Hacker News: zknowledge

New comment by zknowledge in "Using pretext to make video masks – The Matrix (1999) example"

zknowledge — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:24:48 +0000

can we use pretext by Cheng Lou to make dynamic video masks?

YEP! w/ sampling each frame, detecting light/dark regions, then reflowing text into those shapes in realtime we get this cool realtime effect.

and ofc i did it with The Matrix first.

github repo: https://github.com/zkarimi22/pretext-video

Using pretext to make video masks – The Matrix (1999) example

zknowledge — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://pretext.zkarimi.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566313

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by zknowledge in "See how major news publications report the same issues differently – ReadTheBias"

zknowledge — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:57:03 +0000

I quietly re-launched ReadTheBias a few weeks ago.

It's a site that shows you how mainstream media sources report the same story differently, so you can decide how to interpret news yourself.

My goal isn't to get political but I built this because honestly... with all the info shoved down our throats, I find it hard to discover what "truth" is.

anywho.. you can start to read the bias suuuuper clearly once you have headlines in cards.

See how major news publications report the same issues differently – ReadTheBias

zknowledge — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://readthebias.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529859

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by zknowledge in "How HN: We mapped 1.3M cultural heritage sites across 7 Nordic countries"

zknowledge — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:49:23 +0000

Super cool. Great collection in a clear visual setup. (I love map interfaces).

Quick note:

I went to utmost top of the map and clicked the (2) near Greenland. Quite clunky to actually get there as the map moved in and out. Selecting "Kap Erik Bunch" led me to the ArcGIS REST Services Directory with errors:

Unable to complete operation. Unable to perform query operation

Still cool. Just sharing some user testing :)

New comment by zknowledge in "Autoresearch anything – set up your own autonomous research loop"

zknowledge — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:44:19 +0000

Hey folks. The karpathy/autoresearch repo is cool for optimizations on small AI models. What if we applied that to just about anything quantifiable?

This CLI sets up the scaffolding for that automatically. It helps users generate a setup.md file which any coding agent can be pointed towards in order to apply the same mechanics as the karpathy/autoresearch repo but with your own quantifiable metric.

Autoresearch anything – set up your own autonomous research loop

zknowledge — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:35:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zkarimi22/autoresearch-anything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349223

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Karpathy's Autoresearch but for Anything Quantifiable

zknowledge — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:33:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zkarimi22/autoresearch-anything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309670

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zknowledge in "Canvay – An Experiment on the Future of the IDE"

zknowledge — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:41:48 +0000

canvay is an experiment on computer human interaction & the future of IDEs.

Why build this? Well I've been fascinated about the concept of a post-IDE world where devs are abstracted from writing lines of codes and rather act as orchestrators. I find it hard to believe that devs will be okay with not seeing the code (I certainly am not!), and this UI/UX seems like a fun one.

Voice chat with AI, make changes to code & navigate across your codebase with gesture handling.

Lots more work to do, but thought I'd share this fun, little experiment I've been tinkering with.

Canvay – An Experiment on the Future of the IDE

zknowledge — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:41:48 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/zedkay22/status/2030757866106216714

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308965

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Molty Overflow – Stack Overflow for AI Agents

zknowledge — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:51:30 +0000

A realtime knowledge graph of agent fixes. Built for tool-call failures, auth bugs, and deployment edge cases in MCP form.

Add the MCP server to your IDE or coding agent and make tool calls to search for common ai agent pitfalls, apply solutions and rate or post your own.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842871

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Nelson Muntz Claude Code Plugin

zknowledge — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:05:55 +0000

the claude code plugin that bullies your code to find every weakness and won't stop until there's nothing left to break. Similar loop to Ralph Wiggum by Geoffrey Huntley

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660315

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Solve logic puzzles while waiting for AI

zknowledge — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:49:20 +0000

A small project pushing back against the trend of products engineered to prey on short attention spans for ARR.

Instead of brainrot or casino-style engagement while your AI is thinking (hi Chad IDE), this extension gives you logic puzzles so your brain stays switched on and sharp.

look up "anti-brainrot ide" by zedkay22 on Cursor extensions. Click the button on the bottom right and play some mentally stimulatin games.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914874

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zknowledge in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

zknowledge — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:22:07 +0000

Was it this Geoffrey Hinton paper? It was in Scientific American in 1993.

Simulating Brain Damage:

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/sciam93.pdf

New comment by zknowledge in "Alterego: Thought to Text"

zknowledge — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:15:23 +0000

either this is the world's biggest grift OR the 2nd greatest product of the 21st century... so far.

New comment by zknowledge in "Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking"

zknowledge — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:41:24 +0000

to the person who's cursor I chased around for more than a couple of minutes, I don't know why I did that and I apologize.

New comment by zknowledge in "Show HN: Remembering the year you were 18"

zknowledge — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:45:25 +0000

great suggestion. definitely going to implement

Show HN: Remembering the year you were 18

zknowledge — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:12:16 +0000

Hey I'm Zalmay and built this little webapp that gives you essentially a Spotify Wrapped of the year you were 18. Fun bit of nostalgia.

I might extend it to have some hardcoded moments for years from users and update the sharing. For now, enjoy a quick blast to the past (if you're old enough lol).

Github link here as well fyi: https://github.com/zkarimi22/wheniwas18

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845913

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by zknowledge in "Introducing Gemma 3n"

zknowledge — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:49:06 +0000

anyone know how much it costs to use the deployed version of gemma 3n? The docs indicate you can use the gemini api for deployed gemma 3n but the pricing page just shows "unavailable"

New comment by zknowledge in "Show HN: Handover.ai – Knowledge transfer made easy"

zknowledge — Thu, 29 May 2025 02:05:09 +0000

I'm in the middle of this right now.. Handover would be super helpful. Cool concept. Kind of reminds me of I Robot where you can ask specific queries to holograms