Hacker News: jamilton

New comment by jamilton in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

jamilton — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:04:34 +0000

1m^3, right? I can picture what you mean, but I'm not sure it works technically, since I think the splats for a given region are not actually bound to the region they represent. Like, for example, reflections work by having the reflection being physically behind the reflective surface. And they're all transparent, so it'd blend together.

New comment by jamilton in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

jamilton — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:46:21 +0000

>Most scientific research does not take into account who the beneficiaries of that research would be.

I would consider that apathy.

New comment by jamilton in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

jamilton — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:28:07 +0000

According to the author, it's been optioned to Lord Miller Productions, the same group that adapted Project Hail Mary.

New comment by jamilton in "Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon"

jamilton — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:59:57 +0000

Somewhat related, check out https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parser, a digital card game where you write the cards and the engine parses them to determine what they do. It's fun to mess around with.

New comment by jamilton in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

jamilton — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:16:56 +0000

You gotta zoom into the center to see the main chaos. And if you zoom in elsewhere, you can see all the generation differences from different versions of the game.

New comment by jamilton in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

jamilton — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:17:48 +0000

No, sorry, I was saying I do know what it does based on the description.

New comment by jamilton in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

jamilton — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:36:28 +0000

I thought "A decentralized music tracking and discovery platform" and the features list was plenty descriptive. I don't think you have to use Bluesky to use this, I think Bluesky is like the backend, and otherwise it's a Last.fm alternative?

New comment by jamilton in "Can a Language Model Paint?"

jamilton — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:27:29 +0000

Neat. I wonder if a allowing the models to inspect pixels or pixel regions, instead of fully relying on the VLM, would help at all. The spatial reasoning required might be too complex though. In general the VLM seems to be a limiting factor, so I wonder if there's some way to usefully augment it or sidestep limitations.

Like, instead of being in pseudo-MSpaint, pseudo-Photoshop with manipulable layers and bounding boxes. They struggle to add an outline to something previously drawn, but that's something that could be done programmatically. The limitations are obviously part of what makes this interesting, but different limitations could be interesting, too. Maybe additional complexity would just result in more uninteresting failures though, I don't know.

I noticed that the feedback/strengths/suggestions outputs are clearly also given the initial image's prompt. It could be useful to additionally have an output that's not given the prompt, so the LLM knows what the VLM sees without bias?

New comment by jamilton in "Permacomputing Principles"

jamilton — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:23:38 +0000

Why do you think so?

New comment by jamilton in "Permacomputing Principles"

jamilton — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:19:29 +0000

I think it's a mistake to view any politics as bolted on. I think it's unlikely some people were interested in "mindful and resilient and ecological use of computing" completely apolitically, with no other political or ideological background.

This principles page doesn't seem to have any irrelevant politics to me.

New comment by jamilton in "Permacomputing Principles"

jamilton — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:15:59 +0000

That is not on the linked page. Where is it?

New comment by jamilton in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)"

jamilton — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:50:25 +0000

It's still crime if it's moral! I think it's really important to not conflate the law with morality.

New comment by jamilton in "The Medium Streamlining The Message: Auto-translation still sucks"

jamilton — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:00:17 +0000

Full subtitle: Auto-translation still sucks. Why's it everywhere now?

Interesting discussion of some UX issues with auto-translating and dubbing everything into one language. It seems these problems could mostly be solved with some UI support for multilingualism? And maybe more sensible defaults, although I'm not sure what those would be.

The Medium Streamlining The Message: Auto-translation still sucks

jamilton — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:55:43 +0000

Article URL: https://noreturn.blog/p/the-medium-streamlining-the-message

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768919

Points: 1

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New comment by jamilton in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"

jamilton — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:47:05 +0000

Some people say they care more about the concept than the music, but in practice if someone had just posted "imagine if etc" approximately no one would care, upvote, or comment. In reality people actually do care about the implementation at least existing. It's more novel and interesting than the abstract concept.

I don't think most artists make most art with the expectation that people are going to spend hours obsessing over it, if they did they'd be disappointed. Most art has approximately no one pay any attention or care about it, so the creation of art has to be driven by something else. Maybe the artist just wants the thing to exist for themselves, for example.

New comment by jamilton in "Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B"

jamilton — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:10:01 +0000

Siri does have a setting that'll activate it if you say "hey siri" while the phone is locked. Obvious privacy and battery usage concerns though, and it's still Siri, so it's a little clunky.

New comment by jamilton in "Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua"

jamilton — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:02:01 +0000

This seems more like Twine than Inform. Inform is for parser fic, where you enter commands ("get key", "go north", "open door"), Twine and this are for choice-based fiction.

New comment by jamilton in "A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'"

jamilton — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:12:47 +0000

I don't think either of those would typically be seen as weird? It's certainly less common, but I think the people most likely to find it weird would be those who would think women reading trashy romance novels is weird too.

New comment by jamilton in "Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins"

jamilton — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:16:43 +0000

"Remote Application

The Remote Uber and Hybrid are like a roulette computer in the cloud – it can be applied from anywhere with internet access. You don’t even need to enter a casino. You can have others play for you, who pay you part of their winnings. You determine who accesses your computer and when. The Hybrid computer even allows you to watch your teams play live with a hidden camera."

This whole thing sounds sketchy, but this is particularly sketchy.

New comment by jamilton in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

jamilton — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:19:19 +0000

That seems like a pretty reasonable subdivision to me. Culturally there are differences in what it means to be attractive as a male or female, so it follows that the effects could be different.