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Re:Patrick Stewart has died
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:05PM (#50296825)
His portrayal of Picard helped me to understand what real maturity could look like. He will be greatly missed. Pour one out for Patrick.
Re:Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Go...
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @12:28AM (#50269353)
Discord is ok once you get used to it. But golly the various settings panels is a scattered confusing mess, beware.
Re:Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own...
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:21PM (#50235692)
Would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall at the Adobe offices currently
Re:Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own...
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:20PM (#50235681)
It's not an ideal replacement as of yet, but the writing is in the wall and I bet in a few year time it (or some other clone) will be quite mature and stable.
Re:Americans' Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:38PM (#50097155)
Overall yes. When I attend a meetup then I have a mindset of putting myself out there and should I meet an interesting and kind person, then just ask to get coffee with them sometime and talk shop. Also I remind myself that the current conversation went well from my perspective, so probably from theirs too.
Re:Americans' Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:25PM (#50097030)
Indeed I've had a similar realization and it's a very helpful reminder. Also every time I go to a meetup, I remind myself: to be interesting, you must be interested.
Re:Americans' Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:19PM (#50096956)
My experience is that meetups have largely the same dynamic, but the attendees very rarely reach out to get coffee. I can't think of a single instance in recent memory where someone has asked me, and yet I have many experiences where people later thank me for instigating. That used to bother me until I spoke with some people about it and realized it seemingly doesn't happen much these days outside of business pitches.
But personally I cannot afford to worry if they think it's cringe. For a long time I was lonely, even in a healthy marriage, but having friends that I see regularly is something that I have found to be a vital aspect of having good mental health and avoiding stagnation. So I continually take the risk and put myself out there when I meet an interesting and kind person.
Re:Americans' Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:40PM (#50095739)
These days I must make a real effort to be social on a regular basis. Personally I've found satisfaction in going to meetups to find like minds. I also go with my gut and in the moment ask to swap Instagram usernames with interesting people and promptly schedule with them to get coffee. If they prove to be as interesting and kind as I had sensed, then I invite them to a potluck dinner party which I throw every other month. In this way, I invite people under my umbrella, keep them in my life by regularly seeing them, slowly build a friendship, and hopefully they make friends with the regulars at dinner party. I must continually remind myself that I am the instigator and it's feels quite strange as a heavily introverted person. I don't particularly enjoy being the instigator for most social occasions but the pros outweigh the cons.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:17PM (#49997510)
Relevant:
"As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/as-ai-closed-in-on-unique-gam...
Re:A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:38PM (#49452943)
The book that he wrote next, Star Maker, is a wonderful read and is quite early for the genre of scifi. Incredible scope and I still think about it often.
Re:A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion
on Monday August 10, 2026 @10:36AM (#49244287)
> “None of our data acquisition programmes buy and destroy rare or antiquarian books.” German booksellers are not convinced. They are sure, based on the vast orders, that the process is happening anyway via third-party service providers.
Hope the open-weights reduces the VRAM requirement compared to Flux 2.
Re:Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @01:57PM (#48765118)
This script will extract all of the attachments from a MBOX file - https://gist.github.com/georgy7/3a80bce2cd8bf2f9985c
Re:Why I email complete strangers
on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:56PM (#48549600)
I agree with this and have received insights on difficult challenges, but I've found that each year it gets more difficult to find an email address for someone.
Re:Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent ...
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:42AM (#48460366)
The VJ Curator app is a fork of VLC where you can press the 0-9 hotkeys to easily curate the video clips. After pressing a number key then the video clip will be automatically moved into a folder with a matching number - https://github.com/wivy1/vj-curator
Collection of JSX scripts for After Effects which automate repetitive production tasks since I often work with hundreds of comps in my projects - https://github.com/nuclearsugar/AfterEffectsScripts/
Re:Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air l...
on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:19PM (#48414667)
A bit of a tangent, but the fictional book "Children of Time" takes this to wild extremes. Really fun read
Re:Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut from All Patreon Creators in iOS App
on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:42PM (#46813564)
For anyone seeking more info, check out these articles -
Re:Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:28AM (#46643303)
I love my Logitech Lift Vertical Ergonomic Mouse since it completely fixed my wrist pain. Also it can memorize 3 different Bluetooth connections and toggle between them via a small button on the bottom.
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/shop/p/lift-vertical-ergonomi...
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:51PM (#46621907)
https://www.jasonfletcher.info/
VJ Loop Artist experimenting with 3D animation, machine learning, and compositing.
Re:Maggots, an Efficient Source of Protein, May Become Next Superfood ...
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:59PM (#46619587)
Why'd y'spill yer beans?
Re:Meta Segment Anything Model 3
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @12:08AM (#45989187)
Here are two plugins for After Effects -
https://aescripts.com/mask-prompter/
https://aescripts.com/depth-scanner-lite/
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:19PM (#44712322)
Just finished generating alien bugs and then rigging/animating by hand. Loads of fun and very satisfying to visualize the ideas in my mind.
https://youtu.be/sMYmnQlF_Ww
And here's my tech notes - https://www.jasonfletcher.info/vjloops/insectoid-protocol.ht...
Re:Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @04:50PM (#44663894)
Those of us doing creative production work really don't have a chance since the majority of apps only support Win/Mac. I understand the tech but cannot escape it.
Re:A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
on Monday July 07, 2025 @08:25AM (#44489635)
Assume an average user that doesn't understand the core tech, but does understand that it's been trained on internet scale data that was created by humans. How can they be expected to not anthropomorphize it?
Re:Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose ...
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:39AM (#43250752)
I've never heard of Godel's beliefs before. Where did you learn of this?
Re:Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU
on Thursday December 26, 2024 @02:18PM (#42517104)
I think there will certainly be an AI 3D render engine at some point. But currently AI is used in 3D render engines to assist with denoising.
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.92/render/layers/denois...
Re:Just launched MilkDropLM model using 32B parameters
on Friday December 20, 2024 @10:53AM (#42472132)
Building upon the success of our 7b model release, we're thrilled to introduce MilkDropLM-32b-v0.3, the latest iteration of our state-of-the-art language model designed specifically for creating visually stunning MilkDrop presets. This new 32b model is based on the Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct model and has been fine-tuned with the same tried and tested hyperparameters that made our 7b release function smoothly.
MilkDropLM-32b-v0.3 has a more nuanced grasp of the intricate relationships between different elements within presets, allowing for far more accurate and creative generations.
Also this new model can now “upgrade” the presets that were generated with the 7b model, breathing new life into your favorite visuals. Try prompting with any existing MilkDrop preset script and asking for variations (at least 16k context size minimum for this feature).
Engage in more natural-sounding conversations with MilkDropLM-32b-v0.3, as it responds to your requests in a more human-like way than ever before.
Re:Llama.cpp Now Supports Qwen2-VL (Vision Language Model)
on Sunday December 15, 2024 @04:27PM (#42426097)
I recently fine-tuned the Qwen-Coder-7b-Instuct model to generate Milkdrop presets. Pretty amazing to see what can be done locally.
https://huggingface.co/InferenceIllusionist/MilkDropLM-7b-v0...
Re:MilkDropLM – an LLM for generating MilkDrop shader code
on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:49AM (#42388956)
Several years ago I curated through all 52K presets, selected the very best presets, and then organized them into categories and subcategories. So I've been curious if an LLM could be fine-tuned on this dataset.
When the Qwen-Coder-7b-Instuct model was released, it seemed like open-source models have matured to the point that it's worth trying out. I teamed up a InferenceIllusionist and started fine-tuning the model. The results have been exciting to play with and so we've released the model for anyone to experiment with.
What is MilkDrop? It’s a music visualization engine which reacts in real time to the music. MilkDrop has a long 23 year history, has been ported to numerous systems, and a robust community of users that have made tons of original presets.