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New comment by gryfft in "When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024)"

gryfft — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:48:37 +0000

[2024]

New comment by gryfft in "Ask HN: Does root have to be uid 0? Does uid 0 have to be root?"

gryfft — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:33:35 +0000

The short answer is that it's a very, very longstanding convention that would be a nightmare to change and wouldn't provide any benefits. It's hardcoded into the kernel and who knows what other programs will always assume UID 0 -> root.

There's some further reading on Stack Exchange. [1]

1. https://superuser.com/questions/626843/does-the-root-account...

New comment by gryfft in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

gryfft — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:34:45 +0000

> who happens to agree with every talking point of the established media and global bureaucratic regime

Can you point me to where he expressed agreement with the global bureaucratic regime? Interested to educate myself.

New comment by gryfft in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

gryfft — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:19:43 +0000

> Related to that is the ability to watch games using the game-client too.

Halo 3's in-engine replay system was the high water mark of gaming for me.

New comment by gryfft in "DIY Soft Drinks"

gryfft — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:35:47 +0000

An oz is ~29.57 ml (mililiters), so I think perhaps you meant that you made 1.7 l (liters)?

New comment by gryfft in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

gryfft — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:20:20 +0000

I'm in the same boat. The thing is that I like the first half of the animation when it matches the speed to the keyboard gesture. The second half of the animation after you let go, the speed suddenly slows. It feels like an attempt to skeumorphically adapt those drawers you can't slam, that have an air cushion that blunts the momentum and have magnets to draw it the last few millimeters shut.

If I could just "slam" back and forth with the three finger gesture I would be happy. Nothing is going to break from slamming my workspace side to side, I don't need to be protected. Those last milliseconds of the animation, when keypresses still don't point to the target space, are really annoying. I would like to just remove the "air cushion"/modify the bezier defining it. I get how it's supposed to feel 'high end' but it's nonsensical in context and just gets in my way, even if it's in a tiny way.

New comment by gryfft in "GEN-1: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Mastery"

gryfft — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:30:57 +0000

> We’ve created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance threshold: mastery of simple physical tasks. It improves average success rates to 99% on tasks where previous models achieve 64%, completes tasks roughly 3x faster than state of the art, and requires only 1 hour of robot data for each of these results.

Taken at face value, this seems like quite an achievement.

Announcement video: https://youtu.be/SY2xyrmV44Y

As time goes on I watch more and more videos of robots folding laundry faster and faster. Strange to think that one day, maybe not too long from now, people will stop taking videos of robots folding clothes.

GEN-1: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Mastery

gryfft — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:26:58 +0000

Article URL: https://generalistai.com/blog/apr-02-2026-GEN-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621973

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

New comment by gryfft in "Ask HN: Is Google down or is it just me?"

gryfft — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:37:14 +0000

I'm able to hit it both on and off my VPN.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google

https://downdetector.com/status/google/

https://status.search.google.com/

What DNS resolvers are you using? Are you behind a firewall you don't control?

New comment by gryfft in "Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles: Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robots and Wearables"

gryfft — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:12:46 +0000

> Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electrohydrodynamic (EHD) fiber pumps directly into the muscle system, EFMs operate silently and untethered, eliminating bulky external equipment such as pumps, compressors, and tubing that has long limited the portability and practical use of fluidic soft robots.

Science article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ady6438

YouTube demo: https://youtu.be/8h4UEZTyres

Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles: Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robots and Wearables

gryfft — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:12:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/electrofluidicmuscle/overview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556500

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by gryfft in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

gryfft — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:52:08 +0000

I watched this on YouTube the other day. Another beautiful example of the creative power yielded from building within constraints.

New comment by gryfft in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

gryfft — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:00:43 +0000

"chrome uses 2gb of ram"

these days individual _tabs_ are using multiple gb of ram.

New comment by gryfft in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

gryfft — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:51:59 +0000

Ctrl-Shift-T usually brings that tab right back at least

New comment by gryfft in "The Woes of Writing Markdown"

gryfft — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:37:15 +0000

The Woes of Writing Markdown (And the wishes of SquiggleMark) is an essay about some of the technical and artistic challenges inherent to writing ergodic text using markup language. I posted her story Weave Me Another Cocoon last year[0], and it's a fantastic example of how art can push the limits of a medium.

> But the real superpower of pandoc is that, much in the way switching to neocities escapes the prison-roads of locked down platforms, switching to pandoc escapes at once the restrictions of both rich text and standard markdown.

> If you aren’t familiar with my work, then when I said I loved the details disclosure element, or that I’m experimental writer doing creative things, you could have brushed it off as a cute yet idle exclamation or an otherwise meaningless remark. If you aren’t familiar, then gaze upon Weave Me Another Cocoon and let its depths ensnare you.

> And that, finally, is what this year started me down the road to writing my own markdown parser.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143596

The Woes of Writing Markdown

gryfft — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:34:00 +0000

Article URL: https://serpentsquiggles.neocities.org/posts/markdown-wishes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383333

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by gryfft in "Try this surprisingly hard to deceive accent detector"

gryfft — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:50:04 +0000

On my first try I got "British", "You sound like a native English speaker with an British accent."

I'm good a enough actor to fool a robot!

New comment by gryfft in "Ask HN: Best way to physically "type" letters written with a computer?"

gryfft — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:05:20 +0000

This is a whole project to get into, but what you're looking to do is build a teletype.

https://www.instructables.com/From-Antique-Typewriter-to-a-F...

It can be done, and on the Unix end as long as it's hooked up as a tty you can just dump text into it, but you won't find any simple off-the-shelf modern hardware to do this.

New comment by gryfft in "Claude Opus 4.6"

gryfft — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:48:05 +0000

That's hilarious. It's so close!

New comment by gryfft in "[dead]"

gryfft — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:44:00 +0000

It's a shame that the four-letter-long username namespace on HN is getting polluted by crap like this.