Hacker News: shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shannifinHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:32:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"]]>Just a letter from the pope, often about how Catholic teaching relates or applies to some modern issue. They present nothing new in terms of Catholic teaching itself, but, through the pope's authority, serve as important guidance for the faithful.

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 03:19:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188796shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188796https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188796<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Shall I implement it? No"]]>Perhaps better to redirect with further instructions... "No, let's consider some other approaches first"

]]>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:42:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360098shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360098https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360098<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Why High FOV Sucks – Fixing It with Panini Projection"]]>Nice! I wanted to do this sort of thing when I was playing around with 3D game programming in the late 90s / early 2000s, to capture how a wider FOV looks in movies. Alas, computers were too slow and I was too inexperienced anyway.

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:20:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143226shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143226https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143226<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "How the cochlea computes (2024)"]]>I've always thought the basilar membrane was a fascinating piece of biological engineering. Whether or not the difference between its behavior vs FT really matters depends on the context. Audio processing on a computer, FFT is often great. Trying to understand / model human sound perception, particularly in relation to time, FFT has weaknesses.

]]>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:52:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768238shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768238https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768238<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "The Tonnetz"]]>Learned about the tonnetz (among other models) from the book "Audacious Euphony"... Challenging (and unfortunately too expensive now), but fascinating stuff...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/019977269X

]]>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:33:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677220shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677220https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677220<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"]]>Yep. He tries text in another video by flipping pixels for one or more frames, so the words disappear very quickly. Definitely harder to read, especially longer words: https://youtu.be/EDQeArrqRZ4

]]>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:45:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291882shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291882https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291882<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"]]>Others have mentioned Branta Games, but I first saw the effect here: https://youtu.be/TdTMeNXCnTs

]]>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:29:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45285409shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45285409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45285409<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?"]]>True, I was rather pointing out that being able to parse symbolic language deterministically doesn't imply that we could then "reason" deterministically in general; the reasoning would still need to involve some level of stochasticism. Whether or not that's a problem in practice depends on specifics.

]]>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:11:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911392shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911392https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911392<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?"]]>Problem is, even with symbolic logic, reasoning is not completely deterministic. Whether one can get to a set of given axioms from a given proposition is sometimes undecidable.

]]>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:38:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44904009shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44904009https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44904009<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry"]]>Hmmm... Nothing made me cry. I will diminish and go into the west.

]]>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:39:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751454shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751454https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751454<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News"]]>Ha! Fun stuff. While some ideas are actually intriguing, many if its suggestions seem to be overly vague jumbles of common phrases and technology. "AI-powered databases to leverage personalized accessibility for team management..." Lol. Still fun though.

]]>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:58:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437494shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437494https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437494<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics"]]>Some little audio examples would also be nice so visitors don't have to scroll through the video to hear them.

Still, awesome work!

]]>Fri, 02 May 2025 19:54:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873992shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873992https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873992<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Merry Christmas Everyone"]]>Christmas 1996, I was 11. We finally got a modern computer with Windows 95, a CD-ROM drive, speakers, Oregon Trail 2... It was magical! The only time I ever wept with joy over a Christmas present.

]]>Wed, 25 Dec 2024 11:46:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42508339shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42508339https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42508339<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning Magic: Transform Any Voice in 15 Seconds"]]>They're great! They just cost too much for how much output I want.

]]>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:27:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42263259shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42263259https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42263259<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning"]]>I don't have much real use for celebrity voices (other than fun experimentation), but I'd love to be able to clone my own voice and character voices for the purposes of creating audiobooks / audioplays without having to pay monthly fees with monthly usage limits. So I'm excited by this sort of project!

P.S. Are there any tools for synthetic voice creation? Maybe melding two or more voices together, or just exploring latent space? Would be fun for character creation to create completely new voices.

]]>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:03:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262619shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262619<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Show HN: HN Update – Hourly News Broadcast of Top HN Stories"]]>Was thinking the same thing. Very fun idea, nice work!

]]>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:05:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41898864shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41898864https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41898864<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space"]]>Yes

]]>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:40:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872464shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872464https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872464<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon"]]>The real question is why people enjoy listening to other people's useless chitchat. Humans are weird.

]]>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 02:27:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41762239shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41762239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41762239<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space"]]>The Ctrl +/- zooming? It's not smooth, it's limited, it's just font resizing, not zooming back from a plane as you'd get in 3D, where the center would remain constant. Scrolling still required for navigating (if I zoom out at the top and want to zoom in to the bottom, I still have to scroll down to it), and still limited to one file at a time.

Likely not technically feasible at the moment (without sacrificing font quality and too many other features of code editing)

]]>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:25:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753046shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753046https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753046<![CDATA[New comment by shannifin in "炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space"]]>Would love something like this in VS Code so I could smoothly zoom in and out of my code rather than scrolling and clicking tabs.

]]>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:39:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748317shannifinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748317https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748317