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New comment by superpope99 in "Virtual violin produces realistic sounds"

superpope99 — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:41:35 +0000

The coolest thing about this to me is that he managed to plug a trumpet into the same engine and it sort of... Just worked

Show HN: Jiggle: speed up the download by jiggling the mouse

superpope99 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:26:18 +0000

This is a silly experiment inspired by a thought I always have when downloading large files: I've always wondered if there was any use for a system that only let's downloads progress if the user stays "active" in some way - maybe as a perverse way to ration the large file downloads to the people who really want them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848510

Points: 2

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UK House Price Data

superpope99 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:41:46 +0000

Article URL: https://houseprices.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618035

Points: 1

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New comment by superpope99 in "The product of the railways is the timetable"

superpope99 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:41:35 +0000

I think the "successful arrival" framing isn't accurate. Or at least not comprehensive. Granted, "Commuter travel" vs "Leisure travel" are probably two quite different products.

Marketing guy Rory Sutherland talks about the product of the train journey a lot. I think there's a lot of wisdom in the idea of spending finite budget trying to make the travel experience more enjoyable rather than trying to make the journey quicker. (excuse the shortform slop) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bywe3NUOB1I

New comment by superpope99 in "The product of the railways is the timetable"

superpope99 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:35:28 +0000

huh I find this totally incomprehensible. Is this easier to read if you spend a lot of time looking at wiring diagrams?

New comment by superpope99 in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

superpope99 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:21:25 +0000

have you ever googled a simple maths question? I often come back to that and realise we've been in this era for quite a while. Calculator would probably be 1000x more efficient!

New comment by superpope99 in "Print GitHub Repositories as Books"

superpope99 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:22:45 +0000

why does it need access to my private repositories?

New comment by superpope99 in "No Hello"

superpope99 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:48:24 +0000

counterpoint - Sometimes I do this for myself to prompt myself into a reply when I'm finding it hard to compose the message. Once I've said something, no matter how small, I know I have to follow up within in a couple of minutes. It's like a kind of short-term Ulysses pact.

Also I'd say this depends on your existing work culture - I've been in places where the expectation is that everyone has Slack messages muted. If anything was really that time sensitive it's still possible to pick up the phone.

Musigram – A Browser-Based Spectrogram Tool

superpope99 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:47:47 +0000

Article URL: https://musitools.xyz/musigram/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086443

Points: 1

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New comment by superpope99 in ".less: Crafting .less Docker Containers That Will Blow Your Mind"

superpope99 — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 21:37:15 +0000

what is a .less Docker Container

New comment by superpope99 in "Ask HN: Create audio software akin to physics engines?"

superpope99 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:18:07 +0000

this is incredible - my mind is completely blown at the idea of synthesising audio using full blown fluid mechanics.

New comment by superpope99 in "Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files""

superpope99 — Mon, 20 May 2024 12:05:39 +0000

indeed - and because it's a special character you need to do something like this to replicate the ?? shortcut.

  alias \?\?="gh copilot suggest"

New comment by superpope99 in "Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop"

superpope99 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:30:04 +0000

Nice! I prototyped a manual version of this a while ago. https://twitter.com/conradgodfrey/status/1712564282167300226

I think the thing that strikes me is that the default for chatGPT and the API is to create images in "vivid" mode. There's some interesting discussion on the differences between the "vivid" and "natural" here https://cookbook.openai.com/articles/what_is_new_with_dalle_...

I think these contribute to the images becoming more surreal - would be interested to compare to natural mode - it looks like you're using vivid mode based on the examples?

New comment by superpope99 in "Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota"

superpope99 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:41:32 +0000

what if your great grandmother had Alzheimer's

New comment by superpope99 in "Touch Pianist"

superpope99 — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:28:27 +0000

If you try this on Bluetooth headphones the latency will kill any rubato you're trying to inject into this

New comment by superpope99 in "What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf]"

superpope99 — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 20:28:39 +0000

I believe what he is referring to is the idea that you can't tell the difference between eg. an "augmented second" and a "minor third". One is written e.g. C-D#, one C-Eb. I've always found the distinction between these two types of interval largely pointless - for exactly his reasoning. They sound the same.

Potentially they are useful in discussing theory in writing, potentially they are relevant when tuning using non-equal temperament. But knowing this distinction doesn't help you make music that sounds good. An ear trained pianist, for example, would not distinguish these two intervals, and I would argue that would not be a limiting factor to the quality of music they could produce.

New comment by superpope99 in "OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA"

superpope99 — Wed, 03 May 2023 14:05:35 +0000

Aren't they explicitly using TPUs in their training? Vast AI are only offering GPUs.

New comment by superpope99 in "OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA"

superpope99 — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:27:28 +0000

I'm always curious about the cost of these training runs. Some back of the envelope calculations:

> Overall we reach a throughput of over 1900 tokens / second / TPU-v4 chip in our training run

1 trillion / 1900 = 526315789 chip seconds ~= 150000 chip hours.

Assuming "on-demand" pricing [1] that's about $500,000 training cost.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/pricing

New comment by superpope99 in "W3C Beta Website"

superpope99 — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:11:55 +0000

Do you have have any good examples of useful and visually interesting websites?

New comment by superpope99 in "Gut microbes could drive brain disorders"

superpope99 — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 19:15:45 +0000

There are companies who will sequence your gut microbiome and give you actionable insights - full disclosure I work for one https://joinzoe.com/