icyfox

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by icyfox 3mo ago
1. Factory limits basically. There's a limit to the amount of fabrication lines that can create ram. Combined with the market incentives right now to make high bandwidth memory (HBM) over server memory (DRAM)... HBM starts as DRAM dies
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by icyfox 4mo ago
Not particularly. I'm not yet convinced people's mouse movements are unique enough to our identity that they're useful as a fingerprint, whereas it's very easy to classify whether something looks bezier or looks human. E
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by icyfox 4mo ago
Could look into addressing this. What are you trying to achieve?
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Show HN: Rotunda - A browser built for agents with simulated typing(github.com)
13 points by icyfox 4mo ago|5 comments
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by icyfox 5mo ago
So much of what Apple has lost over the last 10 years is a lower bar for what counts as good enough. You see this most obviously in software and marketing - the kinds of decisions where only a few people sign off at the end, and where &quot
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by icyfox 6mo ago
As far as I've seen, local OSS video understanding models just really aren't there yet. I briefly looked at facial recognition models but a good amount of signal was actually in the video's audio instead of the raw video fram
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by icyfox 6mo ago
Mostly wanted to fully automate the pipeline (auto-rewind tape, scan tape head position, etc) and iMovie is just using the same AVFoundation APIs under the scene that you can call manually. Took some notes here if helpful: https:/&#x2
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by icyfox 6mo ago
Digitizing my old tapes was one of the most rewarding side projects that I did over the last year. I managed to get in under the wire (pun intended) of Firewire compatibility on Sequoia and a long daisy-chain of adapters. But it was clear t
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by icyfox 8mo ago
Market used to be closed to all cars (2021-2025); only taxis and busses were allowed but that changed recently: https://www.sfmta.com/blog/creating-better-market-street-car... https://www.planetizen.com&#x2F
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by icyfox 8mo ago
I'm not commenting on the externalities. For that I'd also cite economic impact, job loss, occasional emergency services issues, etc. I'm saying the experience when you yourself are taking a ride. I haven't met a single
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by icyfox 8mo ago
Waymo is such an interesting case study. For most other ~AI deployments you have strong public reaction to the proliferation of slop, non-human failure modes, cost cutting at the expense of quality, etc. But I haven't met a single pers
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A deep dive on agent sandboxes(pierce.dev)
68 points by icyfox 8mo ago|20 comments
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by icyfox 8mo ago
Fair point about the source, but the classification usually follows the mode of delivery, not the organism of origin. Many plant-derived compounds function as venoms once introduced into the bloodstream (arrow coatings, darts, etc.), even i
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by icyfox 8mo ago
At the risk of being overly pedantic, topologists would typically classify this as venom. Venom is inert if digested; it's only a problem if it gets in your blood stream. So arrows that were laced with venom and thereby contaminated me
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Messages in bottles across the digital sea(adrift.today)
4 points by icyfox 9mo ago|1 comments
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by icyfox 9mo ago
Exactly half of these HN usernames actually exist. So either there are enough people on HN that follow common conventions for Gemini to guess from a more general distribution, or Gemini has memorized some of the more popular posters. The on
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by icyfox 9mo ago
We talked about this model in some depth on the last Pretrained episode: https://youtu.be/5weFerGhO84?si=Eh_92_9PPKyiTU_h&t=1743 Some interesting takeaways imo: - Uses existing model backbones for text encoding & se
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by icyfox 10mo ago
I used Serp via API many moons ago. The most interesting part of the company imo is their legal defense of different plans: Production - $150 15,000 searches / month U.S. Legal Shield ie. "Our U.S. Legal Shield protects
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by icyfox 10mo ago
I'm always a bit surprised how long it can take to triage and fix these pretty glaring security vulnerabilities. October 27, 2025 disclosure and November 4, 2025 email confirmation seems like a long time to have their entire client fil
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by icyfox 10mo ago
Seems like the live demo is bear hugged - been waiting for ~5 minutes now. A bit ironic given their landing page: Don’t make your prospects wait–ever again In its current iteration this demo might net discourage your future clients rather t
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by icyfox 10mo ago
I'm not sure how concerned people should be at the trend lines. If you're building a product that already works well, you shouldn't feel the need to upgrade to a larger parameter model. If your product doesn't work and t
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by icyfox 10mo ago
Pretty happy the under 200k token pricing is staying in the same ballpark as Gemini 2.5 Pro: Input: $1.25 -> $2.00 (1M tokens) Output: $10.00 -> $12.00 Squeezes a bit more margin out of app layer companies, certainly, but there's
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by icyfox 10mo ago
AdaptiveDetector definitely did a better job, will append these new stats to the post: precision 0.397, recall 0.727, F1 0.513, mean temporal error 0.307 s
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by icyfox 10mo ago
Nice to see you on here! I used the ContentDetector with a threshold of 27.0 and otherwise default parameters. Realize I could have done a grid sweep to really hone in on a good param range, but because I had only one input video labeled I
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by icyfox 10mo ago
I bought a Sony TRV120 10+ years ago, back when I was doing this conversion project for the first time. It's built like a tank and still works today. At the risk of being smited by professional archivists, I'm willing to wager tha
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by icyfox 10mo ago
Since the webapp is pretty opinionated to my setup (ie. linking against AVFoundation, using MPS for inference, always capturing an image after import) I didn't originally think it would be that useful to open source. Happy to do so - a
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by icyfox 10mo ago
Most of my tapes did have pretty detailed narration and date overlays written directly to tape. But even without narration I still had luck doing basic event summarization and facial recognition of family members to build the tags.
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Automating our home video imports(pierce.dev)
86 points by icyfox 11mo ago|41 comments
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by icyfox 11mo ago
Yes - garbage in / garbage out still holds true for most things when it comes to LLM training. The two bits about this paper that I think are worth calling out specifically: - A reasonable amount of post-training can't save you wh
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by icyfox 11mo ago
It's a neat chip but I couldn't bring myself to spend in excess of the price of the UPS ($439.00 for RMCARD at time of writing). I ended up hooking my UPS via USB to my existing home server via NUT and it's been working well.

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