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prideout··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
These are amazing but the parent comment is referring to vision comprehension, not generation.
prideout··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
Me too but unfortunately theorem proving seems to be easier than doing laundry.
prideout··on Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go
There's also https://github.com/google/filament
prideout··on The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1
What was the prompt?
prideout··on Grok 4.6
But aren't today's frontier models already "fully universal"? To use your Turing machine analogy, I think we're past the calculator stage.
prideout··on Staging patches with Git add -p
Super useful, and easy to do in the VS Code merge pane.
prideout··on Tensor Is the Might
They were speaking from an implementation perspective.
prideout··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
Ah, I see it as a "reasoning level" in codex after typing /model
prideout··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
Confused about how to access Ultra; I don't see it in on their plans page.
prideout··on 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
Kolmogorov Complexity looks interesting. It seems to formalize Occam’s Razor and the notion that intelligence = compression.
prideout··on A Theory of Deep Learning
This is a fascinating mathematical framework, but the post title might be a bit of an overreach. I often wonder if "a theory of deep learning" could exist that could be stated succinctly and that could predict (1) scaling laws and (2) the surprising reliability of gradient descent.

Note that I said "predict" not "describe". It feels like we're still in the era of Kepler, not Newton.

prideout··on Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal
Yes! My first encounter with spreadsheets was SuperCalc for CP/M, and I suppose you would call it a "TUI" nowadays.
prideout··on Claude Code Cheat Sheet
What does the "Session Picker" section refer to? Claude Code does not have a session picker, as far as I can tell.
prideout··on Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions
Neat. Would be nice if I could easily drop the replayer into a slack thread. Maybe a video file would be better for that than an HTML file?
prideout··on Leaving Google has actively improved my life
This is not written by a former Google employee, it's written by a former Google user. Confusing title to see on hackernews.
prideout··on OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
Why is Minecraft mentioned several times in the post?
prideout··on How to Network as an Introvert
This post is well written, useful, and original. I'm surprised by the negative comments.
prideout··on Subsecond: A runtime hotpatching engine for Rust hot-reloading
Neat but I would prefer simply using a dylib for the part of my code that I want to be reloadable.
prideout··on Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto
I have never seen a Koreeda film but he sounds compelling -- which movie would you recommend for a first-timer?
prideout··on Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
Did you need to write an app for the phone?
prideout··on Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem?
There's less ageism in embedded systems because older folks are more likely to be experienced with a lean & mean tech stack (for example vanilla C programming).
prideout··on Arcol simplifies building design with browser-based modeling
Currently we simply copy a slice of the heap's ArrayBuffer from WASM to JS. In the past we exposed the heap slice directly but it was technically "unsafe" (perhaps because the heap can grow), and doing a copy did not hurt performance in any measurable way.
prideout··on Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates
The fact that triangles have proliferated is not due to half-assery. Hardware can rasterize them very quickly, and a triangle can have only one normal vector. Quads can be non-planar. It's true that quads are nice for humans and artists though!

As an aside, Catmull-Clark subdivision has been around since 1978, which, as a first step, breaks an arbitrary polyhedron into a mesh of quadrilaterals.

prideout··on Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle
nm, found a nice open source one:

https://github.com/downforacross/downforacross.com

prideout··on Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle
Neat! I've been getting into crossword puzzles recently, does anyone know of nice places to play them, other than newspaper sites?
prideout··on The LLMentalist Effect
I lost interest fairly quickly because the entire article seems to rely on a certain definition of "intelligent" that is not made clear in the beginning.
prideout··on Understanding Reasoning LLMs
This article has a superb diagram of the DeepSeek training pipeline.
prideout··on I Built a Figma Plugin That Generates Custom SVG Illustrations with AI
What model does this use?
prideout··on Pygfx
Am I the only one who is irked by by ads on Read the Docs pages?
prideout··on Numerical Precision Affects Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs
Very nice analysis, wish I could upvote your comment more than once.
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