Hacker News: osense

New comment by osense in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

osense — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:30:56 +0000

I'm pretty sure most of the comments in this thread are AI bots propping up this product?

I tried the free model and it's nowhere near Sonnet 4.6 in terms of capabilities. The fact that token speed will randomly get stuck at 0/s makes sense given it's a free service, but the way it performs is more reminiscent of AI from 2025.

New comment by osense in "Core: an experimental new way to write videogames"

osense — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:34:09 +0000

I recommend trying Zenject in Unity! It provides a pretty good dependency injection framework, but more importantly in reply to your comment it has a very easy to use signal bus implementation!

Now I have not tried Godot so I don't know how the two compare, but for where I work Zenject was basically the a-ha moment that made it possible to develop Unity apps/games that don't devolve into a huge unmaintanable mess.

New comment by osense in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

osense — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:04:14 +0000

Am I crazy, or does this mean the possibility of actually having WebXR on Apple devices in the not-so-distant future (without relying on Mozzila's outdated WebXR Viewer app)?

New comment by osense in "Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls"

osense — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:36:06 +0000

This is cool!

Do you have any plans for a Google Docs extension as well? Or do you mostly get by with Vimium there?

New comment by osense in "Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi"

osense — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:36:06 +0000

Somewhat unrelated, but I'm still waiting for an affordable PC monitor based on e-ink technology. Dasung has been making some progress in the area but their products are quite expensive, around $1000 or more for anything with a useable size. People might disagree on the count of lack of colors, but to me e-ink technology seems very well suited for writing code. And who knows, maybe in a decade or so the refresh rates for these color e-ink might be in a usable range as well.

New comment by osense in "Lurk – Language for Recursive ZK-SNARKs Inspired by Common Lisp and Scheme"

osense — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:13:16 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by osense in "Lurk – Language for Recursive ZK-SNARKs Inspired by Common Lisp and Scheme"

osense — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:00:06 +0000

Can someone provide a good real-world usecase for zero-knowledge proofs? I struggle a bit with grasping the usefulness of this concept.

New comment by osense in "Internet addiction and the habit of book reading"

osense — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:56:15 +0000

I would recommend The Long Dark and Sable. Heavily focused on exploration and immersion. But really any game with an open world that doesn't hold your hand too much and lets you make your own choices.

New comment by osense in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

osense — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:53:47 +0000

Not to mention that many of the skills needed by the original cavemen to survive are gone in today's society. In other words, if we were to compete with the original cavemen in their environment, we would most likely fare rather poorly, at least in the short term.

Not trying to glorify off-the-grid living or anything, but I think it's interesting to think that in some (very specific) ways, the cavemen were actually superior to us.

New comment by osense in "Yara birkeland, the first autonomous and emission-free containership"

osense — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 15:10:45 +0000

Is this independent of the hull shape and hydrodynamics? Or how does that influence the energy reuirements?

New comment by osense in "Yara birkeland, the first autonomous and emission-free containership"

osense — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 14:11:39 +0000

I'm surprised to see the service speed listed at 6 knots. Seems quite low for a container ship, no? From my limited anecdotal evidence of having cargo ships pass my sailboat, they're usually doing easily 10-15 knots. I wonder if that's related to battery efficiency being better at lower power consumption? In any case, for a short route mostly in shielded waters, as presented in the article, this doesn't seem like a hige downside.

I also have to comment on the "emission-free" moniker. Was the construction of this ship emission-free? Definitely not. Is the maintenance of the ship going to be emission-free? Probably not. I'm not saying we shouldn't be trying to reduce our emissions, but seems like nowadays there's often an almost indistinguishable line between actually trying to produce a sustainable product, and just doing greenwashing to get more government grants and investors onboard.

New comment by osense in "University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights case"

osense — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:33:33 +0000

Great, so instead of being able to count on the justice system we're basicall back to mob justice?

New comment by osense in "Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic"

osense — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:47:22 +0000

As an aside, the article mentions:

> After the material is processed and carved into the desired shape, it is coated in *mineral oil* to extend its lifetime.

I was thinking how, surely, mineral oil isn't food-safe and well-fit for use on a utensil. However, it turns out that while low-grade mineral oil is proved carcinogenic, the high-grade version is not believed to be so, unless dispersed in a mist. And apparently, we consume quite a bit of mineral oil due to it's use in the baking industry (though that figure comes from 1961)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_oil#Food_preparation

New comment by osense in "Attorney General orders unregistered crypto lending platforms to exit NY"

osense — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:48:14 +0000

DeFi isn't limited to stablecoins though. I think the current TVL (total value locked) across all DeFi has to be in tens of billions of dollars ATM, judging from the values I've seen on some of the more popular services.

New comment by osense in "CFTC Orders Tether and Bitfinex to Pay Fines Totaling $42.5M"

osense — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 19:22:47 +0000

Why not just convert to USDC / BUSD / some other stablecoin?

New comment by osense in "Web3 is a stupid idea"

osense — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:35:45 +0000

Middlemen? Since when is a cluster of decentralized nodes a middleman?

Yes, it turns out that making a decentralized system both secure and scalable is a difficult problem, so people have been looking for ways to deal with it and improve on the original solution of Bitcoin (which, by the way, as I'm sure you know, has incredible energy consumption just to validate less than 5 transactions per second. How is that global?). I don't think that organizing decentralized nodes into some sort of bottom-up structure takes away from the P2P nature of blockchains. Just because a solution to a problem is not trivial and easy to understand (which Bitcoin is from the point of view of many more contemporary protocols), does not make it invalid.

At least Solana is a level 1 protocol, as opposed to some other solutions like sharding or zkRollups which add even more complexity.

New comment by osense in "Web3 is a stupid idea"

osense — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:14:10 +0000

I suggest you look into blockchains like Solana and Fantom, there have been some technological advancements lately that allow crazy fast and cheap transactions (with some other downsides of course).

I think of the current state of crypto as a kind of a wild west situation, there's still so much to be discovered and there's a lot of competition between different tokens to see who can do something better than the others. Saying that it's too slow right now doesn't mean it still will be a couple years down the line.

New comment by osense in "Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees"

osense — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:13:34 +0000

You can usually just open the developer console and delete the modal element, however this site also disables scrolling somewhere it seems. Couldn't figure out where quickly, so I just read the article in the element inspector.

Web 2018, everyone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by osense in "Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds"

osense — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:29:12 +0000

Unfortunately, this is not the case:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-repor...

Note that the year of publication is 2010.

New comment by osense in "Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds"

osense — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:31:02 +0000

Thanks. I'm inclined to believe you on this as it seems reasonable, although I have to say that a blogpost is not the most trustworthy source of information :)