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by vunderba 15d ago
Nice job - it kind of reminds me of the rocket barrel levels in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Feedback: Consider playing with the physics of the plane depending on your pitch, so that some parts of some levels might require you to d
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by vunderba 16d ago
+1 for Bitwig - written by a bunch of former Ableton devs and its external plugin/module sandbox means that a badly behaving VST won't take down the entire DAW.
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by vunderba 17d ago
Well no, it argues that the SKILLS for playing blindfold chess are similar to people who use LLMs to develop code - not that blindfold chess = vibe coding. And then earlier in the article defines said skills as having a sense of high-leve
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by vunderba 17d ago
IMHO the thrust of the article feels a bit forced, but LLM = Blindfold chess is not what the author is saying: > Thus in many ways programming with AI is the opposite of blindfold chess: you don't have to pay attention every turn,
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by vunderba 18d ago
When I was younger, my friends and I joked about making a "Disk Fragmenter" which would enumerate through every file on the disk and split them into non-contiguous clusters to make sure that the actuator arm on your platter-driv
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by vunderba 18d ago
I'm a stickler for accuracy too. The defragged blocks in the original Win9x program weren't solid blue - they had a hatch pattern texture to them. I remember it way too vividly. Source: Watching a disk defrag was every millenial
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by vunderba 19d ago
I’ve never personally used it, but isn’t that what LM Studio is positioned as? From what I can gather, it seems extremely beginner-friendly.
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by vunderba 19d ago
> site is filled with claudeisms Even the screenshot of the UI itself. Claude is enamored with wrapping labels in a ton of almost gaudy, decadent glow effects in the form of offset text shadows to the point where the text is practical
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by vunderba 19d ago
Not op, but where are you getting that number from? Even the full 16-bit precision model is only about 66GB. Most people are running the stock release of Minimax H3 using the INT8 quant and it's about ~20GB. https://huggingf
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by vunderba 20d ago
Oh yeah, I completely agree even though DOSBox (or DosBox-X) is fantastic, it’s really nice to be able to potentially run a game natively. I only mentioned GOG because it’s probably the easiest legal way to obtain the original assets necess
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by vunderba 20d ago
Very nice. Looking forward to irritating the Empire again as a new recruit [1]. On a more serious note, there's also a really great conversion that ports the original TIE Fighter over to the later X-Wing Alliance engine [2]. And of cou
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by vunderba 20d ago
On behalf of all pianists, welcome to the fold. The best advice I can give is to get a proper piano teacher for the first few lessons. If you’re in a college town, there might even be performance majors who’d be happy to teach on the cheap.
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by vunderba 20d ago
Consider starting smaller, perhaps? I got my BLS and later EMT just to dip my toes into medicine and it was a great overall experience without having to commit to the serious investment of an MD.
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by vunderba 20d ago
Same I grew up using Ctrl+Shift+Insert, and only really migrated over to Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V when I started using mouse-driven environments more heavily, because I could drive copy paste with my left hand and keep the mouse in my right.
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by vunderba 20d ago
Agreed. I wrote an article on my blog where I took some of my old compositions (from many years ago) and put them through the cover feature on Suno. Provided you crank up audio influence, it sticks almost note for note to the original melod
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by vunderba 20d ago
To be fair, I think more people are concerned with the signal to noise ratio. Thousands of one-click songs based on vague text descriptions being cranked out of Suno on a daily basis. I don't know anybody releasing songs with BIAB, and
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by vunderba 21d ago
Yeah, I’ve actually used that keyboard before. It has a bit of a hollow feel. I really love 8BitDo’s game controllers, but I've always found their keyboards to be a bit lacking. My other big issue is honestly that super "in-your-f
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by vunderba 21d ago
> game/gambling mechanics to exercise That's the entire premise of DDR and PIU. Throw Max 300 on and that's pretty much the definition of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). I picked up a Madcatz Xbox Pump Exceed pa
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by vunderba 21d ago
When the "new" C64 was first announced I was really hoping they would add a physical switch on the back of it that would let you switch between using it as a computer and using it as a keyboard to drive your normal machine. Some m
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by vunderba 22d ago
I've seen several attempts even on HN of the LLM meets Teddy Ruxpin (or more accurately AG Talking Bear) but most of them offloaded the AI to some off-site servers. I’d like to think that most parents would be weary of handing their ch
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by vunderba 22d ago
Most governments have strict rules around “photoshopping” or doctoring images, particularly for passports and other identification documents. I'm pretty sure Gemini embeds invisible SynthID watermarks into Nano-Banana images. So just b
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by vunderba 23d ago
If you don’t mind CLI, rembg is a good option for background removal. It lets you swap between different models depending on the type of image so you can use something like `birefnet` for photorealistic images and `toonout` for illustration
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by vunderba 23d ago
Seems neat, but I think asking your average HN’er to run a compiled binary from an effectively unknown source is going to be a hard sell. I might try it out later if I can find some time to spin up a Linux VM. I also find it rather amusing
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by vunderba 24d ago
> A bunch of these should be enforce with linting Agreed. One of the first rules I toss into Biome is `noNestedTernary` - LLMs seem to adore completely unreadable nested expressions.
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by vunderba 24d ago
Nice! I actually built something similar back in early 2023 [1], which used a collection of SDXL models to generate a new random painting every hour upscaled to 4K and then broadcasted to my frame using the Samsung WS API wrapper [2]. [1] -
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by vunderba 24d ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/... Legality was never ICE's strong suit.
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by vunderba 26d ago
Kills me when people don't internally adjust a stated annual salary against a workweek that is almost assuredly brutally higher than a standard 9-5. Between the "grinder mindset," the on-site traveling, etc. you're proba
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by vunderba 27d ago
To add to this: classical extemporization, post-Romantic period, also sort of fell out of favor as the composer began to pre-empt the performer and the "written note is sacrosanct" effectively became the de jure standard. There&
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by vunderba 27d ago
> I got completely hooked watching those viral reels of people trying to cut fruits and vegetables into perfectly equal halves Which itself was probably inspired by "Schlag den Henssler" [1] a German game show where they had
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by vunderba 27d ago
An early attempt at this was Microsoft Songsmith [1] all the way back in 2009, which would take a melody (usually recorded by mic) and try to scaffold an accompaniment around it though obviously not realtime in any sense of the word. The cl

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