Hacker News: fredley

New comment by fredley in "Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia"

fredley — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:09:16 +0000

I thought the picture on your home page was very cool, and then I moused over it. Absolutely incredible.

New comment by fredley in "Making holograms with a pen plotter"

fredley — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:14:12 +0000

The 3Blue1Brown video on holograms is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKQsSDlaa4

Shade Map

fredley — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:01:21 +0000

Article URL: https://shademap.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271757

Points: 244

# Comments: 60

New comment by fredley in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

fredley — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:22:03 +0000

Very nice, but the map seems to be in the wrong position vs. the trains/3d elements.

New comment by fredley in "This blog is written in en-GB"

fredley — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:56:54 +0000

> "Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."

Google must pay €4.1B fine for using Android to 'block' rivals

fredley — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:10:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgj0pp5p62o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759563

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fredley in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

fredley — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:22:48 +0000

As an OS, I wish the user would launch fewer programs. What a chore.

New comment by fredley in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

fredley — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:29:31 +0000

3) Buy all the RAM, increasing the barrier to entry to push back the tide a bit, in time for a juicy IPO.

Millions in UK could claim share of £3B after Apple case given green light

fredley — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:40:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c932d1r0p96o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642097

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by fredley in "Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins"

fredley — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:57:09 +0000

> To William’s complete lack of surprise, the little cellar under the shed was much better built than the shed itself. But then, practically everywhere in Ankh-Morpork had cellars that were once the first or even second or third floors of ancient buildings, built at the time of one of the city’s empires when men thought that the future was going to last for ever. And then the river had flooded and brought mud with it, and walls had gone higher and, now, what Ankh-Morpork was built on was mostly Ankh-Morpork. People said that anyone with a good sense of direction and a pickaxe could cross the city underground by simply knocking holes in walls.

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future

fredley — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:48:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/ai-ashby-engineering-and-the-future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399528

Points: 62

# Comments: 55

New comment by fredley in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

fredley — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:59:30 +0000

The people behind these funds are playing Monopoly IRL, and this in particular makes me very angry.

The UK high street has been a notable victim. Gradually, over the past couple of decades, company after company has been snapped up by PE. Not just shops, but restaurants too. Suddenly you realise that the 5 or 6 high street chains that were competing are now owned by the same fund. Quality collapses, prices rise, not just at one chain but everywhere. People stop going, the chain collapses, another empty unit, the fund moves on. It's easy to point at Amazon and internet shopping as having degraded the British high street, but there are several other factors, and PE is a big one.

New comment by fredley in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

fredley — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:02:16 +0000

I think if local models catch up with current SOTA then that might not happen. Either way, I'm don't think the long-term for OAI, Anthropic etc. really holds up.

New comment by fredley in "Apparently Google hates us now"

fredley — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:53:15 +0000

Increasingly I see marketing as akin to LLM training. We are all being trained (by activating and reinforcing neural pathways in our meaty heads) to respond to certain stimuli in a certain way (e.g.: at the store, select _this_ brand of soap).

New comment by fredley in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

fredley — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:40:07 +0000

I don't want to learn how GIMP works. I want to edit photos.

New comment by fredley in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

fredley — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:38:06 +0000

Some people do. I know my way around Photoshop very well, but do not use any advanced features. I tried using GIMP once and bounced off immediately, trying to do what I knew how to do in Photoshop was very hard, the learning curve felt very steep.

These days I use Photopea which meets my needs perfectly (but is not free software).

New comment by fredley in "How to make your text look futuristic (2016)"

fredley — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:46:18 +0000

Almost exactly the playbook I followed (unwittingly) when designing a logotype for my Playdate game recently:

https://play.date/games/hyper-vector/

Closure of Radio 4 on Long Wave

fredley — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:41:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/work-warning/news/radio4lw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073226

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

fredley — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:26:53 +0000

Article URL: https://ai-project-website.github.io/AI-assistance-reduces-persistence/

Hacker News: fredley

New comment by fredley in "Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia"

New comment by fredley in "Making holograms with a pen plotter"

Shade Map

New comment by fredley in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

New comment by fredley in "This blog is written in en-GB"

Google must pay €4.1B fine for using Android to 'block' rivals

New comment by fredley in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

New comment by fredley in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

Millions in UK could claim share of £3B after Apple case given green light

New comment by fredley in "Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins"

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future

New comment by fredley in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

New comment by fredley in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

New comment by fredley in "Apparently Google hates us now"

New comment by fredley in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

New comment by fredley in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

New comment by fredley in "How to make your text look futuristic (2016)"

Closure of Radio 4 on Long Wave

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

The Elephant in the Room