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cpill··on I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10
I was thinking that a search engine that ignores anything with advertising on it would be useful. This has inspired me to give it a go (on the weekend even)
cpill··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
for normal web stuff this is bananas. for an online, multiplayer game it would be awesome!
cpill··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
not true. does all the verbs. extension, in what?
cpill··on Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide
oh yeah, America is a "healthy society".
cpill··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
yeah, most ppl I know just don't go on social media. but they are grown-ups now... life is fine without it.
cpill··on Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
oh no, all of those technologies die on their own merits a long time ago. they were basically over engineered and bloated and horrible to work with.
cpill··on So, you want to make a game engine (2023)
I guess the really hard part about game engineers isn't writing them, it's making them portable to more than platform, which is the really boring, tedious, expensive part. this is why I'll never write a game engine.
cpill··on Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions
so in theory, one could program a game in python and then complete and distribute one binary for everyone?
cpill··on Substack writers, you need a website
can't we just make RSS cool again?!
cpill··on Substack writers, you need a website
the point is that they are not mutually exclusive. you can have both. just don't put all your eggs in the corporate basket
cpill··on Substack writers, you need a website
the point is that they are not mutually exclusive. you can have both. just don't put all your eggs in the corporate basket
cpill··on Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It
I think small, ma and pa businesses who don't know anything about software engineering will still need support.
cpill··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
yeah! more plz
cpill··on Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
yes! I really find when computer science ppl start using math notation to describe algorithm very pretentious. we have programming languages in comp sci, we don't need it!
cpill··on Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web
I did some research on this about 10 years ago. I spent 2 days hand labelling data from scraped news sites. Then built a good old fashioned Random Forest model to classify html nodes based on some feature engineering. turns out the P tag and the number-of-words threshold get you 90% of the way there, on news sites anyway. Great thing about RF models is they tell you which features are the most important. fun little project (apart from the 2 days of data labelling).
cpill··on Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents?
yeah, me too. I usually ask it to do a code review using SOLID standards and it usually does a good job, if not a little overkill sometimes.
cpill··on Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2
considering the amount of money they are making on Minecraft there is almost no forward momentum with the game. the tech is so dated that you have to go to mods to get basic performance improvements. Stuff like shaders and improving the render distance. more intelligent mobs.

The content updates are the laziest I've ever seen in a game, usually just re-skinned versions of other mobs.

really, it's illegal in Sweden to even think about lighting a fire under someone's ass. everyone's too comfortable to innovate. it's sad for a game with such potential. I'm waiting for someone to come and knock it off the voxel throne...

cpill··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
I think once the hardware process comes down and these mini DGXs become cheaper, and by then open models still be smaller and better, there is going to be less and less reason to use the providers. CEOs are already complaining that they are costing too much. There are also large organisations like Banks which can't use external services and are already looking at internal housing. it's a good thing so the big AI companies just went IPO as once the self hosting trend kicks in they are going bust.
cpill··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
funny that he put "cleaver" and "lazy" at the top :D
cpill··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
I guess with crime you have both going on. the majority is crime born from economic circumstances, but there are a small percentage which are just crazy mf
cpill··on Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
I love PG... but the covers stink. Should have a public competition to have new ones made and voted on. I'm willing to vibe code a website to make it happen if you're willing...
cpill··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
or use a hybrid approach and have the best of both https://youtu.be/1vB3JXzewx0?si=DWKNgPcJcz5u4Bkp
cpill··on To my students
yeah, but everyone can use the coding agents, not everyone can choose well. the rarer the skill the more you get paid for it. also, the better you code the better the results you get from the agent
cpill··on Parallel agents in Zed
yeah, but they don't support a lot of the features Claude does like MCP integration. we've booked this up to logfire (telemetry provider) and it's a game changer when doing optimisation or diagnosis of bugs. plugins and skills also missing. but it is nice to switch between provider easily
cpill··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
these are unfair comparisons. it's not just a single laptop running all day it's all the graphic designer laptops that get replaced. it's not a single container of painting supplies it's all off them, (which are toxic by the way).

so if power were plentiful and environmental you'd be onboard with it?

cpill··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
please! nobody uses Xpath (coz json killed XML), it RDF (semantic web never happened, and one ever 10years is not fast), schema.org (again, nobody cares), PNG: no change in the last 26 years, not fast. the HTML "living standard" :D completely optional and hence not a standard but definition.
cpill··on Neovim 0.12.0
Word Bro! Regex is so simple to read and easy to get right... and its like if Immanuel Kant wrote find and replace, yeah, learn a new language to do a single function... yEAH! 98% Bro! I'd marry Regex if I could (but if we got divorced it would be my exregex [which is almost a palindrome!] Bro!)
cpill··on Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
I think the best example I've seen of the pipeline approach: ASR(STT) -> LLM -> TTS is still from about 10 months ago in HN https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat

Just a pity the code is undecipherable :(

cpill··on Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
Don't be so hard on yourself :P
cpill··on Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
what do you mean "infer"? how does the LLM get anything it of this as input?
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