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LukeB42

That headline's as psyoppy as "schizophrenia".
Re:The case for MUDs in modern times on Friday July 24, 2026 @09:23AM (#49035189)
I three MUDs in one as a channel mode for my IRCD the other month: https://github.com/float64co/psyrcd/blob/master/plugins/mud....
Re:Introduction to Computer Music [pdf] on Sunday April 05, 2026 @06:07AM (#47647849)
Both of these things. The timbres can be explained through evolutionary biology. The same brain centers used for processing movement in 3d space also start firing up to start predicting where any given piece of music will go.

An interesting note has a fundamental and harmonics and allows analogies to be drawn in RF engineering and quantum mechanics: https://www.google.com/search?q=any+good+parallels+between+i...

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @04:51AM (#47306379)
In the past couple of months I've

Built a Cythonized Icecast2 implementation I've wanted for years: https://github.com/lukeb42/cycast

Built a p2p Kanban board that fits in a single .html file and uses only the Python stdlib for LAN discovery https://github.com/lukeb42/kanban_p2p

Developed a p2p legislature that scales from a small team of 3 users to countries of tens of millions of people: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LukeB42/deb887691f13dee9c...

Developed a small SPA framework inspired by React, Ractive-Load and hn.js: https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html

Updated a news archival service for Python 3.x: https://github.com/lukeb42/harvest

Made a scriptable IRC client inspired by irssi and mIRC: https://github.com/lukeb42/scroll

and worked on a couple of my company's products.

Re:Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:21AM (#47296102)
Thanks for this. I stopped writing JS for awhile just as ES6 was coming around the corner / coming into use. This will be in 0.0.2.
Had to fix hardware detection myself only to find engine.generate()'s not implemented and yields "".

Maybe the author could get a large param model to help him get this done though.

Re:Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework on Sunday March 01, 2026 @03:24PM (#47210303)
Name one objective issue with what I've provided your ungrateful self for free and do it in HN's 12pt again because I need a laugh.
Re:Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework on Sunday March 01, 2026 @11:38AM (#47208211)
Would you prefer to see ESM or neither?
Re:Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:26AM (#47207560)
Thanks for the valuable feedback. I've added a mediaquery for your use case. This should be more legible now: https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html

Send me a screenshot via https://catbox.moe if it's unreadable and I'll get this done and dusted before leaving the thread. Thanks.

Re:Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:49AM (#47207216)
React components might eventually be removed in favor of making the templating system as fast and as elegant as possible but for the time being they provide flexibility.

You can read https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-interop.html for more info.

Re:Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:38AM (#47207112)
Thank you but the predominant monitor's probably a smartphone. The average professional is probably using a 4k monitor at the moment.

Everything in the free documentation I've provided you out of my own time and money that you're referring to exists in relation to the other elements in that page, so to get the experience you're after simply ctrl+scroll and change the CSS zoom level like the riot at parties that you could be or catch up with circa 2013-2014 and invest in a 4k display please.

Re:Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:31AM (#47207047)
9kb (minifier+brotli)

We could remove 3kb by removing the router but that's not gonna happen. You're more than welcome to minify+brotli it yourself if you use vertex.js in production.

Re:Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:55AM (#47206706)
Beauty /is/ in the eye of the beholder. The rationale /here/ is that the more text in a page the more code you'll fit in your head the more you'll get done, the more confidence you'll have and again the more you'll achieve.

Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework

https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html

Vertex is a 1kloc SPA framework containing everything you need from React, Ractive-Load and jQuery while still being jQuery-compatible.vertex.js is a single, self-contained file with no build step and no dependencies.Also exhibits the curious quality of being faster than over a decade of engineering at Facebook in some cases: https://files.catbox.moe/sqei0d.png

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Re:Why does Britain feel so poor? on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:10AM (#43582686)
Agitation by community-based agents leading to honest people dropping out and wicked people doubling down.
>you'd need a pretty custom toolchain

Just port/extend pytorch to make it easy to utilize fused ops.

Re:Helplessness Is Not Learned (2022) on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:56AM (#36211308)
Everything in an organism is learned.

If you think it isn't then you're not observing the right timescale.

Re:GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:27PM (#34727586)
Is this because you don't know how to implement the weight updates in NumPy yourself?
Re:GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:13PM (#34727324)
Terrible joke and COMPLETELY missing the point.
Re:GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:12PM (#34727305)
Can you explain like I'm 5 why this matters distinctly from how transformers are normally trained with autodiff and what its possible applications are?
The value of its atoms and the electrons orbiting those atoms (give or take labour costs for transforming those atoms) in joules or watts.
Again more bankster handwaving.

What need do banks have for that capability where the capability shouldn't clearly be criminalised?

Number of joules that can be extracted from the atoms composing the molecules composing the steel wire it's made of.

...How can you not see this?

>Stars don’t model their fusion output.

The sum total positive energy contained in the universe can be calculated and predicted.

>Interbank funds aren’t a finite commodity.

This statement is obviously false and can run into brick walls in practice.

The comparison isn't silly in the slightest. Currencies must be coupled to a finite resource to function; Lest agent A buy all of agent B's gold using practically nothing but chutzpah.

That you think the comparison is "silly" shows limited/magical thinking on the subject.

There is a finite amount of energy in this universe and yet here we are at "Practically all prices are determined on the fly".

This is mere bankster handwaving in lieu of calculating physically intrinsic value for a sufficient number of commodities.

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