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david_mchaleon Text-to-CAD

genius, I have started doing this on web app test suites + playwright in other projects, makes a lot of sense to render shots from all the sides and ortho view and then feed that back to Opus 4.7 or similar as a smoke test.

I'm using it to rough out the skeletons for nebulizer power connector adapters so just throwing a lot of caliper measurements at it with detailed descriptions and reference photos of the connectors I'm duplicating has gotten me far.

david_mchaleon Text-to-CAD

I appreciate that effort, seeing Claude start to prototype physical objects that can get mass-produced is unbelievable but wow it uses up tokens like crazy.

I'm using Opus 4.7 w/ the 1M context option on the vibrating mesh nebulizer repo and have hit compacting pretty often which is a restart-the-conversation flag for me on relatively small OpenSCAD files like the adapters and enclosures here which are like 10-40kb: https://github.com/dmchaledev/VibratingMeshNebulizerControll...

david_mchaleon Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

I can't wait to get something like this small enough to fit into a browser extension. I already use ONNX for zoom + enhance in Ultra Zoom, zooming from 2d to 3d would be crazy.

david_mchaleon Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

Good thing they had a 25 year head start on bringing MGS2 to market.

david_mchaleon Make your own microforest (2025)

500 trees seems so doable.

david_mchaleon Text-to-CAD

I've been using Claude Opus 4.7 into OpenSCAD for creating hacked connectors for vibrating mesh nebulizers. It's incredibly powerful but still needs heavy manual checking to generate anything usable, but holy COW is it powerful when armed with the right info.

david_mchaleon OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

having been in ERs too many times when they are beyond capacity, something like this would be better than patients slipping through the cracks, at least you get a chance.