<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: evilhackerdude</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=evilhackerdude</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:13:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=evilhackerdude" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i always thought alphabet’s own youtube videos must be a comparatively good source of new training data. if slop and other garbage is reliably filtered out it should leave plenty of higher quality content.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:10:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540124</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>nothing like legendary shrugging and keeping the mind open</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:36:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524343</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Addicted to Claude Code–Help"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>great question. data source: <a href="https://aella.substack.com/p/my-birthday-gangbang" rel="nofollow">https://aella.substack.com/p/my-birthday-gangbang</a><p>the diagram is calculated with d3-sankey & rendered with imgui. you can stretch that window however you want—ok, enough.<p>edit: the original steam-engine sankey diagram created a far stronger emotional reaction in me. the aella chart is just more modern, i guess?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:47:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289779</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Addicted to Claude Code–Help"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you're fine. have you made any sankey charts? nsfw: <a href="https://seidt.quest/s/aella/" rel="nofollow">https://seidt.quest/s/aella/</a><p>i am waiting for someone to surpass the original steam engine sankey diagram: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JIE_Sankey_V5_Fig1.png#/media/File:JIE_Sankey_V5_Fig1.png" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JIE_Sankey_V5_Fig1.p...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:36:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289660</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The [next.js] developer experience is top-notch.<p>let me add my own unqualified statement to that: no.<p>> Next.js has invested heavily in Turbopack but if you want to deploy it to Cloudflare, Netlify, or AWS Lambda, you have to take that build output and reshape it into something the target platform can actually run.<p>it's almost as if vercel had some kind of financial incentive to gear this towards their own platform.<p>> reimplemented the Next.js API surface on Vite directly<p>a clown car screeches to a halt; several burnt-out-bored oracle vs google lawyers climb out and, weirdly, i am there for it<p>all in all, it's definitely a good example of something we couldn't have done for $1100 pre-llms, but: should we have? did somebody consult the lava lamps?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:16:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144062</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WIP: <a href="https://seidt.quest/s/dampf/" rel="nofollow">https://seidt.quest/s/dampf/</a><p>it uses a lightly modified @mori2003/jsimgui[1] and renders to webgpu. i can change that to webgl2 if anyone's browser fails because of that.<p>the fonts actual fonts appear to be tahoma and verdana. however, my imgui bindings couldn't bake the fonts at a specific size.<p>what i found interesting is running msiextract[2] on the above linked steam.msi revealed a TrackerScheme.res file with exact RGBA colors and layout configuration (borders, scrollbars, etc) for many widgets.<p>there's a lot left in there but i need to climb out of this hole for now. have fun!<p>[1]: <a href="https://jsr.io/@mori2003/jsimgui" rel="nofollow">https://jsr.io/@mori2003/jsimgui</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.11&query=msiextract&show=msitools" rel="nofollow">https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.11&query=msiext...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:48:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111945</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that early steam UI aesthetic has sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole...<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/steam_10-08-2004" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/steam_10-08-2004</a><p>a rabbit hole, at the end of which is an imgui theme, and me was^H^H^Hspending entirely too much time extracting actual fonts, color codes and other minuscule details.<p>what's better, i have absolutely no issue with that theme being my new default!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:30:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109650</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>keep in mind that people who point out a regression and measure the actual #tok, which costs $money, aren't just "being loud" — someone diffed session context usaage and found 4.6 burning >7x the amount of context on a task that 4.5 did in under 2 MB⁣.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:51:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053137</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>check out raylib, it should be amazing for this :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:49:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938864</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "AI Usage Policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>sounds reasonable to me. i've been wondering about encoding detailed AI disclosure in an SBOM.<p>on a related note: i wish we could agree on rebranding the current LLM-driven never-gonna-AGI generation of "AI" to something else… now i'm thinking of when i read the in-game lore definition for VI (Virtual Intelligence) back when i played mass effect 1 ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:25:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731670</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Show HN: DualShock calibration in the browser using WebHID"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i fixed a busted analog stick by opening it up and cleaning the sensor thanks to some youtube video.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39981494</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39981494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39981494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i thought i could enjoy woodworking, but i was wrong.<p>i attended two 1-day woodworking courses: hand tools and machine tools. i made a nice bench/stool thingy that i still enjoy daily.<p>however, every time i work with wood, my mind immediately goes to CAD, 3d printing and wishing i had a CNC. i look at my soft baby hands (i can’t go bouldering for shit) and walk to the keyboard, create a parametric model in a notebook (build123d is great!), slice it and send it off to one of my printers…<p>sigh</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:01:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39342901</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39342901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39342901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Gaussian splatting is pretty cool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm looking forward to the first native optimized WebGPU implementation of 3DGS rendering. I'm also curious how scene data could be compressed and decompressed efficiently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:06:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37416429</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37416429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37416429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Code coming in June/July: <a href="https://twitter.com/Snosixtytwo/status/1666551263964667904" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Snosixtytwo/status/1666551263964667904</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:51:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36240318</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36240318</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36240318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow. I'm seriously amazed.<p>Best intro text, best item lore, best in-game computer and it looks absolutely great.<p>Are you on Twitter/Mastodon?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 09:18:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36239182</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36239182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36239182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code,  models for 1000+ languages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've created this environment.yml:<p><pre><code>  name: fairseq
  channels:
    - conda-forge
    - pytorch
  dependencies:
    - python=3.9
    - Cython==0.29.21
    - librosa==0.8.0
    - matplotlib=3.3
    - numpy=1.19
    - scipy==1.5.2
    - tensorboard==2.3.0
    - pytorch=1
    - torchvision=0
    - Unidecode==1.1.1
    - pip:
        - phonemizer==2.2.1
</code></pre>
You can install it with micromamba (or conda):<p><pre><code>  conda create -f environment.yml
  conda activate fairseq
</code></pre>
You'll need to do this:<p><pre><code>  cd path/to/vits/monotonic_align
  mkdir monotonic_align
  python setup.py build_ext --inplace
</code></pre>
Then back to fairseq:<p><pre><code>  cd path/to/fairseq
  PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:path/to/vits python examples/mms/tts/infer.py --model-dir checkpoints/eng --wav outputs/eng.wav --txt "As easy as pie"
</code></pre>
(Note: On MacOS, I had to comment out several .cuda() calls in infer.py to make it work. But then it generates high-quality speech very efficiently. I'm impressed.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 09:18:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041816</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "NATSpeech: High Quality Text-to-Speech Implementation with HuggingFace Demo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Holy cow, that’s impressive.<p>Also, from The FAQ:<p>> Who/what is behind this project?
> 
> I've had a couple people and institutions provide a bit of help along the way, but I am — and always have been — one person.<p>Never underestimate the intellect of a single person. Every corporate team, every open source maintainer, every researcher more or less* has access to the same prior knowledge to build something new.<p>* some have more money to burn, some are surrounded by mentors/helpers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:10:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30372656</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30372656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30372656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "NATSpeech: High Quality Text-to-Speech Implementation with HuggingFace Demo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reminds me of Apple Live Text/Google Lens vs tesseract… Sad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:05:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30372614</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30372614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30372614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Ask HN: How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seconded! Marijn has thought about this stuff a _lot_.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:26:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29877227</link><dc:creator>evilhackerdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29877227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29877227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evilhackerdude in "Simplicity of IRC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are netsplits still a thing in modern IRC network deployments?</p>
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