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jarrell_markon Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine

Thanks for the quality software. Had some good times in high school trying out Irrlicht

jarrell_markon Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support

Semi colon is a non starter for me personally.

All the best and I’m sure many others will find this useful.

jarrell_markon SQL Workbench – Republicans not welcome

I switched to DBeaver a few years ago after realizing SQL Workbench wasn’t open source

jarrell_markon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

Last weekend I made a program that tells you how to look better. AI of course. It was inspired by r/howtolooksmax

https://lookbetterai.com

jarrell_markon Unity Editor software terms update: Runtime fee cancellation

Blockchain history cannot be manipulated unlike in git. This was meant as a joke though. There’s other ways to achieve this besides blockchain. the internet archive way back machine can pull up the TOS on a certain date.

Here’s some more info on file deletion using git and blockchain: https://chatgpt.com/share/67096e57-d6e0-8004-9f68-ae646bb471...

jarrell_markon Unity Editor software terms update: Runtime fee cancellation

Finally a legit use case for blockchain

jarrell_markon 1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation

Related: here’s the NCSA Mosaic browser as an AppImage. Runs on any Linux distro without having to recompile. https://appimage.github.io/NCSA_Mosaic/

NCSA Mosaic was made before Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox, by the same creator

jarrell_markon Cannabis Tops Alcohol as Americans' Daily Drug of Choice

Caffeine is Americans’ Daily Drug of Choice

jarrell_markon Resolume

Less straight forward but game engines can be used as VJ software.

Unity, Godot, Unreal

jarrell_markon Neural Network Diffusion

Can this be used to fill in the missing information on the openworm nematode 302 neurons brain simulator?

jarrell_markon NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances

Anything + 2 and then minus two is back to the original thing. This says more about the transformations than the source material.

jarrell_markon Why you should probably be using SQLite

Started a Minimum Lovable Product last week that helps people work through their anxieties or fears.

Using SQLite as a backend for everything from session management to logging. No elk stack, no separate db. Just a single file.

Development is so simple so far. Maybe I’ll need to move off of it later, but who knows maybe not. And the speed of development and simplicity is what matters more now.

https://bravesteps.love

jarrell_markon OpenWorm – A computational model of C. elegans worm

Would like to see the openworm get addicted to virtual nicotine

jarrell_markon Show HN: StratusGFX, my open-source real-time 3D rendering engine

Nice choice of license. MPL. Much clearer and straightforward than LGPL. Existing files and changes to them must stay MPL licensed. New files can be any other license.

jarrell_markon ChatGPT-J: The Privacy-First, Self-Hosted Chatbot Built on GPT-J's Powerful AI

Yes, the GitHub has the Jupyter .ipynb notebook that can be run locally: https://github.com/jarrellmark/chatgpt-j

And even in Colab, it's privacy first in the sense that user input or model output isn't being sent anywhere. The data is local to your Colab session.

jarrell_markon ChatGPT-J: The Privacy-First, Self-Hosted Chatbot Built on GPT-J's Powerful AI

It should work with about 12gb GPU RAM.

I got it to load on a GTX 1070 with 8GB GPU RAM, but then it crashed before it could generate a response.

It needs less RAM than regular GPT-J because the weights are converted to 8-bit

jarrell_markon OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit

Yes, publishing papers is good. Open source code can be based on methods described in papers. Like, most algorithms in sklearn for example.

jarrell_markon OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit

OpenAI isn't as open as it used to be, but they still publish papers.

The open-source Hadoop was based on Google papers on MapReduce and Google File System.

GPT-J and GPT-NeoX are open source models based on OpenAI publications around GPT-3.

jarrell_markon I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended

Same thing happened to me with Activision.

Found out one day my account was randomly banned from playing Warzone 2.0 with absolutely no way to get it unbanned.

jarrell_markon An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model

Artist using Disney trademarks without their permission has style taken without their permission

jarrell_markon DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source

Blender integration using Hydra. "By adapting Hydra as a render add-on to Blender, any renderer that supports Hydra [ie MoonRay] can be connected to Blender easily, by plugging-in to the Hydra add-on." - https://gpuopen.com/learn/amd-usd-hydra-blender/

jarrell_markon mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCHA system

AGPL seems problematic here. If a company uses this as their captcha system does it force them to open source their entire code base?

jarrell_markon Photogrammetry Guide

Photogrammetry can produce outstanding results with just the click of a button as long as the lighting is good and there's enough photos to cover every angle.

At the Stanford museum, made with open source Meshroom and a cell phone camera: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/parvati-cantor-arts-center-a...

jarrell_markon Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port

Playbook on how to handle a uuid collision

jarrell_markon WxWidgets 3.2

WxWidgets is like React Native but for desktops.

It uses the platforms' native UI frameworks. Gtk on Linux.

Audacity the audio editor uses WxWidgets.

jarrell_markon Ask HN: How to advocate for prospective employers to show us their codebases?

How about simply asking questions like "how long does it take to compile the codebase locally?"

jarrell_markon Ask HN: How are you dealing with the M1/ARM migration?

Multipass for an Ubuntu arm64 vm. Podman inside of there to create and run x86 docker images.

jarrell_markon Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

It's good. For my use case, better than Kdenlive on Windows. Shortcut renders much faster than Kdenlive because Shotcut supports HW encoding using the integrated Intel GPU. Kdenlive only supports that on Linux.