Hacker News: wibbily

New comment by wibbily in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

wibbily — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:26:41 +0000

If I remember correctly you carried that project!

New comment by wibbily in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

wibbily — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:19:40 +0000

You can also click on an image to open the original in a lightbox. (I should make that more obvious.)

The dithering happens server-side (er, laptop-side). Experimented with a JS filter but it just didn't hit the way I wanted it to. Plus I save a lot of bandwidth this way

New comment by wibbily in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

wibbily — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:54:37 +0000

Guilty. I had a few hours to kill on Amtrak... the time will pass anyway y'know

(Plus I didn't know if it would work. The first version was just some Python functions I had to call from the REPL, livecoding style)

New comment by wibbily in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

wibbily — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:52:04 +0000

There's a few that I think would look better with dropped frames (the cake for instance). These are all the raw output of the script. Consider it maybe a starting point for manual editing :)

New comment by wibbily in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

wibbily — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:50:58 +0000

Was thinking about adding this... big fan of live photos.

New comment by wibbily in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

wibbily — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:50:24 +0000

The unfortunate reality of accidents, lack of intention~

I've been taking pictures to be more effective wigglegrams now that I know I can auto-GIF them. I'll do a followup post at some point. The big trick is that they look better when the subject stays in the center of the frame, with the camera "orbiting" it to create a sort of parallax effect.

New comment by wibbily in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

wibbily — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:47:15 +0000

As the others pointed out the script is at the end...

> Would be nice to have... the choice of perceptual hashing algorithm

Funny enough the script does some of this - there's a handful of algorithms the library supports and it computes/saves all of them. "Perceptual" seemed to work the best but if you want to experiment w/ the others they'll be there for you.

Show HN: FLIP TABLE 2026

wibbily — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:00:54 +0000

Article URL: https://fliptable.nyc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594644

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wibbily in "Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'"

wibbily — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:32:34 +0000

Are 404 media links still blackholed?

Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'

wibbily — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:32:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760925

Points: 169

# Comments: 51

Moth in Relay

wibbily — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:59:03 +0000

Article URL: https://moth-in-relay.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553448

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wibbily in "Molly guard in reverse"

wibbily — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:00:37 +0000

Fun: the “Molly” in question is Ed Krol’s daughter - he’s the guy who wrote the Whole Internet User’s Guide and Catalog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Krol

New comment by wibbily in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

wibbily — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:20:15 +0000

Seconded. I got a Gemini server running on an esp8266 once, there really isn't a lower bound.

New comment by wibbily in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

wibbily — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:55:01 +0000

It’s tough but one of the tenets of Gemini is that a lone programmer can write their own client in a spirited afternoon/weekend. Markdown is just a little too hard to clear the bar. Already there was much bellyaching on the mailing list about forcing dependence on SSL libraries; suggesting people rely on more libraries would have been a non-starter

Note that the Gemini protocol is just a way of moving bytes around; nothing stops you from sending Markdown if you want (and at least some clients will render it - same with inline images).

New comment by wibbily in "Marketing for Founders"

wibbily — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:26:04 +0000

Maybe the solution is to ban editing. Or let moderators review + approve edits at least.

The gambling site “Stake” was doing the same thing recently, they’d make posts on financial advice or gaming subreddits and edit in a link (as to be “oh btw I need advice because I made money betting”). Were even using Greek Unicode “a”s and “e”s to hide from the automod filters. Scumbags among scumbags

New comment by wibbily in "Marketing for Founders"

wibbily — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:26:51 +0000

An open letter: if you market your product by spamming Reddit et al. with fake stories (as this guide suggests), we:

1. can all tell

2. will not use your product

Please stop polluting the global commons

Signed everyone <3

New comment by wibbily in "Digg is gone again"

wibbily — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:58:57 +0000

It's two different problems. People who run review sites and blogs and such care about traffic, and not getting attribution will kill their desire to participate. People who post here and on Reddit etc. care about talking with other human beings, and feeling ignored in a sea of botspam will kill *their* desire to participate.

New comment by wibbily in "Meta delays rollout of new AI model after performance concerns"

wibbily — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:09:14 +0000

Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-a...

Meta delays rollout of new AI model after performance concerns

wibbily — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-ai-model-delayed.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359074

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by wibbily in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

wibbily — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:08:31 +0000

> When Google AdWords first launched

Exactly, they’ll be kept separate.

For now.