Hacker News: adkaplan

New comment by adkaplan in "The Free Universal Construction Kit"

adkaplan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:13:47 +0000

This kit is how I discovered zometool ten years ago and still find it fascinating. Its amazing! Check out vZome and its associated discord. FOSS virtualzome builder and symmetry study tool.

New comment by adkaplan in "Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft"

adkaplan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:44:34 +0000

For a look at someone solving a harder version of this problem with stretchy fabric deformation, check out pandafold.app

Admittedly an unconventional audience but its a curious problem space. Pepakura as mentioned here does this very well. The author of this software looks to be familiar with it

New comment by adkaplan in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

adkaplan — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:43:47 +0000

I've struggled with this too. I want to only use my phone but the quiet focus that a view finder gives me allows better attention to detail, the edges of the photo, and subtle alignments of parallax objects. I find it much harder on a phone or with live view on a proper camera. It's like -- for a moment, I am the camera and I'm about to make a record of a moment. I don't get nearly that feeling with a phone despite years of trying to convince myself its the same

New comment by adkaplan in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

adkaplan — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:36:40 +0000

I think your method is perfect. Having to make notes and re-enter my settings is just the right amount of frustrating, that each time I'm tempted to buy it. I think most people who are less stubborn (cheap) than I would pay the second time they need the tool.

Having the free no-saving model as a public service is hopefully a win-win for you. The public has access to a financial planning tool, and if they need to take their finances more seriously they can start the paid model.

I also like the prompt you've added which says something like /hey, you lost your settings because you're using the free mode, but we can recover them to save you time/. Good detail.

New comment by adkaplan in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

adkaplan — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:59:30 +0000

Amazing – congratulations. I've been using the demo version of your product every six months or so since I first saw your post here. I Really appreciate that you've kept it available, and hope you will continue to do so even as the cash continues to pour in. If I was anywhere close to retirement, I'd be a subscriber instantly, but I just like financial planning as a hobby. I recommend it to family and friends. You've created a great, intuitive product and absolutely deserve your success.

New comment by adkaplan in "Deblur-GS: 3D Gaussian splatting from camera motion blurred images"

adkaplan — Mon, 13 May 2024 22:00:31 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20240511220923/https://chaphlagi...

Down for me, archive above.

New comment by adkaplan in "Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine"

adkaplan — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:48:46 +0000

Appreciate the share. I've seen a compilation of these clips out of context and loved them. Never figured out where they came from. They really are amazing in striking the balance between organic and mechanistic. The Kinesin in particular are cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y&t=2s

This video shows it quite well too. EDIT: looks like someone else shared the same.

New comment by adkaplan in "Apple Vision Pro review"

adkaplan — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:16:15 +0000

Does ios not rely on hovering/mouse over for alt text or similar? Im mostly on windows but i wonder if theyll eventually concede a second gesture for "put cursor here"

New comment by adkaplan in "Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models"

adkaplan — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:10:52 +0000

some of these style illusions I've seen drawn by hand before, but the lithopane ones are new to me. I'm sure the 3d printing lithopane community will love them

New comment by adkaplan in "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]"

adkaplan — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:57:22 +0000

I think also the negative comments here are missing how commonly closets are built incorrectly without the correct depth for a coat hanger. Not every day, but there are enough people living in condos which had lazy architects/contractors and might appreciate the solution. I've lived in one and seen several others. I couldn't think of another solution besides kids hangers, which wasn't a satisfying compromise.

New comment by adkaplan in "A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling"

adkaplan — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:41:27 +0000

Interesting! I like your triangle square pattern as well. I haven't seen that before. You may already know that in the landscape architecture world your versaille-like tilings are frequently called ashlar patterns. I think they typically use periodic tilings. "AutoCAD ashlar drafting patterns" are available all over the place.

New comment by adkaplan in "AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review"

adkaplan — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:59:32 +0000

Also had a pair of headphones for 10 years, Sony MDR 7506. I've replaced the pads several times. I think a lot of good corded headphones will last forever as long as you don't crush them in a backpack.

New comment by adkaplan in "Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software"

adkaplan — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:13:05 +0000

this last phase in your coder evolution reminds me of a very rough translation of the wabi sabi view on manufacturing. "Nothing lasts, nothing is perfect, nothing is finished."

New comment by adkaplan in "Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras"

adkaplan — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:35:11 +0000

This was a real ad. i remember it too :) no clue who for.

New comment by adkaplan in "Uber exec in March: “we shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”"

adkaplan — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:31:29 +0000

Even this isn't true, though. 15,000 miles is 15 months of driving. I would bet a lot of people hit "something" that often, with a more serious incident every 5-10 years.

New comment by adkaplan in "The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge"

adkaplan — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:41:28 +0000

Something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYRfMzmWFU could be a happy medium. Shapes that must be 3d printed but forms that are less fluff and more function.

New comment by adkaplan in "The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge"

adkaplan — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:39:01 +0000

It seems MX3D had the same thought judging from their demo video

New comment by adkaplan in "The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge"

adkaplan — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:35:11 +0000

Check out the grasshopper primer. I haven't read it in a while but I used to claim it was written by programmers for non-programmers. Great getting-started guide. Rhino probably still has a demo available, too. Dynamobim.org is another option if you want to try visual programming without an investment. Dynamo is mostly visible for it's connections to other software, e.g., Revit, but can stand alone as in sandbox mode.

EDIT:Yes, it's that grasshopper https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper for a demo reel

New comment by adkaplan in "Walk through a 3D model of Y Combinator"

adkaplan — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:09:15 +0000

--To be clear, I mean it looks like, not is..

New comment by adkaplan in "Walk through a 3D model of Y Combinator"

adkaplan — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:51:47 +0000

Looks like the work of Autodesk ReCap.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/recap/overview