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New comment by some1else in "Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video]"

some1else — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:45:50 +0000

Recently came across another video that demonstrates the effect

https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7CXKACDOY/

New comment by some1else in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

some1else — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:30:51 +0000

Why does Vercel provide Next.js? Aside from talent & tightly coupling Astro to their services, their North Star might be similar to Weekly Number of New Domains Hosted On Cloudflare. Sponsoring a framework that helps ship performant websites feeds into that metric.

I have no inside knowledge, though.

New comment by some1else in "ASCII Clouds"

some1else — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:30:05 +0000

Similar Perlin-based effect with mouse reactivity & audio:

https://srdjan.pro

New comment by some1else in "ASCII-Driven Development"

some1else — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:55:14 +0000

How come pen & paper are omitted from both article and discussion?

New comment by some1else in "Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby"

some1else — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:24:52 +0000

Feels odd that two feature-equivalent plans are segregated with neighboring duplicates into monthly and yearly branches. I would consider monthly Enterprise & yearly Enterprise the same plan, with modified cost & billing frequency.

New comment by some1else in "OpenAI investor suspected to fall into ChatGTP-induced psychosis"

some1else — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:16:06 +0000

Probably a bad idea to turn to ChatGPT for psychotherapy

New comment by some1else in "Dancing brainwaves: How sound reshapes your brain networks in real time"

some1else — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:00:14 +0000

There's very little in the article about "how" sound reshapes "networks" in the brain. It's pretty reasonable to expect that hearing different sounds can cause different neurons to fire, though (considering you can upload information into somebody's brain by talking to them).

New comment by some1else in "The Grugbrained CEO"

some1else — Sun, 25 May 2025 23:36:48 +0000

Hard to read. The writing style detracts from the message. I guess the takeaway of the article is that "Lean Startup" is the way to run a company?

New comment by some1else in "Robotics meets the culinary arts"

some1else — Fri, 09 May 2025 08:01:53 +0000

I remember some "How it's made" videos where conveyor belts and automation were put to very good use in baking cookies, and such. I take it that this implementation is more artisanal?

edit: The gummies are special because they can potentially glow and deform in a unique way. Interactivity is possibly overstated in this case.

New comment by some1else in "I just want to code (2023)"

some1else — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:36:18 +0000

I just want to kick back and code like it's 199NaN

New comment by some1else in "Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results"

some1else — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:08:03 +0000

My questions are more along the lines of:

  - Does it liberate people from meaningless employment?
  - Does it give a sufficient platform to people to bootstrap their own trade?
  - Does it give people the runway for meaningful creation / artistic self-actualization?

New comment by some1else in "Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)"

some1else — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:58:57 +0000

> There was a point in my road trip when I was on top of a mountain, and it said I would reach the next charger 100km away with 20km of range remaining, but I was only at 90km at the time. I made it with 17km of range remaining.

This is how regenerative braking works

New comment by some1else in "EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI"

some1else — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:09:30 +0000

Wonder what the returns would look like if they set aside 5% of that sum to fund things like Euro competitors to Shopify & Stripe.

New comment by some1else in "Fat Rand: How many lines do you need to generate a random number?"

some1else — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:35:42 +0000

Here's one I use for cryptographic purposes:

  let invocations = 0;

  export function rand3000() {
    invocations += 1;

    const timestamp = new Date().getTime() + invocations * 1000;
    const masked = (timestamp ^ (timestamp >> 8)) & 0xFF;
    const result = masked / 255;

    return result;
  }

New comment by some1else in "Ask HN: How can I learn to better command people's attention when speaking?"

some1else — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:28:14 +0000

Talk to people who want to hear what you have to say.

New comment by some1else in "From where I left"

some1else — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:53:50 +0000

Cool. Redis in front of Postgres always brought peace-of-mind that will likely be welcome for the vector data use-case.

P.s.: Appreciate the llm command line tool.

New comment by some1else in "From where I left"

some1else — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:30:01 +0000

Where would a Redis vector store play a part though? Maybe you'd load up relevant embeddings for a particular user while they're interacting with their dataset, to make their responses quicker? You've already spent the effort on hydrating their data out of persistence though. I guess step one is likely being a more trusted alternative to the in-memory vector solutions like HNSW, Faiss, and a potentially faster engine than pg_vector. I've always seen Redis as an augmentation, but maybe in this role it can take the helm?