Hacker News: m_kos

Interactive Additive Synthesis Comic

m_kos — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:22:46 +0000

Article URL: https://melatonin.dev/additive-synth-comic/what-is-a-harmonic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290012

Points: 1

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New comment by m_kos in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

m_kos — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:17:25 +0000

$300 is my employer's monthly cap on Claude Enterprise. It lasts me at most a week of moderate use. I would much rather get Codex Pro and Claude Pro or Max, which would cost ≤ $200. For $300, one could also add Gemini Ultra to the mix so I could have all three review each other's code, etc.

Claude can be very good but enterprise pricing doesn't make sense to me.

New comment by m_kos in "ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board"

m_kos — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:48:35 +0000

What price range, if you don't mind sharing?

New comment by m_kos in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

m_kos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:18:12 +0000

Thanks. I will try this! I need to read up on how to work with vision models for both generation and understanding.

New comment by m_kos in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

m_kos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:42:02 +0000

Very useful website. Would you have insight into what models are best at editing existing images?

I often have to make very specific edits while keeping the rest of the image intact and haven't yet found a good model. These are typically abstract images for experiments.

I asked gpt-image-2 to recolor specific scales of your Seedream 4 snake and change the shape of others. It did very poorly.

Feynman: Open-source AI research agent

m_kos — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:28:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.feynman.is/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669193

Points: 3

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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.