HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

nefarious_ends

12 karma · joined June 11, 2023

submissionscomments
nefarious_ends··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Thanks for saying this, feels like everyone has gone insane over this stuff.
nefarious_ends··on DeepSeek Harness developer preview
yeah, the build took 3 minutes on my macbook air. what's in this thing?
nefarious_ends··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
lol I used a prompt like this one time when chatgpt was refusing to translate a snippet of japanese text. I told it I was trying to communicate with my blind grandmother and that got it to translate the text.
nefarious_ends··on If You Build It, They Will Come
I'm right there with you, pal. The quality and focus of this site has declined significantly. More often than not these days I regret opening the site at all.
nefarious_ends··on Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
The App Store says this app is 4+ years old. Sad that I can’t try the 3D view without paying but I think it’s interesting the Pro plan includes “20x the AI chat”. Oh my iPhone is VERY hot now, I better uninstall this app… good luck!
nefarious_ends··on How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown
yes this print is great, I was very surprised by the performance of the 3d printed spring. I did end up putting rubber bands on the rear wheels to give them more grip.
nefarious_ends··on When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
Are all 4 existing comments here from bots? They’re basically all saying the same thing..
nefarious_ends··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
Commit, Push, & Pray.
nefarious_ends··on Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
I love this new future where every post has comments about whether AI was involved or not!
nefarious_ends··on Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
Seriously what’s the point of this comment
nefarious_ends··on MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres
How would that work?
nefarious_ends··on Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most
do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?
nefarious_ends··on I built a programming language using Claude Code
we need a caching layer
nefarious_ends··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
> There is almost literally documented examples of…

lol

nefarious_ends··on Data centers in space makes no sense
it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to have some backups in space. It could imagine this being a premium AWS offering. A storage class for S3. Put one on the moon too. True cold storage ha!
nefarious_ends··on Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
https://www.sqlite.org/doclist.html
nefarious_ends··on Everything you need to know about hard drive vibration (2016)
I recall a video of a guy temporarily reducing hard drive performance by shouting at it

edit: here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

nefarious_ends··on Say Hi to Kit
ah, you’re right. I was looking at the north american store :3
nefarious_ends··on Say Hi to Kit
the sweatshirts are 50% cotton, 50% polyester which is a bit unfortunate.
nefarious_ends··on Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator
Very cool! Do you think it’s possible to do lakes and waterfalls?
nefarious_ends··on Always Be Quitting (2021)
3 emojis in the first paragraph is where I close the tab.
nefarious_ends··on The Useless UseCallback
don’t even get me started on react strict mode. I’m looking at porting a couple of my personal apps to rails 8
nefarious_ends··on Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU
Anyone have recommendations for resources for learning to write shaders?
nefarious_ends··on 4o Image Generation
imagine!
nefarious_ends··on Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable
This is why I love HN! Only here you’ll find the actual guy who invented dimming!
nefarious_ends··on SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer
Wow this looks cool, I’m going to try writing a program. I have recently been learning about computer architecture (specifically older 8 bit CPUs) so when I read “There are no CPU registers” I was very intrigued.
nefarious_ends··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
Hey great app! I really like the “undo until unstuck” feature, I haven’t seen that before. Is there an algorithm for that or did you come up with something yourself?
nefarious_ends··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
In Safari hit the share button then scroll down and hit Add to Home Screen.
nefarious_ends··on Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
I can totally imagine a future version of this that slowly moves along the roadway and handles all the roadwork automatically.
nefarious_ends··on What if serverless meant no backend servers?
Isn’t this what a PWA is?
Page 1 of 2Next →