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Re:Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:47AM (#45680376)
Came here to say the same. I remember playing around with this back in the day, but using two candles instead of the sensor bar. Yes, it works. No, it’s not a good idea to hold candles that close to your hair.
Re:How I built an AI company to save my open source project on Friday February 14, 2025 @08:00AM (#43047883)
Thanks for your work and dedication on this problem domain, Geoffrey! I’ve used optaplanner in the past on several projects and will certainly use Timefold for future projects. This sort of constrain solver is an invaluable tool when you find yourself in the problem space and definitely worth the learning curve.
I haven’t seen it in the comments yet, but you can watch Abelson and Sussman teaching the material from this book from recorded lectures in 1986.

I still find their description of how to create and group abstractions in various layers to be useful personally and as a mentor. (In the videos, lesson 3A, 1:07:55)

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @08:39AM (#41346879)
Nifty! I worked very briefly about 12 years ago on a similar concept that was live at chicago.com. Things didn’t work out with it for various reasons but while it was up I found it quite useful. Some of the original team is still in Chigaco and building stuff. Best of luck shipping it!
Re:Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG? on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:51AM (#41208406)
Depending on how much structure you want to extract before passing the pdf contents to the next step in your pipeline, this paper[1] might be helpful in surfacing more options. It's a review/benchmark of numerous tools applied to the information extraction of academic documents. I haven't been through to evaluate the solutions they examined, but it's how I discovered GROBID and IMO lays out the strengths of each approach clearly.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09957

Re:Reverse Captcha on Saturday August 03, 2024 @09:52AM (#41146610)
Only get content if you self-report as a bot? e.g., Googlebot as your user agent?

Reading the other comment about it being a game makes me wonder if “finding” the game is the first challenge…

:facepalm: no wonder it rang a bell… I thought, “I wonder if these are the same folks” and even looked at their route map but somehow missed that key detail. Appreciate the graceful response :)
Similar cross of art, low power/resilient tech, and sailing I saw at strange loop last year. Non-standard tech talk for sure, but fit right in at that conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM
Re:Explorative Programming on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @07:48AM (#39837825)
Another take on non-linear explorational programming is Black, which is an extension of scheme. Different motivations, but you might find something interesting there. How I was exposed to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKj4hYic5A
Re:Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:59AM (#35538256)
Step aside, Dvorak
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariad... and look for “replaces” or “defaulted to”.

CentOS even just installs MariaDB when you `yum install MySQL`

Re:Step by step from jQuery to Backbone on Monday January 28, 2013 @11:18AM (#5129092)
I remember seeing this last July or August, but I lost it. So glad it resurfaced!
Re:Lemmings 404 page on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:44PM (#5105796)
well, that's the longest amount of time I've spent on a 404 page...