Hacker News: iib

New comment by iib in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

iib — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:39:28 +0000

Or add your real name to photos of you stored in Google Photos.

New comment by iib in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

iib — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:42:58 +0000

If by the spirit, you only mean the bazaar model, then yes. But it's in the original spirit of free software. GNU preferred to keep the development somewhat contained, even so many years ago.

New comment by iib in "Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels"

iib — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:21:03 +0000

It's sticky on the web though:

https://www.instagram.com/?variant=following

New comment by iib in "Pandoc in the Browser with WASM"

iib — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:06:01 +0000

This is really nice to know. I remember trying to compile pandoc to Wasm after finding out that ghc had Wasm support, hitting all kinds of problems and then realising that there was no real way to post an issue to Haskell's gitlab repo without being pre-approved.

I guess now with LLMs, this makes more sense than ever, but it was a frustrating experience.

New comment by iib in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

iib — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:16:14 +0000

Some were already that and even more, because of other reasons. The Cathedral model, described in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".

New comment by iib in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

iib — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:18:48 +0000

I found Geoffrey Hinton's hypothesis of LLMs interesting in this regard. They have to compress the world knowledge into a few billion parameters, much denser than the human brain, so they have to be very good at analogies, in order to obtain that compression.

New comment by iib in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

iib — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:29:42 +0000

This is explained in more detail in the book "Human Being: reclaim 12 vital skills we’re losing to technology", which I think I found on HN a few months ago.

The first chapter goes into human navigation and it gives this exact suggestion, locking the North up, as a way to regain some of the lost navigational skills.

New comment by iib in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

iib — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:58:15 +0000

Didn't see the website at first. Thank you!

New comment by iib in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

iib — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:33:04 +0000

This seems really nice, and looks like something I have been wanting to exist for some time. I will definitely play with it when I have some time.

I know this is a personal project and you maybe didn't want to make it public, but I think the README.md would be better suited with a section about the actual product. I clicked on it wanting to learn more, but with no time to test it for now.

New comment by iib in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

iib — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:23:00 +0000

That sounds awesome. But I have two curiosities: What are the problems of httpx? And was pycurl not enough for what you wanted to do?

New comment by iib in "Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail"

iib — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:52:57 +0000

I have been looking for the same thing, either from Meta's SAM 3[1] model, either from things like the OP.

There has been some research specifically in this area with what appears to be classic ML models [2], but it's unclear to me if it can generalize to dances it has not been trained on.

[1] https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-model-3/

[2] https://arxiv.org/html/2405.19727v1

New comment by iib in "Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good"

iib — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:51:12 +0000

For small edits, has anybody configured a leader-key scheme? Something like Doom Emacs has with space as a leader.

It seems to me to be the best possible configuration for Emacs on Android (on a phone) and I was wondering if I should invest time in such a solution.

strokes-mode.el would also be very nice, but apparently it doesn't have touchscreen support.

New comment by iib in "Gemini 3"

iib — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:33:12 +0000

As soon as I found out that this model launched, I tried giving it a problem that I have been trying to code in Lean4 (showing that quicksort preserves multiplicity). All the other frontier models I tried failed.

I used the pro version and it started out well (as they all did), but it couldn't prove it. The interesting part is that it typoed the name of a tactic, spelling it "abjel" instead of "abel", even though it correctly named the concept. I didn't expect the model to make this kind of error, because they all seems so good at programming lately, and none of the other models did, although they did some other naming errors.

I am sure I can get it to solve the problem with good context engineering, but it's interesting to see how they struggle with lesser represented programming languages by themselves.

New comment by iib in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"

iib — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:15:54 +0000

Made me think of this SMBC comic[1], where there's a debate if being in English or Spanish, each with around a billion speakers, makes it rare or not.

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/phonemes

New comment by iib in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

iib — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:53:12 +0000

How do you solve the second mission (the man that is hiding somewhere)? I've managed to find even the three.js mention, but nothing to start that one.

New comment by iib in "95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report"

iib — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:02:04 +0000

I think those kind of glasses may be really useful for blind people. I have seen similar glasses targeted at blind people, that at least in theory, seemed to me like a good idea.

I recall the glasses also can write on the screen inside the lens, which makes me think they may be good for deaf people as well.

It's just that these use-cases seem uncool, and big companies seem to have to be cool in order to keep either their status or their profits. But I have a feeling the technology may be really useful for some really vulnerable people.

New comment by iib in "Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI"

iib — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:19:57 +0000

This is exactly the fine-tuning I am hoping for, or I would do if I had the skills. I tried it with gemma3 270M and vanilla it fails spectacularly.

Basically it would be the quickadd[1] event from google calendar, but calendar agnostic.

[1] https://developers.google.com/workspace/calendar/api/v3/refe...

New comment by iib in "Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions"

iib — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 04:34:14 +0000

How do you use the recordings as part of the CI?

New comment by iib in "Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?""

iib — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:00:09 +0000

How exactly does it take 20 minutes to get an invite? I have not tried it, but I can't see how that would be easy.

New comment by iib in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

iib — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:56:07 +0000

Some already consider this a new dialect. It's called Euro English[1]. There are some more examples in that wikipedia article. Not just synonyms, but grammar as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English