Hacker News: torbengee

New comment by torbengee in "Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source"

torbengee — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:20:20 +0000

I've tried so many fonts in my coding life, but I think I've finally found my forever font: JetBrains Mono. Crisp, all characters distinguishable, slightly larger lowercase for better reading ...

I recently compared it once more to others – https://www.programmingfonts.org/ makes it easy to narrow down to your favourites one by one ... JetBrains Mono still wins. :)

New comment by torbengee in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

torbengee — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:59:54 +0000

Inside the house? How? They shit wherever they happen to be ...

New comment by torbengee in "Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms"

torbengee — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:55:19 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by torbengee in "Diagram as Code"

torbengee — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:11:39 +0000

Diagrams from code are nice ... until you want to nudge that one particular little thing ...

New comment by torbengee in "The best $4 ever spent"

torbengee — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:30:27 +0000

Consider the possibility that your brother might be a cat ...

New comment by torbengee in "Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice"

torbengee — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:21:57 +0000

They've figured out how to detect and cut off the flowers. No solution to picking the threads yet.

New comment by torbengee in "Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice"

torbengee — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:15:14 +0000

A couple of years ago I trained some ResNets to detect saffron flowers and their stigmas and then simulated the picking process in Blender. One would have to develop a suitable soft gripper and use a precise pick-and-place robotic arm (delta robots are great for this), but IMHO the amount of manual labour during harvest can be solved with today's technology.

New comment by torbengee in "Show HN: Galactic Compass – an app that points to the galactic center"

torbengee — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:48:53 +0000

Love it. One suggestion: it would be nice if one could choose the galaxy. I'm not from here, so ...

("Check your galactic privilege!") ;)

New comment by torbengee in "Happy Birthday Lemmings"

torbengee — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:20:40 +0000

LOL I just played through Lemmings in one of those DosBox emulators a few days ago ... so much fun!! The music alone brought back some good memories.

New comment by torbengee in "Antagonistic AI"

torbengee — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:06:37 +0000

> if an antagonist bot is mistaken, it's hard to convince it that a different answer is the right answer, it almost always sticks to its original mistake

s/bot//

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by torbengee in "I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test"

torbengee — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:22:55 +0000

If they can't tell whether you'll be a good fit after the screening interview, the tech panel interview, and the interview with the hiring manager and who else, then that says more about the company than about you.

New comment by torbengee in "Reverse Engineering DOS Software as If It Were 1990"

torbengee — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:46:45 +0000

Oh SoftICE, you got me past many shareware nag screens ... :)

New comment by torbengee in "165 m private submersible superyacht"

torbengee — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:05:08 +0000

Oh, to have the privilege of spending my time on a grey brutalist vessel ... all my friends on their slick yachts would be envious, I'm sure.

New comment by torbengee in "Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards"

torbengee — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:51:21 +0000

We'll find out in a year ... boy should be 12 by then.

New comment by torbengee in "Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders"

torbengee — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:27:41 +0000

Uh-oh, I just read Children of Time ... and so it begins ... :-o

New comment by torbengee in "Stable Boy: A Stable Diffusion Gimp Plugin (Powered by A1111's SD WebUI)"

torbengee — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 05:04:24 +0000

AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI is one of the most powerful tools in the generative AI space. And it has an API – which Stable Boy uses to bring SD WebUI's numerous capabilities to GIMP 2.10.

Stable Boy: A Stable Diffusion Gimp Plugin (Powered by A1111's SD WebUI)

torbengee — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 05:04:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tgiesselmann/gimp-stable-boy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33850774

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