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New comment by gfaure in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

gfaure — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:56:35 +0000

"Ova Sfongia Ex Lacte" seems like a typo of a recipe that originated here (https://historicalitaliancooking.home.blog/english/recipes/a...) and spread around the Internet.

New comment by gfaure in "Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006)"

gfaure — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:17:06 +0000

Agreed. I started from this article a few years ago, and was frustrated enough by:

> So that means, while I know what it does, I don't really know how, since all the work is in that mysterious function.

that I spent the time to work it out myself. (answer: It arises from discretising the Laplacian -- 6 is the number of direct neighbours in 3D)

New comment by gfaure in "Gemini Omni"

gfaure — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:28:14 +0000

The genus of the seahorse is _Hippocampus_.

New comment by gfaure in "Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter"

gfaure — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:28:30 +0000

I wish it were possible to link to a particular page (e.g. the optics simulation).

New comment by gfaure in "Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1"

gfaure — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:13:27 +0000

For starters, a Chinese language which preserves final stops (-p, -t, -k) would be a better choice (e.g. Cantonese). These disappear completely in Mandarin, leaving rhymes (the vowel + final consonant) underspecified or ambiguous in many cases.

New comment by gfaure in "Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games"

gfaure — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:43:52 +0000

Don’t give them any ideas… https://taxheaven3000.com/

New comment by gfaure in "Math Symbol Frequencies"

gfaure — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 23:31:19 +0000

There is the normal notation for half-open ranges, which would lead to unbalanced brackets.

New comment by gfaure in "Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue"

gfaure — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:11:28 +0000

Amazing that you developed this over the course of three months! Can you drop any insight into how you pulled together the audio data?

New comment by gfaure in "The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG"

gfaure — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:19:26 +0000

> In this instance Standard Chinese or any sort of literary pronunciation is essentially useless to me since people aren't speaking that way

Thank you for creating this! But I'm afraid this is the misunderstanding -- words like san1 cing2 申請 are very much everyday words, even though the reading of the character is deemed literary. You should think of characters like 請 and 聽 as just having multiple in-context pronunciations, some of which you should learn, some of which you probably don't need to.

New comment by gfaure in "The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG"

gfaure — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:03:16 +0000

> - Characters starting with the vowel i sound more an e. Therefore, "to invite", 請 (cing2), sounds more like ceng2, and "to hear/listen", 聽 (ting1), sounds more like teng1.

As a Cantonese speaker, I love the effort here! However, the above isn't correct. This is an example of vernacular vs. literary pronunciation, and 請 has both pronunciations, depending on context. For instance, 請 is ceng2 when used as the verb "to invite", but cing2 in compounds like jiu1 cing2 邀請.

It shouldn't be conflated with the phenomenon later in that same paragraph about 懶音 "lazy pronunciation".

New comment by gfaure in "We found North Korean engineers in our application pile"

gfaure — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:55:13 +0000

Adoption makes it entirely possible for an Asian-presenting person to have a European first name _and_ surname and, frankly, is not something you should be asked about in an interview.

New comment by gfaure in "The plan-execute pattern"

gfaure — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:18:56 +0000

I've also successfully used this in production — another side effect is that you can inspect the exact information that each step is using to compute its own output, if you ensure that the output plan is a pure function of the input plan.

New comment by gfaure in "The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing"

gfaure — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:40:06 +0000

A video presentation of the same algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajv46BSqcK4

New comment by gfaure in "macOS Sequoia Preview"

gfaure — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:11:43 +0000

This is occasionally quite useful. A few weeks ago, my phone's display went haywire, and the only way I could operate it to secure a backup was through the somewhat hidden mirroring functionality via QuickTime screen recording.

Glyffuser: Diffusion Model over Chinese Characters

gfaure — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:11:06 +0000

Article URL: https://yue-here.github.io/glyffuser/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40527516

Points: 7

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New comment by gfaure in "A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal"

gfaure — Thu, 02 May 2024 00:44:24 +0000

The end result seems to have been the intentional desecration of the corpses of a previous ruling dynasty in a massive, public bonfire, and the (probably intentional) use of the undifferentiated remains — jewellery, precious beads and more — as construction material.

New comment by gfaure in "Alice's adventures in a differentiable wonderland"

gfaure — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:18:04 +0000

In the literature, they're usually called convolutional layers (I think you can pretty much search and replace all uses of "convolutive" in the text).

New comment by gfaure in "Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations"

gfaure — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:20:48 +0000

This reminds me of an urban exploration video on YouTube taken in a dead mall, where the people found a hidden apartment in a crawlspace where someone had apparently been living — there were signs that the area was being actively used.

New comment by gfaure in "Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice"

gfaure — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:56:53 +0000

Both س and ص are transcribed as "s" — is this really a common convention?

New comment by gfaure in "XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams"

gfaure — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:41:09 +0000

It's also worth noting that Tan is a Mandarin Chinese surname too (譚) in addition to being a distinct Hokkien surname (the much more common 陳).