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by kikkupico 10d ago
Reminds me of the time Kasparov said playing chess against a supercomputer felt like facing an alien opponent.
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by kikkupico 14d ago
The Blender connection - https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss/blob/master/ambient3...
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by kikkupico 15d ago
The threejs scene in the docs is only for explaining the setup; it doesn't have a raytracer to render shadows accurately. The reference renders for the CSS were done in Blender. See https://kikkupico.github.io/ambientcs
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by kikkupico 15d ago
With the knobs, I just figured out the problem was a stray div from an earlier version of the app overlapping the knobs in the components section of the demo app. I've fixed that now. Checked in both desktop and android Chrome and look
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by kikkupico 15d ago
Orthographic projection was chosen here deliberately - that's why elevation makes no difference to the size of the object but changes the shadow. Perspective projection won't work well with scrolling because the angle of the objec
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Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS(ambientcss.vercel.app)
307 points by kikkupico 15d ago|99 comments
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by kikkupico 6mo ago
Contrary to the general opinion, I feel that AI has IMPROVED my cognitive skills. I find myself discovering solutions to problems I've always struggled with (without asking AI about it, of course). I also find myself becoming much bett
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by kikkupico 6mo ago
> The point I’m making is that determinism isn’t the key difference between compilers and LLMs I think you misunderstood. Determinism is the the difference between natural language and code. It's not about LLMs vs compilers.
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by kikkupico 6mo ago
> C code admits many assembly interpretations and the assembly you get will vary depending on your compiler and parameters. There's your own example defining how code is deterministic. Despite being compiled to different assembly in
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by kikkupico 6mo ago
Natural language is fluid and ambiguous while code is rigid and deterministic. Spec-driven development appears to be the best of both worlds. But really, it is the worst of both. LLMs are language models - their breakthrough capability is h
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by kikkupico 6mo ago
Wow! I just wrote the article "Stop trivialising AI: it’s not your intern, colleague or compiler" today and shared on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274213 - but I talk about different dangers though.
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Stop trivialising AI: it's not your intern, colleague or compiler(kikkupico.com)
5 points by kikkupico 6mo ago|0 comments
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by kikkupico 7mo ago
Fair enough! Business and user perspectives are meta-data that explain the intent behind the code. I disagree with the point that intent should be the source of truth, though. Intent, like you explained, is high level and lacks the details
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by kikkupico 7mo ago
> You can argue that you can just ask the LLM to explain back and forth but it can still be too much. But then you'd get an explanation tailored to your specific perspective instead of a generic one, right?
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by kikkupico 7mo ago
What do we gain by maintaining a high level view instead of asking an LLM to explain the code at a high level when required?
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Ask HN: Why spec-driven development when code IS spec?
2 points by kikkupico 7mo ago|7 comments
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by kikkupico 7mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! I agree there needs to be visual indication for the knobs' min and max points. I'm thinking about how to do this without adding visual clutter.
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by kikkupico 7mo ago
Thank you! I just changed the knob control gesture/drag logic and it doesn't work like a vertical slider anymore.
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by kikkupico 7mo ago
Made the knob controls more intuitive now. Please check it out!
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by kikkupico 7mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! Click and scroll up/down to turn the knobs. I will fix this as it isn't an intuitive way to control knobs. EDIT: Done! Please disregard this comment.
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Show HN: Ambient CSS – Physically Based CSS and React Components(ambientcss.vercel.app)
9 points by kikkupico 7mo ago|9 comments
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by kikkupico 8mo ago
Exactly! LLMs' (or any Gen-AI) lack of lived-experience/emotions is their Achilles heel. The best human creators understand how to inspire emotions mainly because they can feel it themselves. Most other humans, despite innately un
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by kikkupico 8mo ago
There was a very specific purpose here - to build a web-based accelerometer game. If I were to compare this with playing, I would say this is more akin to playing with a special kind of clay that shape-shifts itself based on your instructio
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by kikkupico 8mo ago
Thank you for the honest feedback! I'll stick to writing content by hand for future blog posts.
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by kikkupico 8mo ago
Here you go - https://www.kikkupico.com/posts/vibe-discovery/#the-meta The blog post was written by Claude Code, reviewed by Gemini Pro, ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking, Kimi K2 Thinking, Deepseek Deep Thinking and me. Natur
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by kikkupico 8mo ago
I misjudged the amount of dislike HN users have for AI generated writing. I have added a "meta" section explaining how the post itself was written by AI, directed by my own taste. Here's the meta - https://www.kikk
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Show HN: I built a game on my old phone without knowing what I was building(kikkupico.com)
11 points by kikkupico 8mo ago|22 comments