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New comment by Yenrabbit in "Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation"

Yenrabbit — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:00:01 +0000

Oooh yeah I forgot how incredible that was! They really put care into how the pigments mix and move. I used to love watching timelapses of people doing art in rebelle.

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation"

Yenrabbit — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:55:17 +0000

Ah yeah that's not ideal, fixed. I like the menu sticking around on iPad, but it now gets out of the way on smaller phone screens. Thanks for the reminder, I'd been meaning to do this! (Also, tldraw.com is fantastic for quick+easy diagrams and works great on mobile if you want a better whiteboard that isn't so art-focused :) )

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation"

Yenrabbit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:44:48 +0000

Thanks :)

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

Yenrabbit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:14:43 +0000

I've made a drawing app based on my physical sketching practice, using fluid sim and some shader tricks to mimic watercolor-style ink washes. Best used on iPad or with a drawing tablet. The linked article shows how the core engine works, with plenty of little interactive demos. It was fun to make, sharing in hopes others find it fun too :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523534

Points: 248

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Codex Discovered a Hidden HTTP/2 Bomb

Yenrabbit — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:51:21 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.calif.io/p/codex-discovered-a-hidden-http2-bomb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375327

Points: 54

# Comments: 7

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

Yenrabbit — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:53:13 +0000

I got some AI writing vibes too, but looking closer, I think it might be human-written (or at least partly so) - perhaps just picking up some AI conversation styles? FWIW, Pangram gives it a mixed but mostly-human score too. Maybe AI is not just changing the way we speak; it's changing the way we perceive all writing ;)

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Isopods of the world"

Yenrabbit — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:33:00 +0000

Nicky Bay is incredibly talented and prolific, my favourite macro photographer by far! Big fan of his spider photography, there are many cases where the only high-quality pics of some species will be his. I'm not as deep in the isopod world but this looks like an invaluable resource for people trying to ID + explore them.

New comment by Yenrabbit in "No one can force me to have a secure website!!!"

Yenrabbit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:25:50 +0000

This video/project is a masterpiece by a master. I love Tom's dead-pan style of humour. Make sure to expand the security warning and watch the video!

New comment by Yenrabbit in "A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity"

Yenrabbit — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:01:13 +0000

You can easily make them at home (source, I did last weekend!).

- Dry ice (mine came from something shipped cold)

- Dark piece of metal (I used a 3D printer hot bed) on top of dry ice to get cold

- IPA vapour (I poured some on a shop towel)

- Some transparent container to house it all - I found a glass display cube on the side of the road, fish tanks or Tupperware also work.

- Torch or something to provide side lighting

Very cool to see evidence of the particles zooming around us, can highly recommend.

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Poor Man's Polaroid"

Yenrabbit — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:48:34 +0000

Nice build. There are cheap (<$20) commercial versions, often targeted at kids. They make fantastic gifts, I thought it would be a bit of a gimmick but having instant printouts capturing happy moments added a fun dynamic to a few family trips, and our fridge is covered with an ever-rotating cast of family pics. And because they're ~free, it overcomes the blocker of a polaroid having to be 'special' while still keeping some constraints vs just snapping a cellphone pic.

New comment by Yenrabbit in "The Slow Death of the Power User"

Yenrabbit — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:06:37 +0000

For what it's worth, Pangram (generally very accurate) rates this as 100% "We are confident that this document is fully AI-generated". The few paragraphs I looked at felt solidly AI to me too.

New comment by Yenrabbit in "A simulation where life unfolds in real time"

Yenrabbit — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:26:16 +0000

@maybe-tomorrow out of curiosity, is my guess that this is made with help from codex correct? (I'm trying to keep up my sense for the different default aesthetics of the different models, but this one I'm not sure about)

New comment by Yenrabbit in "LoRA Without Regret"

Yenrabbit — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:17:19 +0000

Thinking Machines have put out a string of incredibly high-quality posts lately. Hard to oversell how much cred it's buying them with the AI research community! Keep up the great work folks

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code"

Yenrabbit — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:07:35 +0000

And this prompted me to record a video showing some of my random non-work usage recently, to give a feeling for what the app looks like :) https://youtu.be/Y2B27hdKMMA

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code"

Yenrabbit — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:29:08 +0000

We also showed it as part of Hamel's course: https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/1956514524628127875 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPr3HVp0eg) which is a longer example of the tool in action

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code"

Yenrabbit — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:22:40 +0000

We made the tool, and that will eventually be available on its own. But the method requires some discipline and 'unlearning'. It's very hard to show someone an AI tool and not have them treat it just like ChatGPT/Claude/... - that's the part that takes the time, and having a community of people working through different examples and case studies together is a lot more motivating for this than just staring at an empty prompt box :)

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Human speech may have a universal transmission rate (2019)"

Yenrabbit — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:46:07 +0000

I've always found this interesting. Think+transmit seems more likely to be the bottleneck vs receive, given that we can easily parse most podcasts etc at 3-4X speed. If being understood by everyone wasn't required, I wonder if one could learn to boost both send and receive rates?

New comment by Yenrabbit in "Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit"

Yenrabbit — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:07:55 +0000

This is going to be my go-to reference for 'how should I get started with electronics' - getting to see various capabilities (sense things, move motors, flash LEDs) without having to purchase parts while not knowing what you don't know is fantastic. Props for pushing through all the projects - I look forward to seeing what you make with these new skills :)

New comment by Yenrabbit in "The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]"

Yenrabbit — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 15:56:56 +0000

A few observations: 1) the performance vs complexity curve looks very similar to that for most humans (having seen groups attempt Towers of Hanoi with 5 car tires) haha 2) models can trivially solve some of these tasks when given tools 3) this is an internship paper with some quirks that many mostly dismissed, but is being quoted everywhere as "Apple proves LLMs can't ever reason"

Anyway, fun experiment to test your understanding of these things but don't take any conclusions as gospel :)

New comment by Yenrabbit in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

Yenrabbit — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:02:00 +0000

And Google's version: https://jules.google