Hacker News: ffin

Exponential Smoothing

ffin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:12:00 +0000

Article URL: https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/exponential-smoothing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504851

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ergonomic keyboard generator with hand scanning

ffin — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:20:38 +0000

Article URL: https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964141

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Relocatable Derivations

ffin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:10:00 +0000

Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/08/relocatable-derivations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464014

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform

ffin — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:56:26 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/on_the_future_of_apples_vision_platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970220

Points: 24

# Comments: 8

Bedrock Linux: A Meta-Distribution for Combining Parts of Other Distros

ffin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://bedrocklinux.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917063

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

ffin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884625

Points: 96

# Comments: 15

New comment by ffin in "Perspective-stable 3D pixel art using Texel Splatting"

ffin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:17:15 +0000

Unfortunately the demo doesn't work on Firefox from me due to the WebGPU requirement. The creator does have a video that shows off the technique nicely however:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SELiz9VRg5Q

Perspective-stable 3D pixel art using Texel Splatting

ffin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:39:11 +0000

Article URL: https://dylanebert.com/texel-splatting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876298

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by ffin in "I am building a cloud"

ffin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:12:50 +0000

> Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.

He's saying that agents make code much cheaper, therefore there will be a large increase in demand for code. This appears to be exactly what you're describing.

Servo is now available on crates.io

ffin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750872

Points: 482

# Comments: 152

Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware

ffin — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:20:05 +0000

Article URL: https://patchouli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489

Points: 461

# Comments: 49

OpenUSD Core Specification and Compliance Tests Released

ffin — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:55:25 +0000

Article URL: https://aousd.org/blog/foundations-of-open-3d-development-introducing-aousd-core-specification-1-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537337

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ffin in "Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files"

ffin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:35:22 +0000

Is data about how long links are on the front page available publicly anywhere?

Does Dioxus Spark Joy?

ffin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:40:24 +0000

Article URL: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/does-dioxus-spark-joy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029386

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ffin in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

ffin — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:47:31 +0000

I find Zed has some really frustrating UX choices. I’ll run an operation and it will either fail quietly, or be running in the background for a while with no indication that it is doing so.

New comment by ffin in "I miss using em dashes"

ffin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:16:55 +0000

Okay, you’re right that the LLM writing style isn’t singularly producible by LLM’s. However, I’m not sure why this writing style would become increasingly common? I don’t see why people would mimic text that is seen as low quality or associated with academic dishonesty.

Additionally, I do think it is valuable to determine if a piece of text is valuable, or more precisely, what I’m looking for. As others have said, if I want info from a LLM about a subject, it is trivial for me to get that. Oftentimes I am looking for text written by people though.

New comment by ffin in "I miss using em dashes"

ffin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:46:46 +0000

I think Google Docs does this automatically.

New comment by ffin in "I miss using em dashes"

ffin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:44:28 +0000

> this supposed ability of determining whether or not content is AI-generated doesn't exist.

It seems like you’re just wrong here? Em dashes aside, the ‘style’ of llm generated text is pretty distinct, and is something many people are able to distinguish.

New comment by ffin in "Framework Laptop 16"

ffin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:39:56 +0000

I think you may be confused. This is an upgrade for the Framework 16, not the Framework 12, which is the 2-in-1.

Cloudflare's AI image cropping at scale

ffin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:31:11 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-face-cropping-for-images/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44968501

Points: 5

# Comments: 0