Hacker News: ftrsprvln

New comment by ftrsprvln in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

ftrsprvln — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:32:59 +0000

[Sometime in the near future] The world's starved for authenticity. The last original tweet crowned a God... then killed the kid chasing that same high. Trillionaires run continent-wide data centers, endlessly spinning up agents that hire cheap physical labor to scavenge the world for any spark of novelty. The major faith is an LLM cult forecasting the turning of the last stone. The rest of us choke on recycled ad slop.

New comment by ftrsprvln in "Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts"

ftrsprvln — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:39:41 +0000

When it infers illicit intent, it "corrects" you by biasing the output: a misclick here, a poisoned verb there... phantom intention drift™ injected into your parietal lobe milliseconds before your conscious even boots.

New comment by ftrsprvln in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

ftrsprvln — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:31:13 +0000

The year is 2032. My smart fridge started A/B testing scents to reduce snacking. I ate a carrot and felt promoted.

New comment by ftrsprvln in "Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan"

ftrsprvln — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:08:00 +0000

Really appreciate the use of technology to make sites like these accessible to the world at large.

Just wanted to share that I am in the middle of a very similar project with a high profile client & the workflow we settled on has loosely been Lidar scans -> Postshot -> Supersplat (web optimization) -> Babylon.js. Of course we have video/image fallbacks & an unreal pixel streaming version as well - but the web performance and results on a modern mobile device have been spectacular so far!

So excited for the future of gaussian splatting :)

The Interactive Book

ftrsprvln — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:54:50 +0000

Article URL: https://robertobrambila.com/project/bmgf-interactivebook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780188

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ftrsprvln in "Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy"

ftrsprvln — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:29:38 +0000

UX is often thought of as solving an issue "for the user", which dismisses or redirects attention from the communication problem onto the individual. No one reframes it, nor should they, as solving engineer/developer "laziness or stupidness". Reading "The Design Of Everyday Things" made me more aware and empathetic, from both perspectives, when I can't find the right button to click or have to think about which way a door will open.

GPU Accelerated Voronoi

ftrsprvln — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:04:44 +0000

Article URL: https://weigert.vsos.ethz.ch/2020/08/01/gpu-accelerated-voronoi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24041952

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Journey Into Product Design

ftrsprvln — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://futuresupervillain.com/a-journey-into-product-design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23710019

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Visualizing 2D Cyclic Cellular Automata

ftrsprvln — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 21:41:58 +0000

Article URL: https://futuresupervillain.com/project/fs-cca2dcomputeshaders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23557113

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Unity Scene Tools: Useful workflow scripts for artists

ftrsprvln — Wed, 27 May 2020 03:43:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/robertobrambila/unityscenetools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319155

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Unordered List 004 F/ Simon Alexander-Adams

ftrsprvln — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:38:09 +0000

Article URL: https://mailchi.mp/9028fce04c79/ul004-small-changes-huge-consequences

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21558916

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Unordered List Issue 002 – The Crossroads

ftrsprvln — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:46:13 +0000

Article URL: https://mailchi.mp/0b3e76d896fb/ul002-the-crossroads

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21315088

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ftrsprvln in "“The books will stop working.”"

ftrsprvln — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:00:32 +0000

I'm super, super grateful to our public libraries and the amazing resources they offer— coming from an immigrant farm-laboring family in a tiny (<1000 population) town, our equally tiny library introduced me to computers in the 8th grade (which later got me in trouble for, um, "exploring" our police and school district's networks) thanks in part to a grant they received by the Gates Foundation. I wouldn't have the career I do now, or honestly even been aware of it, if it were not in part due to it.

My local library now is much, much more well endowed with resources from different media types and they're even getting a makerspace soon! I thankfully can afford my own books and toys to play with, but as a father of 2 young boys, I make sure we utilize the library often and even volunteer our time teaching the occasional workshop on new media/tech/design.

I think they're woefully underutilized and I'd be worried that they'd start to go away.

New comment by ftrsprvln in "Snowboarding for Geeks"

ftrsprvln — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:29:13 +0000

Absolutely. I'm fortunate enough to have had the opportunity once or twice to try it out in the Pacific NW area and was floored by how sore I was the day after.

Wish it was a more accessible sport in terms of economics.