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atultwon Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch

Could you share some of those applications which are better solved with an FPGA? As a student I have some ideas but am interested to hear more.

atultwon Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon

Exactly, I know because I did the same thing!

atultwon Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than $300 (well almost)

If you capture a video and SLAM map of the whole space, you could use some VQA model like cosmos reason offline to extract key points and descriptions. Maybe even plan the route offline for the open ended task like “clean kitchen”. Then load the route and all you need is localization and obstacle avoidance

atultwon iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM

Admittedly, my use of CUDA and Metal is fairly surface-level. But I have had great success using LLMs to convert whole gaussian splatting CUDA codebases to Metal. It's not ideal for maintainability and not 1:1, but if CUDA was a moat for NVIDIA, I believe LLMs have dealt a blow to it.

atultwon Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks

New term for web scraping just dropped

atultwon Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

To do gaussian splatting anywhere near in real time, you need good depth data to initialize the gaussian positions. This can of course come from monocular depth but then you are back to monocular depth vs lidar.

atultwon Understanding Neural Network, Visually

Nice work

atultwon Quaternion Algebras

Kalman filters so real. I think part of it is that LLMs suggest it as a solution all the time

atultwon Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge

“A Drop of Freedom” reminds me of Apple's old flower wallpapers with the black background

atultwon Zas Editor

minimap exists in Xcode but it's not quite the same. It only shows `// MARK: ` comments.

Would love for Xcode to have more language support. Maybe an lsp client.

atultwon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://atulya.me

It's a little personal blog that I made with Gatsby. Looking to create my own SSG over the summer once school ends.

atultwon Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps

When apple cut the commission from 30% to 15% for small devs, most app developers didn't lower their prices. The savings went to developers. I think it will be similar here

atultwon Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at industrial scale

This looks promising, best of luck.

A lot of technologies to solve waste problems have been invented and launched, but very few get used at a large scale.

Some questions:

What do you see as the biggest roadblocks to adoption of your product? What makes AirMyne more attractive than the existing options? https://time.com/6125303/direct-air-carbon-capture-infrastru...

atultwon In praise of opinionated frameworks

It's fairly popular for Mac. CocoaPods and homebrew are written in ruby

atultwon Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

I just use reader view. Works surprisingly often. Some sites (WSJ for example) don't work though