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New comment by holliplex in "Show HN: Face Lift, a memory game about faces"

holliplex — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:43:04 +0000

I made this. Getting the morph mechanic to feel "right" and not create horrible artifacting was an interesting mix of relatively principled math and a lot of hacky tuning based on rough feel.

Show HN: Face Lift, a memory game about faces

holliplex — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:40:59 +0000

I put this together over the weekend and think it's pretty fun. You are shown a distorted face, and have to memorise and match the distortion on the original. Compete with your friends!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934460

Points: 3

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New comment by holliplex in "“This is not the computer for you”"

holliplex — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:30:26 +0000

Yes, I thought that was probably the case, but it stuck out to me. Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as chiding you; I think the basic point about who is and isn't "allowed" to think of themselves as a computer-person is a really interesting one, and also that you can't address this topic properly without addressing gender (and race).

New comment by holliplex in "“This is not the computer for you”"

holliplex — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:56:29 +0000

It's an interesting slip, given the premise of the article, that this hypothetical child is assumed to be a boy.

New comment by holliplex in "Docs directories are doomed"

holliplex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:51:21 +0000

I think it's mostly just that we are very good at picking up on patterns, and it's extremely noticeable that half the internet has started writing in the same voice with the same tics. If Claude were quietly posting away in 2017 I don't think anyone would think twice about its output.

New comment by holliplex in "Docs directories are doomed"

holliplex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:22:42 +0000

I would describe myself as pretty AI-positive in software engineering, and even in technical writing, but something about seeing diagrams that are clearly generated by Nano Banana Pro immediately makes me stop reading. Weird!

Reflections on the End of Software

holliplex — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:20:48 +0000

Article URL: https://drpz.xyz/posts/reflections-on-dwm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110434

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by holliplex in "Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing"

holliplex — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:05:11 +0000

I understand the frustration. But if I were looking for a job, I simply would not publicly announce to the world that I am this much of a dick.

New comment by holliplex in "New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'"

holliplex — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:50:21 +0000

This makes sense to me -- I find that if I ask it to generate more than, say, a paragraph of code at a time[1], I'd be much better off just writing it myself.

That said, I have issues with RSI, so every saved keystroke is extremely useful to me. I find Copilot's ability to accurately predict the next, say, ten words I'm about to type very useful.

The usual insult thrown at LLMs is that they're "fancy autocomplete". I think that's actually about right, and I'm extremely sceptical about any claims made about their critical thinking skills which I think are essentially non-existent. Where I differ with most AI-sceptics is that I think fancy autocomplete is incredibly valuable.

[1]: Let's say that's about a mid-sized function definition.

Self-adjusting computation in 100 lines of TypeScript

holliplex — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:20:14 +0000

Article URL: https://drpz.xyz/posts/self-adjusting-computation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38619494

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by holliplex in "Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface"

holliplex — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:01:03 +0000

Is this supposed to be so dim in light mode? It looks like it's covered in an invisible modal's backdrop.