vismit2000

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vismit2000··on Ask HN: How to make computer browse internet automatically?

vismit2000··on Float Exposed

This remains one of the best explanations on the topic: https://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained... Saw this when I just started using HN and such posts only inspired me to stick to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29368529

vismit2000··on Belling the Cat

'Little School Mouse' episode from Tom & Jerry contains an incident of belling the cat: https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/Little_School_Mouse

vismit2000··on Why Ancient Ruins Are Underground [video]

Agreed. Inspired from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101779

vismit2000··on The Little Book of Linear Algebra

Related: Immersive Linear Algebra - https://immersivemath.com/ila/

vismit2000··on Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels

Related: "Why Ancient Ruins Are Underground" by Primal Space - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyTOYEk_Z2Y

vismit2000··on Triangle Grids (2022)

Obligatory hex grids explanation by Amit Patel from reblobgames: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

vismit2000··on Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?

pytudes: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes

vismit2000··on How can AI ID a cat?

Relevant: https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/

vismit2000··on FFmpeg 8.0

Is there an easy way to denoise an audio file using ffmpeg to remove constant hum sound from an old audio recording introduced due to low quality of recording instrument?

vismit2000··on Ask HN: Best books on various topics of drawing, art and animation?

For animation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41204228

vismit2000··on The joy of recursion, immutable data, & pure functions: Making mazes with JS

vismit2000··on Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

This is a fantastic video on Jacobian [Mathemaniac]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ1VEmVjVo

vismit2000··on Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem

vismit2000··on Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer

Reminds of https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/prime-spirals

vismit2000··on Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)

A famous old interview question regarding floating points: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6699066/in-which-order-s...

This awesome article drives home the point very succinctly: https://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained...

vismit2000··on Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh

Since auto text completion is the primary task of an LLM, I have seen GitHub copilot do that very well on both bash and zsh within vscode terminal!

vismit2000··on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind

Wow. Thanks for sharing. Here is the poem in a clearer formatting with images: https://allpoetry.com/Mulga-Bill's-Bicycle

vismit2000··on Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text

How does this compare with the lightweight kitten TTS model which was recently on HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44807868

vismit2000··on Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?

Quickshell was discussed earlier on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800048

vismit2000··on What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like?

This fact is also present in 'Back of the Envelope' chapter in Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley!

vismit2000··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

You might want to check out Edward Tufte books, particularly 'Envisioning Information'

vismit2000··on Figma will IPO on July 31

More IBs (Syndicate) => More book building through more connections

vismit2000··on Ollama's new app

I believe power users or developers can already use this from CLI in Linux. This new app for Windows and MacOS shows this is intended for regular users.

vismit2000··on Do not download the app, use the website

Everyone knows all the apps on your phone (1195 points, 3 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518866

vismit2000··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

You might want to try out https://hackernews.betacat.io/

vismit2000··on Ask HN: What Speaker Diarization tools should I look into?

Elevenlabs does speaker diarization really well in my experience: https://elevenlabs.io/ (First came to know about this from Lex-Modi podcast)

vismit2000··on Java is still worth learning

Obligatory fireship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4-HM_sCvtQ

vismit2000··on An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear

Chapter-level summary: https://www.booksummary.pro/Outlive_summary.html

vismit2000··on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files

Related: Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646151

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