Hacker News: cosiiine

New comment by cosiiine in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

cosiiine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:42:52 +0000

This is a wonderful deep dive into your project. I'm early days on creating pixel art style procedural art systems, and this gives me plenty to think about.

New comment by cosiiine in "Ask HN: How do I contribute to OSS without giving training data to AI companies?"

cosiiine — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:42:25 +0000

That's not open source though... I would like to release this with a permissive license for humans only. From what I've read, the jury is still out on having your license copied left to the AI companies even when they're training on your information.

Ask HN: How do I contribute to OSS without giving training data to AI companies?

cosiiine — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:23:46 +0000

Hey everyone,

I recently created a solution to do line-to-line occlusion for usage in computer graphics and specifically plotter art. After publishing the results, I have received inquiries about open sourcing my code. At face value, my reaction is an enthusiastic yes. If I can help contribute to the plotter art community by way of releasing this, then I am all for it.

I began to consider the implications from a different perspective though. This problem currently cannot be solved by AI or vibe coded. It's still within the domain of a human to create, and I find this valuable. If I opensource it, I'll be implicitly contributing my knowledge to every AI company that scrapes Github, NPM, etc. and I find myself massively out of alignment with their objectives. Sam Altman is a grifter and a creep.

So, my question is, how can I prevent AI training on a publicly available OSS project?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530166

Points: 3

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Foundation Labs

cosiiine — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:43:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.foundation-labs.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439327

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cosiiine in "Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps"

cosiiine — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:08:03 +0000

"Anonymity on social media has brought a lot of problems and I'm not sure what the benefits are"

Anonymity is a shield against public lynching for communities that are targeted by hate groups such as LGBTQ+ (one example, there are plenty).

Illustrations of 2025 (NYT)

cosiiine — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:21:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/arts/year-in-illustration.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422876

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Raster.art

cosiiine — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:03:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.raster.art/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45128775

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cosiiine in "So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?"

cosiiine — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:32:35 +0000

I’ve always wanted to get one of these working, but they’re rare, and heavy! That makes shipping expensive.

New comment by cosiiine in "So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?"

cosiiine — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:50:58 +0000

Agreed 100%. It all comes down to the artists intentions, and plotters have many limitations. My hope for this article was to expose people to other options.

Great portfolio of art btw, thanks for sharing!

New comment by cosiiine in "So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?"

cosiiine — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:10:58 +0000

You're correct, there are some more sophisticated processes used by specialty printers such as CcMmYK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CcMmYK_color_model). Something like this will use more inks and less halftones, giving better results in some cases.

Or are you referring to other printing methods, say for example silk screening? There, you would definitely select a specific ink to use. It just depends on what your goals are.

So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?

cosiiine — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:06:29 +0000

Article URL: https://lostpixels.io/writings/the-difference-between-plotted-and-printed-artwork

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44887965

Points: 261

# Comments: 83

New comment by cosiiine in "Mountain of Ink"

cosiiine — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:16:51 +0000

I am a fountain pen convert myself, and use them almost exclusively these days for my algorithmic plotter art. This website is a fantastic resource that I’ve referred to countless times.

I’ve even written my take on why they’re such great devices for machine art: https://lostpixels.io/writings/fountain-pens-plotters

New comment by cosiiine in "Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen"

cosiiine — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:20:56 +0000

I too have gone with fountain pens as my every day pen. There's zero waste with a bottle of ink and a cartridge. I find that the variety of inks to be superior too.

New comment by cosiiine in "Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft"

cosiiine — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:29:36 +0000

Zed for example will start crawling your home directory and all children if you don’t have a project open. Documents, downloads, etc all uploaded.

New comment by cosiiine in "AI is not our future"

cosiiine — Fri, 30 May 2025 20:49:32 +0000

As an artist the frustrating thing is I was never asked about whether two decades of my work could be used by for-profit companies to create tools that make my market harder.

New comment by cosiiine in "AI is not our future"

cosiiine — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:21:20 +0000

That’s not cheating according to the definitions within this article that you’ve commented on.

Procreate is against gen AI on the grounded that it was unethically trained, and has become a vehicle of theft away from artists. They make a distinction between that and machine learning which is a very useful tools.

New comment by cosiiine in "After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain"

cosiiine — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:21:24 +0000

The AI-Assist tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, etc) want you to be "all-in" and that's why so many people end up fighting them. A delicate balance is hard to achieve when you're discarding 80% of the suggestions for 20% of the productivity boosts.

New comment by cosiiine in "I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors"

cosiiine — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:54:01 +0000

I think the cracks that ultimately led me to quit corporate IT and pursue being an artist were first formed when leadership insisted that the entire company switch to Teams under the guise of saving $9 a month per user.

Show HN: Busy – A Generative Pen Plotter Artwork

cosiiine — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:40:06 +0000

Hi all,

I've spent the last year creating an artistic body of work centered around generative art and pen plotters. I decided to be extremely transparent about the process and put together an article documenting the end-to-end process. My interest in pen plotters started in 2019 on Hacker News, and I'm thrilled to submit my own writings about them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631949

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cosiiine in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

cosiiine — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:33:27 +0000

I've been using Javascript to generate frame-by-frame animations as SVGs. I composite these into big grids, then use a pen plotter to draw them with ink. Afterwards, I cut them into individual frames and do stop motion animations.

This is first attempt, working on another now: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdORIKNQ5w/