Hacker News: Cook4986

New comment by Cook4986 in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

Cook4986 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:55:35 +0000

Building on this, I’ve observed nightmares (I.e., particularly intense, terrifying, or otherwise challenging dreams) guarantee a good next day.

New comment by Cook4986 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

Cook4986 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:45:11 +0000

https://chatpak.store/

Group chat photobooks. Automatic layouts, no editor/app, unlimited free previews. Build a hardcover (up to 1000 image) and ship it in minutes.

Wanted a physical souvenir for everyone in my long running signal chat but didn’t want to spend hours curating in editors.

New comment by Cook4986 in "The happiest I've ever been"

Cook4986 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:24:22 +0000

Existence is suffering. But there are moments that make it worthwhile. When you have a kid, you not only get more of those moments, but you give those moments to people in the future.

New comment by Cook4986 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

Cook4986 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:27:05 +0000

“Autotomb” identifies physical objects/artifacts/specimens mentioned in Egyptological (e.g., Giza) excavation diaries then generates (Meshy) 3D model sets based on those descriptions which are deployed in in virtual reality (AFrame). The output is like an immersive word cloud but the words are 3D objects and you can navigate the scene with your body. Still early days but the desktop pipeline is functional: https://github.com/Cook4986/AutoTomb

New comment by Cook4986 in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

Cook4986 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:15:58 +0000

Here’s a (free) 3D printable version I designed a few years back, for just this reason:

https://sketchfab.com/cook4986/collections/instructional-che...

The Knight was by far the hardest to design, but the 3D aspect helps visualize movement across two planes (I.e., jumps)

New comment by Cook4986 in "Show HN: AI mentor in your iPhone that collects your memories and gives feedback"

Cook4986 — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:07:36 +0000

Looks great, guys. I'm interested in enabling SAMA during consulting calls only, for cross-pollination, which would make an Outlook (calendar) integration super valuable.

New comment by Cook4986 in "The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked"

Cook4986 — Sun, 21 May 2023 23:35:45 +0000

Imagine if the whole internet was VR ready? MyHouse.pk3, I’m looking at you.

New comment by Cook4986 in "A working implementation of text-to-3D DreamFusion, powered by Stable Diffusion"

Cook4986 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:01:37 +0000

Currently working with a student group to build out a 3D scene generator (https://github.com/Cook4986/Longhand), and the prospect of arbitrary, hyper-specific mesh arrays on demand is thrilling.

Right now, we are relying on the Sketchfab API to populate our (Blender) scenes, which is an imperfect lens through which to visualize the contents of texts that our non-technical "clientele" are studying.

Since we are publishing these scenes via WebXR (Hubs), we have specific criteria related to poly counts (latency, bandwidth, etc) and usability. Regarding the latter concern, it's not clear that our end users will want to wait/pay for compute.

*copyedited

New comment by Cook4986 in "What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?"

Cook4986 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:31:23 +0000

From “A college mystery: the story of the apparition in the Fellows' Garden at Christ's College, Cambridge Baker, A. P / 2nd ed. 1925”:

https://youtu.be/5JDxyVpmbJA

New comment by Cook4986 in "The saga of Apple’s troubled mixed reality headset"

Cook4986 — Sun, 29 May 2022 21:24:48 +0000

Andrews, C., Endert, A. and North, C., 2010, April. Space to think: large high-resolution displays for sensemaking. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 55-64):

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1753326.1753336?casa_toke...

There’s much more. Search “sensemaking” or “immersive analytics” on Scholar. Depth and width of field, achieved via stereoscopy and tracking, is well documented as a performance enhancer when it comes to generalizeable task completion in VR.

New comment by Cook4986 in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on this weekend?"

Cook4986 — Fri, 20 May 2022 18:52:13 +0000

Revising a sci-fi story about the first pizza place on Mars: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wdwj6fn2qjywoct/Best%20Pizza_Cook2...

Also, trying to figure out how to distribute ~1000 arbitrary meshes in 3D space (https://github.com/Cook4986/Longhand), and installing the window AC units (Boston suburbs).

New comment by Cook4986 in "The Zen of Drinking Alone"

Cook4986 — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 23:29:24 +0000

Three beers max. No whiskey on a weeknight. Wine is a wildcard. You have to blast off. You have to get outside your own head.

New comment by Cook4986 in "A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack"

Cook4986 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:03:26 +0000

Full-text transcription of individual notebook pages (annotated images + .json + .txt) generated with a combination of Handprint (https://github.com/caltechlibrary/handprint) and Microsoft's Read API: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xq...