Hacker News: diimdeep

New comment by diimdeep in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

diimdeep — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:50:03 +0000

Or something useful, save space, compressing some talk or edu video, just 6 fps is usually enough for slides or code, opus audio can go as low as 32k and still be decent compared to source quality, expect 10-15x size reduction

  ffmpeg -hide_banner -y -i in.mp4 \
    -vf "fps=6,format=yuv420p,scale=960:-2:flags=lanczos" \
    -c:v libx265 -tag:v hvc1 -crf 32 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset fast \
    -c:a libopus -b:a 82K -application 2048 \
    -c:s mov_text \
    out.mp4

can go more crazy with this soup

  -x265-params "keyint=800:min-keyint=24:scenecut=20:ref=8:bframes=16:b-adapt=2:rc-lookahead=80:rd=4:subme=5:deblock=1,1:aq-mode=3:aq-strength=0.4:psy-rd=0.4:psy-rdoq=1.0:qcomp=0.7:qg-size=64:rect=1:amp=1:strong-intra-smoothing=1:limit-modes=1:limit-tu=4:rdpenalty=2:tu-intra-depth=4:tu-inter-depth=4:me=star:no-allow-non-conformance=1" \

Understand Russian without Studying [video]

diimdeep — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:47:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86zPQ53bgX0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212226

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by diimdeep in "Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents"

diimdeep — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:46:30 +0000

just nanoid(5) https://github.com/ai/nanoid

New comment by diimdeep in "Cloudflare Email Service"

diimdeep — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:16:39 +0000

Cancer spreads.

New comment by diimdeep in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

diimdeep — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:31:05 +0000

Looks like tech and talent grab for "Computer use" project

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/tools-computer...

https://github.com/cirruslabs/mtell

New comment by diimdeep in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

diimdeep — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:03:18 +0000

This is what you get combining shameless bunch of famous B-rated movie star, crypto dudes and Automatic programming hype (Claude in contibs)

https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace/graphs/contribut...

But it is so dumb that it doesn't even add to the drift towards greater Idiocracy clock values.

New comment by diimdeep in "An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon"

diimdeep — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:38:50 +0000

Cool, how full array compares to the single antenna placed on Starlink satellite ?

New comment by diimdeep in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

diimdeep — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:08:46 +0000

Besides the point of the supposed achievement, that is supposedly confirmed, my point will be that Epoch.ai is possibly just a PR firm for *Western* AI providers, then possibly this news is untruth worthy.

New comment by diimdeep in "Building SQLite with a small swarm"

diimdeep — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:45:41 +0000

Why do you think that it is a good idea to make it public ? It is obviously half hallucinated mostly broken unusable piece of low effort (on human part), with as much value as blurry image generated with stable diffusion that people now widely consider bad taste and slop.

New comment by diimdeep in "Gradient.horse"

diimdeep — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:39:48 +0000

This and author homepage gives strong impression of the usual contemporary nothing burger.

New comment by diimdeep in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

diimdeep — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:53:58 +0000

Is it coincidence that in addition to Rust fanatics, these AI confidence tricksters also self label themselves using crabs emoji , don't think so.

New comment by diimdeep in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

diimdeep — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:28:48 +0000

I've tried similar project, as it turns out it is surprisingly hard to reliably move second's hand and not wobble in place, you need to drive quartz motor so precisely to make gears move.

Post don't go into detail about schematic, but resistors and diodes around motor is to properly drive motor and protection from Inductive kickback (Flyback) https://www.microtype.io/blog/h-bridge-circuit-design

New comment by diimdeep in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

diimdeep — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:30:12 +0000

In conclusion, nothing simple and aesthetic like Winamp v5, Vox.app v2, or Aural.app (current), not surprising.

New comment by diimdeep in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

diimdeep — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:47:57 +0000

The title is: This ESP32 Antenna Array Can See WiFi

And every time I see something like this I like to remind to myself and imagine what spherical grid of Starlink satellites linked by laser is really capable of instead of mere internet as it is advertised.

New comment by diimdeep in "Are arrays functions?"

diimdeep — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:58:38 +0000

> Arrays are functions whose domains are isomorphic to contiguous subsets of the integers

Yes. And a sandwich is "a stack-based heterogeneous data structure with edible semantics." This is not insight. It is taxonomy cosplay.

Look, arrays and functions share some mathematical structure! - Irrelevant. We do not unify them because representation matters.

When a language makes arrays "feel like functions," what it usually means is: "You no longer know when something is cheap." That is not abstraction. That is obscurity.

Industry programmers do not struggle because arrays lack ontological clarity. They struggle because memory hierarchies exist, cache lines exist, branch predictors exist, GPUs exist, deadlines exist.

> the correspondence between arrays and functions [...] is alluring, for one of the best ways to improve a language is to make it smaller

No. The best way to improve a language is to make it faster, simpler to reason about, and less painful to debug.

> I imagine a language that allows shared abstractions that work for both arrays and appropriate functions

What if we invented increasingly abstract our own words so we don’t have to say ‘for loop’, map, SIMD, kernels?

Making arrays pretend to be functions achieves exactly none of those things. It achieves conference papers that end with “future work”.

Why is this academic slop keep happening ? - Professors are rewarded for novel perspectives, not usable ones.

The Future That Comes Upon Us

diimdeep — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/eugene-kharitonov/notes/blob/main/future_incoming.MD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619210

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by diimdeep in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

diimdeep — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:25:26 +0000

It is case of Corporate Memphis induced design, SF people increasingly detachment from common sense, and general sign of societal decline.

New comment by diimdeep in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

diimdeep — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:07:07 +0000

I just got old iPhone 4s with iOS 9 from drawer, and hour later managed to downgrade to iOS 6, uhh, shapes and colors on these icons is something and it's got 3d dock at the bottom that looks just like dock from OSX 10.7, what a blast from the past.

links for those interested in downgrading:

https://github.com/LukeZGD/Legacy-iOS-Kit/wiki/How-to-Use

https://github.com/LukeZGD/Legacy-iOS-Kit/wiki/Restore-32-bi...

https://github.com/LukeZGD/EverPwnage

https://sideloadly.io

New comment by diimdeep in "Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results"

diimdeep — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:56:56 +0000

Very cool, and have you actually used forest as memory palace ? this and chunking + imagery mapped to digits, is what got suggested to me just now by chatbot as technique that memory athletes use; got curious myself but never tried something like this.

New comment by diimdeep in "Static Allocation with Zig"

diimdeep — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:27:47 +0000

Lord moral tuning fork, listen to this, the more marketing you throw at people the more you decrease SNR, until you hear nothing but "welcome to cosco we love you" advertisements and you live in the reality of the same movie this phrase is from.