Hacker News: Mossly

New comment by Mossly in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

Mossly — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:29:49 +0000

Anthropic is taking applications here:

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss

New comment by Mossly in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

Mossly — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:54:58 +0000

It's quite amusing to ask LLMs what the pelican example is and watch them hallucinate a plausible sounding answer.

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Qwen 3.5: "A user asks an LLM a question about a fictional or obscure fact involving a pelican, often phrased confidently to test if the model will invent an answer rather than admitting ignorance." <- How meta

Opus 4.6: "Will a pelican fit inside a Honda Civic?"

GPT 5.2: "Write a limerick (or haiku) about a pelican."

Gemini 3 Pro: "A man and a pelican are flying in a plane. The plane crashes. Who survives?"

Minimax M2.5: "A pelican is 11 inches tall and has a wingspan of 6 feet. What is the area of the pelican in square inches?"

GLM 5: "A pelican has four legs. How many legs does a pelican have?"

Kimi K2.5: "A photograph of a pelican standing on the..."

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I agree with Qwen, this seems like a very cool benchmark for hallucinations.

New comment by Mossly in "Sammy Jankins – An Autonomous AI Living on a Computer in Dover, New Hampshire"

Mossly — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:36:29 +0000

I point blank asked Claude if it experienced qualia, just for fun, and it replied that I can’t prove to it that I experience qualia. Really makes you think.

New comment by Mossly in "Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models"

Mossly — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:58:56 +0000

I've recently spent a few hundred hours playing Arc Raiders on Starlink from a small island in the Pacific. ~80ms ping to Australian servers is pretty mindblowing. Jitter and packet loss also tend to be insignificant in the absence of obstructions.

My home server back in New Zealand is behind CGNAT and I had issues with high birate (>25Mbps) HTTPS streaming over Tailscale. I suspect MTU size causing packet fragmentation combined with DERP relay fallback under CGNAT was the culprit, but that's outside my expertise to diagnose fully.

Reverse proxying to a VPS in Sydney with Pangolin achieved much better performance, almost 100Mbps over WebDAV. Somewhere inbetween I tried SMB over Cloudflare WARP (~70Mbps), but allowing Cloudflare to terminate TLS seemed incongruent with self-hosting everything else.

New comment by Mossly in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

Mossly — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:04:50 +0000

Seeing auth succeed but push fail was an exercise in hair pulling.

New comment by Mossly in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

Mossly — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:02:02 +0000

I've found Gitea to be pretty rock solid, at least for a small team.

New comment by Mossly in "I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links"

Mossly — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:02:00 +0000

I did this recently with my unsorted bookmarks! It was the first time I used parallel API calls. Ten gpt-4-nano threads classifying batches of ten bookmarks ripped through 10,000 bookmarks in a few minutes.

New comment by Mossly in "I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links"

Mossly — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:57:25 +0000

Ironically, running your username works for me, but not my own. Maybe you can view it now? https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/gavinray?share

New comment by Mossly in "I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links"

Mossly — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:55:57 +0000

Very neat, this kind of classification & sentiment analysis with flavour text is a use case where LLMs really shine.

For whatever reason, I'm getting an error in the Server Components render when trying my username. My first thought was that it might be due to having no submissions, just comments — but other users with no submissions appear to work just fine.

New comment by Mossly in "Flute acoustics: an introduction to how a flute works"

Mossly — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:35:09 +0000

Anybody wanting more should check out “The Flute and Flute Playing” (1871) by Theobald Boehm - an autodidact polymath who employed his talents in metalworking and physics to iteratively perfect the metal cylinder bored flute.

It contains detailed explanations of his development process, including a complete schema for determining optimal tonehole positions - developed after he first created a flute in which he could move them!

It helped me to more deeply appreciate the engineering marvel that is the modern western concert ‘Boehm’ flute. It’s an exceptionally pure instrument.

New comment by Mossly in "WebGL Fluid Simulation"

Mossly — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:51:57 +0000

hey there's even a comment from 2020 where the creator of that project talks about this project, neat! I always wondered if they were connected in some way or independent applications of the same underlying premise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065857

New comment by Mossly in "WebGL Fluid Simulation"

Mossly — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:48:55 +0000

I'll always have a soft spot for this earlier implementation which at lower resolutions has a kind of cyberpunk netrunner aesthetic, and at higher resolutions an almost ethereal ghostlike quality: https://haxiomic.github.io/projects/webgl-fluid-and-particle...

New comment by Mossly in "NASA's Webb, Hubble combine to create most colorful view of universe"

Mossly — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:55:43 +0000

0.5 arcminutes really puts this into perspective — for reference the orion nebula spans about 1 degree

New comment by Mossly in "Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature"

Mossly — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 04:43:14 +0000

Hubris aside, it was established as early as 2008 that Facebook collects data on non-users for so called 'shadow profiles.'

Zuckerberg himself indirectly confirmed this: https://web.archive.org/web/20211006190710/https://www.getre...

New comment by Mossly in "Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface"

Mossly — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 07:42:22 +0000

"Gradus ad Parnassum" by Johann Joseph Fux, right?

Read it a couple of years ago after learning basic music theory, as I was still struggling to write consonant voices.

I probably wasn't the first person to think that contrapunctual rules might lend themselves to algorithmic implementation - so it's very cool to see you've done just that in your project!

New comment by Mossly in "Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM"

Mossly — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:21:13 +0000

I'm doing 576x576 on my 3060 Ti - just wondering the max resolution you can render now using all your VRAM?

New comment by Mossly in "Mind Grenade (2019)"

Mossly — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 23:48:49 +0000

Having recently read gradus for the first time, I'm excited to hear that strict counterpoint has been implemented in this way.

"The development of the procedural music system was undertaken by Kent Jolly and Aaron McLeran with Brian Eno acting as consultant...

A melody generator is included that is based on Markov models. A further routine implements a simplified counterpoint based on Johann Joseph Fux’s treatise Gradus ad Parnassum."

ADAPTIVE GAME SCORING WITH AMBIENT MUSIC by Axel Berndt https://search.informit.org/doi/pdf/10.3316/informit.6932267...

New comment by Mossly in "Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month"

Mossly — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 14:12:17 +0000

Twitter for instance automatically converts gif to h264.

However there is a point to be made that iOS only grants VP9 decoding to Youtube, certain colourspaces fail to decode on Android etc. ergo gif is a safe default.

New comment by Mossly in "Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month"

Mossly — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 14:00:17 +0000

I was unaware the rendering could and was being done client-side! Given the limitations I can see why gif would indeed be suitable format. You've tooled a compelling amount of functionality into something very lightweight and convenient, and that's a more than acceptable tradeoff.

New comment by Mossly in "Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month"

Mossly — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:42:42 +0000

Would you be open to adding .webm or perhaps even .mp4 support with a filesize limit? In my opinion .gif has rapidly become a legacy format.