notes and quotes from things I read
Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing
Guess the generated image
GGUF, the long way around
DRY Switching with CSS Variables
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
Piano on Paper
Make Sunsets, Balloon Launch
infinite backrooms
Airline List
Another levelsio project
Who was Mistadobalina, Mista Bob Dobalina, anyway?
a department store manager from San Antonio.
I liked this:
I was immediately struck by the internal rhythm of the phrase
Elevator Saga - the elevator programming game
Making a UE Plugin for Audio From Scratch
saved for later maybe
Tweet generator
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Near-real time updates of key global climate variables
MMAcevedo
short story about rights of brains, in the form of a wikipedia article from the future
Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated - 80,000 Hours
How Tyler Cowen listens to music
Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Tracking SQLite table history using a JSON audit log | Simon Willison’s TILs
Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac
Alex recommends
Female neediness
The internet turned into a crowded mall. Now you need a corner shop
The Third Chair
How to make toddlers enjoy Shostakovich
lots of movement and colors to keep their attention.
This one with sheet music is also fun to follow along.
Globe Explorer
AI-powered topic-centric link explorer
Death, Lonely Death
a little history on Voyager
Fiction | The Singing Tribe by Benjamin George Coles
I sometimes imagine the moment when they first encountered other people – people who didn’t sing all the time; in fact, hardly sang at all. The profundity of the pity they must have felt.
Screen-free coding - maze-solver coded by xylophone
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
Linkfire Reports
thought about doing this allowing custom domains, but realised most of the work is probably making analytics dashboards
Popular git config options
Syntax Highlighting using the platform
solution for span soup
Thread on electron beam welding
Where is Google Recorder saving files?
This is going to be a project...
Can't root phone, need to get filenames from the screen (they aren't included properly in exports.)
How To Afford a House These Days
tldr be willing to move
Setup Filebrowser and Caddy
Jars with well-fitting lids
What does a chiropractor actually do?
Why Americans stopped hanging out
Luminance-gradient-dependent lightness illusion
charlax/professional-programming
Programming resources someone has built up over years. Like a "getting started" guide but they kept adding to it
Real Time Stable diffusion music visualizer
quite beautiful
The State of the Culture, 2024
This is the new culture. And its most striking feature is the absence of Culture (with a capital C) or even mindless entertainment—both get replaced by compulsive activity.
Jevons paradox
falling costs increase use, offsetting efficiency gains. Related to the upcoming AI-generated summaries of AI-generated content.
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life
- humility - everyone is imperfect
- curiousity - differences are interesting, not threatening
comparing po-12 and po-32
great suggestions and explanations of couple of different POs
Setting up access permissions for users in File Browser
sometimes a random step from a setup guide from the open source geospatial world has exactly the information you need.
Michael Nielson's questions for himself on Tyler
Making friends online
Patchwork: Version control for everything
subscribed. This is an interesting problem
YOLO-World - real-time zero-shot object detection
Accelerated biological aging in covid patients
We need specific definitions for digital ownership
Stressed plant sounds
Actual emitted sounds are around 60kHz. Article includes pitched-down audio to the audible range, it is some clicking noises
Electron beam welding reduces build time from 120 days to 2 hours
Multi-language quine ouroboros
Problems in HVAC installation industry
bufo experience
Tyler Cowen's 12 rules for life
Ryoji Ikeda's projects and installations
Tim Urban's thoughts on Vision Pro
The plan was clear. I went home, told my wife that I would be deeply ignoring her and our baby for the week, and spent twelve hours a day in the headset for four straight days. I’m writing this on Thursday afternoon, having already logged over forty hours. Here are my thoughts.
impressive, not ready yet.
Better Call GPT, comparing LLMs to Lawyers
Great title, interesting study, though unsurprising that they can read contracts faster.
Using babies with gopros to train language models
How fracking works
32" monitor without backlight
Ask HN: what have you built with LLMs?
Great response with some voice-powered code/automation things.
Relatedly, the killer case is summarization.
Whishper - whisper ui
Occam's razor for the planet
Related TED talk: Climate solutions worth funding now
Do you want to be known for your writing or your swift email responses?
Current ChatGPT system prompt
no particularly magic prompts or phrases. Just a lot of specific instructions.
I Am No Longer Good At Email
I'm not either, and still don't get much. Made me glad I gave up before it got difficult.
Sex differences in personality scores
"Many significant, but mostly small, differences"
Behaviour geneticists contend that the rough rule of thumb when it comes to the determinants of adult personality and other traits is 50–0–50, that is, roughly 50% of the variance in personality, behaviour, and other traits is heritable (influenced by genes), roughly 0% by the shared environment (what happens within the family and is experienced similarly by all siblings), and roughly 50% by the non-shared environment (what happens inside and outside the family not shared by siblings)
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
How to buy an electric bike
More OP-Z double-trigger solutions
Pad the keyboard with some paper
Thys' wishlist
People are upset about the term 'object detection' when detecting people with computer vision
Detecting the secret cyborgs
Occupancy analytics
another cool roboflow demo, monitoring carpark occupancy and traffic flows
Nat Bullard's annual presentation on the state of decarbonization
Inner ear rock slides lead to vertigo
Everybody Hates Cocomelon
Pocket Operator Apps
Also poq
Testing WordPress perf with Puppeteer
TIL about @wordpress
node projects
Seeing takes up over 50% your brain's functionality
and other facts about eyes
Introduction to Automerge
oh no
Hickman's substack
he is stopping twitter posts due to high effort required
How the internet is saving bespoke shoemaking
A million words from Tim
Living the life you believe in
My friends tease me about liking San Francisco, but I think it’s inevitable to have a warped, unrequited love for the place or person that first revealed you to yourself.
Perplexity Labs AI playground
Why are women hot?
Blue Oak Model License
Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots
Was Venus ever Habitable? (pdf)
The Internet is full of AI Dogshit
Signs it's time to leave a company
Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?
SimCity Planning Commission Handbook
And in the video game library.