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Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:51PM (#42844916)
The signing bonus stock grants may also have compensated them for giving up the stock grants of their previous employer, so they probably still received less than you had accumulated.
Re:Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @05:29PM (#42569844)
The pricing page shows different commercial plans at $149 or $499 per month: https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-ion/pricing/

Show HN: DIY video magnifier for people with low vision

Hi, happy to share this simple video magnifier built from a Raspberry Pi and camera: https://github.com/ctrlw/magniIt captures anything under the camera and displays it on a connected HDMI screen. It can be controlled with push buttons, the buttons of a mouse or a (numeric) keyboard to iterate through a few predefined magnification levels, but can also switch colour mode (colour inversion and...

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If you‘re looking for a no man, but literal heavy metal band, check out the robots of Comoressorhead: https://youtu.be/9gMX_hR-RoM
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @01:05PM (#41973475)
Thanks Kieran, I'm really happy about your feedback and that it's useful in your project! :-)
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @11:58AM (#41972538)
I've always dreamed of flying by just flapping my arms, and have been building osm4vr to do just that. It's a 3d / VR experience that runs in the browser and allows you to fly around buildings with the data taken from OpenStreetMap.

https://ctrlw.github.io/osm4vr/

Re:Show HN: AI-generated images that look like real life on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:51PM (#41771955)
Congrats, they do look good at first glance, without the usual overly shiny look, and the pure Nature images do look real to me. I'd really like to visit some of these places.

However, details are still off, e.g.

* the guy you linked to apparently sits in a car, but the ceiling looks like a house (at least I've never seen a vehicle like that). Reversed issue with this guy: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/EeJBCnNsZG1...

* the bicycle guy sits in the air, and the bike is mutated in several places: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/WrfWYZlthe2...

* The face in Yoga in the field is distorted: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/BUcURAtyzjb...

* Hands are ok-ish but not yet solved: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/SeO8u2HZ-V2...

* Any text is obviously fake, which also affects urban environments. Agree with this caption: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/oc6eI5w2kQQ...

Bonus points for this portrait where the tower seems to have a face as well: https://d1l4k1vcf8ijbs.cloudfront.net/fakeimages/6ho0FIV-i2t...

DIY/parts are a fuzzy area and might not need the certification, but the board at your first link does have a huge CE print near the LEDs
Re:Why Triplebyte Failed on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:12PM (#40638328)
That was a fun coding task. Minor bug in the illustration of Step 4: the mine count in second row should be 8 not 4
That looks great! I‘ve been playing around with Aframe and OSM building footprints, but this looks so much better. Will have a look at aframe-loader-3dtiles-component.
Re:Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem on Saturday March 30, 2024 @04:16AM (#39872885)
Yes, I was missing a mention of that in the blog post and maybe a brief discussion why to do the manual setup instead.
I always wanted something similar for my city and started with the local cinema program but then never added any other sources. It was still useful for the 10 or so years it was online, and I still think about getting back to it.

That said, while the idea seems promising, it‘s difficult to maintain, especially since sources (APIs / websites) tend to change frequently. If I remember correctly, pg even mentions this idea in one of his essays as a typical “bad idea“ that founders want to build but nobody figures it out as a business.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:17AM (#39272748)
FYI some of the linked jobs give "The job you are looking for is no longer open.", e.g. Senior Software Engineer - Back End in Portugal
Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:51AM (#39259695)
You can specify the apps and domains that screentime tracks. I have set a daily time limit for social media and certain domains like news sites and hn but don‘t include maps, mail or messengers