Hacker News: captainregex

New comment by captainregex in "LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor"

captainregex — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:39:01 +0000

Sorry, the point? isn’t the point of art pretty much what a person wants it to be?

New comment by captainregex in "LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor"

captainregex — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:47:04 +0000

I have really struggled to get nano banana to follow size/proportion ratios for sprite art. any tips? I fed in a bunch of examples first and tried to write a really strict prompt. I wonder if any of the sw being discussed here can be programmatically controlled by claude code or similar to do sprite work

New comment by captainregex in "Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator"

captainregex — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:53:37 +0000

entirely possible I’m just really bad at this stuff but I can’t get browser agents to do simple report pulls without running into a captcha or a dropdown menu that breaks its brain. hopefully this is the one!

New comment by captainregex in "Workday project at Washington University hits $266M"

captainregex — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:06:51 +0000

this is a disgusting amount of money for this

New comment by captainregex in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

captainregex — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:11:06 +0000

the third party ones seem to be suffering in similar ways in my short use

I intended to tie experience where it says short use

I intended to tour type where it says tie

I intended to type type where it says your

I intended to type tour where it says your

jesus…it might be time to consider android

New comment by captainregex in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

captainregex — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:56:23 +0000

oh dear god, tears of joy…they told me I was crazy. this is so validating

New comment by captainregex in "You can now buy used Ford vehicles on Amazon"

captainregex — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:16:39 +0000

I had to threaten to sue them by opting out of their time triggered arbitration clause to get them to give me the deposit back on a car they couldn’t/wouldn't deliver. Carvana sucks.

New comment by captainregex in "GM will ditch Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, not just EVs"

captainregex — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:53:55 +0000

This is such a self own.

New comment by captainregex in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

captainregex — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:28:27 +0000

I can't with them anymore. Pick a lane

New comment by captainregex in "Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents"

captainregex — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:31:29 +0000

How much of a hit would you take on quality if you moved the processing local? have you experimented with it? don’t think llamaindex has local sadly

New comment by captainregex in "Show HN: A Digital Twin of my coffee roaster that runs in the browser"

captainregex — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:46:46 +0000

this is nuts! beans? whatever, it’s super cool!

New comment by captainregex in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

captainregex — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:07:13 +0000

ahhh yes the noted privacy respect of…checks notes…Intuit

New comment by captainregex in "Qwen3-VL"

captainregex — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:12:07 +0000

I should add that sometimes LM Studio just feels better for the use case, same model same purpose seemingly different output usually when involving RAG, but Anything is definitely a very intuitive visual experience

New comment by captainregex in "Qwen3-VL"

captainregex — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:10:34 +0000

AnythingLLM also good for that GUI experience!

New comment by captainregex in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

captainregex — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:46:08 +0000

It’s crazy you have to go like four comments deep and into the sub convo before you find mention of windows on arm- apple silicon is just so dominant in the zeitgeist for people who think about this stuff

New comment by captainregex in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

captainregex — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:32:51 +0000

if anyone else is curious, beyond all the political football stuff happening with the bureau of labor stats, Odd Lots did a good episode recently on the challenges with monthly jobs reports

New comment by captainregex in "Cutting-Edge AI Was Supposed to Get Cheaper. It's More Expensive"

captainregex — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:03:03 +0000

Not that he’s necessarily wrong but got a chuckle out of the wide ranges of token estimates for various tasks being attributed to “a variety of sources”.

Cutting-Edge AI Was Supposed to Get Cheaper. It's More Expensive

captainregex — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:03:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-costs-expensive-startups-4c214f59

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074787

Points: 3

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New comment by captainregex in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

captainregex — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:55:08 +0000

anyone else get excited about nano and then sad when you realized it’s not actually a small model

New comment by captainregex in "Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs"

captainregex — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:51:12 +0000

I desperately wanted Qwen vl to work but it just unleashes rambling hallucinations off basic screencaps. going to try nanonet!