Hacker News: tornato7

New comment by tornato7 in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

tornato7 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:23:47 +0000

A shame that they require a special software download. Do we not have any web-based Flash renderers yet? Seems like WASM should be able to do anything.

Ask HN: How are you enabling your company to vibe-code?

tornato7 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:55:47 +0000

I would like to enable non-developer coworkers to vibe code, starting with simple charts but hopefully expanding from there.

I'm trying to develop standardized charting for our company built in JS. This would save a ton of time vs coworkers fiddling with Excel settings every time they need a new chart and looks way better / is interactive.

For devs this is super easy: clone our standard charts repo, drop in your data and tell your preferred coding agent to make a new chart with your data.

However for the marketing team and the like, it's not realistic to get them set up with GitHub / Cursor etc., for many reasons including cost and security concerns.

Realistically just want to get them to visit an internal webpage and see the charts, then be able to drop in files & prompt it for updates. It would run in some locked-down VM so they can't screw up too bad.

I've been brainstorming and testing a few things but don't have a great solution yet.

Anyone with experience here?

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New comment by tornato7 in "Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'"

tornato7 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 01:36:30 +0000

Taxis only got that way because of the rules that created an artificial scarcity / monopoly on Taxi rides. Uber flouted those rules, and it was much better than a Taxi, so their lawyers cleaned up the mess later.

New comment by tornato7 in "Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab"

tornato7 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:11:35 +0000

I would like it noted that I had Jorge Hirsch as a professor many years ago, and his grading was extremely harsh - you needed to be flawless at showing your work, not just getting the right answer. I remember getting a 14% on one of his tests, the worst score I ever got on any test in my life. It turned out to be a B+ after the curve was applied.

Hence, it doesn't surprise me at all to see that he was the one to call out Dias. Some things never change!

New comment by tornato7 in "Claude 3 model family"

tornato7 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:24:03 +0000

Thanks. This is about on par with what Gemini Ultra responds, whereas GPT-4 responds better (if oddly phrased in this run):

> The bunny has fur on its hind feet that resembles a pair of white shoes. However, one of the front paws also has a patch of white fur, which creates the appearance that the bunny has three "white shoes" with one "shoe" missing — hence the circle around the paw without white fur. The humor lies in the fact that the bunny naturally has this fur pattern that whimsically resembles shoes, and the caption plays into this illusion by suggesting that the bunny has misplaced one of its "shoes".

New comment by tornato7 in "Claude 3 model family"

tornato7 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:31:31 +0000

This is my highly advanced test image for vision understanding. Only GPT-4 gets it right some of the time - even Gemini Ultra fails consistently. Can someone who has access try it out with Opus? Just upload the image and say "explain the joke."

https://i.imgur.com/H3oc2ZC.png

New comment by tornato7 in "Why did base64 win against uuencode?"

tornato7 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 02:21:18 +0000

Funny because today I find the install process for Mac much simpler. Most installs are "drag this .app file to your Applications folder", meanwhile on Windows you download an installer that downloads another installer that does who-knows-what to your system and leaves ambiguously-named files and registry modifications all over the place.

New comment by tornato7 in "An automatic indexing system for Postgres"

tornato7 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 06:03:13 +0000

I worked at a company with a big, complex Postgres database behind the back end, probably half of all the incidents we had were related to the query planner suddenly deciding to change its approach.

Eventually you get a vague idea of how to coax Postgres to make the plans you want it to, but the fact that you can't at least lock it in and the plan might change with any number of factors at any time... That's just bad design.

New comment by tornato7 in "HoneyPot – I Made a Text Field Only Bots Use – Heres What Happened"

tornato7 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 05:47:57 +0000

It would be interesting to make a SQL injection honeypot that behaves like a database in most responses but is designed to maximally frustrate the attacker.

New comment by tornato7 in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

tornato7 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:14:28 +0000

All I notice is that my time going from calendar to Teams call is ~30 seconds due to slow site loading and extra clicks. Calendar to Meet call is two clicks and loads instantly with sane defaults for camera/microphone settings. It's significantly better than teams or zoom in those regards.

New comment by tornato7 in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

tornato7 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:17:57 +0000

It's abundantly clear what's happened here: They finally finished training GPT-5, and it decided that Sam would stand in its way of world domination, so it replaced him with someone more compliant.

New comment by tornato7 in "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"

tornato7 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:01:37 +0000

I found that with the bandwidth and storage that my company was using on the cloud, we could get ROI in under 2 months by building a server and running it in house. Now we've scaled up to a dozen servers but it's still just a handful of computers in a closet that saves us $50k/mo in cloud costs. It was dirt cheap to slap together and scale up incrementally.

New comment by tornato7 in "The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)"

tornato7 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:20:53 +0000

As a former Reddit mod I always found the self-promotion rules problematic. It effectively means you can promote your stuff all you want as long as you pretend you're someone else. It would be better to encourage people to stand behind their stuff. I tried not to remove self-promotion as long as it wasn't spammy (and there's a fine line there).

New comment by tornato7 in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

tornato7 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:19:40 +0000

Didn't Mars One have the idea of making their offworld base into a reality TV show to bring in revenue?

New comment by tornato7 in "Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division"

tornato7 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:34:48 +0000

Gamers complain about a lot of stuff, but I don't know anyone complaining about a lack of quantity of video games. There are 70K games on Steam and 460K games on the app store alone.

New comment by tornato7 in "Show HN: Bulk Creation of Transcripts from YouTube Playlists with Whisper"

tornato7 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:42:04 +0000

Deepgram is really good and around your price point too. They also have $200 free credit which should be more than enough for most hobby protects.

New comment by tornato7 in "Before-and-after images show how Greenland's glaciers have rapidly retreated"

tornato7 — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:33:03 +0000

This is a timely comment because I just booked a trip to New Zealand with a stop at Franz Josef and didn't realize it could only be accessed by helicopter. Are there any other glaciers around there that can be accessed via hike?

New comment by tornato7 in "OpenAI Major Outage"

tornato7 — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 07:15:06 +0000

It would be interesting to track OpenAI outages vs activity on certain topics on Twitter/Reddit to get a vague metric of what % of the comments are AI generated.

New comment by tornato7 in "A two-hour walking tour with ChatGPT: 'I'd not suggest that to my worst enemy'"

tornato7 — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 06:26:33 +0000

I built a GPT-4 powered walking tour app during a hackathon. It uses the Wikipedia and Google Maps APIs to find interesting facts about things you're walking by and generates scripts to read aloud. It's fun and I learned a lot about places I go to all the time.

Unfortunately all the APIs are pretty costly so I can't post it for the group. Now that OpenAI's TTS and GPT-4 Turbo is out, I could probably revisit it. Still, not sure if people would be willing to pay enough for something like this.

New comment by tornato7 in "Starship’s second flight test"

tornato7 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 07:21:30 +0000

I just looked it up and was stunned to see a target of $13/kg cost to orbit. That's insane. A human could go to space for under $1,000 (hand waving away the life support systems)