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by venkii 8mo ago
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, $, QoL (ie: Google
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by venkii 10mo ago
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-pro, Claude Opus 4.5), and found that they all improved the
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Show HN: Martial Lint – improve Chinese Wuxia novel translations with LLMs(github.com)
1 points by venkii 10mo ago|1 comments
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Germicidal UV could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water(worksinprogress.news)
118 points by venkii 1y ago|68 comments
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The Simplest Complex SWE Project(venki.dev)
2 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Taste(moderndescartes.com)
3 points by venkii 1y ago|1 comments
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Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers (2015)(slatestarcodex.com)
3 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Startup Roundup #3(thezvi.substack.com)
1 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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by venkii 1y ago
You might enjoy Asara's Personality Basins, it's on a similar vibe: https://near.blog/personality-basins/
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Notes on Virtues(lesswrong.com)
2 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Reversing the damage of mindfulness meditation (2022)(hollyelmore.substack.com)
4 points by venkii 1y ago|3 comments
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In Search of AI Psychosis(astralcodexten.com)
214 points by venkii 1y ago|235 comments
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by venkii 1y ago
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 cities encourage you to aim towards.
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Questing for Transcendence(scholars-stage.org)
3 points by venkii 1y ago|1 comments
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by venkii 1y ago
Thanks! I'll look into adding custom palettes & the heightmap method. Might not get to it tbh - but I'll take a look.
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by venkii 1y ago
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 simplest way to use it and it's super lightwe
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by venkii 1y ago
Done - thanks :)
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by venkii 1y ago
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 upon this post from Justin Jay Wang [1], who designed for O
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Show HN: Generate random gradients like on OpenAI's website(gradients.venki.dev)
33 points by venkii 1y ago|9 comments
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Methods for Random Gradients(justinjay.wang)
2 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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by venkii 1y ago
Really like the thesis implied by the title - kinda unfortunate the post tangents & doesn’t spend more time on that explicit claim.
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by venkii 1y ago
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 to deliver the same level of reliabi
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Founder Virtues, per the Thiel Fellowship(venki.dev)
5 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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The Calculus of Grit (2011)(ribbonfarm.com)
4 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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by venkii 1y ago
Any sense if applying later will be detrimental? The main reason to delay: I've started writing relatively recently, and expect I might have more posts I'd showcase in my application by then.
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The Inkhaven Blogging Residency(inkhaven.blog)
62 points by venkii 1y ago|78 comments
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by venkii 1y ago
Ooh very cool - I've been looking for something like this. Top feature I'd care about before using this would be the ability to read the actual 10K inline and jump to sources, perhaps as an iframe or so.
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How Much Is a Pension Worth?(venkii.substack.com)
2 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments
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Engineering Buy-In(venki.dev)
33 points by venkii 1y ago|6 comments
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The String Theory [David Foster Wallace, 1996](esquire.com)
2 points by venkii 1y ago|0 comments

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