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New comment by ipunchghosts in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

ipunchghosts — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:52:07 +0000

Synthetic aperture simulator. I could never get finding to build so decided to do it myself.

https://gergltd.com/aperturelab/

The seafloor is dark. It doesn't have to be

ipunchghosts — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://gergltd.com/aperturelab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481821

Points: 2

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

ipunchghosts — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:06:29 +0000

I built a synthetic aperture sonar / radar simulation engine so I could generate endless amounts of procedural generated scenes to train a world model. Data for sonar is especially hard to come by.

https://gergltd.com/aperturelab/

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

ipunchghosts — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:58:33 +0000

Why aren't they using Claude code 20x for 200/month?

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

ipunchghosts — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:43:17 +0000

I think ppl only care about how Claude or codex does.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

ipunchghosts — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:04:35 +0000

I am writing synthetic aperture sonar/radar simulator and image formation code from scratch.

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23ape...

Too many codes or old or gate kept behind proprietary walls. Many are old and don't use the newest acceleration techniquea to make the simulation fast. Additionally, none of them scale using aws. I want SAS/SAR image to be easy to generate for anyone.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

ipunchghosts — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:53:40 +0000

I have a similar finding for a website I made that collates college town bar specials and live music. Using agents with vision models works but it's not as straightforward as one would initially think. U can check out the results here. https://www.nittanynights.com

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with my own tool – no cookies, <1KB script"

ipunchghosts — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:06:36 +0000

Umami is free for me.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with my own tool – no cookies, <1KB script"

ipunchghosts — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:01:19 +0000

How is this different from umami?

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Vermin Supreme: When I'm President Everyone Gets a Free Pony [video]"

ipunchghosts — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:05:31 +0000

Have an upvote for my man

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly"

ipunchghosts — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:25:22 +0000

REMUS RLF reader runs pyodide to parse underwater drone mission files in the browser

https://isaacgerg.github.io/remus-rlf-reader/webapp/

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Can I run AI locally?"

ipunchghosts — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:41:00 +0000

What is S? Also, NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada is missing.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically"

ipunchghosts — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:22:28 +0000

Goedel machine.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

ipunchghosts — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:16:44 +0000

> but there's a massive financial reality here.

Not a chance. The DoD has massive pockers which and INCREDIBLY SPREAD OUT. You can't underestimate how spread this money is. The DoD has maybe a 64 GPU cluster and ALMOST NO ONE USES IT FOR DEEP MODEL TRAINING. Even contractors end up working with DGX boxes to do all their training.

As of 2023, I was doing the largest Deep learning training runs out of anyone I have known in the industry and I've been in the industry for 20 yeras. The second best groups behind mine were using 4 GPU locally machines that they had to purchase on contract.

There's no way the DoD can train these models themselves, not even close. They are COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON INDUSTRY. I was the PM for a DARPA program in 2023 and SAME PROBLEM. They had no compute or would rely on university compute if a program had a university partner. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FAR BEHIND THE DOD IS IN THIS SPACE.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "30 Years of ReactOS"

ipunchghosts — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:18:49 +0000

I would think claude code would help make a quick dent in boosting reactos capabilities. Curious what others think.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

ipunchghosts — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:12:57 +0000

Ask people to do things for you. Then you will learn how to work with something/someone who has faults but can overall be useful if you know how to view the interaction.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]"

ipunchghosts — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:37:58 +0000

I agree strongly with this take but find it hard to convince others of it. Instead, people keep thinking there is a magic bullet to discover resulting in a lot of wasted resources and money.

New comment by ipunchghosts in "When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision"

ipunchghosts — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:41:19 +0000

Kasturi was my undergraduate honors advisor!

New comment by ipunchghosts in "New sonar tool is a 'game changer' for mapping the sea floor"

ipunchghosts — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:40:39 +0000

There's papers on this. Google AirSAS.

Been on sas biz for 12 years, resolution is much better than multibeam at range.

New sonar tool is a 'game changer' for mapping the sea floor

ipunchghosts — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 01:18:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/new-sonar-tool-game-changer-mapping-sea-floor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155073

Points: 6

# Comments: 2