Hacker News: m_kos

LMMs-Lab Writer: AI-native LaTeX editor. Git built-in, open source

m_kos — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:37:29 +0000

Article URL: https://writer.lmms-lab.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652488

Points: 2

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New comment by m_kos in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

m_kos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:59:02 +0000

Neat! I might give it a try.

What do you mean by interfaces in "These interfaces can do literally anything on the host machine. You're responsible for your own security"?

Also, your backdooring image links to a 404.

The 1k Neuron Challenge

m_kos — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:35:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetransmitter.org/computational-neuroscience/the-1000-neuron-challenge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535940

Points: 5

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What computer science has to say about the simulation hypothesis

m_kos — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ae1e50

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343637

Points: 2

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New comment by m_kos in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

m_kos — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:46:37 +0000

Good luck!

New comment by m_kos in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

m_kos — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:56:55 +0000

There has been promising work on olfactory training, which you can do very inexpensively at home. If you can, I would consider seeing any ENT first to rule out polyps, etc.

New comment by m_kos in "Marble Fountain"

m_kos — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:09:58 +0000

I am not surprised you tried given your earlier project :) https://hackaday.com/2022/09/25/this-found-sound-organ-was-m...

Maybe at the bottom your marbles could land on surfaces with different accustic properties. Track selection would determine the surface and release time would determine the timing.

New comment by m_kos in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

m_kos — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:03:05 +0000

I live in a big city. DoorDash always delivers to an address 10 minutes away walking from my building. It is quite inconvenient in the winter. With human drivers, you can at least try to convince them to use Google Maps, but with an AI?

On second thought, prompt injection via delivery instructions?

New comment by m_kos in "Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths"

m_kos — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:28:18 +0000

For synth heads, there is also a well-regarded Syntorial app/course. (BTW, has anyone tried their Building Blocks? There are very few online reviews.)

New comment by m_kos in "Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths"

m_kos — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:13:29 +0000

What I don't quite get is why manufacturers of midi controllers (Arturia, Novation, NI, etc.), with the exception of, possibly only Korg, don't release any of their digital instruments as mobile apps. After sitting the whole day in front of my computer, the last thing I want to do is to swap VS Code for Ableton or Kontakt and spend a few more hours in the glow of my monitors.

(I do get that if you are very serious about making music you need a proper computer set up. I am just a mere amateur hobbyist.)

New comment by m_kos in "Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths"

m_kos — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:57:39 +0000

The m8 and the recently, heavily promoted Woovebox 2 are the Emacs/Vim of grooveboxes. They hide a vast amount of functionality behind what initially seems like an impenetrable jungle of button presses and shortcuts; a system that ultimately proves* to be highly ergonomic.

*Based on what I read. Sadly, I don't own these devices.

New comment by m_kos in "Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost"

m_kos — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:32:16 +0000

https://musictech.com/news/bitwig-studio-4-spectral-suite-ap...

PatchCore: Build modular synthesizers and audio processing apps with Kotlin MP

m_kos — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:20:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/SillyDevices/PatchCore

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078500

Points: 3

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New comment by m_kos in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

m_kos — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:13:58 +0000

If you have to use, e.g., CUDA Toolkit 11.8, then you need a specific version of VS and its build tools for CUDA's VS integration to work. I don't know why exactly that is and I wish I didn't have to deal with it.

New comment by m_kos in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

m_kos — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:10:22 +0000

> Why is it so hard to install PyTorch, or CUDA, or libraries like FlashAttention or DeepSpeed that build against PyTorch and CUDA?

This is so true! On Windows (and WSL) it is also exacerbated by some packages requiring the use of compilers bundled with outdated Visual Studio versions, some of which are only available by manually crafting download paths. I can't wait for a better dev experience.

New comment by m_kos in "Search all text in New York City"

m_kos — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:57:45 +0000

GitHub of the person who prepared the data. I am curious how much compute was needed for NY. I would love to do it for my metro but I suspect it is way beyond my budget.

https://github.com/yz3440

(The commenters below are right. It is the Maps API, not compute, that I should worry about. Using the free tier, it would have taken the author years to download all tiles. I wish I had their budget!)

New comment by m_kos in "Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker"

m_kos — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:59:59 +0000

> I've never seen Claude Code do anything that git couldn't easily reverse, so I'm not that worried about that any more.

I had one agent that installed something with pip and used it to rewrite my git history. It used the wrong flag and what was left was one file. I am glad I caught it before auto-commit and push triggered. It was one of my hobby projects, so not a huge deal. I can't imagine the fallout of this happening in a work environment.

New comment by m_kos in "Music Box Fun – make and share music box songs online"

m_kos — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 01:16:47 +0000

Well done! Very clean design and easy to use. Initially, I missed some conveniences of modern piano rolls (like tap and hold to area select a bunch of notes), but ultimately it just made me more careful, which was an interesting change. Some UX decisions were very thoughtful, like the blue vertical lines.

If I could suggest anything, it would be to let fat-fingered users like me hide the left menu in the landscape orientation (mobile) and stretch the roll sideways.

New comment by m_kos in "Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js"

m_kos — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:38:12 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by m_kos in "Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js"

m_kos — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:20:50 +0000

One component of my hobby web app project is a wavetable. Below are two examples of wavetables. I want it to not tax the browser so that other, latency sensitive, components do not suffer.

Would you have any suggestions on what JS/TS package to use? I built a quick prototype in three.js but I am neither a 3D person nor a web dev, so I would appreciate your advice.

Examples:

- https://audiolabs-erlangen.de/media/pages/resources/MIR/2024...

- https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee5aa63c3a410...