Hacker News: akanet

New comment by akanet in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

akanet — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:57:51 +0000

This article is solely overly wordy (probably ai) restatements of essentially just what vercel has publicly disclosed already

New comment by akanet in "YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push"

akanet — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:53:19 +0000

It is very amusing to read HN comments that complain about the "enshittification" of free platforms while simultaneously mocking those who would pay for stuff they like. YT is dollar for dollar the best digital subscription I pay for and I pay it gladly.

New comment by akanet in "Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis"

akanet — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:54:47 +0000

Waymo remote operators cannot drive the car

New comment by akanet in "Photographing the hidden world of slime mould"

akanet — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:12:23 +0000

A couple years ago I became obsessed with getting slime mold to grow on a cast 3-dimensional substrate. I finally got it working on an agar mold of Donald Trump's face, which you can see here: https://youtu.be/pxEN-YKDDVM.

New comment by akanet in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

akanet — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:31:05 +0000

Very nice, quite enjoyed that.

New comment by akanet in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

akanet — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:56:21 +0000

Most of it is not drone, but you have to think a bit about the angle and duration to realize this. Merry Christmas

New comment by akanet in "Legal win"

akanet — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:15:36 +0000

Matt do you guys still use the office in the US Bank Building in the mission?

New comment by akanet in "Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature"

akanet — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:08:12 +0000

I ran a company that did price segmentation on SSO, and it's the other way around. The burden of supporting the buggy piece of crap that is SAML SSO is the cost of the privilege of being able to perform such sharp segmentation.

New comment by akanet in "Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction"

akanet — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:01:43 +0000

The ones paying $20 for the viewing? I think so.

New comment by akanet in "Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction"

akanet — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:47:30 +0000

People often say this about vr, but I think the truth is that consumers of adult videos are not motivated enough and the production costs outweigh the benefits. The demo scenes here were each captured on about 20 cameras, each carefully synchronized and rigged to be out of each other's lines of sight. Add the expertise and time to train the models (still more like pets than cattle) and we're getting into movie ticket territory and away from tube site

New comment by akanet in "Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded?"

akanet — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:53:39 +0000

Bluntly, if you have to ask on hacker news, you are not equipped to handle this situation and should look to either exit or enlist more capable help. Your quandary is so contingent on the specifics of you, your cofounder, and the competing directions of the company that no good advice regarding a direct action to take is possible here. That you would ask in this forum is a very bad sign that either communications have broken down or you have not attempted a conciliation.

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:40:41 +0000

We're trying to get this upstreamed so I actually expect PlayCanvas to talk about it in the future. Here's the reference (cpu) decoder: https://github.com/vincentwoo/blog/blob/master/3d/sutro_towe..., as well as a gpu one: https://github.com/vincentwoo/blog/blob/master/3d/sutro_towe....

For more information on the format itself you can look at https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/gsplat/blob/main/gspla....

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:47:32 +0000

The processing and alignment of source imagery, imo

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:34:33 +0000

there is still some perf headroom in software to get, too!

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:03:53 +0000

You can free look with the right mouse button

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:43:05 +0000

It's actually a mix my girlfriend made, but the main track is https://soundcloud.com/martinlandh/moonlit-serenity

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:48:54 +0000

the collision handling part is actually not that hard to back into from the splat data. i think HQ splats of everywhere is something we'll start seeing in the next decade! we haven't quite solved scaling issues, LoD, and streaming for splats but the early work is promising

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:31:00 +0000

the tower released some gigapixel imagery from the top at https://explore.sutrotower.com/

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:14:02 +0000

Dude

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

akanet — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:06:12 +0000

Wow surprising, do you have any console errors? I tested extensively in Android chrome. To dismiss the modal you can tap in the margin.