Hacker News: cpill

New comment by cpill in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

cpill — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:33:59 +0000

funny that he put "cleaver" and "lazy" at the top :D

New comment by cpill in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

cpill — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:29:37 +0000

I guess with crime you have both going on. the majority is crime born from economic circumstances, but there are a small percentage which are just crazy mf

New comment by cpill in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

cpill — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:35:22 +0000

I love PG... but the covers stink. Should have a public competition to have new ones made and voted on. I'm willing to vibe code a website to make it happen if you're willing...

New comment by cpill in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

cpill — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:20:20 +0000

or use a hybrid approach and have the best of both https://youtu.be/1vB3JXzewx0?si=DWKNgPcJcz5u4Bkp

New comment by cpill in "To my students"

cpill — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:56:46 +0000

yeah, but everyone can use the coding agents, not everyone can choose well. the rarer the skill the more you get paid for it. also, the better you code the better the results you get from the agent

New comment by cpill in "Parallel agents in Zed"

cpill — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:19:06 +0000

yeah, but they don't support a lot of the features Claude does like MCP integration. we've booked this up to logfire (telemetry provider) and it's a game changer when doing optimisation or diagnosis of bugs. plugins and skills also missing. but it is nice to switch between provider easily

New comment by cpill in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

cpill — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:17:39 +0000

these are unfair comparisons. it's not just a single laptop running all day it's all the graphic designer laptops that get replaced. it's not a single container of painting supplies it's all off them, (which are toxic by the way).

so if power were plentiful and environmental you'd be onboard with it?

New comment by cpill in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

cpill — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:51:22 +0000

please! nobody uses Xpath (coz json killed XML), it RDF (semantic web never happened, and one ever 10years is not fast), schema.org (again, nobody cares), PNG: no change in the last 26 years, not fast. the HTML "living standard" :D completely optional and hence not a standard but definition.

New comment by cpill in "Neovim 0.12.0"

cpill — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:28:44 +0000

Word Bro! Regex is so simple to read and easy to get right... and its like if Immanuel Kant wrote find and replace, yeah, learn a new language to do a single function... yEAH! 98% Bro! I'd marry Regex if I could (but if we got divorced it would be my exregex [which is almost a palindrome!] Bro!)

New comment by cpill in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

cpill — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:19:19 +0000

I think the best example I've seen of the pipeline approach: ASR(STT) -> LLM -> TTS is still from about 10 months ago in HN https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat

Just a pity the code is undecipherable :(

New comment by cpill in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

cpill — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:09:59 +0000

Don't be so hard on yourself :P

New comment by cpill in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

cpill — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:39:15 +0000

what do you mean "infer"? how does the LLM get anything it of this as input?

New comment by cpill in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

cpill — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:54:39 +0000

I guess if I'd done all that work on lobster and then bipolar built a ray traced voxel engine on top of that, end game would be to licence the engine. You have something here that the other game engines don't have, and something Minecraft is not likely to have (they are pretty stagnant development wise). This is easily 100 times better than Roblox. If you focus on making the world building tools easy to use and modding/game design you could easily be the next big thing. Don't get too bogged down in game design other than to use it as a proof of concept to help you understand what game designers will need.

New comment by cpill in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

cpill — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:45:44 +0000

Try norther Ireland.

New comment by cpill in ""That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)"

cpill — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:08:35 +0000

Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)

New comment by cpill in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

cpill — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:19:51 +0000

Is that what putting a camera in the hands of everyone with a smartphone (basically everyone) did for photography?

Or making video editing + free, global publishing platform did for film? (see: doom scrolling).

New comment by cpill in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

cpill — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:14:53 +0000

Come on man, the usual reason: $$$

Its is Micro$oft after all :P

The reason we're getting this AI gumbo is that obviously the product people at M$ we're told: "Make money by selling AI features!!!". Which flipped their minds from their usual "I am Steve Jobs" fantasies, which tell them to _consider the User experience first_, to _Consider the companie$ experience first_, and they can't keep the two concepts in their little heads at the same time because they are, after all, just product people.

New comment by cpill in "AI could help make society less selfish"

cpill — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:18:57 +0000

> claims that “Hollywood was over”. As shown in the past these are often code words for ‘Jews must go’ because they never talk about any other country’s film industry like that.

What is going on with this guy!? What has that to do with video models???

They say "Hollywood" because it is the biggest movie producer in the Western world. If they were Chinese, in China, they probably would say "Hengdian World Studios is over".

Also, I thought the reason Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson were ostracize from Hollywood was _because_ they said "Hollywood was run by Jews" (and presumably that's racist because it isn't?) but now it is? But why persecute Marlo and Mel then? Which is it? I'm confused...

New comment by cpill in "Samsung Upcycle Promise"

cpill — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:49:04 +0000

hey, thanks!

New comment by cpill in "λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic"

cpill — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:03:59 +0000

Christ... it's incomprehensible... I guess that ones staying in academia :P