Hacker News: joshu

New comment by joshu in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

joshu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:31:11 +0000

ported my random glyph generator to this method using pytorch timm and... it works! very cool

New comment by joshu in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

joshu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:13:10 +0000

anyone know how this works? i assume just rasterizing and embedding?

New comment by joshu in "Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example"

joshu — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:05:12 +0000

i liked how https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... uses color visualization to explain

New comment by joshu in "Every GPU That Mattered"

joshu — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:30:32 +0000

sgi? evans and sutherland? gl came from sgi originally!

this is just slop

New comment by joshu in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

joshu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:21:40 +0000

brackets aren’t really the best way to figure this out, is it? makes a lot of assumptions about human preferences that probably don’t actually hold. something like ELO might be better.

New comment by joshu in "Alpha Micro AM-1000E and AM-1200"

joshu — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:24:28 +0000

How did they get memory protection on 68000?

New comment by joshu in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

joshu — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:53:50 +0000

how is it that logitech software is such awful trash

New comment by joshu in "Runners who churn butter on their runs"

joshu — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:18:56 +0000

i've made cultured butter. you want to use the correct strain. i buy a buttermilk culture specifically

New comment by joshu in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again"

joshu — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:39:44 +0000

all the insane and/or speculative projects that i never did because they would require heavy lift but with vague outcomes are now in progress. it's glorious.

New comment by joshu in "Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash"

joshu — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:26:27 +0000

this is cool. i built something similar a while back using wavelets and matching pursuit in a similar manner but with a different goal; i wanted to make an image compressor that had different visual effects when the file format was glitched. here are some examples of it moving variance from the original above to the compressed image below: https://youtube.com/shorts/f2pZyZNXY0Q?si=HXf14pOs9DaAk7MZ https://youtube.com/shorts/-LIALRpU63o?si=p_MiFnT8MMX0C0b4

New comment by joshu in "Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/S"

joshu — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:33:36 +0000

bean soup theory in action

New comment by joshu in "I gave Claude access to my pen plotter"

joshu — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:28:27 +0000

i guess i should have written up my claude/plotting workflow already. i didn’t bother actually plotting them. https://x.com/joshu/status/2018205910204915939

New comment by joshu in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"

joshu — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:47:03 +0000

it was a dreadful, useless computer, even then

New comment by joshu in "Show HN: Txt2plotter – True centerline vectors from Flux.2 for pen plotters"

joshu — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:15:31 +0000

Neat!

New comment by joshu in "ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering"

joshu — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:28:53 +0000

https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~nelson/courses/mas814/

New comment by joshu in "List of individual trees"

joshu — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:50:48 +0000

In the heart of Silicon Valley, El Palo Alto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Palo_Alto

New comment by joshu in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

joshu — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:57:09 +0000

Similarly I have been thinking about a van so I can sleep in air conditioning between track day sessions and/or races. I also want to be able to bring materials to my workshop. Not sure what I will do, yet.

New comment by joshu in "Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)"

joshu — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:56:49 +0000

I like it, but it is also giving me Lego person vibes

New comment by joshu in "RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?"

joshu — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:32:12 +0000

the rockchip hw is really exciting lately, in general. i am using a bunch of them for streaming.

New comment by joshu in "Notebook Lawyer"

joshu — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:41:52 +0000

even before AI: when i raised from USV the second time, my lawyer and theirs had already negotiated paperwork with another company, so everyone decided to reuse it. it was MUCH cheaper…