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The minimaxir/gemimg repo is pretty cool, fwiw. Going further, one thing you can do is give Gemini 2.5 a system prompt like the following: https://goto.isaac.sh/image-prompt And th…

In my opinion, writing derivations in Guile Scheme, using Guix[0], is a breath of fresh air[1]. If only the ecosystem were as large as Nix's... [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…

> He identified the four forces which act on a heavier-than-air flying vehicle: weight, lift, drag and thrust. [...] He also designed the first glider reliably reported to carry a …

A language with a function-color-agnostic effect system, generic over asynchronicity?

I mocked up a prototype for something similar to this using TreeSitter and its query language the other day for some heavy refactoring I had to do. This looks like a really cool pr…

I had a little too much fun... x>0.2-abs(sin(t*2))*0.05&&x https://sliderland.blinry.org/#x%3E0.2-abs%28sin%28t*2%29%29...

I love Actual, one of the best local-first apps I've used. I'm excited that it's been open sourced, but I also understand that this release is a bit bittersweet. Awesome work James…

Thanks for the link to the guidelines: I removed the 'Show HN' prefix as this project isn't anything quantifiable yet. I'll be sure to post a proper Show HN when I've got something…

In the spirit of 'Tiny Projects' by Ben Stokes, I'd like to start a small little side project. A while back I registered https://hb.sbs , but soon realized that I had no idea what …

Don't forget the built-in chat in google docs that nobody uses! (Yes, the one other than the commenting system).

We shouldn't have to live in a culture when being called out for making a 'choice with tenuous political relevancy' is socially expected, and something someone is 'guilty of'.

Like you, I am not a huge fan of JS, but I'd like to say that the ideas behind TermKit — namely having a shell with richer graphical interaction (e.g. cat works for images too), se…

Getting 500 errors, multiple friends confirming: https://github.com

Just letting you know, it's also the name of a pretty well-known suit of cards present in decks of playing cards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spades_(suit)

This is a neat idea. Would love to run some queries against this with a larger index. Here's one instance of the question just going over the transformer's head, I guess: My questi…

Yes, but this almost seems intentionally genius at the same time.

A snapshot is a the entire state of a program at a single moment in time. Continuations are basically exposed snapshots, i.e. taking a snapshot, storing it in a variable, doing som…

I've written some documentation for it in the past, but had to scrap it because things tend to move so quickly that it's better to read the code and ask Shaw than use incorrect doc…

Oh, I did something like this a while back as well! Aside from ray tracing, my renderer also supports ray marching , so it can render some cool fractals[1]. Writing path tracers is…

> Tossing my hat in for Passerine [1]. Gorgeous ML inspired syntax. I work on Passerine, cool to see the language mentioned in the wild, glad you like it! > Written in Rust, and I …

Hey HN, Isaac Clayton again[0]! This summer I worked as an intern at tonari[1] where I developed algorithms for real-time 3D scene construction on the GPU. As a part of my research…

I vote that we add our blogs / other good blogs we have come across as children on this comment. I'll start, here's mine: - https://slightknack.dev/blog Here are some others: - htt…