Hacker News: ehaveman

New comment by ehaveman in "Microduck"

ehaveman — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:10:06 +0000

wonder how it compares to https://github.com/apirrone/Open_Duck_Mini (besides being a lot easier to put together)

New comment by ehaveman in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

ehaveman — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:37:22 +0000

really interesting - except the charts are impossible to read for colour blind people.

New comment by ehaveman in "Show HN: Generative Art Synthesizer"

ehaveman — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:49:27 +0000

they aren't so much shapes as they are different algorithms - so switching shapes means picking a new algorithm and running it.

Show HN: Generative Art Synthesizer

ehaveman — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:12:50 +0000

Recently I was experimenting with some basic generative art pieces across a variety of similar algorithms and I found myself constantly tweaking parameters and re-running the algorithm to see the results - so I built a framework/harness for them where I can tweak the parameters via a bank of sliders. Squiggles and Segments are my favourites so far but I hope to add more.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089893

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by ehaveman in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

ehaveman — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:34:13 +0000

https://emh.io/ just started working on it again!

New comment by ehaveman in "Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines"

ehaveman — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 03:04:20 +0000

i thought this would be the year of AI pretending to be humans, not vice versa.

New comment by ehaveman in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

ehaveman — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 01:05:12 +0000

this resonates.

"consumption-to-creation ratio" are words i've never put to that positive feeling of choosing to code over watching another TV show or the negative feeling of the alternative choice.

recently i feel like vibe coding is a cheat code in this respect - i can code while watching TV... and a few times the output of the vibe coding exercise was interesting enough to switch to full attention coding.

New comment by ehaveman in "Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database"

ehaveman — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:56:17 +0000

when i track nutrition i always get stuck on things like "are the values for a chicken thigh with the bone in or out? do i weigh the meat pre-cooked or after i cook it? do i weigh the bones after i'm done eating and subtract that from the initial weight?" im probably overthinking it.

love the look and i'll keep playing with it but right off the bat i ran into a couple issues:

when i start typing on the search box on the home page it eats the first character (so as i type chicken, what shows up in the next screen's search field is just 'hicken'). and when i search for chicken thigh i don't get any results - seems to just stop filtering? when i press enter in the search field when "chicken thigh" is entered i get a "something went wrong" error.

New comment by ehaveman in "Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)"

ehaveman — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:21:08 +0000

wow, that's beautiful - the whole site https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ is an amazing rabbit hole im gonna lose myself in.

New comment by ehaveman in "Uber's QueryGPT: NL to SQL"

ehaveman — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:11:37 +0000

interesting article but now im curious how this has evolved over the last 6 months with advancements like tool use and the new reasoning models.

Build Your Own Game Engine in the Browser – David Whitney – NDC London 2025 [video]

ehaveman — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:10:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP5zTEeYlys

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366113

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ehaveman in "Infinite Word Search"

ehaveman — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:52:34 +0000

couple more vibe coding experiments from this week: random maze pacman clone: https://emh.io/gpt/mazeman.html breakout with a slowly expanding voronoi wall: https://emh.io/gpt/voronoi.html

all these experiments are just me chatting with o3-mini-high, pasting into an editor, and testing in a browser.

the longer i iterate the further off the rails it goes and i find myself reiterating previous requirements. i imagine with some customized prompting you could better keep it consistent with established requirements.

New comment by ehaveman in "Infinite Word Search"

ehaveman — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:47:46 +0000

latest in my vibe coding adventures is an infinite word search game. click and drag when you find a word.

the grid of letters is pseudo-randomly generated by coordinate (so it is deterministic) and the game seeds actual words in every 10x10 sub-grid. these are also pseudo-random.

this was an idea for a game i had back in 2023 but never executed on.

tonight while binging dune prophecy i vibe coded it and after a few episodes i had something worth sharing.

Infinite Word Search

ehaveman — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:47:46 +0000

Article URL: https://emh.io/gpt/wordsearch.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298874

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by ehaveman in "Building an Omni-Directional Lego Treadmill [video]"

ehaveman — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:05:17 +0000

so many cool innovations in this build!

New comment by ehaveman in "Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee"

ehaveman — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:23:43 +0000

this stat is totally wild to me:

> 100 native orchard mason bees can do the equivalent pollination work of tens of thousands of honeybees

New comment by ehaveman in "Let's 'Double-Click' on the Latest Cringeworthy Corporate Buzzword"

ehaveman — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:12:21 +0000

i've been complaining about people using "double click" in meetings for at least a decade. how is this news?

New comment by ehaveman in "What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)"

ehaveman — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:00:05 +0000

from the lewis article:

> the kid had bought stock and then, ''using multiple fictitious names,'' posted hundreds of messages on Yahoo Finance message boards recommending that stock to others

if that's not illegal it really should be.

Ask HN: Any interactive math tutorials that use a computational algebra system?

ehaveman — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:12:41 +0000

I'm a senior level programmer who recently became interested in furthering my math education.

I also just became aware of computational algebra systems like emmy: https://github.com/mentat-collective/emmy

My question is: is there an interactive math curriculum/textbook/etc that uses such a system to teach the math? I would find that a lot more engaging than learning math the old way!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39608624

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ehaveman in "(Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections""

ehaveman — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:48:11 +0000

fun. good writeup. i tried setting up a custom gpt to run a game like anagramish.com - gave it the word list to choose from, instructions on the rules, etc - but no matter what i did in the prompt it would hallucinate start words or it would incorrectly accept invalid guesses (or mark correct guesses as invalid).