this website still uses shaders its just a button called materials after clicking the 3 bars in the bottom right of the screen
Readit Newsmclau157 commented on Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry 3d.ameo.design/geotoy... · Posted by u/Ameo
NASA astronauts on board Expedition 44...didn't expect flashbacks like that
mclau157 commented on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file hyperclay.com/... · Posted by u/pil0u
I too have an odd obsession with keeping everything in 1 file.
I recently (as an experiment) exclusively vibe-coded an Asteroids clone (with a couple of nifty additions), all in a single HTML file, including a unit test suite, which also works on either desktop or mobile: https://github.com/pmarreck/vibesteroids/blob/yolo/docs/inde...
Playable version (deployed via github docs) is here: https://pmarreck.github.io/vibesteroids/ Hit Esc to pause and see instructions (pause should be automatic on mobile; can re-pause by tapping top center area).
Type shift-B (or shake mobile device... you also would have had to approve its ability to sense that on iOS) to activate the "secret" ability (1 per life)
No enemy UFO's to shoot (yet) but the pace does quicken on each level which feels fun.
It doesn't update itself, however... (and I just noticed it has a test fail, and a test rendering bug... LOL, well at least the tests are valid!)
I have an odd obsession with github repos that only have 1 file
> Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns
For me happiness is a terrible life goal. Sure it's nice to be happy, but its such a vapid meaningless emotion. If I were to optimize for "happiness" I would just cash out, abandon my family, move to Vietnam, play video games and eat Hot Pockets all day. It doesn't take much to ride out the rest of my years.
But the life I choose is hard because doing hard things is good and fulfilling. I often willfully forgo happiness because, you know, I'm an adult. Maybe I'm just stupid?
that is an upfront assumption about what happiness would look like, if you got a few months into that plan you would realize that meaning and fulfilment go farther with happiness
mclau157 commented on This website is for humans localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/charles_f
I’m in love with the theme switcher. This is how a personal blog should be. Great content. Fun site to be on.
My issue is that crawlers aren’t respecting robots.txt, they are capable of operating captchas, human verification check boxes, and can extract all your content and information as a tree in a matter of minutes.
Throttling doesn’t help when you have to load a bunch of assets with your page. IP range blocking doesn’t work because they’re lambdas essentially. Their user-agent info looks like someone on Chrome trying to browse your site.
We can’t even render everything to a canvas to stop it.
The only remaining tactic is verification through authorization. Sad.
HomeStarRunner had a theme switcher
mclau157 commented on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos video.golpoai.com/... · Posted by u/skar01
I have used AI in the past to learn a topic but by creating a GUI with input sliders and output that I can see how things change when I change parameters, this could work here where people can basically ask "what if x happens" and see the result which also makes them feel in control of the learning
Related: I know that many people use AI image generators to make pixel art, and recently I've stumbled upon a great tool to make a proper pixelart based on AI generated input see https://github.com/jenissimo/unfake.js and live demo on https://jenissimo.itch.io/unfaker
(disclaimer: I don't know the author, just thought I'd share as I find it amazing)
Which AI pixel art generator?
Model cards, for the people interested in the guts: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/419b6906-9da6-406c-a19d-1bb078ac7...
In my mind, I’m comparing the model architecture they describe to what the leading open-weights models (Deepseek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi) have been doing. Honestly, it just seems “ok” at a technical level:
- both models use standard Grouped-Query Attention (64 query heads, 8 KV heads). The card talks about how they’ve used an older optimization from GPT3, which is alternating between banded window (sparse, 128 tokens) and fully dense attention patterns. It uses RoPE extended with YaRN (for a 131K context window). So they haven’t been taking advantage of the special-sauce Multi-head Latent Attention from Deepseek, or any of the other similar improvements over GQA.
- both models are standard MoE transformers. The 120B model (116.8B total, 5.1B active) uses 128 experts with Top-4 routing. They’re using some kind of Gated SwiGLU activation, which the card talks about as being "unconventional" because of to clamping and whatever residual connections that implies. Again, not using any of Deepseek’s “shared experts” (for general patterns) + “routed experts” (for specialization) architectural improvements, Qwen’s load-balancing strategies, etc.
- the most interesting thing IMO is probably their quantization solution. They did something to quantize >90% of the model parameters to the MXFP4 format (4.25 bits/parameter) to let the 120B model to fit on a single 80GB GPU, which is pretty cool. But we’ve also got Unsloth with their famous 1.58bit quants :)
All this to say, it seems like even though the training they did for their agentic behavior and reasoning is undoubtedly very good, they’re keeping their actual technical advancements “in their pocket”.
You can get similar insights looking at the github repo https://github.com/openai/gpt-oss
Ahmen! I attend this same church.
My favorite professor in engineering school always gave open book tests.
In the real world of work, everyone has full access to all the available data and information.
Very few jobs involve paying someone simply to look up data in a book or on the internet. What they will pay for is someone who can analyze, understand, reason and apply data and information in unique ways needed to solve problems.
Doing this is called "engineering". And this is what this professor taught.