Hacker News: vesterde

New comment by vesterde in "Claude Code's "extended thinking" is a summary- not authentic thinking"

vesterde — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:05:32 +0000

Gemini models return a thinking signature that you, I think, must send back when invoking further, so they seem to keep them?

New comment by vesterde in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

vesterde — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:00:15 +0000

Since many are asking about apps with simillar capabilities I’m very happy with MacWhisper. Has Parakeet, near instant transcription of my lengthy monologues. All local.

Edit: Ah but Parakeet I think isn’t available for free. But very worthwhile single purchase app nonetheless!

New comment by vesterde in "I think AI use is reflected in GitHub stats at least a bit"

vesterde — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:41:27 +0000

I would imagine it is, yes. That's even true of my own repos.

New comment by vesterde in "I think AI use is reflected in GitHub stats at least a bit"

vesterde — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:26:35 +0000

I saw twice recently that if everyone is so productive, where are all the new Github repos, but never bothered to check the data. Seems like the uptick is plausibly visible from Github's own data?

I think AI use is reflected in GitHub stats at least a bit

vesterde — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:26:34 +0000

Article URL: https://vester.si/blog/github-stats/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46969126

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by vesterde in "Show HN: Fuzzy Studio – Apply live effects to videos/camera"

vesterde — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:47:09 +0000

Hah this is the 3rd fun app like this I've seen lately. I really like yours!

I also built one! In mine you can compose effects using a graph, I've gotten carried away and now I keep wanting to bring more TouchDesigner concepts into it. It's far off, but so much fun! The best feedback on these kinds of apps is if you put it in camera mode and on a TV, and let a kid dance around in front of it.

https://vester.si/motion/

I hope you don't mind if I steal some of you nice ideas for myself :)

New comment by vesterde in "After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?"

vesterde — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:09:35 +0000

Oh you brought back fond memories of using the very first education product Replit had. It was so good. I was teaching GCSE CS and having a blast giving kids python with turtle to play with. I would just give them some multicoloured octagon and more complex shape, and they had to draw it with turtle.

They enjoyed it, I enjoyed it, and the teacher UX was great.

New comment by vesterde in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

vesterde — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:36:23 +0000

Really interesting company, good luck!

Pro AI – Human Segregation

vesterde — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:04:04 +0000

Article URL: https://onlyluck.substack.com/p/pro-ai-human-segregation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44633787

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vesterde in "Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141"

vesterde — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:15:00 +0000

I have this toy I’ve enjoyed building immensely, for composing video effects.

https://vester.si/motion/

Show HN: Motion – play with video effects in the browser (WebGPU)

vesterde — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:08:37 +0000

This began as a very simple experiment to learn webgpu, but now has a node based UI inspired by touch designer to combine video effects in a simple way.

I'm mainly searching for new ideas for effects, or general ideas for what to build on it next, so please share! (I have my own ideas, but this is far enough that I'm proud to show it around and get feedback)

If your device doesn't support webgpu - sorry mobile - it won't work for now.

If anyone is curious, the frontend is SvelteFlow. And if anyone is even more curious and knows some WebGPU, I really can't recommend the WebGPU inspector Chrome extension enough, it lets you inspect individual frames and see the pipeline that made them (and more).

Thank you!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43921033

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

I quite like these AI tools

vesterde — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:18:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.vester.si/i-like-ai-right-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42278362

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by vesterde in "Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU"

vesterde — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 09:47:41 +0000

Try to put `sys.path.insert(0, os.getcwd())` after `import sys` in dream.py.

That fixed it for me.