Hacker News: fdb

Avian Visitors

fdb — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343424

Points: 100

# Comments: 11

ZenTTY – A terminal that gets out of your way

fdb — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:59:14 +0000

Article URL: https://zentty.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994171

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fdb in "Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg"

fdb — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:55:51 +0000

I keep being surprised of what you can use/abuse the terminal for...

New comment by fdb in "FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font"

fdb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:36:52 +0000

Hey, cool, that's using my library: https://opentype.js.org/

It's nice to see it pop up in so many places!

Fighting Cognitive Debt in Agentic Code with Video Overviews

fdb — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:19:59 +0000

Article URL: https://enigmeta.com/posts/2026-02-19-video-overviews-for-agentic-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47127340

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fdb in "Fighting Cognitive Debt in Agentic Code with Video Overviews"

fdb — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:53:05 +0000

This came from a piece by Margaret-Anne Storey on "cognitive debt", picked up by @simonw, and which I personally also encountered. While building a synth engine from scratch, I kinda lost the plot. Then I let Claude document each "phase", and from that I generated Remotion videos. It worked quite well, and I learned a lot, much more than I would have from just reading the source code!

Code for synth and Remotion setup is open source: https://github.com/fdb/vamos

Fighting Cognitive Debt in Agentic Code with Video Overviews

fdb — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:40:55 +0000

Article URL: https://enigmeta.com/posts/2026-02-19-video-overviews-for-agentic-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082607

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by fdb in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

fdb — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:29:18 +0000

It's on Lovable so you can just fork it and take a look (the prompt is in supabase/functions/transform-render/index.ts):

Transform this idealized architectural rendering into the most brutally realistic, depressing photograph possible. This is the WORST CASE scenario - what the building will actually look like in reality:

- Set on a dreary, grey, overcast late November day with flat, lifeless lighting - The sky is a uniform dirty grey, threatening rain - All trees are completely bare - just skeletal branches against the grey sky - The landscaping is dead, muddy, or non-existent. No lush gardens, just patchy brown grass and bare dirt - Remove ALL people, the scene should feel empty and abandoned - Any water features should look stagnant and grey - Add realistic weathering, dirt streaks, and construction residue on the building - The building materials should look how they actually appear, not the idealized clean version - Include visible utility boxes, drainage grates, and other mundane infrastructure usually hidden in renders - The overall mood should be bleak but realistic - this is what buyers will actually see on a random Tuesday in late autumn - Maintain the exact building, angle, and composition, just strip away all the marketing polish

The goal is honest truth, not beauty. Show what the architect's client will actually see when they visit the site.

You Shouldn't Speedrun a Production Refactor

fdb — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:18:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.petervanonselen.com/2025/12/12/speedrunning-prod-refactors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279043

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Nocturne: New firmware for Spotify's Car Thing

fdb — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:48:55 +0000

Article URL: https://usenocturne.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44887308

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Your Mobile App, Their Playground: The Dark Side of the Virtualization

fdb — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:59:24 +0000

Article URL: https://zimperium.com/blog/your-mobile-app-their-playground-the-dark-side-of-the-virtualization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325587

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fdb in "Reading "Business" Books Is a Waste of Time"

fdb — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:58:56 +0000

A great podcast about this is “If Books Could Kill”, where they critique these type of self-help books.

Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

fdb — Wed, 07 May 2025 17:42:41 +0000

Article URL: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918592

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fdb in "Claude Research"

fdb — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:47:50 +0000

Hmm, it seems Claude Research is only available for the Max plan:

> Research is now available in early beta for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans in the United States, Japan, and Brazil. Simply toggle on the Research setting in chat.

The Tacit Manifesto

fdb — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://articles.pragdave.me/p/the-tacit-manifesto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43269241

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fdb in "Minecraft with object impermanence"

fdb — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:51:06 +0000

Janelle Shane’s work has been really inspiring. Her talk at Strange Loop from a couple of years ago — right before DALL-E, before ChatGPT — was a turning point, and very funny:

https://youtu.be/yneJIxOdMX4?feature=shared

New comment by fdb in "My favourite computer ergonomics hack"

fdb — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:12:38 +0000

Which treadmill do you have?

LM Studio 0.3 – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

fdb — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:22:14 +0000

Article URL: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/lmstudio-v0.3.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41323042

Points: 241

# Comments: 66

New comment by fdb in "HyperCard: What Could Have Been (2018)"

fdb — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:33:36 +0000

As a HyperCard fan I was struck by this quote from Bill Atkinson:

“I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard,” he said from his studio in Menlo Park, California. “I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I’d grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.”

HyperCard: What Could Have Been (2018)

fdb — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:32:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/hypercard-what-could-have-been/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102118

Points: 5

# Comments: 1