Hacker News: zacmps

New comment by zacmps in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

zacmps — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:49:53 +0000

Titles and thumbnails have a huge impact on video performance, and when it's your main income it seems reasonable to try to marginalise the impact.

New comment by zacmps in "JPEG Compression"

zacmps — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:41:38 +0000

Badly phrased but not wrong, this is the minimum frame rate for humans to perceive motion as supposed to a slide show of images.

The maximum frame rate we can perceive is much higher, for regular video it's probably somewhere around 400-800.

New comment by zacmps in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

zacmps — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:41:16 +0000

I would love it if you had time to publish it!

New comment by zacmps in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

zacmps — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:46:57 +0000

I think what you're looking for is a bike.

New comment by zacmps in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

zacmps — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:58:30 +0000

Could you elaborate what you think the problems are? I guess they should be using some form of multiple comparison correction?

New comment by zacmps in "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)"

zacmps — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:58:20 +0000

Not really? At the moment it's done by some user-land job scheduler. That could be something container based like k8s, something in-process like ray, or a workload manager like slurm.

New comment by zacmps in "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)"

zacmps — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:44:01 +0000

Until you need to schedule GPUs or other heterogenous compute...

New comment by zacmps in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

zacmps — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:59:16 +0000

LLM summaries of papers often make overly broad claims [1].

I don't think this is a good example personally.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00025

New comment by zacmps in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

zacmps — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:55:12 +0000

But there has been continual improvement over that time, both in the ecosystem, and in the language (like a syntax for generics).

New comment by zacmps in "YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started"

zacmps — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:12:43 +0000

NileRed?

New comment by zacmps in "PyTorch Monarch"

zacmps — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:46:44 +0000

Not currently, but it is being worked on https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues/53976.

New comment by zacmps in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

zacmps — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:08:30 +0000

If you use something like cockroachdb you can have a multi-master cluster and use regional-by-row tables to locate data close to users. It'll fail over fine to other regions if needed.

New comment by zacmps in "DeepSeek OCR"

zacmps — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:53:50 +0000

I suspect the number of langauges it can do with reasonable accuracy is actually much smaller, probably <15.

New comment by zacmps in "OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened"

zacmps — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:50:31 +0000

For literature search that might be ok. It doesn't need to replace any other tools, and if 1/10 it surfaces something you wouldn't have found otherwise it could be worth the time on the dud attempts.

New comment by zacmps in "Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development"

zacmps — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:44:50 +0000

This is not the view everyone holds. For an example of work in the opposite direction see https://dioxus.notion.site/Dioxus-Labs-High-level-Rust-5fe1f....

New comment by zacmps in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

zacmps — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:19:46 +0000

Try everything from voidtools, it's incredibly fast (both search and indexing).

New comment by zacmps in "OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5"

zacmps — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:55:32 +0000

Might be fixable with promoting and/or a much lower temperature?

New comment by zacmps in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

zacmps — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:03:46 +0000

I've wanted someone to write an extension utilising this idea since GPT-3 came out. Is it available to use anywhere?

New comment by zacmps in "X X^t can be faster"

zacmps — Sat, 17 May 2025 05:29:06 +0000

Do you know any resources for learning these heuristics?

New comment by zacmps in "OpenAI Audio Models"

zacmps — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:54:30 +0000

What does it do?