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tbreschi

23 karma · joined December 28, 2010

Product designer in New York
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tbreschi··on Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
This is fun!

Great design and artwork. How did you generate the portraits?

Have you thought about extending this into some sort of pipeline for AIO?

tbreschi··on Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
This is an interesting yet simple approach. To the OP’s original question, how might you abstract this into a “design system” that can be applied to their other projects?
tbreschi··on Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable
Brilliant marketing here in the title
tbreschi··on Show HN: Javalamp – A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake
1.. I’d have to think through about how to wire it up to listen to the other terminal where the job is running, but yeah I suppose this could work.

2. Yeah this is a smart feature would be cool.

Thanks for the feedback!

tbreschi··on Show HN: Javalamp – A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake
Yeah, I can do that. I actually bundled 8 different scenes into this release… was also considering including a skill for agents so others could write (and contribute) their own animations…
tbreschi··on Show HN: Javalamp – A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake
It suppresses macOS sleep and the display going off while it’s running, but it does not “survive” the lock screen in the sense of drawing over or replacing the system lock/saver.

The terminal app (and javalamp) will still be there and running when you unlock, but the lock screen or any password prompt remains fully controlled by macOS.

tbreschi··on Show HN: Javalamp – A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake
Right? Such a useful feature. I struggle to correctly tune my energy saving mode and screensaver settings - especially on a corporate laptop. Hence the motivation to seek out the setting.
tbreschi··on Show HN: Javalamp – A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake
Hey HN I'm Terrence and I built Javalamp, a terminal "lava lamp" screensaver that keeps your mac awake while your agents/tools are running.

I built it because I kept having longer running coding/AI jobs pause when my Mac went to sleep, and I wanted something lightweight and fun that lived in the terminal.

I’m curious whether others have this problem too and what features would make this actually useful (metrics, different visualizations, non-Mac support, etc.).

Feedback on both the idea and the implementation is very welcome.

Thanks!

tbreschi··on A ShaderToy-like playground for ASCII art
Fun! Repo?
tbreschi··on Show HN: Auge Vision from Your Terminal
This is neat. I wonder… Is there a more comprehensive analysis of how well the Apple Vision framework compares to other multi-modal AI? Would there be any benefit to pre-processing images via Auge before handing them to Claude, GPT?
tbreschi··on Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture
Yeah that typing effect at the top (expanding the composer) seems to be the isssue
tbreschi··on Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
https://absurd.website/microtasks-for-meatbags/

This became a real startup. https://rentahuman.ai/

tbreschi··on Rainy-City.com
Very cool. How’d you build?
tbreschi··on I Gave an Claude Its Own Radio Station – It Won't Stop Broadcasting (It's Fine)
Love this. Is the music AI Generated?
tbreschi··on The sudden fall of Sora
What is the fallout if OpenAI goes under?
tbreschi··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
Best comment of the day
tbreschi··on Bondi, Miller, Rubio, Noem, Hegseth Have Relocated to Military Bases (NYT)
Ok yeah…

“Ms. Bondi is the latest administration official to move into heavily guarded quarters at military facilities in or near the nation’s capital after citing danger from criminals, adversaries overseas and protesters.”

But then…

“Other officials who have relocated include Stephen Miller, the president’s top domestic policy adviser and the architect of his hard-line immigration policy; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Kristi Noem, the exiting homeland security secretary; and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.”

This doesn’t seem normal

tbreschi··on Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
Product Designer here. Even when I get an LLM to produce a novel UI with a good UX, I inevitably have to “shape” it.

This meant endless screenshots and descriptions back and forth to the LLM. Expensive in tokens and time.

I built Drawbridge to batch multiple context-rich (JSON Prompts) and screenshots for Claude or Cursor to process.

Hope this helps! https://github.com/breschio/drawbridge

tbreschi··on Same Radio, Different Citizens
Reads a bit biased to me, but alas I’m not an Oxford man like the author
tbreschi··on Universe Time Machine Using AI God and the Universe Internet
* fires up gastown *
tbreschi··on Show HN: AIKit - Minimal library for calling OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini gen APIs
Nice! Will check it out
tbreschi··on Show HN: Put a Contract on Your Goals
I love the intensity of this. Cool idea. But where does the money go?
tbreschi··on Show HN: 2d web paddle game
This is sooo much fun!