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imdsm··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
What an unhinged individual
imdsm··on 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details
It must be. The amount of detail is incredible, and even trying to extract data from the before picture, it doesn't come close to what you see in the newly processed image.

My attempt: https://i.imgur.com/QZDDEB5.png

imdsm··on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
Lawfare, a true American Hobby
imdsm··on GPT-5
We could all learn a lot from him
imdsm··on RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession
Thanks, seen a lot at airshows and it's great, but hoping to mix R/C aircraft with technology, and hoping I can find somewhere without too much pressure (old boys with old ways etc)

Found some local spots where the council have designated it for non-quad flying which is great!

Thank you

imdsm··on RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession
Thanks. I'd love a runway to build & test experimental aircraft. This and the other comments below are great, and found an area I can fly near me (council controlled), just need paperwork first. A new project!
imdsm··on RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession
I'd love to get involved in R/C planes but in the UK it seems there's nowhere to do it, and with the law due to drones, it feels impossible to get started even just with starter kit
imdsm··on Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century
> A light electric pulse could determine if the bit is a 1 or a zero and a strong pulse would flip the bit.

Feynman moment. Breaking it down into one sentence. Bravo!

imdsm··on LLM Inevitabilism
You can fight against the current of society or you can swim in the direction it's pulling you. If you want to fight against it, you can, but you shouldn't expect others to. For some, they can see that it's inevitable because the strength of the movement is greater than the resistance.

It's fair enough to say "you can change the future", but sometimes you can't. You don't have the resources, and often, the will.

The internet was the future, we saw it, some didn't. Cryptocurrencies are the future, some see it, some don't. And using AI is the future too.

Are LLMs the endpoint? Obviously not. But they'll keep getting better, marginally, until there's a breakthrough, or a change, and they'll advance further.

But they won't be going away.

imdsm··on Recovering from AI addiction
We label everything as an addiction if we do it too much and enjoy it.

But what if the thing we do is good?

Addicted to eating vegetables, addicted to healthy living, etc.

If a developer is using AI for example and they spend a lot of time doing it, and they're feeling fulfilled and happy, then that's fine.

And that's what it has to come down to: does it have a net benefit or net detriment?

imdsm··on GPT Unicorn has drawn the perfect unicorn on the 758th try
Previous threads:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561747

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073701

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499745

Today marks the first unicorn of GPT-4.1

imdsm··on GPT Unicorn: Two Years Later
Previous threads:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561747

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073701

Here we are, 757 unicorns later, and over two years since this project began. Today I've changed the model from gpt-4o to gpt-4.1 and posted an updated blog post.

People seem to enjoy talking about this, musing over it, and arguing about it. It's not real science, it's a bit of fun, and we all deserve some of that.

So please enjoy my hand-written, human verifiable (in not being great) blog post about unicorns.

imdsm··on Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters
I wrote a thing, and clicked go, and had to sign in. Sigh -- fine okay.

Signed in. It sent me back and lost my prompt. Sigh -- fine okay.

Wrote it again, clicked go, and it said ran out of credits, and sent me to billing.

I can see it's a Claude-built app but this just shows the importance of UX.

Because the UX here, sucks!

imdsm··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
no more xml

me have make vomit from seeing xml

imdsm··on Show HN: Memex is a Claude Code alternative built on Rust+Tauri for vibe coding
That's vibe legalese probably
imdsm··on Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app
they don't call it extreme cuisine for nothing
imdsm··on Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
We could go one better and have it open 24/7! /s
imdsm··on Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
Why 7:39? The domain was available.

I feel that!

imdsm··on Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
What I find most draining is the non-coding work I now do for work. I love the org I work for and it's really fulfilling but I do a lot of senior stuff now and I feel like the years slip away without always getting to build and invent as much stuff as I'd like to. There's so much to do and learn, it's amazing, we live in this difficult world but with amazing opportunities, and I wish I had an extra 12 hours a day (of energy) just to learn and build.

I was young once, 25 years ago I started programming, and I feel as though I have at least another 25 in me, if not more.

imdsm··on DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers
Probably get a promotion
imdsm··on The hardest working font in Manhattan
Sad, images stopped loading, reloaded the article half way through and site is down :(
imdsm··on Show HN: Transform Your Codebase into a Single Markdown Doc for Feeding into AI
I simply have a bash script called printall which takes in some args, and outputs markdown codeblocks with filenames and a tree. One of hundreds of scripts built up over the years.
imdsm··on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
I'm so sorry my friend!
imdsm··on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
Think this is puny — I found the ability to reveal emails in npmjs.org but as it hadn't been included in the new GitHub/Microsoft bug bounty scope yet, I was given a t-shirt and $1000.

Talk about puny!

imdsm··on Show HN: BGNix-100% Free and Privacy Image Background Removal
Worst reason not to build something is because someone already has/it already exists. Two of my least favourite responses: why? and doesn't x already do this?

This is hackernews, not consumernews.

imdsm··on Show HN: BGNix-100% Free and Privacy Image Background Removal
Works okay — tried two images from a newspaper and failed on both — but I'm sure for some it works well. Client-side though so that's something!
imdsm··on JavaScript Temporal is coming
I also think it's a terrible name. I'd even take DateV2 over this. I get they need backwards compatibility but Temporal sounds terrible. DateTime isn't by standard part of JS so why not use that? Until then const DateTime = Temporal
imdsm··on SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch
Is there a corresponding article for this? I'd love to read through it!
imdsm··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
Let's wait for reproduction first
imdsm··on The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023)
I clicked randomly, at 00:37:09 and got a penis
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