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bkyan··on 507 Mechanical Movements
I got Fable to create the first 5 of these as 3d animations in a threejs sandbox:

https://beta.mindcast.com/3d-mechanicals/

The sandbox was originally intended for video game effects, but it also works surprisingly well for these.

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Quick Start:

[1] left-mouse-click to deploy a pulley

[2] right-mouse-drag to change the camera angle

[3] use the dropdown (lower-left) to switch the pulley type

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Original sandbox source: https://github.com/majidmanzarpour/threejs-vfx

Original character source: https://github.com/achrefelouafi/SamuraiThirdPersonTemplateT...

bkyan··on GPT-5.5
Thanks!
bkyan··on GPT-5.5
Sorry, what is "heartbeats", exactly?
bkyan··on Exe.dev
Is it possible to use a ChatGPT subscription with the bundled Codex CLI or do we have to use an API key?
bkyan··on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
I got an error when I tried the demo with 6 sentences, but it worked great when I reduced the text to 3 sentences. Is the length limit due to the model or just a limitation for the demo?
bkyan··on Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
Thanks for the discord invite! My username is Mindcast on discord.
bkyan··on Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
Yes, that works for me! My primary use case is automated testing of updates to websites that I maintain.
bkyan··on Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
Is there a way to hook BrowserOS up as a sub-agent for an orchestration agent/system?
bkyan··on The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
This is for running locally in the terminal (or in WSL2 if you are on Windows).

Here is an example session from a similar script that I <cough>ChatGPT</cough> wrote in Perl, illustrating the same concept:

$ ~/agentloop.pl

YOUR PROMPT:

Is Python installed on this system? If so, which version?

BASH STDIN:

python --version 2>&1 || python3 --version 2>&1

BASH STDOUT:

/bin/bash: python: command not found

Python 3.6.7

LLM RESPONSE:

Python is installed on this system. The version available is Python 3.6.7. However, it looks like the python executable (python) is not directly available, but python3 (or a direct version path) exists and resolves to Python 3.6.7.

If you need to use Python, you should use python3 as the command.

bkyan··on Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
Oh, cool -- this is made with golang! I'll have see if I could wrap it in a desktop gui using wails.
bkyan··on A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
Oh, just figured out that there is a field for this → container-name
bkyan··on A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
The thing I still find weird about Container Queries is that there doesn't appear to be a way to distinguish between different containers based on class, as @container applies to any parent container. So, a <p> inside of a card with class .card-with-blue-background would get the same styles as a <p> inside of a card with class .card-with-red-background, since there isn't an easy way (as far as I could tell) to distinguish between the two scenarios within the Container Query, itself.
bkyan··on Show HN: Convert any website into a React component
On the pricing page, there is a highlighted bullet point for "Private generations" under the Pro tier. How does that differ from the other tiers?
bkyan··on Word-like HTML inline edit with design mode
Got it!
bkyan··on Word-like HTML inline edit with design mode
Thanks!
bkyan··on Word-like HTML inline edit with design mode
How do you save your changes with this?
bkyan··on Show HN: Donobu – Mac App for Web Automation and Testing
Is there anything in the tech stack that make this app specific to Macs, or are you simply rolling this out to Macs, first?
bkyan··on MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program
Is there an opportunity to bring something like this online using wasm?
bkyan··on WP Engine is not WordPress
The performance bottleneck with regards to revisions is on write, rather than on read.
bkyan··on WP Engine is not WordPress
In my experience, the revision system in WordPress is not performant. The more revisions there are for a given page, the longer it takes to publish that page, eventually leading page publish requests to time out. I usually have to limit the number of per-page revisions to keep, to prevent that from happening.
bkyan··on Golang Interpreter Written in PHP
Perl has a latin interpreter → https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
bkyan··on Toothpaste Null-Terminator
Exactly!
bkyan··on Toothpaste Null-Terminator
I use consumables like toothpaste as top-up items to get past the minimum threshold to qualify for free shipping at Amazon and Walmart. This implicitly triggers a mental check to see if I'm running low on anything.
bkyan··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Reid Hoffman provided some clear (at least to me) evidence for Mira's non-involvement → https://youtu.be/IgcUOOI-egk?si=FiSPt87v3pM3lfKt&t=851
bkyan··on SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs
Are you planning to keep this webapp ad supported, or will there be a premium "pro" version with additional features in the (near) future?
bkyan··on Quill v2 – Rich text editor
Is there support for CSS classes in Quill v2?
bkyan··on How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)
If anyone is interested, here is Frankel's personal blog → https://1014.org/
bkyan··on Show HN: ClassroomIO – an in-browser programming environment for education
It's been some time since I've played with this stuff, but the libs I used were https://github.com/oraoto/pib for in-browser PHP, Pyodide for in-browser Python, and https://webperl.zero-g.net for in-browser Perl.
bkyan··on Show HN: ClassroomIO – an in-browser programming environment for education
I would guess that you're using Wasm for this. If it's not a secret, can I ask which Wasm libs you're using?
bkyan··on Udio: Generate music in your favorite styles with a text prompt
My initial prompt for Udio was: a song about how Kevin is bad at ping pong, classic rock

I had ChatGPT generate the lyrics.

Based on that, Udio automatically engaged the following settings: Male vocalist, Rock, Hard rock, Energetic, Anthemic, Classic rock, Uplifting, Rhythmic, Rock & roll

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