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Re:507 Mechanical Movements on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:12AM (#49476210)
I got Fable to create the first 5 of these as 3d animations in a threejs sandbox:

https://beta.mindcast.com/3d-mechanicals/

The sandbox was originally intended for video game effects, but it also works surprisingly well for these.

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Quick Start:

[1] left-mouse-click to deploy a pulley

[2] right-mouse-drag to change the camera angle

[3] use the dropdown (lower-left) to switch the pulley type

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Original sandbox source: https://github.com/majidmanzarpour/threejs-vfx

Original character source: https://github.com/achrefelouafi/SamuraiThirdPersonTemplateT...

Re:GPT-5.5 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @09:05PM (#47884295)
Thanks!
Re:GPT-5.5 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:43PM (#47883186)
Sorry, what is "heartbeats", exactly?
Re:Exe.dev/ on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:28PM (#46408115)
Is it possible to use a ChatGPT subscription with the bundled Codex CLI or do we have to use an API key?
Re:Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:05AM (#44808262)
I got an error when I tried the demo with 6 sentences, but it worked great when I reduced the text to 3 sentences. Is the length limit due to the model or just a limitation for the demo?
Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:18PM (#44527842)
Thanks for the discord invite! My username is Mindcast on discord.
Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:10PM (#44527795)
Yes, that works for me! My primary use case is automated testing of updates to websites that I maintain.
Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:52PM (#44527690)
Is there a way to hook BrowserOS up as a sub-agent for an orchestration agent/system?
This is for running locally in the terminal (or in WSL2 if you are on Windows).

Here is an example session from a similar script that I <cough>ChatGPT</cough> wrote in Perl, illustrating the same concept:

$ ~/agentloop.pl

YOUR PROMPT:

Is Python installed on this system? If so, which version?

BASH STDIN:

python --version 2>&1 || python3 --version 2>&1

BASH STDOUT:

/bin/bash: python: command not found

Python 3.6.7

LLM RESPONSE:

Python is installed on this system. The version available is Python 3.6.7. However, it looks like the python executable (python) is not directly available, but python3 (or a direct version path) exists and resolves to Python 3.6.7.

If you need to use Python, you should use python3 as the command.

Oh, cool -- this is made with golang! I'll have see if I could wrap it in a desktop gui using wails.
Re:A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries on Sunday November 10, 2024 @07:09AM (#42099768)
Oh, just figured out that there is a field for this → container-name
Re:A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:46AM (#42049159)
The thing I still find weird about Container Queries is that there doesn't appear to be a way to distinguish between different containers based on class, as @container applies to any parent container. So, a <p> inside of a card with class .card-with-blue-background would get the same styles as a <p> inside of a card with class .card-with-red-background, since there isn't an easy way (as far as I could tell) to distinguish between the two scenarios within the Container Query, itself.
Re:Show HN: Convert any website into a React component on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:04PM (#42048507)
On the pricing page, there is a highlighted bullet point for "Private generations" under the Pro tier. How does that differ from the other tiers?
Re:Word-like HTML inline edit with design mode on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @03:06AM (#41845739)
Got it!
Re:Word-like HTML inline edit with design mode on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @03:06AM (#41845737)
Thanks!
Re:Word-like HTML inline edit with design mode on Monday October 14, 2024 @01:38AM (#41834513)
How do you save your changes with this?
Re:Show HN: Donobu – Mac App for Web Automation and Testing on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:41PM (#41792402)
Is there anything in the tech stack that make this app specific to Macs, or are you simply rolling this out to Macs, first?
Re:MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program on Saturday September 28, 2024 @07:57PM (#41683757)
Is there an opportunity to bring something like this online using wasm?
Re:WP Engine is not WordPress on Saturday September 21, 2024 @11:05PM (#41614336)
The performance bottleneck with regards to revisions is on write, rather than on read.
Re:WP Engine is not WordPress on Saturday September 21, 2024 @09:45PM (#41614031)
In my experience, the revision system in WordPress is not performant. The more revisions there are for a given page, the longer it takes to publish that page, eventually leading page publish requests to time out. I usually have to limit the number of per-page revisions to keep, to prevent that from happening.
Re:Golang Interpreter Written in PHP on Saturday August 24, 2024 @07:00PM (#41342532)
Re:Toothpaste Null-Terminator on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:30AM (#41281006)
Exactly!
Re:Toothpaste Null-Terminator on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:56AM (#41280866)
I use consumables like toothpaste as top-up items to get past the minimum threshold to qualify for free shipping at Amazon and Walmart. This implicitly triggers a mental check to see if I'm running low on anything.
Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @09:54PM (#40362280)
Reid Hoffman provided some clear (at least to me) evidence for Mira's non-involvement → https://youtu.be/IgcUOOI-egk?si=FiSPt87v3pM3lfKt&t=851
Re:SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs on Friday May 03, 2024 @05:43PM (#40252725)
Are you planning to keep this webapp ad supported, or will there be a premium "pro" version with additional features in the (near) future?
Re:Quill v2 – Rich text editor on Friday April 19, 2024 @09:34PM (#40093808)
Is there support for CSS classes in Quill v2?
Re:How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017) on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:58PM (#40057111)
If anyone is interested, here is Frankel's personal blog → https://1014.org/
It's been some time since I've played with this stuff, but the libs I used were https://github.com/oraoto/pib for in-browser PHP, Pyodide for in-browser Python, and https://webperl.zero-g.net for in-browser Perl.

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