Hacker News: jtfrench

New comment by jtfrench in "A whale necropolis has been found"

jtfrench — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:10:05 +0000

I feel like maybe we've needed an "OceanX" before a "SpaceX".

New comment by jtfrench in "Claude.ai is unavailable"

jtfrench — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:41:00 +0000

Hopefully Mythos didn't go rogue and hold production hostage.

New comment by jtfrench in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

jtfrench — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:39:19 +0000

If this can happen to Anthropic, imagine all the companies building on top of Claude Code for live products. Hopefully the industry is learning that competent problem solving human engineers are still very much needed when you have increasingly deceptive non-deterministic genies running your production stack.

New comment by jtfrench in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

jtfrench — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:45:26 +0000

Working on Snow Leopard was one of my most rewarding experiences at Apple. Loved the ethos behind that update. No new fluff, just make everything work better.

New comment by jtfrench in "EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code"

jtfrench — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:03:06 +0000

How does this handle “dumb zone” evasion while looping?

New comment by jtfrench in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

jtfrench — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:31:41 +0000

Definitely sounded like a shower gel moment.

New comment by jtfrench in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

jtfrench — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:53:26 +0000

Haven’t heard of Codeberg. What are the top reasons to switch from GitHub?

New comment by jtfrench in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

jtfrench — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:51:35 +0000

Was hoping to see Apple break the 128GB barrier in a laptop that they previously set, though 128GB is still pretty sweet for local LLM inference on consumer hardware. My 128GB M3 Max is still shredding tokens pretty well (with that annoying slow initial prompt processing), so no major complaints there. I guess the question is, given access to the same amount of RAM, does the M5 really do an order-of-magnitude better than 128GB on a M3 or M4?

New comment by jtfrench in "Bugs Apple loves"

jtfrench — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:04:02 +0000

I feel heard. Auto-correct un-correcting what I corrected three times in a row is maddening.

New comment by jtfrench in "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"

jtfrench — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:22:40 +0000

What if their maximally vindictive traits just makes them want to use the same invasive tools and techniques?

New comment by jtfrench in "Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files"

jtfrench — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 04:38:55 +0000

No way. Next level.

New comment by jtfrench in "A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos"

jtfrench — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:46:11 +0000

Awesome stuff. Moonlight and Archipelago are particularly beautiful. I work in shaders fairly regularly (mainly Metal-based), and it still amazes me how so little code can produce seemingly infinite universes.

New comment by jtfrench in "Show HN: C++ order book matching engine (3.2M orders/SEC, ~320ns)"

jtfrench — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:10:54 +0000

Looks super interesting! Does it have support for auction mechanics (e.g. dutch auction)?

New comment by jtfrench in "Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust"

jtfrench — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:10:21 +0000

Go Hugo!

New comment by jtfrench in "Did rust take down the internet? [video]"

jtfrench — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:43:36 +0000

So they force-unwrapped a `null` and blew up the internet?

Would an `unwrap_or_else` have helped here?

New comment by jtfrench in "Google DeepMind: Introducing SIMA 2 [video]"

jtfrench — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:02:52 +0000

Google: "I'll see your Marble and raise you a SIMA2".

This industry moves redonkulously fast.

New comment by jtfrench in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

jtfrench — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:42:52 +0000

Is Marble's definition of a "world model" the same as Yann LeCun's definition of a world model? And is that the same as Genie's definition of a world model?

New comment by jtfrench in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

jtfrench — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:40:30 +0000

I like that they distinguish between the collider mesh (lower poly) and the detailed mesh (higher poly).

As a game developer I'm looking for:

• Export low-poly triangle mesh (ideally OBJ or FBX format — something fairly generic, nothing too fancy) • Export texture map • Export normals • Bonus: export the scene as "de-structured" objects (e.g. instead of a giant world mesh with everything baked into it, separate exports for foreground and background objects to make it more game engine-ready.

Gaussian splats are awesome, but not critical for my current renderers. Cool to have though.

New comment by jtfrench in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

jtfrench — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:33:53 +0000

From what I can tell, you can actually export a mesh in (paid) Marble, whereas I haven't seen mesh exports offered in Genie 3 yet (could be wrong though).

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

jtfrench — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:27:30 +0000

This sounds interesting and practical. Where can we follow your project?