Hacker News: silvertab

New comment by silvertab in "OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework"

silvertab — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:56:46 +0000

I think they might be in the process of re-designing the site and/or moving docs because it all used to work not that long ago, but the site design was completely different last time I checked.

New comment by silvertab in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

silvertab — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:34:21 +0000

> It seems like you already understand the differences.

Honestly I was about to ask the same questions as the parent comment. Whenever I'm interested in something I usually look at what available tools exists out there already; seeing a new tool mentioned that I've never heard of before, my reflex is to ask "oh neat, what makes it different than the existing tools?". I don't think the question was ill-intended, just genuine curiosity; assuming that you wrote your library because you had no idea build123d existed rather than because you were unsatisfied with it and wanted to tackle the problem differently is a bit of a leap.

New comment by silvertab in "OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera"

silvertab — Wed, 03 May 2023 15:52:05 +0000

Yup, that's very possible; when I do manual color inversion I usually fill a layer with the film base color, and use the "subtract" blend mode to account for it, else I get much "cooler" colors not unlike what is shown in the demo movie.

New comment by silvertab in "OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera"

silvertab — Wed, 03 May 2023 15:45:44 +0000

I use a sous-vide circulator to get the products ~1F above the recommended 102F for the shortest possible development time (3.5min) and never had any problems! The kit I use (cinestill) is a 2-bath process (Developer, and Blix) and not accounting for the time to get the products to 103F, developing a roll of C41 film takes less time than B&W and gives me more consistent results.

New comment by silvertab in "OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera"

silvertab — Wed, 03 May 2023 11:42:53 +0000

Weird, c41 is an extremely standardized process. Developing times, temperatures, results etc. are very consistent. I get the exact same results by developing it at home than when I get it done at a lab. B&W is a lot more subjective and most labs will charge you more to develop it because it has more variables and can't be as easily automated.

Scanning and color reversal is where you'll probably see a difference for color negatives, but development, if done properly, should be very similar.

New comment by silvertab in "An analysis of Lionel Messi"

silvertab — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 23:40:47 +0000

I think he's referring to the video at the top which is unavailable (for me anyway, in Canada). The rest of the article however is available.

New comment by silvertab in "DEC64: Decimal Floating Point"

silvertab — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 20:29:42 +0000

"An appeal to authority is an argument from the fact that a person judged to be an authority affirms a proposition to the claim that the proposition is true."

I don't think the person you replied to was claiming that DEC64 was good or bad because it was written by Crockford? Didn't feel like he was passing any judgement, merely pointing out who the author was...

New comment by silvertab in "Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training"

silvertab — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:43:34 +0000

Yeah I was having the same issue, however, it works in the demo when I got to the main page here: http://www.spreeder.com/

New comment by silvertab in "Show HN: ThreesJS – iOS game Threes for the browser"

silvertab — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:18:27 +0000

Agreed. It seems like such a small detail, and yet, playing this web version, I realize how much I depend on it!

New comment by silvertab in "Put.io"

silvertab — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:52:18 +0000

One advantage is to instantly stream video files for most torrents. If someone else on put.io downloaded a given torrent before you, it's available for streaming in mp4 immediately (and that's the case for most torrents I've added to put.io)

New comment by silvertab in "Put.io"

silvertab — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:48:32 +0000

Interesting, they used to offer a 10GB plan for $5 (which I've always been on: http://d.pr/i/WDEK ) . Apparently it's not available anymore! However, I was never asked to upgrade my plan (I didn't even know the plan I was on didn't exist anymore before today!)

New comment by silvertab in "Put.io"

silvertab — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:43:36 +0000

Another interesting option is Beamer[1]. Bought it a while ago and I have nothing but good things to say about it... Just drag any video on it and stream it to your AppleTV in seconds.

[1] http://beamer-app.com/

New comment by silvertab in "Put.io"

silvertab — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:39:56 +0000

Wow, a bit surprised to hear that! What kind of tricks are we talking about? I've been on their $5 plan for over a year and have never heard anything from them about upgrading!

New comment by silvertab in "Put.io"

silvertab — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:30:17 +0000

I just visit put.io from my iPhone or iPad and from there I stream the video and send it to the Apple TV via Airplay. There's also a couple of free 3rd party native iOS apps that let you connect to your put.io account, and stream the videos, but they're not really necessary. Never had much luck with AirPlay mirroring with my Macbook Air, it's always laggy in my experience.

So yeah, you do need either an iPad or iPhone to do it, however Put.io has a Roku app if you have one of these.

New comment by silvertab in "Put.io"

silvertab — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:06:17 +0000

put.io does have some interesting features in my opinion. One of them being that it will convert any video to mp4 which I can then stream directly to my Apple TV.

They also allow for external subtitle tracks to be added and again, it works with the Apple TV (something that other alternatives were never able to do).

Also, judging by the percentage of torrents I add on put.io that are instantly completed, I guess they have a sizeable user-base... That wasn't always the case with the seedboxes I've tried before (I'd say more than 90% of the torrents I add on put.io are completed, converted, and instantly streamable to the Apple TV)

New comment by silvertab in "Color Test"

silvertab — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:10:26 +0000

I scored a 97... (I am red/green color blind). Here's my results (still think it looks fine looking back at it haha): http://d.pr/i/h3OT

New comment by silvertab in "OS X - Adjust the volume in 1/4 increments"

silvertab — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:32:06 +0000

Another useful tip, using only the shift key will adjust it silently.

New comment by silvertab in "Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard"

silvertab — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:00:46 +0000

I may be missing something here but, where did anyone mention riding a longboard on the sidewalk? I live in a big city and when a street doesn't have a dedicated cycle lane (shared by not only bicycles but, rollerblades and longboards), these people just ride between parked and moving cars... I don't see how a longboard is more of a nuisance than a bicycle really? I've seen people on bicycles going at about 5mph, slowing down all the traffic, and I've seen people riding longboards at ~15-20mph (and vice versa). Sure riding a longboard on the sidewalk is not only a nuisance, it's probably a bad idea for anyone involved... but I'm not sure why they couldn't be allowed to ride where bicycles are allowed to ride?

New comment by silvertab in "WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)"

silvertab — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:31:26 +0000

I think his point was more that, when it's 7AM in PST, it's already 10AM in EST and ~3-4PM in Europe... that makes it hard for PST to "get the early jump" considering everyone else in Europe/America is most likely already awake...

New comment by silvertab in "A Private PaaS with Mongrel2 and ZeroMQ"

silvertab — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:03 +0000

It's also a popular French name (I know 2 Loics personally...) No idea why this particular user uses this username but, it might not be for the reasons you think...