Hacker News: hdz

New comment by hdz in "Olo (Color)"

hdz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:11:04 +0000

The closest approximation to Olo colored paint you can buy is also by the company that makes some of the blackest black paint. I haven't used it personally. https://culturehustle.com/collections/paint/products/yolo-ne...

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

hdz — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:20:24 +0000

Having this work on Apple metal is huge for the accessibility around training splats. I remember two years ago I needed an RTX Nvidia GPU to run things like splatfacto on nerfstudio. Very neat optimizations as well like the depth map and sky dome, 3dgs has come a long way. Awesome!

New comment by hdz in "Lake Vostok"

hdz — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:47:34 +0000

Agreed. I used to hear news about it in the early 2010s then nothing since then. I imagine it could tell us about potential life on other planets with oceans under their surfaces

Lake Vostok

hdz — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:36:04 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051305

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by hdz in "Astronomers may have found the first exomoon"

hdz — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:22:31 +0000

A small dense planet, which orbits a star, is orbited by a larger gaseous moon. It's interesting the discovery is in Chile which has some of the best night skies, a Class 1 on the Bortle scale specifically in the Atacama Desert. Hoping to make it out there one day.

New comment by hdz in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

hdz — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:15:51 +0000

Hi Vincent, the Sutro Tower 3dgs demo is one I enjoyed a lot. I'd whip it out on my phone and show people saying, 'hey look this is whats possible with 3D Gaussian Splatting'. And this Grace Catherdral splat is stunning. It showcases one of my favorite parts of 3dgs which is reflections and glass. The color and essence of the stained glass comes through so well.

The cutaway Peek feature is like a sci fi version of an Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections book. Incredible work!

New comment by hdz in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

hdz — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:07:59 +0000

The harnesses will tend towards commoditization, but for now the harness quality matters a lot. Especially for non terminal harnesses.

New comment by hdz in "DVD-Audio"

hdz — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:15:05 +0000

DVD-Audio vs SACD was one of those strange format wars where there was no winner arguably, both lost to MP3s and later music streaming. But SACD is making a comeback lately. I’m not sure if it will ever be as popular as vinyl but physical media is really having a revival. SACD being developed by Sony and Philips may have something to do with its longevity compared to DVD audio which was developed by an industry consortium, plus it has a much cooler logo

DVD-Audio

hdz — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:56:01 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887714

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by hdz in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

hdz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:08:24 +0000

Great point! these are better than Samantha and they're free. But still, if I could wait a few seconds to get a much richer TTS experience I'd pay for that.

New comment by hdz in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

hdz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:49:54 +0000

Who is going to hack together a mac widget that allows us to select text anywhere, press a shortcut key and finally get a non robotic voice outputted in a reasonable amount of time?

I am aware of the Option + Esc shortcut on osx for the onboard TTS but wow is it hard to listen to in 2026.

New comment by hdz in "Workers Cache"

hdz — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:21:32 +0000

Does anything beat a free static site hosted with Cloudflare workers at this point, performance wise?

New comment by hdz in "Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models"

hdz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:36:00 +0000

Very nice. I can imagine putting this into a pre push hook to keep things clean after an initial sweep.

New comment by hdz in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

hdz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:29:02 +0000

When the harnesses commoditize, it will be the dynamic things like skills that will be the most valuable, useful thing you can bring to a harness. That seems like a long ways away though. There are still meaningful performance differences between agent harnesses.

New comment by hdz in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

hdz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:25:13 +0000

“America is in decline” is the consensus view. America dominating on all fronts is the contrarian view. I expect these views to swing like a pendulum in public discussion until something meaningful happens or until it’s clear in the rearview that America is in fact is more like UK, Japan, or Germany.

Ziscus: Zero JavaScript comments for static sites

hdz — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:36:12 +0000

Article URL: https://ziscus.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708309

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Super Audio CD

hdz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:40:10 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541137

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hdz in "New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform"

hdz — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:27:08 +0000

Any plans to bring this to Cloud Foundry?