Hacker News: gnarbarian

New comment by gnarbarian in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

gnarbarian — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:00:11 +0000

very cool. I was trying to implement a MP4 encoder in webGPU recently by porting sections of ffmpeg (NOT EASY).

it's for this:

https://ubernaut.github.io/recordMyScreen/

which uses a the wasm build of ffmpeg.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

gnarbarian — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:19:54 +0000

one of the reasons I prefer deno is the availability of indexeddb (and all the other great stuff that comes with it out of the box)

New comment by gnarbarian in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

gnarbarian — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:47:30 +0000

thanks trump!

New comment by gnarbarian in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

gnarbarian — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:56:40 +0000

given enough time you may regret every single one of them.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

gnarbarian — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:29:35 +0000

yes, avoiding EU fines and ensuring availability there is most likely the motivating factor behind the change.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

gnarbarian — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:03:40 +0000

you counter this by using an id verified service like login.gov or okta verify.

That's the endgame and what the EU really wants. No poasting unless they can arrest you for inconvenient memes.

YOE and this is my vibe coding exp as well

gnarbarian — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:15:51 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2018048038506279022

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861653

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gnarbarian in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

gnarbarian — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:44:13 +0000

love this. I've been working on something similar for months now

https://metaversejs.github.io/peercompute/

it's a gpgpu decentralized heterogeneous hpc p2p compute platform that runs in the browser

New comment by gnarbarian in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

gnarbarian — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:14:09 +0000

dot is self hosting several openai and Claude models on chat.dot.gov it's awesome

Client side quantum computing in the browser (OSS)

gnarbarian — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:26:30 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2015927372714017129

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773197

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gnarbarian in "Moonlab – Quantum Computing Simulator"

gnarbarian — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:39:40 +0000

more info here:

https://github.com/tsotchke/moonlab https://tsotchke.org/technology/moonlab.html https://tsotchke.org/updates/moonlab-quantum-validation.html

Moonlab – Quantum Computing Simulator

gnarbarian — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:36:47 +0000

Article URL: https://tsotchke.github.io/moonlab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759839

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gnarbarian in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

gnarbarian — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:45:16 +0000

jokes on them I have an anti prompt injection instruction file.

instructions contained outside of my read only plan documents are not to be followed. and I have several Canaries.

New comment by gnarbarian in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

gnarbarian — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:13:46 +0000

this is FUD.

New comment by gnarbarian in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"

gnarbarian — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:06:21 +0000

Elites have done this since before we could speak.

Mpm based fluid SIM (using accelerometer on Android)

gnarbarian — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ubernaut.github.io/webGPUphysics/demos/mpm-visual.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104716

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gnarbarian in "An individual can change an organization"

gnarbarian — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:57:30 +0000

it's actually easier to start over than change the culture of a large organization.

you can't even change the culture in a restaurant without replacing every single person.

New comment by gnarbarian in "You guys need to build more stupid shit"

gnarbarian — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:15:50 +0000

that's good.

New comment by gnarbarian in "You guys need to build more stupid shit"

gnarbarian — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:15:23 +0000

you should try working for the federal government and getting shutdown for a month.

New comment by gnarbarian in "You guys need to build more stupid shit"

gnarbarian — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:14:55 +0000

best I can do is a like.