Hacker News: nicr_22

New comment by nicr_22 in "GPT-5.5"

nicr_22 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:22:27 +0000

Agentic ennui!

New comment by nicr_22 in "Claude Tips for 3D Work"

nicr_22 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:29:12 +0000

Maybe Claude thought you wanted to model this church in Chesterfield?

Chesterfield's Crooked Spire in Chesterfield | Atlas Obscura https://share.google/ABVhVgtzQ8KxnO27L

New comment by nicr_22 in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

nicr_22 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:35:08 +0000

Yeah, why only _one_ fish?

It's obvious that pelican is riding long distance, no way a single fish is sufficiently energy dense for more than a few miles.

Can't the model do basic math???

New comment by nicr_22 in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

nicr_22 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:28:10 +0000

OpenCASCADE?

https://dev.opencascade.org/

New comment by nicr_22 in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

nicr_22 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:49:21 +0000

Why stop at 12 semitones? That's so square and limiting, man...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_equal_temperament

New comment by nicr_22 in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

nicr_22 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:47:22 +0000

There's a whole spectrum of options between super-fat React-in-Electron and expert-optimized platform-specific (perhaps GPU-rendered) apps. VS Code and Zed are close to opposite ends of this spectrum.

- slim down to a more efficient, non-virtual-DOM web stack (e. g hypermedia)

- move to a wrapper around native webview (Tauri)

- use one of the excellent cross-platform frameworks (Flutter, or that new one just open sourced by Snap)

For WhatsApp specifically, I don't understand why a company with the size and resources of Meta can't support native versions for Windows, Mac _and_ Linux. I think many people would accept non-feature-parity with the web/mobile versions, in exchange for a tight, reliable desktop messaging app...

New comment by nicr_22 in "Gemini 3.0 Pro – early tests"

nicr_22 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:34:18 +0000

There's a world of difference between saying "our stuff sucks" vs "here are the specific ways our stuff isn't ready for launch". The former is just whining, the latter is what a good PM does.

New comment by nicr_22 in "Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it"

nicr_22 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:59:55 +0000

Interesting direction, thanks for sharing.

If you're interested in this space it's worth looking at data-star.dev. who takes hypermedia in the opposite direction - one endpoint per page, then push updates to components over SSE.

My worry with MESH is that many endpoints might become a (sorry) mess...

New comment by nicr_22 in "My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name"

nicr_22 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 01:44:42 +0000

FlipFlopStop?

FFS for short, which has suitably disgruntled other exclamatory meanings.

New comment by nicr_22 in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

nicr_22 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:14:58 +0000

Love love love Pico. It's such a terrific starting point, and easy to tweak into different directions. It's the anti-Tailwind.

New comment by nicr_22 in "Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application"

nicr_22 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:42:46 +0000

Might be worth getting in contact with the Slant3D folks, their teleport 3d printing service might benefit from an integrated editor?

New comment by nicr_22 in "Improving Naval Ship Acquisition"

nicr_22 — Fri, 16 May 2025 00:10:13 +0000

Just aim for the thermal exhaust shaft, you womp rat.

New comment by nicr_22 in "The Barbican"

nicr_22 — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:22:01 +0000

Radio 4 has to be Westminster, surely? And Bloomsbury in the evenings.

Richmond teeters over into Classic FM to my taste - ostensibly cultured, but basically posh-pop.

And LBC is a diffuse torroidal agglomeration of zone 3+ greasy spoons known only to White Van Men and black cab drivers.

New comment by nicr_22 in "Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old"

nicr_22 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:15:33 +0000

Why not just put an RFID reader in the box and an RFID tag on each cart? The reader modules are sub $10, and the tags are a few cents.

New comment by nicr_22 in "Gemini 2.5 Flash"

nicr_22 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:32:01 +0000

I really like the open source Cline extension. It supports most of the model APIs, just need to copy/paste an API key.

New comment by nicr_22 in "The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup"

nicr_22 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:18:05 +0000

Street parking doesn't have to be horrible. Look at some of dense super expensive inner suburbs of London for examples - pretty little flower baskets hanging from beautifully painted Victorian wrought iron street lights, hewn stone gutters etc. Charming++

Poorly _maintained_ (cleaned, resurfaced, policed) streets are ugly. Streets are poorly maintained when the property tax base is insufficient.

Increasing density can amortize the cost of maintaining the streetscape over more households.

New comment by nicr_22 in "LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning"

nicr_22 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 18:06:43 +0000

"My Fair Llama" or "Pygmallm"

New comment by nicr_22 in "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance"

nicr_22 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:18:44 +0000

Have a look at what explosive drones are doing in the fight for Ukraine.

Now tell me how you counter a thousand small EMP hardened autonomous drones intent on delivering an explosive payload to one target without AI of some kind?

New comment by nicr_22 in "Show HN: I turned my face rec system into a video codec"

nicr_22 — Thu, 26 May 2022 13:22:44 +0000

Nice work, but you might find it's not super unique - video codec people have been thinking about how to apply face recognition ML tech to this use case for 5+ years.

For instance, have you seen https://developer.nvidia.com/maxine ? They released some pretty nice demos 2 years ago.