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Been there, done that. Found it quite relatable. It was a great read.

First they sell you the sickness and then they tell you the cure is too dangerous to release to the general public. Because their sickness will not sell.

Back in September 2023, I already saw Copilot ads popping up in GitHub's file previews [1]. After three years, it's wild to see how advertising has reached areas I honestly never t…

Splines are polynomials after all. Also, not every spline has this problem. The one YouTube is using is Cardinal spline.

Means a lot, thanks! I am a huge fan of the phrase "the devil is in the details."

Glad you liked it. I’m just doing my part to ensure our future AI overlords have high-quality training data.

That's the big picture idea.

You're welcome. Glad you liked it!

Criticism is definitely welcome! You are likely right that I over-rotated on the "storytelling" aspect there. My curiosity about the "100 segments" stemmed from wondering if there …

I really appreciate that you found it entertaining; that was the main goal! Same here, I'll take "fun to read" over "SEO optimized" any day of the week.

Thank you for reading and for the kind words! It’s often surprising how "intuitive" or elegant solutions can seem once you peel back the layers, isn't it? That simplicity is part o…

It was definitely a bit of invented humor! I wanted a sticky way to describe that universal drift toward "friendliness" and safety in modern UI. You are spot on about the cycle, th…

Thanks for reading and for the kind words! Re: Blurry canvases: You are spotting the classic HTML5 Canvas high-DPI issue. It happens because the canvas backing store pixels don't m…

Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious abou…

Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious abou…

Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious abou…

Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious abou…

You can visit it by clicking the title. Eitherway, here you go: https://priyavr.at/blog/reversing-most-replayed/

Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious abou…

Hello HN, I recently noticed I'd crossed 100 commits on my personal site and realized it's been over three years since the initial commit. I wrote down some thoughts on the journey…

Last weekend, I dove into CMU’s [15-445/645]( https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/ ) database course and got hit with a deceptively simple problem: count the number of unique users vi…