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Related thread I wrote a bit ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lighting/comments/1po7sxb/are_there... I do think it's actually quite hard to beat the Brighter lamp on all of: Lumens, $…

OP here. I read a lot of Wuxia novels, some of them are well translated, and I usually end up giving up on the poorly translated ones. I tried a few models (Gemini-2.5, Gemini-3.0-…

You might enjoy Asara's Personality Basins, it's on a similar vibe: https://near.blog/personality-basins/

One of my all-time favorite essays, pairs very well with pg's Cities And Ambition ( https://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html ), as I wonder about what forms of transcendence various …

Thanks! I'll look into adding custom palettes & the heightmap method. Might not get to it tbh - but I'll take a look.

Mmm interesting. I'm not sure if it's possible in pure CSS, maybe it is? It relies on creating new SVG elements. I think including the SVG in whatever website would usually be the …

Done - thanks :)

Hey HN! Check out this fun tool I built to make cover images for my blog. The main goal: interesting looking random gradients, that all draw from a single color palette. I stumbled…

Really like the thesis implied by the title - kinda unfortunate the post tangents & doesn’t spend more time on that explicit claim.

I’ve briefly written about issues in the past: https://venki.dev/notes/google-gemini-is-bad My first thought would be, re: >It’s baffling that a tech giant like Google can’t seem t…