Hacker News: tuvix

New comment by tuvix in "Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS"

tuvix — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:23:46 +0000

From what I remember reading it was pretty limited and only applied to context menu actions.

I was pretty disappointed when I saw that, but they’ll probably expand it

New comment by tuvix in "Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS"

tuvix — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:46:24 +0000

Haha yeah I think I’m mostly speaking from nostalgia. I do remember wrestling with knobs in Massive or whatever free VSTi back in the day was pretty terrible.

I can’t deny I love the look, though.

New comment by tuvix in "Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS"

tuvix — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:23:57 +0000

Reminds me of VST GUIs, looks great! But, like other commenters have noted, I think a number of these controls might be desktop only, which is totally fine. There’s too much UI stuff centered around mobile anyway these days

New comment by tuvix in "monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter"

tuvix — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:32:09 +0000

Are there significant differences re: sandboxing between Lua and monty? Just curious if there are any holes that a Lua sandbox has that monty might account for

New comment by tuvix in "EasyEffects can massively improve laptop speaker sound quality"

tuvix — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:52:25 +0000

I also often need EQ in the reverse situation, when I need less bass through my nice studio monitors when watching TV. Otherwise I’ll be watching Star Trek with dialogue at a normal volume and BOOM, the loudest photon torpedo you’ve ever heard.

New comment by tuvix in "Previewing the Model Hardware Standard"

tuvix — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:00:57 +0000

In the context of lab hardware there’s a ton of proprietary software and barriers to automating things. I think this is less about how to communicate, and more guaranteeing that “yes, this piece of hardware can interface with an agent” and is meant to do so. Kind of like using MCP vs letting your agent make raw HTTP requests

New comment by tuvix in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

tuvix — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:14:20 +0000

Agreed that DuckDB as a server feels far from their initial mission, but how does async IO divert from it?

New comment by tuvix in "New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

tuvix — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:11:50 +0000

I think the fact that these kinds of companies were portrayed as such in fiction kind of prevents them from adopting the cool aesthetic. Like they need something to separate them from being the exact image of an evil futuristic corporation that lives in our heads. Or else we might actually recognize what they are.

New comment by tuvix in "Felony Bench"

tuvix — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:11:25 +0000

So this is just a collection of citations to places where misaligned or illegal things happened in the real world?

Isn’t this affected heavily by adoption of a model? I feel like this might as well be a proxy for how popular a model is.

In any case it’s an interesting concept for a benchmark.

New comment by tuvix in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

tuvix — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:24:14 +0000

DuckDB is an in-process (now I guess less so with Quack) OLAP database for analytical workloads. PostgreSQL or MariaDB are OLTP row-oriented databases that are great for application/transaction-focused workloads but are less great when you want to query across a giant amount of data.

New comment by tuvix in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

tuvix — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:29:19 +0000

I don’t think I really agree with the author’s approach here, but I will say LLMs have been a huge help to me as I’ve been reviewing linear algebra and diving into signal processing. Anything in a textbook that I don’t fully grasp or am confused about, I just take a snapshot or copy paste then ask a model to derive it or explain it in different terms.

It reduces friction a ton, but at the end of the day I’m not skipping anything.

New comment by tuvix in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

tuvix — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:03:17 +0000

I’m not talking about the actions we take or how we might perform at certain tasks, I’m talking about how our brains actually work. My point is that we have no idea how I’m able to imagine an apple and see it in my mind’s eye. It’s basically biological magic to us at this point.

There are processes at work there that we don’t even have the language to describe.

New comment by tuvix in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

tuvix — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:28:20 +0000

All arguments like this boil down to semantics at a certain point, but yes large language models can “intuit” because they can generalize between examples. The issue then becomes how you pack new examples into context.

Humans can “intuit” based on a much larger, if not unlimited, context. Also I just want to say that human cognition is something so insanely complex and deep that we will not understand it at all in my lifetime. To attribute all, or really any, aspects of human cognition to a machine at this point is silly to me.

New comment by tuvix in "Grok Build is open source"

tuvix — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:24 +0000

I would imagine the extension system they built would be much more difficult to manage. They could have opted for Lua, though, I suppose.

New comment by tuvix in "Backtrack-Free Cursive"

tuvix — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:32:26 +0000

I’ve often thought of this kind of concept for a programming language.

Maybe it’s the qwerty keyboard or my bad typing habits but certain characters break my flow when typing.

New comment by tuvix in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

tuvix — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:46:31 +0000

Agreed, but I do think this is a wholly different kind of hype. With crypto currencies it was the promise of modernizing value exchange, with some zealots promising the end of traditional currency.

With this, I’m hearing (from supposedly reputable publications, in addition to random people) that this is going to end knowledge work in general and take out a large percentage of the world’s labor force. I’m being told to pick up a trade, and that the career I have and the knowledge I’ve gained is now worthless.

The worst part seems to be that it’s pretty much impossible to quantify any kind of impact these tools will have until after the impact is actually felt. We’ve been in limbo while the tech sector is just rotting.

New comment by tuvix in "Prefer Strict Tables in SQLite"

tuvix — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:43:37 +0000

I’m kind of curious why the decision to have implicit casting like this was made in the first place. I can’t think of a single upside other than not having to type out cast(foo as bar)

New comment by tuvix in "A bug which affected only left handed users"

tuvix — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:05:05 +0000

Not sure who you’re following on LinkedIn but this is most assuredly not the case for me or anyone I know

New comment by tuvix in "TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type"

tuvix — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:33:06 +0000

Extremely cool. This got me thinking that I would love to have a mermaid-like dsl for creating full tabs and apparently it exists![0]

[0] https://github.com/0xfe/vextab

New comment by tuvix in "The Family Keeping Watch over a 52-Year-Old Pot of Soup"

tuvix — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:51:19 +0000

Interesting! I’ll have to try a cooking the recipe for shorter. I am a bit skeptical since my family’s sauce is the best in the world already :)