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I Started with 12 Names. An LLM Sieve Found the Rest

shawnzam — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:14:52 +0000

Article URL: https://zamechek.com/blog/the-sieve-growing-from-a-seed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272374

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shawnzam in "Show HN: A field recording of the underground. The engineers and producers"

shawnzam — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:38:46 +0000

https://zamechek.com/blog/the-sieve-growing-from-a-seed/

Show HN: A field recording of the underground. The engineers and producers

shawnzam — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:36:31 +0000

Article URL: https://2inch.fm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48680596

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by shawnzam in "I Started with 12 Names. An LLM Sieve Found the Rest"

shawnzam — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:51:54 +0000

I seeded a map of indie record-makers with 12 names I trusted, then let an LLM sieve (filter, never author) grow it to 469 verifiable nodes. Live at 2inch.fm.

I Started with 12 Names. An LLM Sieve Found the Rest

shawnzam — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:51:54 +0000

Article URL: https://zamechek.com/blog/the-sieve-growing-from-a-seed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676951

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by shawnzam in "Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed"

shawnzam — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:44:43 +0000

Yes, each run generates a `.cue` file.

`node src/scroll-video.mjs --script examples/wharton-faculty-demo.cue`

If the cue file does not specify out:, the MP4 is written next to the cue file with the same basename.

New comment by shawnzam in "Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed"

shawnzam — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:57:03 +0000

I added a demo

Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed

shawnzam — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:26:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/upenn/web-scroll-video

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982763

Points: 40

# Comments: 17

New comment by shawnzam in "Show HN: Keynot – Kill PowerPoint with HTML"

shawnzam — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:42:36 +0000

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs seemingly upstaged this.

Etymology of "Foo"

shawnzam — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:37:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907099

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Keynot – Kill PowerPoint with HTML

shawnzam — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:05:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/shawnzam/keynot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773828

Points: 4

# Comments: 2