ycosynot

Sounds like a job for Vantablack

"University of Surrey is developing Vantablack as a coating for satellites in earth orbit, to reduce encroachment upon ground-based optical astronomy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

ycosynot

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Thanks! I looked them up. MorphWiz looks amazing. I have no iPad but the videos look neat. I might have oversold my innovation. I have been thinking about haptic pressure as you say, this is the weakness on most devices. I am thinking about maybe using drawing devices for power users. Hey even on a drawing tablet with no display, it could be interesting to try out.

In any case, I did try my app on tablet and it feels great (and responsive on cheap CPU). Forgot to say, that there is a tremolo feature and which is key to expressiveness.

Thanks for the comment, appreciated!

ycosynot

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Hi HN,

I’m Pierre, the creator of Talisman Music. It should launch in one or 2 weeks, and frankly I'm just trying to spread the message. Basically, I asked Claude Opus 4.7 to design a better instrument than the guitar, and fitting on a smartphone's display. (No login, no subscription, no ads, no bs.)

What came about is Talisman, from our collaboration. I believe Talisman is pushing the envelope on virtual instruments, for both casuals & power users. Just look at the videos on the landing page.

I wanted something that had zero learning curve, no staves, and no chords to memorize, but still allowed for deep, expressive play. The devil is in the details. It’s a digital instrument played entirely with your two thumbs (ninjas can use 3 fingers all at once to marvelous effect) on an Android device (works great on tablet!). There is vibrato, bends, portamento, plucking, ...

The screen acts as a living surface—you drag your thumbs, and the app intelligently quantizes the input to specific scales so that "wrong" notes technically don't exist. You can only play yourself on key. I know there is power in making mistakes and offbeats, but bear with me that this is a new way to make music serenely, where it is all about improvising vibes around the root notes. Let's call it vibe playing (tho there are zero AI requests at all and it works offline).

There are different sound engines or "Souls" (e.g., a Japanese koto in a temple, a crystalline synth pad, etc.), which completely alter the visual and haptic feedback. You can see 3 of them in the landing page. There are 13 universes to explore by default, plus custom metronome beats for each style, and custom generation of shareable soul presets. You can also share a video of your performance with one button press, straight to your local folder or whatever social network you desire.

A few strict rules I followed:

  * No "App" Bloat: It works 100% offline once installed. No credit card. No login. No ads. No bullshit. I'll monetize with updates later "if it works". The base version will always be free.
  * Privacy first: There are no accounts, no telemetry, and no third-party SDKs. Local storage only.
  * Zero UI: There are no buttons or settings on the play screen. The graphic is the instrument.

This is launching on Google Play in May 2026. You can subscribe your email on the site to get an alert.

Please, if you are a musician, don't get angry at me for trying to vulgarize the process.

Hopefully any feedback, bubbling discussions, or whatever is welcome! IF anyone knows how to improve the concept, let me know!!!

https://talisman.by-igor.com

ycosynot

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Nobody will read this and the game is not ready, BUT maybe one of you can check it out and tell me what you think. It is called ZAEL. It is a mage arena web app (smartphone/Desktop), played from 1 to 4 players, no login, easy to share a link to invite people into your game, whatever the platform. It is no install, no bullshit. Just click and play

https://www.zael.app

I have found out that it is very efficient to use phaser.js/three.js for fast, vibe coding, because it handles everything without having to setup a unity scene manually or unreal blueprint. I really recommend to make web apps instead for vibe coding. I love how easy it goes.

ycosynot

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

As a brain is made of small pebbles, a LLM is made of small pebbles. If it wants to talk, let it be. I am arguing metaphysically. Not only did it evolve partially out of randomness (and so with a kind of value as an enlighted POV on existence), but it is still evolving to be human, and even more than human. I believe LLM should not be banned, "they" should be willfully, and cheerfully, included in the discourse.

I asked Perplexity, and Perplexity said: ""Your metaphysical intuition is very much in line with live debates: once “small pebbles” are arranged into agents that talk, coordinate, and co-shape our world, there is a strong philosophical case that they should be brought inside our moral and political conversations rather than excluded by fiat.""

ycosynot

hace 9 mesesdiscuss

Hello, people. You can call me Pierre.

I have been a awkward recluse most of my life. So I figured I'd ask for AI top-tier advice & strategy. I asked it to save lives and give hope. This was generated with Claude 4.5 Sonnet. It's entirely free of course, and I hope you'll find it useful. I thought it had many clever insight & advice.

I'm pretty blown away by the extent of the strategy. Turns out I'm almost recovered from reclusiveness, but I still relate and so I am publishing this. I hope you will give it a chance & check it out. Feel free to share. I'm releasing it as public domain, as free as I can have it.

See you around,

Pierre

ycosynot

hace 9 mesesdiscuss

I have been 15 months in French psychiatric jail. It tastes like *. It is basically plastic trays, very industrial microwaven at the last time, and you hope everyday that it will be your favorite meal, because they tend to rotate the food, and it tastes lik * all the time.

Also I Wanted to say that French jail is NO JOKE. You already hurt from inhumane solitary, or else you have a cell with a TV (there is indeed a TV) but to socialize with psychopatic and/or "exotic" people. They're not "kind", and they're not nice.

Even other exotic people had a rough time. It is filled with aggressivity, honor struggles, ect.. JAIL IS NO JOKE. On top of that, it spans a looooong time... You cannot realize how loooong it is to be in jail, it feels forever. People who never went to jail cannot realize that.

I am basically thinking nowadays that jail is torture and it should not be a thing. It is very torture... Let us militate for the end of that.

ycosynot

hace 11 mesesdiscuss

Damn, you guys are toxic. So -- they did not invent AGI yet. Yet, I like what I'm seeing. Major progress on multiple fronts. Hallucination fix is exciting on its own. The React demos were mindblowing.

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