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New comment by ingvay7 in "I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models"

ingvay7 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:21:25 +0000

Really cool work and workflow. strongly prefer this kind of local, open pipeline that i control over a dependency on Adobe tools and lock ins.

New comment by ingvay7 in "Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire"

ingvay7 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:33:47 +0000

Love this. For people who aren’t familiar with Roman history, it would be great to have a short guided tour of how to explore the map. I filtered for 'pompeii' and it gave me 117 dots.

New comment by ingvay7 in "Ear Training Practice"

ingvay7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:44:45 +0000

I've never been able to identify keys except for the higher E. Just that seemingly one low bar skill has helped me tune up my guitar to normal over the years instead of searching for a tuner. It's incredible how some folks do this effectively across all keys, modes etc

New comment by ingvay7 in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

ingvay7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:05:27 +0000

One thing that helped in our house was making books unavoidable. We keep paperbacks lying around in every room. It sounds silly, but there’s a kind of “cover gravity” and guilt that pulls the kids ( and me) back into a book when a book is just sitting there gathering dust.

New comment by ingvay7 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

ingvay7 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:28:21 +0000

No real reason really.In fact its on my list next. I was working on a track in logic that i was mostly sourcing the polychrome presets and i plan to add the same functionality to all my other plugins. The Gojira archetype is one i have my eyes on first

New comment by ingvay7 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

ingvay7 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:39:33 +0000

thanks.Frankly — the system prompt is the sauce. The LLM has encyclopedic knowledge of every amp, cab, and pedal ever made which still blows my mind, but without guardrails it'll confidently tell you to boost mids on a JCM800 (which is how you disappear in a loud mix i've noticed). That era cheat sheet is all the working knowledge over the years of spectacularly failing to get the right tones.

Once someone does that encoding work for a genre, it's reusable forever I think. I'm pretty comfortable with late-80s/early-90s rock well enough to write the specs. But you're right — a "modern metal" prompt, a shoegaze one (which my teenager wants), a funkone,etc - that's the next layer. tone_system.md just needs to be updated. I plan to expand this to more plugins. Contributions welcome.

New comment by ingvay7 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

ingvay7 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:51:20 +0000

I shred guitar in the evenings to focus on technique, but a hectic day job means I get almost no time to twiddle knobs on my amp sim chasing the right tone. So I built a tool where I just prompt "Brian May Solo Bohemian Rhapsody" — the LLM fills a small JSON contract and feeds to a script that generates the XML, and I load it straight into the plugin. Two minutes and I feel like I'm tearing it up at Wembley '85 :)...almost.

The pattern generalized is LLM finds the presets,i can even upload a file to make it zone in, the code validates and loads into the plugin. Also using this contract/adapter approach for Terraform, game engine presets, CI pipelines, etc.

Wrote about it here: https://vishsubramanian.me/lm-guitar-tone-generator-polychro...

Dialing In the Ghost in the Machine: LLMs for guitar tones

ingvay7 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:18:47 +0000

Article URL: https://vishsubramanian.me/lm-guitar-tone-generator-polychrome/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351955

Points: 3

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AI Art on the Samsung Frame TV

ingvay7 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 07:01:56 +0000

Article URL: https://vishsubramanian.me/frame-art/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42538225

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Recurring financial donations to causes that have demonstrable impact?

ingvay7 — Tue, 30 May 2023 03:06:36 +0000

I make a ton of contributions on random causes on gofundme but trying to optimize this. Have the usual constraints of time and resources but I figure the least i can do is to help someone somewhere with my modest donations. Any recommendations where you have seen a tangible impact based on your recurring financial contribution or a cause you have aligned yourself to?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36120714

Points: 2

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New comment by ingvay7 in "Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud"

ingvay7 — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:45:45 +0000

Ive used Azure and AWS in a couple of large organizations (mulit-million $ cloud contracts) and the Azure commitment for customer success is a big differentiator. Ive literally had Azure engineers as an extension of my team (free of cost offered by azure as part of customer success teams) so much so that they start blending into the team. The Azure products have steadily gotten better (ADB, Azure SQL, Functions etc) over the years (with a few duds as expected). AWS - it didnt matter how big we were, we still got the feeling they never really leant in or they had "more important" stuff to focus on than customer success. All the POCs/side projects we have done on GCP - it has always felt like something built by a bunch of seriously talented technologists FOR technologists. Support seemed a distant entity just like most google products - that has led to significant nervousness at the top leadership to invest in a product that may not be Google's highest priority.