Hacker News: shrinks99

New comment by shrinks99 in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

shrinks99 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:03:16 +0000

Brand guidelines and web design pretty much don't exist any more as far as I can tell. Gotta get it out yesteday, and the only way to do that is vibe coding, styling be damned.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

shrinks99 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:55:53 +0000

tangled.org writes issues as atproto data that lives in a user's PDS which is one neat idea.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

shrinks99 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:45:42 +0000

There's absolutely no precident for Blender Foundation sponsorships leading to such things... So no, they probably won't do that.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Claude Design"

shrinks99 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:43:13 +0000

It compiles almost instantly which makes this visual design by Claude instruction viable. That alone is pretty neat.

It can't render all your math in exactly the same way. If you need it to do that, it may not be for you.

New comment by shrinks99 in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

shrinks99 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:24:54 +0000

Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!

New comment by shrinks99 in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"

shrinks99 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:18:45 +0000

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"

New comment by shrinks99 in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

shrinks99 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:34:22 +0000

I got Claude to make me the exact same graph a few weeks ago! I had hypothesized that we'd see a sharp drop off, instead what I found (as this project also shows) is a rather messy average trend of outages that has been going on for some time.

The graph being all nice before the Microsoft acquisition is a fun narrative, until you realize that some products (like actions, announced on October 16th, 2018) didn't exist and therefore had no outages. Easy to correct for by setting up start dates, but not done here. For the rest that did exist (API requests, Git ops, pages, etc) I figured they could just as easily be explained with GitHub improving their observability.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

shrinks99 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:21:13 +0000

I own one of these, it is amazingly well manufactured. Not cheap, but (with the exception of the power button) well made.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Can I run AI locally?"

shrinks99 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:28:42 +0000

Yes, but you can get LLMFit to recommend hardware requirements with `llmfit plan --context `.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth"

shrinks99 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:12:41 +0000

I'm going to guess this is because the image to depth data, while good, is not perfectly accurate and therefore cannot be a shared ground truth between multiple images. At that point what you want is a more traditional structure from motion workflow, which already exists and does a decent job.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics"

shrinks99 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:25:24 +0000

I think SideFX was the first to do that with Houdini. It's one of my favourite micro-UX features of high-end graphics software, coming in at a close second to Nuke's use of both linear and non-linear scales for slider values.

New comment by shrinks99 in "When square pixels aren't square"

shrinks99 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:11:33 +0000

Yes, and when working with footage shot with anamorphic lenses one will have to render the footage as non-square pixels, mapped to the square pixels of our screens, to view it at its intended aspect ratio. This process is done either at the beginning (conforming the footage before sending to editorial / VFX) or end (conforming to square pixels as a final step) of the post-production workflow depending on the show.

Honing rods analyzed with an electron microscope – Scienceofsharp (2018)

shrinks99 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://scienceofsharp.com/2018/08/22/what-does-steeling-do-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260094

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by shrinks99 in "Core Devices keeps stealing our work"

shrinks99 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:20:46 +0000

What a bummer. It seems like what they're asking for here (a written agreement that users will be able to access 3rd party app stores) would be a win win win for Core Devices, Rebble, and users. Core Devices gets to look like a super good guy (ideally driving interest in the product), Rebble gets to look like a huge winner maintaining something for the community (as they are), and users get an open ecosystem.

There's still a chance for a win here, but looks like the door is closing.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Blender Lab"

shrinks99 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:19:28 +0000

Pixar also ships Renderman support for Blender https://rmanwiki-26.pixar.com/space/RFB26

New comment by shrinks99 in "Human Fovea Detector"

shrinks99 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:38:11 +0000

You can see everything in your field of vision, but the area DIRECTLY in the centre has the highest level of detail. This image has high frequency animated details that are not cognisized equally by your entire FOV. The animated bit right in the middle at any given time is where your brain processes the most detail and also where you are looking.

New comment by shrinks99 in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

shrinks99 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:04:18 +0000

Generally yes, but we're still working on it all these years later! This article by Chris Brejon offers a very in-depth look into the differences brought about by different display transforms: https://chrisbrejon.com/articles/ocio-display-transforms-and...

The "best" right now, in my opinion, is AgX, which at this point has various "flavours" that operate slightly differently. You can find a nice comparison of OCIO configs here: https://liamcollod.xyz/picture-lab-lxm/CAlc-D8T-dragon

New comment by shrinks99 in "Affinity Studio now free"

shrinks99 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:17:02 +0000

Most of Blender's icons are actually made in Penpot which is also what the Blender foundation uses for UI prototyping. The brush icons are made in Blender though!

https://penpot.app/penpothub/libraries-templates/blender-con...

https://code.blender.org/2024/11/new-brush-thumbnails/

New comment by shrinks99 in "Affinity Studio now free"

shrinks99 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:47:45 +0000

Serif (I guess Canva now) maintains their own which uses the Lensfun database.

New comment by shrinks99 in "Affinity Studio now free"

shrinks99 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:47:03 +0000

Yeah, but Lensfun (the library they use for this) doesn't have anywhere to donate.