Hacker News: GlassOwAter

New comment by GlassOwAter in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

GlassOwAter — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:50:16 +0000

Think of the military benefits.

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

GlassOwAter — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:23:43 +0000

Same here. I’ve met a lot of smart, passionate people in the space that are very respectable.

New comment by GlassOwAter in "I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform"

GlassOwAter — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:45:20 +0000

That’s the attitude he’s talking about!

New comment by GlassOwAter in "VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia"

GlassOwAter — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:44:15 +0000

https://youtube.com/shorts/EodajlNi0k4

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021)"

GlassOwAter — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:45:15 +0000

Sadly, I read about this in 2008 when I was researching an exhibition in the United States and then obviously decided not to go.

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man"

GlassOwAter — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:08:53 +0000

Poo-Man or Puke-Man

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech"

GlassOwAter — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:40:09 +0000

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. It looks like they have been working on facial recognition since 2001. This is all I found with a quick search https://nicic.gov/weblink/welcome-interagency-use-facial-rec...

Oh plenty more when you put in the full name. https://search.brave.com/search?q=%22Pinellas+County+Sheriff...

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction"

GlassOwAter — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 02:03:23 +0000

I like this. It reminds me of Snapseed. Feature request if it isn’t too hard, the ability to overlay an image and blend them together.

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction"

GlassOwAter — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 02:00:08 +0000

I’m getting some touch control issues and inability to download the image on iOS.

New comment by GlassOwAter in "The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)"

GlassOwAter — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:01:41 +0000

Interesting read. I was only familiar with a bastardization that goes by the same name. An ex is from Liberia and while her mom now lives in the states she still sends money to contribute to a tontine.

They pool their money together and then rotate who it all goes to every month or some pet period.

Sounds like a scam run on the financially illiterate.

https://www.modernghana.com/news/772009/tontine-microcredit-...

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

GlassOwAter — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:24:58 +0000

Haha yep!

New comment by GlassOwAter in "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days"

GlassOwAter — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 05:08:54 +0000

I’m approaching middle age and have always wanted to learn to code and run servers, but would get caught up somewhere on tutorials and eventually give up in frustration.

Over the past year I have accomplished so much with the ever patient LLMs as my guide. It has been so much fun too. I imagine there are many others in my shoes and those that want to learn now have a much friendlier experience.

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll"

GlassOwAter — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 02:19:06 +0000

Fun! He’s a great speed walker too

New comment by GlassOwAter in "DigiKey's Tariff Resources"

GlassOwAter — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:19:31 +0000

They won’t be using tariffs to lower taxes for lower income citizens. Tax cuts for the rich have already been proposed.

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Apple Watch with Android"

GlassOwAter — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:05:09 +0000

What’s that about the SpO2?

New comment by GlassOwAter in "U.S. math scores drop on major international test"

GlassOwAter — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:11:26 +0000

How about COVID reducing IQ?

New comment by GlassOwAter in "My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4"

GlassOwAter — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:45:47 +0000

Is this something, as a tech enthusiast that's no expert, I can easily fine tune are run?

My use case would be fine tuning on technical docs. Specific news, 2 years of blog posts, primary source material, and Twitter explainer thread. I want to gather all the niche information of a topic from the last two years, dump it into this and have an LLM that is a subject-matter expert.

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it"

GlassOwAter — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:22:08 +0000

Uh oh.. my doctors never told me this. That explains the last 10 years x.x

New comment by GlassOwAter in "New Bill Would Require Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in California"

GlassOwAter — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:47:08 +0000

As someone without kids. Is it uncommon for parents to encourage children to read outside of school?

New comment by GlassOwAter in "Mystery-o-matic.com random murder generator is open-source"

GlassOwAter — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:55:25 +0000

Would it fairly easily port to a blockchain? And would you be interested in bringing it to Evmos?