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Re:Karpathy's Pelican on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:32PM (#49149103)
We just need to go one layer deeper:

    Generate an SVG of an ai generating an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle.
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a6fc59ae00081918095322a63e1503c
Low quantized jpeg is such a recognizable and nostalgic aesthetic.
Re:My Emacs Configuration (Dired) on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:56PM (#49042094)
wgrep-mode lets you collect matches from `grep` or `rg` into an editable buffer. Once you’ve finished editing, it propagates the changes back to the original files.
Re:Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? on Saturday July 18, 2026 @07:57AM (#48957252)
Does the openai logo look like that because .. OpenAI? Then others followed suit?
Re:The lost joy of music piracy on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:17AM (#48955442)
Thank you! Something about the site allowed for wonderful serendipity for finding music. I had a blast.
Re:The lost joy of music piracy on Thursday July 16, 2026 @02:42AM (#48931080)
Very fond memories of using Audiogalaxy, and also soulseek.

Soulseek especially had a community where you found someone who was into the same kind of music as you (obscure breakcore! japanese garage punk!) and could browse their collections, and chat to them also! What a wonderful way to make music friends and get good recommendations.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Sunday July 12, 2026 @07:29PM (#48885932)
A clojure / fennel dsl for generating pure data patches, looking to make a small drum machine in love2d and being able to live update the internal patches would be fun.
Re:Show HN: 18 Words on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:31PM (#48853828)
I think it might be fun if the words told a story
Re:Various LLM Smells on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:02PM (#48317244)

    <somebody> just <did something>. 
    
    And it changes everything.

Is my favorite linkedin-ism. Wish LinkedIn had a regex block option.
Re:A Tiny E Reader on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:53AM (#48159356)
I have one, it's great

Crosspoint just released a new version

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/relea...

With:

- custom fonts

- better syncing

- quick-press refresh

Etc etc

Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:12AM (#48133322)
Now translate it into zig!
Re:The Emacsification of Software on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:44AM (#48132288)
Hello from eww
Sometimes it's better

To keep it all in a clump

Than spread it about

It's like a heavier commone colde
Re:The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:32PM (#47967855)
Or that they hate the project more than using AI
Re:I have officially retired from Emacs on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @07:10PM (#47955904)
Cheers mate I added one at https://poyo.co/feed.xml
Re:I have officially retired from Emacs on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:16PM (#47939206)
Asolutely. It doesn't have to be an either-or. I use gptel and org mode when I was to be really hands on driving the development. It's a very different mode of interacting with models, and the way newer models are trained to play nice with harnesses makes them very obedient.

https://poyo.co/note/20260202T150723/

Re:Google Flow Music on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:44AM (#47900089)
Thank you for sharing.
Re:Google Flow Music on Friday April 24, 2026 @10:21PM (#47898054)
Would you be willing to share some artists? I'm curious
Re:Google Flow Music on Friday April 24, 2026 @07:52PM (#47897225)
The descriptions generated from the prompts are almost always great, but the generated music is always terrible. The sound pallete seems so limited.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:44AM (#47749428)
A generalized llm prompting library for clojure, and seeing what falls out from that. I wanted something which was fun to use in an interactive way, but not too abstracted.

- Introduction: https://poyo.co/note/20260318T184012/

- Tool loops: https://poyo.co/note/20260329T034500/

- Playing with receipt extraction: https://poyo.co/note/20260323T120532/

- Use with async flow: https://poyo.co/note/20260410T164710/

Re:From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:55AM (#47541128)
Yep. Semantically distinct and meaningful chunks wins every time over any kind of windowing or slice and dicing.

Unfortunately, many people are looking for a fire and forget solution over an existing rats nest of documentation debt..

Re:A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:41PM (#47462365)
I think it's number 9 in the list
Component library page in the docs gives 404
Re:Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI on Saturday March 14, 2026 @05:30AM (#47374880)
I don't let it execute emacs lisp itself, but elisp generated in org mode babel blocks which is instantly executable is a fine way to have gptel improve itself.

( See "meta tooling" in https://poyo.co/note/20260202T150723/ )

Re:How are people do AI evals these days? on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:37AM (#47331785)
The more you can afford to build up your understanding of the problem space and define what inputs & outputs look like, the more flexible you can be with evals. Unfortunately, this is a lot of work and requires thinking and discussion with your team and those involved.

https://poyo.co/note/20260217T130137/

I wrote about general ideas I take towards simple single prompt features, but most of it is applicable to more involved agentic approaches too.

Re:How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:54PM (#47107981)
I agree, and this is why I tend to use gptel in emacs for planning - the document is the conversation context, and can be edited and annotated as you like.

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