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by cousin_it 5mo ago
When I was learning to draw, I used this free site which has lots of poses and detailed anatomy: https://www.posemaniacs.com/poses
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
I lasted less than one minute. Can't read anything when there's an unstoppable animation in peripheral vision going blinky blinky blink.
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
I haven't done the math, but my guess is that a pothole might do hundreds of dollars worth of damage over its lifetime, maybe thousands. If society was willing to pay 1/10th of that sum per pothole to anyone willing to fill it, th
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
Because I'd rather hear a tale about hunting told by a hunter, not a tale about hunting told by someone who disdains hunting as a day job and considers himself a failure if he can't get a living from actual hunters for his tales a
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
You didn't answer the questions though. Should the hunter dream about stopping hunting? Should he think of himself as a failure if he can't? Is this way of thinking good for his soul or his art? It's not about caloric surplus
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
Making a living through art is such a strange thing to wish for. I always imagine a prehistoric hunter telling tales around the campfire. Should the hunter think of hunting as his day job? Should he wish for a life where he'd spend all
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
I launched my live polling app https://suggestionboard.io , got some first users, now looking at how they use it and trying to improve the experience.
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
I believe in duty as much as the next guy. But duty goes both ways. The Earth has lots of resources that are privately owned. The process by which these resources become privately owned has no satisfactory libertarian justification ("l
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
Homeless people have no moral obligation to stay away from benches due to "solvency of transportation systems", if society doesn't care about them in return.
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
Are you saying that sleeping on a bench, if you don't have anywhere else to sleep, is antisocial?
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
That series is over, and the magical feeling of being in an open-ended fantasy world is really hard to replicate when we're not kids anymore. Loom is another game that gave me that feeling. But there was one idea in QfG that I wish mor
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by cousin_it 5mo ago
I think this depends on the subject. Something like math or music is "learned, not taught": you spend a lot of time practicing by yourself, sometimes asking a teacher when you get stuck. But something like CPR or assembling a drum
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
No one's stopping you from that, as long as your preferences coincide with go fmt ;-)
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
Thanks for your comment, just saw it. Yes, what you're saying is clearly the right next step, but contacting people out of the blue is so scary. I guess I should force myself to.
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
In my (small) experience, SSE is a bit finicky: 1) Firefox kills a webpage's SSE connection when you close and open the laptop lid, making you write code to reconnect, unlike other browsers; 2) there's no way to see the HTTP statu
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
Wild graphic. US spending on one flying killing machine (the F-35) is comparable to total spending on the Marshall plan to reconstruct Europe after WWII, or the interstate highway system, or all datacenters combined. Priorities!
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
This seems like nonsense at any angle? Like, if the agent hype comes true, then agents will be just as good at using any website as humans are, and there's no need to make any changes to your site. And if the hype doesn't come tru
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
There was an old Soviet cartoon about a child who found a box containing two magical servants and immediately asked them for ice cream and sweets. Well, since the servants "do everything for you", the first servant fetched the swe
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io , a live polling/feedback/Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version, now looking at the market and making small improvements.
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
This is good to hear. If I may ask, what was your use case?
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
Wow! I'm not in the target audience, but this is exactly what I love to see :-) Thanks for doing this!
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io , a simple live polling and Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version and trying to figure out if there's a market.
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)
22 points by cousin_it 6mo ago|52 comments
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
The phrase "voting with your wallet" is hilarious to begin with, because it admits that rich people have more voting power and implies that's how it should be.
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
It's only half of the solution though. If the models are trained in a closed way, they can prioritize values encoded during training even if that's not what you want (example: ask the open Chinese models about Tiananmen). It'
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
Vibe supply chain attacks are coming btw.
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
I think it's nice to be able to do things like rename nested structs and keep wire compatibility when upgrading two parts of the system at different schedules. Protos are neat. Think like a proto. (Not saying the signing problem in OP
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by cousin_it 6mo ago
Yeah. I'd say half of the work is Gödel numbering and the other half is the diagonal lemma.
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by cousin_it 7mo ago
But maybe not for long. When we get long-running AIs, the knowledge locked inside the AI's thinking might supplant docs once again. Like if you had an engineer working at your company for a long time and knowing everything. With all th
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by cousin_it 7mo ago
Except for all these burning gas and oil fields.

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