<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: heliophobicdude</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=heliophobicdude</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:10:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=heliophobicdude" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any word on if this using their diffusion architecture?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:45:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302847</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks way better than mermaid. Is there support for this in GitHub PR code blocks like mermaid?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:41:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957925</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's super fast to iterate with? Curious what mistakes are you seeing and how were you using it?<p>I use the instant edit feature with directions on exact code changes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:11:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44327925</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44327925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44327925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wishing they release the Gemini Diffusion model. It'll quickly replace the default model for Aider.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:04:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301298</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Might be private repo? I get 404 as well</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 14:11:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136405</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Gemini Diffusion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Question for the researchers, can dLLMs be pinned down with a seed? Can they be made 100% deterministic?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 02:48:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058309</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Gemini Diffusion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the lede is being buried. This is a great and fast InstructGPT. This is absolutely going to be used in spell checks, codemods, and code editors.<p>Instant edits feature can surgically perform text edits fast without all the extra fluff or unsolicited enhancements.<p>I copied shadertoys, asked it to rename all variables to be more descriptive and pasted the result to see it still working. I'm impressed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 01:31:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057908</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Gemini Diffusion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been let off the waitlist. So far, I'm impressed with the Instant Edits. It's crazy fast. I can provide a big HTML file and prompt it to change a color theme and it makes careful edits to just the relevant parts. It seems to be able to parallelize the same instruction to multiple parts of the input. This is incredible for refactoring.<p>I copied a shader toy example, asked it to rename all the variables to be more descriptive and it edited just the variable names. I was able to compile and run in shader toy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 20:19:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44045496</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44045496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44045496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Gemini Diffusion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for sharing this. I'm amazed! Are there any known emergent abilities of it? I ran my evals and seems to struggle in very similar ways to smaller transformer based LLMs</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 19:26:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044991</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Swift Container Plugin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a great language for Application-level software on a single platform (could be Linux).<p>It has some challenges that it needs to solve to do great as a cross platform "general-purpose" programming language.<p>It's paradoxically high level with its syntax and ergonomics but is tied down to the same cross platform headaches like in low level languages (e.g. cpp). Linking across cross platforms requires lots of careful thought and testing. Unlike cpp, it's not super portable. It requires a hefty 30 MB runtime for some features of the language to work. Try static executable hello world.<p>That being said, it's possible. You can build cross platform applications with Swift, but you'd still have some of the same kinds of portability issues like in cpp but with nicer syntax and ergonomics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:10:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43790031</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43790031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43790031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I would actually argue that axing Image Playground would improve Apple Intelligence; its mere existence greatly lowers the expectations for how good the whole thing is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:59:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43350524</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43350524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43350524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Ride into the Future with Waymo on Uber in Austin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was expecting a discount. In the onboarding it says "Prices are the same. You won't pay more for autonomous rides."<p>If that's the case, I would rather give my money to a human driver than just Uber.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:32:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256903</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you still also need to compile a mac build on a Mac?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:51:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094939</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is the date April 2 or February 4?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:13:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42726330</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42726330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42726330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We should NOT give up on scaling pretraining just yet!<p>I believe that we should explore pretraining video completion models that explicitly have no text pairings. Why? We can  train unsupervised like they did for GPT series on the text-internet but instead on YouTube lol. Labeling or augmenting the frames limits scaling the training data.<p>Imagine using the initial frames or audio to prompt the video completion model. For example, use the initial frames to write out a problem on a white board then watch in output generate the next frames the solution being worked out.<p>I fear text pairings with CLIP or OCR constrain a model too much and confuse</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:41:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42474814</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42474814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42474814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OSOM's former Chief Privacy Officer has filed a lawsuit against the company]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/osom-privacy-lawsuit-3477182/">https://www.androidauthority.com/osom-privacy-lawsuit-3477182/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411748">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411748</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:34:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.androidauthority.com/osom-privacy-lawsuit-3477182/</link><dc:creator>heliophobicdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heliophobicdude in "Structured Outputs in the API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Back in the old days, top level arrays were a security risk because the array constructor in JS could be redefined and do bad-guy stuff. I cannot think of any json parsing clients that are vulnerable to this.</p>
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<p>It looks like there is no SfM used here atm. Removing SfM is something I worked on removing in my similar project <a href="https://github.com/afloresescarcega/splatinit">https://github.com/afloresescarcega/splatinit</a></p>
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<p>I honestly haven't tried! I'm trying to do this per frame of a live video. I had not considered COLMAP for performance reasons.</p>
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<p>Kinda! My ultimate goal is to be able to join multiple 3D reconstructions from a set of iPhones all in different positions! Like hemisphere. The single-view image to 3D is pretty accurate but across lots of iPhones.</p>
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