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New comment by azeirah in "Ask HN: How Do You Relax?"

azeirah — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:22:28 +0000

This sounds lovely! This definitely sounds like the kind of thing that would really work well to let all the stresses of the everyday wash off!

It reminds me a lot of the YouTube channel "life in jars", he normally makes videos about microbiology and freshwater ecology in... jars!

But on top of that he also had a short series on gaining the trust of and befriending crows in his city.

Good incentive for me to try this out!

Ask HN: How Do You Relax?

azeirah — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:37:24 +0000

Bit of a different question than most of what usually gets discussed on HN, but I find myself occupied with work a lot and while I enjoy it a lot, it's draining.

On top of that, I have ADHD, which makes it more difficult for me to really relax.

What do you do for relaxation?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642541

Points: 22

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New comment by azeirah in "BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

azeirah — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:38:12 +0000

Cerebras?

New comment by azeirah in "Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program"

azeirah — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:29:14 +0000

I wrote a program that has programmable brushes about ten years ago, it's a bit different from moss in that it has a physics simulation underneath rather than a sort of shader, but I've always thought this kind of approach has a lot of potential.

It feels _amazing_ to draw a bird in a single stroke!

Maybe this can give you some inspiration!

https://laura.fm/generative-art/wind/wind.html

New comment by azeirah in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

azeirah — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:06:25 +0000

Sorry but what do you mean crystal clear requirements?

I don't particularly think "y7u8888888ftrg34BC" would pass as a crystal clear requirement at my workplace :<

Do you mean something different?

New comment by azeirah in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

azeirah — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:44:18 +0000

If I understand the author correctly, he chose the hyperbolic model specifically because the story of "the singularity" _requires_ a function that hits infinity.

He's looking for a model that works for the story in the media and runs with it.

Your criticism seems to be criticizing the story, not the author's attempt to take it "seriously"

New comment by azeirah in "The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory"

azeirah — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:09:54 +0000

My friend, this is amazing, Thank you!

New comment by azeirah in "Remarkable Pro Colors"

azeirah — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:40:32 +0000

I made a service to sync remarkable to obsidian. It's not free, but it _is_ open-source so you can self-host for free.

https://scrybble.ink

New comment by azeirah in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

azeirah — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:28:27 +0000

This is being actively researched (in the open!). https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/srs-benchmark

New comment by azeirah in "Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker"

azeirah — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:31:33 +0000

I would love to have a nix flake to install it easily with nix! Given it's built in bash that should be basically no issue whatsoever.

Thanks a lot for this! I was interested in beads but found the author's approach to software development quite erratic and honestly a bit unprofessional. Yes, LLMs are great, but no they shouldn't be the lead developer.

Beads is an incredibly difficult-to-follow mess for something that is at its core a pretty simple idea. You distilled it to its core, I will absolutely be checking this out :)

New comment by azeirah in "1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long"

azeirah — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:42:44 +0000

A new kind of science is one of my favorite books, I read the entirety of the book during a dreadful vacation when I was 19 or 20 on an iPod touch.

It goes much beyond just cellular automata, the thousand pages or so all seem to drive down the same few points:

- "I, Stephen Wolfram, am an unprecedented genius" (not my favorite part of the book) - Simple rules lead to complexity when iterated upon - The invention of field of computation is as big and important of an invention as the field of mathematics

The last one is less explicit, but it's what I took away from it. Computation is of course part of mathematics, but it is a kind of "live" mathematics. Executable mathematics.

Super cool book and absolutely worth reading if you're into this kind of thing.

New comment by azeirah in "The Future of Programming (2013) [video]"

azeirah — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:03:25 +0000

> S-expressions are indisputably harder to learn to read.

Has this been studied? This is a very strong claim to make without any references.

What if you take two groups of software developers, one which has 5-10 years of experience in a popular language of choice, let's say C, and then take a group of people who write LISP professionally (maybe clojure? Common lisp? Academics who work with scheme/racket?) and then have scientists who know how to evaluate cognitive effort measure the difference in reading difficulty.

New comment by azeirah in "Nano Banana Pro"

azeirah — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:26:22 +0000

Isn't the space you're talking about the input images that are close to the textual prompt?

These models are trained on image+text pairs. So if you prompt something like "an apple" you get a conceptual average of all images containing apples. Depending on your dataset, it's likely going to be a photograph of an apple in the center.

New comment by azeirah in "Vertical integration is the only thing that matters"

azeirah — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:22:07 +0000

Luckily I work with laravel and that's a spiritual successor to rails.

The development experience is almost always really smooth and there are more and more tools to further smoothen that experience every day.

There are definitely better tools out there but given how the web ecosystem functions, it could be much worse.

New comment by azeirah in "Eating stinging nettles"

azeirah — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:43:46 +0000

I've been watching weird explorer for years and I had never considered I didn't know his name. I had _no_ idea he's caled Jared Rydelek!

His videos are incredibly interesting and fascinating

New comment by azeirah in "After the AI boom: what might we be left with?"

azeirah — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:27:22 +0000

Given the popularity and activity and pace of innovation seen on /r/LocalLLaMa, I do think models will keep improving. Likely not at the same pace as they are today, but those people love tinkering but it's mostly enthusiasts with a budget for a fancy setup in a garage, independent researchers and smaller businesses doing research there.

These people won't sit still and models will keep getting better as well as cheaper to run.

New comment by azeirah in "Testing is better than data structures and algorithms"

azeirah — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:36:30 +0000

I don't understand what the difference between a simulation and a test is?

New comment by azeirah in "An annual blast of Pacific cold water did not occur"

azeirah — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:37:46 +0000

Your url doesn't work, I can't read the article

Evaporating Water with Light

azeirah — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:12:07 +0000

Article URL: http://lll.scrybble.ink/Evaporating-water-with-light

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217045

Points: 3

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I miss Adrian Colyer's "the morning paper"

azeirah — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:23:09 +0000

Article URL: http://lll.scrybble.ink/I-miss-Adrian-Colyer%27s-%22the-morning-paper%22

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174190

Points: 2

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