Hacker News: milleramp

New comment by milleramp in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

milleramp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:09:44 +0000

This guy has been making music controlled LED items, boxes and wrist bands. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/markusloeffler/lumiband...

New comment by milleramp in "Neighbors Say SF Tesla Supercharger Lot Has Become Urine Dumping Ground"

milleramp — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:07:47 +0000

So it's cleaner than the sidewalks?

New comment by milleramp in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

milleramp — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:21:43 +0000

I don't know, the one with the simple minds song was pretty good.

New comment by milleramp in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

milleramp — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:13:57 +0000

It's the vinyl of computing.

New comment by milleramp in "Pebble Production: February Update"

milleramp — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:41:19 +0000

Left handed mode, nice!

New comment by milleramp in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

milleramp — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:11:23 +0000

Maybe it's incentive is to 'close the ticket' as fast as possible.

New comment by milleramp in "Prism"

milleramp — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:51:17 +0000

He is referencing the book Stranger in a Strange Land, written in 1961.

New comment by milleramp in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

milleramp — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:35:55 +0000

The db scale is logarithmic but doesn't match how our eyes sense light. So small changes in db may result in large visible light changes, or vise versa. Have you ever looked at a raw image, it doesn't look correct untill a gamma is applied, even though roughly the same information exists in both raw and gamma images. This is a similar concept. To do do this: db > linear > gamma This can be precomputed into a lookup table with the number of entries being the number of current steps, 8-bit 256 entries.

New comment by milleramp in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

milleramp — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:39:53 +0000

Very cool, was there a conversion or look up table to convert db to gamma for more accurate human visualization?

New comment by milleramp in "STFU"

milleramp — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:49:01 +0000

I wish there was an app for the other annoyances of the 'Bombay' airport. Like the get your ass in line app, or I don't need you to carry my luggage 5ft and demand a tip app.

New comment by milleramp in "Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism"

milleramp — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:06:03 +0000

Also Greg Egan's Permutation City covers these topics in a different way.

New comment by milleramp in "Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth"

milleramp — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:44:58 +0000

It's using Apple's SHARP method, which is monocular. https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/

New comment by milleramp in "Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)"

milleramp — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:37:15 +0000

Yes, not to long ago I was looking into the Easter egg in Windowlicker, amazing. https://eeggs.com/items/34824.html

The End of the Orbital Index

milleramp — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:45:31 +0000

Article URL: https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2026-01-07-Issue-350/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528664

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by milleramp in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

milleramp — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:26:06 +0000

Several reasons, -Silicon efficiency (QE) peaks in the green -Green spectral response curve is close to the luminance curve humans see, like you said. -Twice the pixels to increase the effective resolution in the green/luminance channel, color channels in YUV contribute almost no details.

Why is YUV or other luminance-chrominance color spaces important for a RGB input? Because many processing steps and encoders, work in YUV colorspaces. This wasn't really covered in the article.

New comment by milleramp in "The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy"

milleramp — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 08:14:59 +0000

All words, not one chart or graph.

New comment by milleramp in "Neato vacuum robots to stop working"

milleramp — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 08:07:12 +0000

Dreame with Valetudo

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html

New comment by milleramp in "Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix"

milleramp — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:47:49 +0000

It's also color grading that has changed. https://youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE?si=rnVOSw1h1vM60l7x

YouTube TV and Disney reach agreement

milleramp — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:56:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6802603/2025/11/14/youtube-tv-espn-disney-status-deal-agreement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934376

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by milleramp in "A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)"

milleramp — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:26:22 +0000

Like on Creepshow https://youtu.be/wiE5PWqmfuM?si=wkbsMJKw1IxNDUjE