing institute has gone to his buddies at EF?
camjw··on Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
Maybe I don't understand exactly what you're describing but why would anyone pay for this? When I bring home the shopping I just... chuck stuff in the cupboards. I already know where it all goes. Maybe you can explain more?
camjw··on Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
Given the pretty large scale fraud here, do you expect people to go to prison for this? In the case that no-one is prosecuted and no-one goes to prison, how would you update your opinion on this story and on Elon in general?
camjw··on Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18
Kier Starmer, if you ask Elon
camjw··on Recoil state management library archived
I'm sad about this - I really liked this library!
camjw··on UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying
This was the second reading fyi.
Page 1 of 5Next →