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Cadwhisker commented on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio   bruno-simon.com/... · Posted by u/razzmataks
Cadwhisker · 11 days ago
I can't see Bruno's site and I assume it's because of the HN hug of death, but an impressive 3D website that always comes to mind is acko.net, with its 3D rendered tubular logo. He even describes how it was done in a blog post.

https://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

Cadwhisker · 10 days ago
OK, I take it back now that the HN hug has died off a bit. Bruno's site is a ridiculously neat thing to see in a web browser.
Cadwhisker commented on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio   bruno-simon.com/... · Posted by u/razzmataks
catapart · 11 days ago
Very neat! I and completely respect the skill. I respect the effort even more!

That said, it's not 'hands down, one of the coolest 3D websites', at least that I've seen. It's all "technical", very little "design". For example, why is it 'isometric overhead'? There's no particular benefit in the view, and it's specifically harder to control than it would be with a 'chase'/'third-person' camera. It's not like this is an RTS or a city-builder-ish thing, where having an overhead layout works to your benefit. Rather, it's just easier to program a camera that never changes angles and input controls that never have to re-interpret camera position/rotation (lookat vector) to function correctly. And there's a kind of symmetry between a flat page and the "ground" that the truck drives on, so some parts of the web forms have been ported over to that.

Again, none of that is bad and especially none of it is wrong. It's very cool that it works and works so well (technical)! It's just that the design feels more "portfolio" than it does "best ux for interacting with the environment I've created and the paradigms I've invoked (vehicle control)".

Cadwhisker · 11 days ago
I can't see Bruno's site and I assume it's because of the HN hug of death, but an impressive 3D website that always comes to mind is acko.net, with its 3D rendered tubular logo. He even describes how it was done in a blog post.

https://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

Cadwhisker commented on Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release   tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader... · Posted by u/dmitrygr
permo-w · 20 days ago
besides for training future models, is this really such a big deal? most of the AI-gened text content is just replacing content-farm SEO-spam anyway. the same stuff that any half-awares person wouldn't have read in the past is now slightly better written, using more em dashes and instances of the word "delve". if you're consistently being caught out by this stuff then likely you need to improve your search hygiene, nothing so drastic as this

the only place I've ever had any issue with AI content is r/chess, where people love to ask ChatGPT a question and then post the answer as if they wrote it, half the time seemingly innocently, which, call me racist, but I suspect is mostly due to the influence of the large and young Indian contingent. otherwise I really don't understand where the issue lies. follow the exact same rules you do for avoiding SEO spam and you will be fine

Cadwhisker · 20 days ago
In the past, I'd find one wrong answer and I could easily spot the copies. Now there's a dozen different sites with the same wrong answer, just with better formatting and nicer text.
Cadwhisker commented on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18   blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18... · Posted by u/m463
christophilus · a month ago
Why Zorin? It’s always struck me as a weird distro. I can’t put my finger on why, but it feels off.

I wonder how much of a bump other distros have seen in the same period.

Cadwhisker · a month ago
I have to do tech support for grandma. Every few years, her Windows laptop gets so slow that we get her a new one. This time I will test out a switch to Linux instead of buying a new computer. Zorin is the most attractive option because it's the least strange.
Cadwhisker commented on How the cochlea computes (2024)   dissonances.blog/p/the-ea... · Posted by u/izhak
Cadwhisker · 2 months ago
Just a warning that the video ends with a loud, high pitched tone that will make you want to rip your headphones off.

Ironic for a video about hearing.

Cadwhisker commented on Ask HN: What software dev tasks have you found LLMs to be good at versus bad at?    · Posted by u/ronbenton
Cadwhisker · 2 months ago
Helping me get up to speed with an unfamiliar API much, much faster than any online searching.

I can describe an example application and see which API is chosen, along with which functions/methods are called and in what order and with what data structures.

I take it from there and build on that by hand. Take Python UI development, for example. I can ask for a window with a zoomable bitmap image with scrollbars. I get an answer I can refer to in seconds. If I know that I want PySide6 or PyQt6, I can specify that, or I can ask for a list of Python UI APIs and their strengths/weaknesses.

Cadwhisker commented on I miss using em dashes   bassi.li/articles/i-miss-... · Posted by u/Mikajis
Cadwhisker · 4 months ago
I'd switch to semicolons, but I need to re-read this book to be sure I'm using them correctly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

Cadwhisker commented on Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims   apnews.com/article/domini... · Posted by u/throw0101a
Cadwhisker · 4 months ago
That fine needs an extra zero on the end. They'll shrug it off as the cost of doing business.
Cadwhisker commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari   apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang
uallo · 5 months ago
Cadwhisker · 5 months ago
I got the Australian one by replacing `cn` with `au` in the link.

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

u/Cadwhisker

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