Hacker News: badmonster

Selfi: Self Improving Reconstruction Engine via 3D Geometric Feature Alignment

badmonster — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:06:30 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08930

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46225914

Points: 2

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One Layer Is Enough: Adapting Pretrained Visual Encoders for Image Generation

badmonster — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07829

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212516

Points: 2

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New comment by badmonster in "Show HN: An AI zettelkasten that extracts ideas from articles, videos, and PDFs"

badmonster — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:59:47 +0000

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New comment by badmonster in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:15:25 +0000

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New comment by badmonster in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:13:13 +0000

"Code red" feels like theater. Competition is healthy - Google's compute advantage was always going to matter once they got serious. The real question isn't who's ahead this quarter, but whether anyone can maintain a moat when the underlying tech is rapidly commoditizing.

New comment by badmonster in "100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:05:47 +0000

The real insight here is recognizing when network latency is your bottleneck. For many workloads, even a mediocre local database beats a great remote one. The question isn't "which database is best" but "does my architecture need to cross network boundaries at all?"

New comment by badmonster in "Show HN: Flowctl – Open-source self-service workflow automation platform"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:36:11 +0000

What makes Flowctl different from existing workflow automation tools like n8n or Zapier?

New comment by badmonster in "Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:33:42 +0000

How does the system visualize the spread of news across different sites? Are there network graphs or timeline visualizations showing propagation?

New comment by badmonster in "Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:31:56 +0000

What was the specific pixel art problem with Google's Nano Banana that this Rust project solved?

New comment by badmonster in "Show HN: An AI zettelkasten that extracts ideas from articles, videos, and PDFs"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:30:57 +0000

Does this tool work offline or does it require an API connection to external services like OpenAI?

New comment by badmonster in "Show HN: RFC Hub"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:29:56 +0000

What RFC standards or protocols can users browse on RFC Hub? Does it include IETF RFCs or is it focused on internal organizational RFCs?

New comment by badmonster in "Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:13:18 +0000

Fair clarification. Does Ghostty's WASM approach have performance advantages over pure xterm.js implementations?

New comment by badmonster in "Notes on Bhutan"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:12:20 +0000

Interesting parallel. Does this reliance limit Bhutan's sovereignty in practice? What's the trade-off?

New comment by badmonster in "How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:11:25 +0000

Absolutely! For instrumental focus music, check out Nils Frahm or Max Richter. Do you prefer more electronic or acoustic sounds?

New comment by badmonster in "Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:10:31 +0000

Does edge inference really solve the latency issue for most use cases? How does cost compare at scale?

New comment by badmonster in "Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:09:42 +0000

Interesting! Were there other examples from your course that had similar delays in insight? What changed your perspective?

New comment by badmonster in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:08:52 +0000

Good point. Could usage patterns + inference costs give us proxy metrics? What would be a fair baseline?

New comment by badmonster in "Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:08:02 +0000

Have you found any strategies that help maintain joy while dealing with business constraints? What boundaries work best?

New comment by badmonster in "Rootless Pings in Rust"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:07:20 +0000

Do these behavioral differences have performance implications? Which approach is more efficient in practice?

New comment by badmonster in "Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model"

badmonster — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:06:41 +0000

What other accessibility features do you wish existed in video AI models? Real-time vs post-processing?