Hacker News: JayStavis

New comment by JayStavis in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

JayStavis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:36:52 +0000

you raise a good point that nvidia support on apple silicon via egpu is probably in much higher demand due to openclaw

nvidia employees: please fwd!

New comment by JayStavis in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

JayStavis — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:04:08 +0000

The founder recently went on invest like the best and explained it top to bottom, they started as a broke agency and grew from there quite fast. I forget the details but I would imagine they are financed quite heavily by LP's

https://colossus.com/episode/luca-ferrari-building-bending-s...

New comment by JayStavis in "A spider web unlike any seen before"

JayStavis — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:43:38 +0000

It's the lower third at [0:28](https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/11/07/154186_1_07vid-spider-we...) in the video.

New comment by JayStavis in "Show HN: Reverse perspective camera for OpenGL (Three.js)"

JayStavis — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:07:26 +0000

this is really neat. going to try it out with a creative coding tool I've been playing with.

are there any performance considerations to consider here relative to standard three cameras (either perspective or orthographic) ?

New comment by JayStavis in "Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out"

JayStavis — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:05:44 +0000

> any chance that you ever get a new sexual parter, get a vaccine.

Not only that - I learned recently that you can contract certain strains from a shower floor [1]

[1] https://dermnetnz.org/topics/non-sexually-acquired-human-pap...

New comment by JayStavis in "Show HN: I built an under-the-door fan duct to lower bedroom CO2"

JayStavis — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 02:07:42 +0000

We don't like to open the door because of habit, light leaking, and noise.

New comment by JayStavis in "Show HN: I built an under-the-door fan duct to lower bedroom CO2"

JayStavis — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:21:45 +0000

I wonder what the market size for this is. If it were a real product that wasn't super ugly in the bedroom, we'd use it. My BR is ~1500 ppm with two sleepers in a 10x12 room, and opening the window isn't an option.

New comment by JayStavis in "After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem"

JayStavis — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:09:22 +0000

I started "Prime Target" on Apple TV last night and I knew the premise of this story sounded familiar! The protagonist is obsessed over a prime number problem.

Unrelatedly, I'd be curious what this couple thinks about using AI tools in formal math problems. Did they use any AI tools in the past 2 years while working on this problem?

New comment by JayStavis in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

JayStavis — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:07:25 +0000

Automation to identify logical/rhetorical fallacies is a long held dream of mine, would love to follow along with this project if it picks up somehow

New comment by JayStavis in "Meta Calls for Industry Effort to Label A.I.-Generated Content"

JayStavis — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:01:07 +0000

Related, it'd be nice if cameras had signatures to stamp proof of authenticity for the photos they produce.

While we're building the wishlist, it'd also be nice to have a history of transforms to sensor & artist-made digital pixels. This would have to be supported in DCC.

With these 2 things (proof of authenticity and git-like edit history), we could at least say with some confidence when news media _is not_ AI generated.

New comment by JayStavis in "WebGPU is now available on Android"

JayStavis — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:56:56 +0000

I feel like WebGPU actually holds some amount of promise as a cross-platform convenience. I'd agree that there's not a great reason to update your native code for this right now though.

If you're writing new gfx code though and are more familiar with web technology, there's definitely utility there. That's the bigger value prop: that people with web development skills can work on more pro (GPU-required) applications.

New comment by JayStavis in "Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV"

JayStavis — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 21:40:36 +0000

I remember predictions that cable TV practices (bundling/ads/high prices) would eventually get into the "easy/cheap/fast" streaming tech and undermine its newfound value.

Even if streaming prices were just as bad as cable TV, you have to admit that the lock-in effects are minimal and that's pretty great on its own: no hardware, no-contracts, no brick-and-mortar, no service appointments or technicians, etc.

With that in mind, I don't mind at all if companies are implementing these tactics. The barriers to compete are now way lower and the situation is much better for consumers (compared to ISP entertainment).

New comment by JayStavis in "How I made a 3D Modeler in C"

JayStavis — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 07:28:00 +0000

Do you have thoughts on Dreams by Media Molecule?

I haven't tried it, but, people seem to be pretty productive with it much in the way they would be with a DCC.

New comment by JayStavis in "WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview"

JayStavis — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 22:46:02 +0000

On the webGL/GPU side, my cynical speculation is that the Apple has slowly been amassing a nest of graphics talent for the last 5 years (Metal, Vision Pro, ARKit, list goes on), and at this point they can't resist the pressure from employees to not support some of this stuff which should be table stakes and is obviously good for the user experience.

On the PWA side, best guess is anti-competition scrutiny.

New comment by JayStavis in "WebGL Fluid Simulation"

JayStavis — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:27:33 +0000

First commit in 2018, crazy how sparse webGL is on the web still.

I feel like I have seen someone use this repo in a successful ios app as well.

New comment by JayStavis in "Ask HN: Tech that seems to have vanished?"

JayStavis — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:55:19 +0000

I think that the Apple Vision Pro might claim to have something _like_ this in audio raytracing?

New comment by JayStavis in "Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD"

JayStavis — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 02:15:45 +0000

Sounds like you are looking for react-three-fiber, which looks just like this!

The examples, demos, and development experience are great, but since it's based on web tech hasn't made a big splash yet with the bigger 3D content businesses.

You can actually render a gltf as a JSX tree too with gltfjsx: https://github.com/pmndrs/gltfjsx

New comment by JayStavis in "Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app"

JayStavis — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:18:08 +0000

Really amazing! For those interested I highly recommend checking out Repper (https://repper.app/) for a fun playground without having to get too deep into the math.

Another AI driven one I saw recently was https://tilemaker.app/ which is fun.

I've also been playing a bit with tiling algorithms implemented as shaders

New comment by JayStavis in "The M.C. Escher flavoured pages"

JayStavis — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:13:27 +0000

The hyperbolic tiles are just amazing to me, crazy that can be done with simple math

New comment by JayStavis in "visionOS"

JayStavis — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 05:09:20 +0000

WebXR is the way to do this, and a reasonable more supported equivalent to react-vr is probably @react-three/xr which where the stack is react --> three.js --> webXR --> WebGL.

https://github.com/pmndrs/react-xr

Apple announced support for WebXR on VisionOS as well.

I think it will be a lot more interesting once webGPU hits too, as it will be closer to native-level GPU programming but portable between both native and web contexts.