<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: yantrams</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yantrams</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:43:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yantrams" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While that maybe true ( I know some folks who are reprinting them ), the translated editions from those days were all printed in USSR at Mir / Raduga / Progress presses itself. We've even had poets, writers and other luminaries from India visit Moscow for this and other things as part of cultural initiatives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784876</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Fingerprinting Text Embedding Models via Floating-Point Artifacts]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Implemented a sliding window based mean n-gram histogram vector solution for fingerprinting embedding models after coming across the post[1] below by Han Xiao of Jina AI and it surprisingly worked way better than I expected! Link to Colab notebook [2] and a quick visualization [3] below.<p>I had this idea couple of years ago but couldn't get myself to work on it. Seeing the post got me thinking about it again and I was pleasantly surprised at the results.<p>1 - <a href="https://jina.ai/news/identifying-embedding-models-from-raw-numerical-values/" rel="nofollow">https://jina.ai/news/identifying-embedding-models-from-raw-n...</a><p>2 - <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CTFltQrHRTViYSs3JLrwC4leSTWIrPc9" rel="nofollow">https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CTFltQrHRTViYSs3JLr...</a><p>3 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv5hmv70xs0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv5hmv70xs0</a></p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288172">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288172</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CTFltQrHRTViYSs3JLrwC4leSTWIrPc9</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing in particular that was just a style I'm into.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:46:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45394947</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45394947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45394947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's something I made using AI about this. Came from a conversation I had with a Redditor couple of years ago.<p><a href="https://jumpshare.com/share/BXUFsIxvjPPCTyEjgly3" rel="nofollow">https://jumpshare.com/share/BXUFsIxvjPPCTyEjgly3</a></p>
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<p>I was jamming with Gemini like I usually do for creative coding experiments and stumbled on something interesting that I thought is worth sharing.<p>Not novel novel but novel nonetheless.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889414">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889414</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:04:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://labs.galleri5.com/flow-displacements</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "Show HN: Procrastination disguised as preparation for moment that exists in futr"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sample<p>perfect tutorial is just one search away from understanding everything but understanding nothing because breadth without depth is just surface tension holding together illusion of knowledge that breaks moment you try to apply it but application requires confidence and confidence comes from experience and experience comes from doing and doing requires starting which brings us back to fundamental problem of infinite choice paralysis paralyzed by possibilities spending hours researching best way to do simple task that would take minutes if just picked any way and did it but what if there's better way what if missing crucial optimization what if code isn't clean enough for imaginary code review by developers who don't exist because project doesn't exist because still researching best practices for project type I haven't defined but definition requires decision and decision tree has infinite branches each leading to different tutorial series on youtube where someone explains their way is best way until next video autoplays explaining why that way is actually worst way and real best way is completely different approach requiring different tools and different mindset and different everything except result which is same hello world application with extra steps but those extra steps are what separate amateurs from professionals according to blog post written by someone selling course about becoming professional which I almost buy before remembering</p>
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<p>Language poetry style prose I cooked up last night. Thought you guys might enjoy.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789627">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789627</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:23:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://turquoise-cicily-87.tiiny.site/</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Trolley Problem Simulator Using Flash Lite]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun app that uses Flash Lite for backend that throws ethical dilemmas at you based on what you chose before. Flawed genius vs Random Person evolves to Flawed genius with criminal record vs Acquaintance kinda thing.<p>Built a more basic one at <a href="https://moral-compass-868570596092.us-west1.run.app/" rel="nofollow">https://moral-compass-868570596092.us-west1.run.app/</a> and upgraded it based on a twitter thread I came across which had these hierarchical boundaries of importance kinda thing.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789358">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789358</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://moral-compass-v4-868570596092.us-west1.run.app/</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "Quadratic forms beyond arithmetic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I came across the Brahmagupta's identity mentioned here recently and thought it was pretty cool. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta%27s_identity" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta%27s_identity</a><p>It says - Numbers of the form a^2 + n*b^2 are closed under multiplication.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:45:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635724</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah nice thank you. This looks like something I might enjoy indeed. Cheers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:39:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635650</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always refer to it as cringe humour too but for the reason that it makes me physically cringe seeing how they humiliate themselves in social situations - Like NO MARK PLEASE DONT DO THAT! DONT ACT ON THAT IMPULSE PLEASE! kinda thing.</p>
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<p>Woah thank you for sharing this! Absolutely riveting list of topics.</p>
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<p>A song about that inarticulate waffle chunkness of it all</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357241">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357241</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:08:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g42JBMFxea8</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "Show HN: Hillbilly Transmutator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some samples here - <a href="https://imgur.com/a/aujM6f9" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/aujM6f9</a><p>Weird = True generates the puffy/bloated JD Vance that's circulating around<p>Weird = False generates regular JD Vance<p>In Advance Mode you can guide generation with your own prompts. Works best with simple word combinations like  Goth Pony, Vladimir Putin, Fairy muffin splat  etc<p>Made using an ancient workflow - SDXL + IP Adapter etc</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:25:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325662</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "Show HN: Futurist Image Deconstructor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Link explaining the process - <a href="https://labs.galleri5.com/futurist-composition-tutorial" rel="nofollow">https://labs.galleri5.com/futurist-composition-tutorial</a></p>
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<p>Was having fun with the JD Vance meme generation bit.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325485">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325485</a></p>
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<p>Fun little app I made over the weekend. Buggy but I'm happy with how close it comes to replicating Futurist compositions of the masters. Added a manifesto as well ( which i dont necessarily agree with ) as a fun creative exercise.<p>Link explaining the process - <a href="https://labs.galleri5.com/futurist-composition-tutorial" rel="nofollow">https://labs.galleri5.com/futurist-composition-tutorial</a><p>It refers to an older version of code where I generate everything from scratch instead of using an image.<p>Edit: Updated explanation link</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325446">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325446</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:08:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://labs.galleri5.com/simplified-futurist-deconstructor</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: L Theanine Song [video]]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Video generated using Veo2, Audio by Udio 1.5, Lyrics by DeepSeek, Whisper and Claude 3.7 for text overlay and other boring stuff.<p>I've been on Mertz for like, a month. Not gonna lie,
I ordered it off one of those sketchy Instagram ads - A pixelated GIF of a glowing pill rotating next to the word "CLARITY."
But hey, free shipping.
First few days? Nothing. Unless you count the fact that I finally cleaned out my car.
Not cleaned cleaned.
Just threw all the empty coffee cups into a single Target bag. Baby steps. But then, outta nowhere, I started…
Enjoying folding laundry?
Not in a creepy "I've been replaced by a Stepford wife" way.
More like, "Huh, these socks are kinda profound."
The bottle says it "makes up your mind," and honestly,
my mind's been a IKEA manual written in hieroglyphics for years, so.
By week two, my anxiety about replying to texts turned into… confidence?
Or maybe just indifference.
I left a guy on read for six days and then sent him a photo of a raccoon wearing a hat.
He said "cool." We're best friends now.
Mertz didn't fix my social skills — it just made me okay with the chaos.
And don't get me started on sleep. I'm having these dreams where I'm just… grocery shopping.
But the produce section is run by a guy who looks like Bob Ross.
He keeps telling me to "follow the happy little avocado."
Woke up and meal-prepped for the first time in my life. Ate a vegetable. Felt like a adult.
My sister says I've "joined a wellness cult."
Joke's on her — I tried to explain Mertz to my mom and she thought I was talking about a new dating app.
But honestly? I'll take it. My credit card debt still exists, but I smiled at my bank statement yesterday.
Progress.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325334">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325334</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:00:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/auHOLpZrnUo</link><dc:creator>yantrams</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325334</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43325334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yantrams in "Show HN: A gestalt exploration of some 20th century art movements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Som generations that I liked - <a href="https://imgur.com/a/VrNyx1V" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/VrNyx1V</a></p>
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<p>Fun little project I built over the weekend with Claude. Was inspired by this tweet <a href="https://x.com/IOivm/status/1894218453483229365" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/IOivm/status/1894218453483229365</a> and decided to do something interesting.<p>I started with working on some funky brush textures and eventually settled on codifying Kandinsky, Malevich style compositions with Miro strokes and ended up with this eventually.</p>
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