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codetiger··on Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF
This is incredibly beautiful. A few months back I tried to build a my own version of Google Earth rendered in voxels. Basically building from the terrain heightmaps scans available in open public data. Making it smooth and tessellation to work was incredible amount of work even for a simple vexed renderer https://codetiger.in/earth/
codetiger··on Gpiozero Flow
This is amazing work. I've used GPIOZero in my RPi projects before. In the future, you can introduce conditional operators in the flow. It can become a complete coding platform.

See JSONLogic UI for similar implementation: https://github.com/GoPlasmatic/datalogic-rs Disclaimer: I am the maintainer of the datalogic-rs project

codetiger··on I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air
Am on my 11 Pro, its not giving up yet.
codetiger··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
Sorry if I sounded to you like assuming fellow commenters like that, but that was not my intention. As you were bringing up medical terms, I was trying to set the context clearly for my previous comment.
codetiger··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
"Tunnel vision" sounds too positive for this context.
codetiger··on What Even Are Microservices?
I decided to take a career break and build an open source project to manage services better. Feedbacks are welcome, product is too early for adoption.

https://github.com/GoPlasmatic/Orion

Design principles: * Isolate business logic from service framework using declarative coding * Make the logic representation machine-writable so AI is a first-class author * Treat business logic as versioned data, not compiled services * Ship governance with the platform, not with each service * Invoke services in-process, not over the network * Modular monolith — export and scale a service independently when needed * Push integrations into declarative connectors, keep logic pure

codetiger··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
In LLM (AI) terms, we call the same effect as "models are hallucinating".
codetiger··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
This case can be the best example of human hallucinations. They made a mistake in username, and assumed everything after that was facts. All that had to be proved was the person is the owner of the mistaken username.
codetiger··on Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf
You can say something similar if someone had hand written it and reimplemented an existing library in new language. "This is just a reimplementation of existing library to Rust, I don't have anything new to add myself." Also its never as simple as a single prompt, it goes beyond it if the user really cares.
codetiger··on Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
For a min, I thought "Github is going to be dead soon, so get your backup"
codetiger··on 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
The ice cream flavors are more meaningful those days. Nowadays they have every possible combinations like the weird "green chilly ice creams"
codetiger··on Regular expressions that work “everywhere”
I built my Rust library for JSONLogic and use bindings for other languages after similar frustrations with Rule engines, template engines and IFTTT engines. https://github.com/GoPlasmatic/datalogic-rs
codetiger··on Regular expressions that work “everywhere”
I think he meant the post title. As the author shows his work finally in the article.
codetiger··on Ask HN: Is Claude Code down, or its just my region?
Meanwhile, am on $200USD plan and its the same issue with Claude Code, or VSCode plugin.
codetiger··on Killed by Apple
Google killed more messenger app/services than the entire software count listed in this list. Obviously exaggerating but might be close to true
codetiger··on NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
Am still keeping my hopes up, scientists will make it wake up once every 6 months and just ping home saying it’s alive. I’ll still call it very much alive, even without science equipments running.
codetiger··on NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
With little what I know of Voyager, the beautiful machine has broke all previous estimates. And thus hoping it will last until we have another such machine overtake the distance before this one goes into total shutdown
codetiger··on NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
I hope not to see that day
codetiger··on OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports
Seeing the same, Claude with every engineer. Even some non technical people moved to Claude from ChatGPT recently.
codetiger··on Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent
Unlike other comments, for me the experience on the product marketing worked well and straight forward. After reading the title and landing on your homepage, I had the feeling that this is yet another product claiming WYSIWYG like editor for the web claims on making CSS editing easier. And yes the product achieves same as I thought. Video confirmed it, and homepage live demo confirmed it again. Surprisingly the claim feels true, this time. It feels natural and UX feels great.
codetiger··on Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it Open Source
There are also new jobs emerging to safeguard a companies assets that were created by AI. New white hat hacking opportunities.

Anyways, however you put this, I see this as a property theft and taking pride at open sourcing does not justify it.

codetiger··on Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily
Concept looks good. Just needs some more polishing like Newspaper theme, Endless swiping, HN like dark/light theme etc on mobile app.
codetiger··on Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font
It not a disadvantage but a rare trait nowadays.
codetiger··on Aesthetics of single threading
I love reading this article start to finish. I really love the way the author has explained. And believe this is a tech-savvy explanation of mindfulness.
codetiger··on Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
Came here to type something similar and saw this comment. +1

Just repeat this until you understand a language's unique ways of implementing things, and understand why a language has those choices compared to others. I always pick one of these experiments to learn a new language with/out LLM support. 1. Ray tracing 2. Gameboy Emulator 3. Expression evaluation (JSONLogic or Regex)

These are super easy to implement in 100s of lines of code, however if you want to optimize or perfect the implementation, it takes forever and you need to know a language's nuances to get it better. Focus on performance tuning these implementations and see how far you can go.

codetiger··on Parametric CAD in Rust
I wish there was a JSON representation of the geometry, so we don't have to code and compile. :P
codetiger··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
My most favorite annoying thing about ads is the 'x' close button. They make it very small almost impossible to be perfect. I end up clicking the ads 50% of the times. Been running PiHole at home network for almost 8yrs happily. The ads come into play only when I am traveling.
codetiger··on Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop
All of a sudden, internet is full of people who hate AI written articles. A few months back, my article got a lot of haters because I used AI tools to improve my draft. Being a non-english first language person, I don't see an issue. But I wish AI improves to an extend where draft to complete articles don't look AI written.
codetiger··on Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
Imagine, this working on a Gameboy, in those days. Would've sounded like magic
codetiger··on A guide to local coding models
Came here to write something similar (Of course, other than working in Google) and saw your comments reflecting my views. Yes, Its worth pending $200/month on Claude to get my personal project ideas come to life with better quality and finish.
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