Hacker News: wy35

New comment by wy35 in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

wy35 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:41:16 +0000

Which town is this? I find it hard to believe that the mayor did not add an exception for emergency and commercial vehicles.

Simplex noise demystified (2005) [pdf]

wy35 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:23:27 +0000

Article URL: https://cgvr.cs.uni-bremen.de/teaching/cg_literatur/simplexnoise.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985068

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wy35 in "Perplexity Comet"

wy35 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:43:44 +0000

Scroll hijacking is the worst. Makes everything feel sluggish and unresponsive. Instantly gives me the urge to close out the tab.

New comment by wy35 in "Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)"

wy35 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:42:32 +0000

This is hilarious, I need to find more blog posts like this.

New comment by wy35 in "SpacetimeDB"

wy35 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:40:20 +0000

>SpacetimeDB wasn't built in a vacuum. It's the system powers our own large-scale MMORPG BitCraft.

I checked out BitCraft and it's not released yet. Don't know if I'm being unfair here, but isn't this a bit misleading?

New comment by wy35 in "DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM"

wy35 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:29:06 +0000

I mean, this is clearly an unserious post. This is more of a fun tech demo than anything.

New comment by wy35 in "A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper"

wy35 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:01:22 +0000

Didn't know about the SmartDesign/OXO vegetable peeler, very interesting rabbit hole to go down.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90239156/the-untold-story-of-the...

New comment by wy35 in "Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale"

wy35 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:54:31 +0000

Yes. "Kardashev Scale" has now become a slop indicator.

New comment by wy35 in "Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder"

wy35 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:08:19 +0000

Could you go more into detail on the actual process of designing, prototyping, and manufacturing? Like how would an average person, given enough motivation, do what you were able to accomplish?

Also, how did you fund this?

New comment by wy35 in "Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)"

wy35 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:45:08 +0000

I don’t agree. It’s obviously not a “real” wake, just something for friends to hang out and show support. And switching careers often means moving to a different city, so it would be nice to say goodbye to friends who won’t be seen for years (or forever).

I’ve been to a couple “deportation parties” for friends who couldn’t get their visas renewed, and it’s sort of the same thing. Mostly lighthearted but a slight somber undertone.

New comment by wy35 in "A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material"

wy35 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:03:39 +0000

Ok, think about it like this. It's your anniversary with your partner so you decide to commission a drawing from an artist as a gift. However, when you receive it, it's clearly an AI-generated image that was printed out.

Would you still consider that "spam"?

New comment by wy35 in "A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material"

wy35 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:43:47 +0000

It's definitely not the same.

Spam is trying to sell you something, e.g. an unsolicited email peddling a supplements.

Slop is low-quality content, e.g. someone taking a bunch of bird pictures off Google and posting it in a birding Facebook group.

Spam is an ad, slop is not. With AI, it is now much easier to generate slop.

New comment by wy35 in "Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars"

wy35 — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:23:08 +0000

This aged well...

https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-V/issues/196

New comment by wy35 in "Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner"

wy35 — Sat, 18 May 2024 23:56:09 +0000

Amazing, I’m obsessed with niche machines like these. The more oddly specific, the better.

New comment by wy35 in "A review on protein language models"

wy35 — Wed, 15 May 2024 06:07:30 +0000

Honestly I wish I learned more biology in college instead of cruising through a CS degree for a generic software engineering career. Now that I’ve gained more interest in bio, the doors have closed.

New comment by wy35 in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

wy35 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:35:29 +0000

Wow, downvotes were harsh here.

FWIW I don’t think it’s a bad thing to repost articles that were last posted years ago. I didn’t see this article when it was posted in 2020 and 2022, and I probably wouldn’t have seen it ever if you didn’t repost it now.

New comment by wy35 in "Hawaii moves to ban short-term rentals to address housing crisis"

wy35 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:24:20 +0000

You are correct, but it seems to be far easier to create new laws (e.g. to ban short-term Airbnbs) than to amend or retract current laws (e.g. strict zoning regulations).

New comment by wy35 in "We need more calm companies"

wy35 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:20:58 +0000

My thoughts exactly. This seems to be a general trend, too. I feel like half the blog posts I read on HN start off interesting but suddenly switch into an advertisement.

New comment by wy35 in "JPMorgan to sell customer transaction data to advertisers"

wy35 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:55:31 +0000

Because it's an editorialized title, which is explicitly against the rules. @dang will correct it (maybe).

New comment by wy35 in "Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs"

wy35 — Tue, 02 May 2023 16:54:33 +0000

Very interesting. I've only been using OpenAI APIs so this logit stuff is new to me.