Hacker News: bryantwolf

Panorama – AI that finds your team's workflows and hidden structures

bryantwolf — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:10:20 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650234

Points: 5

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New comment by bryantwolf in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

bryantwolf — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:02:26 +0000

The advantage is that the password never leave the device. It has a public key and signs challenges with the private key but nothing sensitive goes over the wire on every login

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:05:37 +0000

Shoot a way to contact you to tecoholic at bawolf.com and I'll invite you to a copy of the board you can duplicate and mess around with.

I appreciate the sentiment and I agree. While I think there are countless humans who could do way better, I was never going to hire someone to illustrate this. Furthermore, I don't think it reads very interestingly without the images. I doubt it would have even gotten published.

But now thousands of people have seen it, it's shown that it can strike a chord. Maybe it is worth polishing a little more. It would be adorable as a small book

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:55:59 +0000

I bought the starter membership which is 20k credits for $18 and I have 5.7k credits left. They charge 50 credits a generation for nano banana. There was some LLM usage to plan the images too so the math is a little blurry but that should give you a rough sense

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:59:54 +0000

I actually thought a lot about the eye whites! He didn’t look nervous enough without them

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:58:13 +0000

Thank you for saying so. I’m glad it connected with you

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:57:41 +0000

You’re entitled to your opinion, but I don’t think that’s what I wrote.

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:37:17 +0000

I too am skeptical we’ll really be able to catch everyone. By making public tools we just create evals to beat the tools etc.

Still, right now I think we can tell, so I focused on making sure they were my words, but I let an llm help edit and I think it honestly made it much more readable

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:35:25 +0000

What parts felt too stretched? Or just as a composition would you have preferred I narrow it down? I thought it was fun that it goes a little overboard. To me it felt like doing so captured just how much these journeys can change over time.

I tried to focus on 3 main bits:

Early exploration, problems between people, and then how much is ultimately in or out of your control

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:31:38 +0000

I’d love some thoughts here on the consistency. I thougt I actually did pretty well! But I can see how I might be blind to mind own work here.

What ruined it for you?

New comment by bryantwolf in "Founding is a snowball"

bryantwolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:26:30 +0000

Hey hacker news! I wrote this and I’m glad it connected with folks.

To answer a few of your comments:

Writing is all mine but I had Claude proofread it, in addition to some close friends. Honestly it pointed out some great weaknesses in the original draft.

The art is all nano-banana through a tool called flora ai. I’d love to work with a human illustrator for something like this. I can draw, but I can’t paint and there’s an aesthetic here I think it handles better than I would have.

Man, it’s amazing that I can get something out there that expresses a vision all by myself. If this were a revenue generating project like an actual children’s book or something I’d love to work with someone that could bring it to life a bit more.

Founding is a snowball

bryantwolf — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:46:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bawolf.com/p/founding-is-a-snowball

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814581

Points: 113

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New comment by bryantwolf in "Spherical Snake"

bryantwolf — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:33:35 +0000

You might find this fun. There this sonic the hedgehog special stage from sonic three that takes place on a sphere. Recently I made a remake of it and they project a 2d grid onto a sphere, but the projection adjusts as you move, so no matter where you go, you never end up at a pole. The poles always stay on your sides.

The other interesting bit is that you can have an arbitrary map size and just repeat it. The game is 32x32 but it could be whatever.

https://blue-sphere.fly.dev/play?map=s3-01

Anyway, great stuff you have here!

Fighting the Last War: By the time you understand a decade, it's over

bryantwolf — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:48:21 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bawolf.com/p/fighting-the-last-war

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447014

Points: 2

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New comment by bryantwolf in "Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun"

bryantwolf — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:47:16 +0000

I prefer ‘clankerism’

New comment by bryantwolf in "Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation"

bryantwolf — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:33:00 +0000

People will like them when they’re good content. Right now we’re stuck in the in between where it’s kind of all or nothing ai, but it will get grayer when the feedback loops are tighter and building ai movies is more interactive. Same thing with any special effects really

Show HN: Imaginator – Image generation that helps you brainstorm and explore

bryantwolf — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:32:55 +0000

I hope you have fun experiencing it yourself, but I also wrote about it if you'd like to see an example first: https://blog.bawolf.com/p/imagining-abundance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755570

Points: 1

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Guided exploration can replace random generation in the era of abundant AI

bryantwolf — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:56:15 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bawolf.com/p/imagining-abundance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355735

Points: 2

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New comment by bryantwolf in "Fine-tuning a vision model to recognize break dance power moves"

bryantwolf — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 02:29:39 +0000

I'm happy you enjoyed it!

New comment by bryantwolf in "Fine-tuning a vision model to recognize break dance power moves"

bryantwolf — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:50:02 +0000

The article talks about what I did and how. If you want to try it out you can send a video through the model at https://breakingvision.bawolf.com/

If you need a video to try it out, maybe grab a clip from one of these: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=halo+windmill+s...