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New comment by tehnub in "The Artist Who Colored Ghibli"

tehnub — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:40:21 +0000

Another film she did the colors on is Whisper of the Heart. It's a Ghibli film that was written by Miyazaki, but directed by Yoshifumi Kondō. The colors are truly outstanding. Scenes at dawn, lamplit rooms, overcast school days, and fantasy sequences all look just wonderful.

Example: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/46202

New comment by tehnub in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

tehnub — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:30:36 +0000

Such excellent writing. I also read the linked post from 2018 near the bottom. When every other thing you see on here is Claude-inflected if not Claude-written, encountering a blog like this is an occasion to cherish.

Scaling Laws, Carefully

tehnub — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:55:50 +0000

Article URL: https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-06-24-scaling-laws/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689744

Points: 88

# Comments: 20

New comment by tehnub in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

tehnub — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:27:50 +0000

Indeed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)

Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard and Future of Gaming [video]

tehnub — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:19:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9rF1CSSh-w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665772

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tehnub in "Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and Hypothermic Arrest"

tehnub — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:21:18 +0000

Reminds me of the extended description of what it might be like to drown in an ice lake in the book Stella Maris — it wouldn't be quick.

New comment by tehnub in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

tehnub — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:49:11 +0000

Opus 4.7 did this in my code and I had never seen it before

New comment by tehnub in "Googlebook"

tehnub — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:04:34 +0000

It's a common rhetorical technique that never convinces me. I'm not convinced this guy's anecdote is an exception to some rule.

New comment by tehnub in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

tehnub — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:55:06 +0000

>If the models are good enough, you will simply get outcompeted by engineers willing to trade their long-term cognitive ability for a short-term lucrative career

> (2) AI-users thus become less effective engineers over time, as their technical skills atrophy

Wouldn't (2) imply that if everyone just used AI there eventually would come a time when there aren't engineers who will outcompete you (because their skills are so atrophied)?

New comment by tehnub in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"

tehnub — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:58:10 +0000

Interesting, enjoyable post. Like the bit about data modeling. I've been dabbling in some OCaml and that kind of modeling is the best part. Also interesting to learn of CAMLBOY. Feedback to the author: Skip the AI edit step. I'd have preferred grammar errors or inelegance to what we have here, which is a bit stale.

How to Build an Agent Or: The Emperor Has No Clothes (2025)

tehnub — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:40:58 +0000

Article URL: https://ampcode.com/notes/how-to-build-an-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817255

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Books I Like: SICP

tehnub — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://users.cms.caltech.edu/~mvanier/blog/sicp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809508

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tehnub in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

tehnub — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:26:22 +0000

I just read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca

It seems like the Incans were overconfident and didn't expect a surprise attack (didn't have their weapons, only a small retinue around the rule in ceremonial garb instead of armor), and then the 8000 warriors were outside and didn't even attempt to fight the Spaniards because they were so demoralized.

New comment by tehnub in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

tehnub — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:51:53 +0000

Brilliant

>Sure, if you mess up and one of the houses collapses then that'll manifest as an outcome that impacts the home owner negatively.

lol

New comment by tehnub in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

tehnub — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:36:35 +0000

There are plenty of furniture makers that use all hardwood construction. It's just that they charge like $10K USD for a cabinet

New comment by tehnub in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

tehnub — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:57:13 +0000

This incident was from 2014. I wonder how many OKCupid employees and shareholders from then are still at/invested in the company. What do corporate punishments do if the people who made the mistake aren't even there to receive them?

New comment by tehnub in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

tehnub — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:47:36 +0000

I've been using jj, which apparently is also faster than jq https://github.com/tidwall/jj

New comment by tehnub in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

tehnub — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:43:08 +0000

There's probably tons of stuff people use that is way slower than it needs to be but speed isn't one of their self-reported burning problems because they don't even realize it could be faster. pip vs uv?

New comment by tehnub in "Rendezvous with Rama"

tehnub — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:11:35 +0000

Nah we're not doing prequel hate in 2026

New comment by tehnub in "Why Go Can't Try"

tehnub — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:57:46 +0000

Why Article By AI?