Hacker News: ricochet11

Recently made a stargazing app on Apple Watch, vanity address miner, playing with gameboy roms, and have been making and testing a social photo game that I’ll hopefully make public next month as a PWA

Dark Bio [pdf]

ricochet11 — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:33:40 +0000

Article URL: https://dark.bio/whitepaper.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277289

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Greek Alphabet Cards

ricochet11 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159354

Points: 155

# Comments: 73

New comment by ricochet11 in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

ricochet11 — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:52:35 +0000

This relates to what the first poster said though, at these quantities “just give it away” is incredibly expensive. Trucks, workers, cleaning, fuel, etc.

Just give it away still requires someone to pay for it

The Final Form of Software Development

ricochet11 — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:22:31 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.zksecurity.xyz/posts/end-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993951

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by ricochet11 in "Where the goblins came from"

ricochet11 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:53:48 +0000

Wow fascinating I’d have thought they were a lot older.

New comment by ricochet11 in "Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout"

ricochet11 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:25:50 +0000

Maybe they can work out some ZKproofs of ID thing and it becomes more palatable. I know there’s people in the crypto world trying to solve problems like that. At the moment kyc results in private data later being stolen or sold - and buying stolen ids to register is too easy. But maybe oneday we can prove who we are (or prove unique human) without needing to trust the authority of the site owner at the same time

New comment by ricochet11 in "A Call for New Aesthetics"

ricochet11 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:22:27 +0000

mixed feelings on this. One one hand very cool that people with money are willing to fund new ideas in art (supposedly, let’s see what happens). But on the other hand a lot of people, with interesting ideas, will be put off by how this is presented (which sounds a bit like nothing good had happened in art since Bauhaus?). It feels a little like Paul Grahams book on hackers and painters -well meaning but disconnected from many conversations on art (maybe due to the whole Silicon Valley startup life being pretty devoid of knowledge of art).

Like do they want to discuss aesthetics- or do they watch something punchy to put their name behind as being the “new thing” like the YBAs. They talk about influencing design and culture at large. It sounds like they want Kanye West? (But more polite maybe).

IMO if you want someone who’s pretty clear spoken on their values and influential and supportive of younger artists and bridging professional world with diy scene, then someone like Ryan Gander is a good choice to talk to about that. Maybe artangle, eflux etc. They’re well established but still down to earth in my experience.

An open call like this is gonna attract a lot of applications and a weird crossover of people in tech who think they know art because they took an art class in their compsci major and will write applications on how AI and robotics is the new big movement and it’ll be inconsequential.

Though I’m being very cynical I do wish them best and would be very happy to see this as a first step to healthy funding of a very strangulated art scene (outside of the art market nonsense)

New comment by ricochet11 in "Why “negative vectors” can't delete data in FAISS – but weighted kernels can"

ricochet11 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:57:33 +0000

This isn’t just X, it’s Y.

New comment by ricochet11 in "TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression"

ricochet11 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:56:00 +0000

Perhaps it’s an issue is that text often has directionality.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17505

New comment by ricochet11 in "iPhone Pocket"

ricochet11 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:17:54 +0000

I once paid $1000 for some sneakers. I’m still regularly wearing them 7 years later. I’ve bought $50/$100 and they never last that long. It was an insane purchase at the time, done in a moment of jet lagged madness when my shoes fell apart in an airport. But over time it’s turned out to be a great investment. Smart, comfortable, well made.

New comment by ricochet11 in "NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)"

ricochet11 — Thu, 08 May 2025 01:47:18 +0000

if they can ban something then everyone else gets worried of being banned and everyone plays it safe.

New comment by ricochet11 in "Show HN: X402 – an open standard for internet native payments"

ricochet11 — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:52:22 +0000

this looks great, gonna look into writing something to use with fastapi

New comment by ricochet11 in "Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs"

ricochet11 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:15:32 +0000

i’ve seen that with deepseek

New comment by ricochet11 in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

ricochet11 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:51:13 +0000

those thinking this is a criminal who shouldn’t be released i recommend reading this thread https://x.com/tayvano_/status/1641931312385888256

New comment by ricochet11 in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

ricochet11 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:16:40 +0000

i’m using ponyai everyday here it’s great (China)