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Re:Watching Insidious in VR in a small NYC theater on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:07PM (#46862458)
This Saturday, Feb 7, we’re hosting a free VR screening of Insidious at The Producers Club in NYC. Everyone watches together in the same theater, but using VR headsets instead of a traditional screen.

One interesting twist: you can choose whether you want the experience to be less scary, standard, or more intense.

It’s a very small event with limited seats, so please only RSVP if you’re pretty sure you can make it.

We’ll have snacks during the screening and pizza after. We’ll also ask attendees to fill out a short survey so we can learn what worked and what didn’t.

If you’re curious: https://partiful.com/e/ydTGBueYzwm19nv4XYrq

Re:Animated Text in Voxel Space on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @03:41PM (#45119670)
they changed it to match the year (2026), stupid i know
Re:Animated Text in Voxel Space on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @09:06AM (#45102612)
that would be hype. If you need any pointers lmk
Re:Animated Text in Voxel Space on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @09:05AM (#45102609)
Yeah we made a decision a while ago to lean into webGpu, after the next apple keynote it should come out of beta!
Re:Animated Text in Voxel Space on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @09:05AM (#45102598)
The text is planar, but its actually in a voxel grid you can see how the animations can rotated and move forward and backward. Technically these are made of little voxels, i'm working on implementing proper font support with extruding so you can make real 3d characters
I'm sorry for your loss and I appreciate the kind words.

ChatGPT does a great job organizing and simplifying the results. It handles nuance really well and knows when to say "You'd have to ask your doctor for that" We found out my mom's tumor was grade 4 from chatGPT. The doctors released the results on a Thursday, none of us could really understand what was being said it was full of medical jargon, and we weren't seeing the doctor until the next Tuesday

So we just dumped it into chatgpt and got the info.

Show HN: MyChart Helper – Chat with your latest MyChart results

MyChartHelper is a free and open source chrome extension that lets you chat with your most recent results from MyChart.https://github.com/HealthcareBuddy/my-chart-helperNine months ago, my mom was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, and it's been an eye-opening experience. Cancer patients often deal with frequent hospital visits, multiple doctors, and a barrage of tests. Keeping track of it...

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Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:17PM (#35447577)
While integrating with OpenAI is just an API call away I don't think it takes away from the user experience. Sure its less of a moat but plenty of products have won by having the best user experience and not many new features (Notion, Digital Ocean, etc.)

Not every experience is going to be best suited to fit in a chat box like ChatGPT which opens the door for startups like this one to build something new.

I'm excited when I see products like this, and I think we really need to retire the critique of "Its just an API call to OpenAI". While yes that is a core part of it, there is a lot of time and effort that goes into developing these experiences that has value

Re:Should notes be end-to-end encrypted? on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:34AM (#32562412)
A+
Re:How to find great practice systems design questions on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:16PM (#31870175)
I feel like senior engineers are doing more system design and managing communication among team members than anything else
Re:How to find great practice systems design questions on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:46PM (#31867525)
Solid writeup. The infrastructure for system design practice is so crappy compared to traditional DSA questions.

Anyone interested in doing a mock coding interview in VR?

If anyone has an Oculus Quest 2 and is interested in getting interviewed in VR lmk! I run a youtube channel that creates coding interview related content and I'm looking for more people interested in getting interviewed on camera: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfotE5RL1pfhIZ0fv2kAN9QYou can remain completely anonymous, and I promise to give you detailed feedback after the call is done. All I...

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What are the best ways to fight imposter syndrome?

When my students get jobs in tech (especially FAANG level) there is this feeling like they don't deserve to be there. This causes their mental health to suffer pretty significantly. My current approach to helping is to just remind them that if they passed a companies technical assessment, they deserve to be there. It doesn't feel that effective.Would love to know if anyone has successfully...

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What to do if you get a question you've already seen in a coding interview

The common advice you'll see is "Tell the interviewer so you can get a new question"I disagree.You should take every advantage you can get. The whole point of studying ahead of time is to prepare yourself for the inevitable interview question, if you've seen it before you are likely in a really good place to answer it well.My take on what to do if you've seen a question before* Don't get overly...

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I'm on the second page of google searches for a relevant search, but I doubt anyone is searching those terms since I kind of made the concept (Or I'm at least an early adopter).
The VTuber point is pretty awesome. TBH I'd be way more comfortable behind an avatar, I might invest in a rig. I have some experience in live videos (used to work on FB Live and Horizon Venues) so this might be something I can pull off
TIHI
Based on everyones input, posting consistency seems to be paramount. Time is super limited so I struggle a bit with posting too much but I'm starting to find a flow with recording, slight editing, and posting.

Would love to see your channel if you are open to sharing it.

Dam, this is awesome, concrete feedback. I'm only realizing right now how crappy the titles are, going to address this asap.

WRT the handwriting: I may end up switching to a typed format since its supported in workrooms and everything is remote nowadays anyway.

My thoughts with watching the failures: it helps to see what doesn't work during an interview.

Ex. So many people jump straight into coding before even thinking about the problem or asking clarifying questions. This is a big red flag during interviews. It might make the value prop clearer if I add some commentary over the failures to explain what went wrong and why.

I'm still trying to suss out whether it makes sense to post the failure vids, so thanks for pointing that out

Thanks for the encouragement and sharing your experience. Patience and iteration seems to be the key here. Congrats on 50k
I was trying to recreate the in person white boarding experience, but that probably isn't the move here since the candidates are having a ton of trouble writing legibly, making the coding portion almost useless for the video. I can't read it myself even when I'm in the environment.

I'm probably going to NIX the actual whiteboarding portion and lean more into a text based approach based off all the feedback here.

It's definitely not scripted, these are actual mock interviews I'm conducting in a VR setting.What I'm taking away from this is that trying to recreate an in person environment isn't the goal, the goal is to create an awesome video thats easy to consume. Makes complete sense, thanks for the feedback

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