Hacker News: NAR8789

New comment by NAR8789 in ".name Termination"

NAR8789 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:23:58 +0000

thanks!

New comment by NAR8789 in ".name Termination"

NAR8789 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:31:00 +0000

@dang can you update the domain extraction logic for hn titles to include the 3rd level domain for .name domains? It's a little too poetically unfortunate that HN lists the domain on this article as `fraser.name`

New comment by NAR8789 in "Solving the Flat Cube"

NAR8789 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:28:09 +0000

I'm confused... The introduction allows twists of 60 degrees, but the explanation seems to switch to assuming 180 degree twists.

What am I missing?

edit: ah, I missed an "at least" at the beginning. He shows god's number is *at least* 27 (I misread this as meaning exactly 27). And he does this by showing god's number for the uncolored flat cube is 27. The uncolored flat cube happens to be equivalent to the colored cube with 180 degree twists.

Though... given that, the colors like a bit of an unnecessary red herring. Just a literary bridge I suppose? From his amusing introduction about a magic schoolbus running over rubik's cubes?

Hotel Infinity (2014)

NAR8789 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:26:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb6mUUuKMKFnNtVC_orYqZxmAm48qIFDI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406470

Points: 1

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New comment by NAR8789 in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

NAR8789 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:07:48 +0000

+1 I use this all the time and can't live without it

New comment by NAR8789 in "How I over-engineered my book"

NAR8789 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:49:11 +0000

Your own descriptive comment got downvoted and the only other comment I see is bashing you.

It seems you rub people the wrong way, but so far I'm scratching my head as to why you're receiving this degree of hate. Is this common for you? Does someone have a vendetta against you?

New comment by NAR8789 in "Asus Bike Booster"

NAR8789 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:58:47 +0000

pitlock pit stoppers?

https://www.pitlock.de/en/set-sichert-2-innensechskantschrau...

New comment by NAR8789 in "Asus Bike Booster"

NAR8789 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:57:28 +0000

Yes, without a fender my rear wheel throws mud all over my back. This is not the right shape to serve as a mud shield

New comment by NAR8789 in "Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner""

NAR8789 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:29:24 +0000

wait, what was the sound from the industrial metalworking factory like?

New comment by NAR8789 in "Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust"

NAR8789 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:15:06 +0000

Doesn't curl still validate ssl certificates? So long as I'm curling an https url from a trusted domain, don't I still have a chain of trust?

New comment by NAR8789 in "Show HN: Rotunda - A browser built for agents with simulated typing"

NAR8789 — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:39:41 +0000

If you're training this on your own timing patterns, do you worry that eventually captchas will pick up on this and you yourself will no longer be able to prove you are a human?

New comment by NAR8789 in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

NAR8789 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:16:12 +0000

Try from inside the signal app itself instead of system settings? On android Signal has an option at hamburger menu > Settings > Notifications > Notifications (toggle switch)

Oh... hmm, two toggles actually. One at Settings > Notifications > Calls > Notifications toggle, and the other at Settings > Notifications > Messages > Notifications toggle

New comment by NAR8789 in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

NAR8789 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:28:08 +0000

Self-describing API endpoints... is the server side for this basically just HATEOAS?

New comment by NAR8789 in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

NAR8789 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:23:07 +0000

> Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society Bee

New comment by NAR8789 in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

NAR8789 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:06:15 +0000

Oh that makes sense, thanks for explaining! And thanks for sharing your process and result! Interesting to see your process, and looking at the map really tickles my nostalgia

New comment by NAR8789 in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

NAR8789 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:03:15 +0000

I'm curious why you didn't do something like generate new tiles one at a time, but just expand the input area on the sides with already-generated neighbors. Looks like your infill model doesn't really care about tile sizes, and I doubt it really needs full adjacent tiles to match style. Why 2x2 tile inputs rather than say... generate new tiles one at a time, but add 50px of bordering tile on each side that already has a pixel art neighbor?

New comment by NAR8789 in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

NAR8789 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:46:00 +0000

I think the core idea in "masking" is to provide adjacent pixel art tiles as part of the input when rendering a new tile from photo reference. So part of the input is literal boundary conditions on the output for the new tile.

Reference image from the article: https://cannoneyed.com/img/projects/isometric-nyc/training_d...

You have to zoom in, but here the inputs on the left are mixed pixel art / photo textures. The outputs on the right are seamless pixel art.

Later on he talks about 2x2 squares of four tiles each as input and having trouble automating input selection to avoid seams. So with his 512x512 tiles, he's actually sending in 1024x1024 inputs. You can avoid seams if every new tile can "see" all its already-generated neighbors.

You get a seam if you generate a new tile next to an old tile but that old tile is not input to the infill agorithm. The new tile can't see that boundary, and the style will probably not match.

New comment by NAR8789 in "California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years"

NAR8789 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:12:16 +0000

I don't know why California's electricity costs so much, but the gas prices are high due to regulation distorting the market. California has special California gas produced only at in-state refineries. It's for a good cause--California's gas, "CARB gas" is cleaner. But the gas market in California is segregated from the wider US market

New comment by NAR8789 in "PawSense: Catproof Your Computer"

NAR8789 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:08:57 +0000

> When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer.

And they might turn you into the Freakazoid

New comment by NAR8789 in "Round and Round"

NAR8789 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:24:42 +0000

From the title I thought this was going to be a variation on the bear and swimmer puzzle.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-math-help-you-escape-a-hu...