Hacker News: ricochet11

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)

New comment by ricochet11 in "China's startup ecosystem has almost completely collapsed in the last 5 years"

ricochet11 — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:09:40 +0000

source? or did you mean $1000/month?

New comment by ricochet11 in "Singing synthesis as a new musical instrument (2012)"

ricochet11 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:32:51 +0000

for people interested you should check out holly+:

https://youtu.be/5cbCYwgQkTE?feature=shared&t=334

New comment by ricochet11 in "Fear of AI just killed a useful tool"

ricochet11 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 11:25:22 +0000

its sad he took the site down, it looks like a neat project. it seems to be fair use, so it really is just an issue of consent and keeping people happy. the issue is some people will always be fearful/miserable. should the rest of us be held back in exploring culture because they refuse to play?

anyway i'm sure there will be ten other similar sites by the end of the week...

New comment by ricochet11 in "FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks"

ricochet11 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 13:40:44 +0000

A stunning end. those last minutes everyone had assumed it was a draw and Ding had the courage to keep pushing.

New comment by ricochet11 in "OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over"

ricochet11 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:27:13 +0000

Feels very much like we are entering the Happy Vertical People Transporters era.

How long till the air con goes on strike for miserable working conditions?

"Brain the size of a planet and they ask me write a lesson plan in the style of a pirate" - chatgpt5, probably...

New comment by ricochet11 in "I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog"

ricochet11 — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:01:26 +0000

theres lots of online services too if you dont have the hardware - e.g. https://www.astria.ai/

New comment by ricochet11 in "Meme group on Discord is focus of uproar over leaked Pentagon documents"

ricochet11 — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:34:43 +0000

if only they would read Baldwins work, but being an angry and lost online today seems to breed a hatred of someone who cared to talk about the lives of black gay men.

New comment by ricochet11 in "The U.S. cracked a $3.4B crypto heist and Bitcoin’s anonymity"

ricochet11 — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:17:59 +0000

fun thread: https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1641927617216655360?s=20

(corruption part starts at https://twitter.com/tayvano_/status/1641927647440830465?s=20)

New comment by ricochet11 in "Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping"

ricochet11 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 10:10:34 +0000

I recently got into CNC machining, so tried searching twitter to find some accounts to follow. boy was i surprised by that #cnc hashtag.

New comment by ricochet11 in "BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4"

ricochet11 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:50:21 +0000

Similar vibes:

"The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings. Heretofore, most interaction between men and computers has been slowed down by the need to reduce all communication to written statements that can be typed" - Sutherland