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Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

minipcs.zip
115 points·by yathern·20 dni temu·46 comments

The Pareto Frontier of Mini PCs

luke.zip
3 points·by yathern·20 dni temu·0 comments

Making of Words.zip (Infinite Word Search)

luke.zip
4 points·by yathern·3 miesiące temu·0 comments

Show HN: Words.zip (300k words found on an infinite grid)

words.zip
3 points·by yathern·5 miesięcy temu·0 comments

In Defense of the .zip TLD

luke.zip
6 points·by yathern·6 miesięcy temu·5 comments

Give the Internet an Infinite Word Search and the Internet Will Draw Dicks on It

gizmodo.com
2 points·by yathern·6 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Show HN: words.zip – Massively infinite word search

words.zip
11 points·by yathern·6 miesięcy temu·5 comments

Show HN: Words.zip – multiplayer infinite word search

words.zip
4 points·by yathern·6 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Show HN: Words.zip (Infinite Word Search)

words.zip
6 points·by yathern·6 miesięcy temu·3 comments

Pebble Index 01

repebble.com
10 points·by yathern·7 miesięcy temu·4 comments

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yathern
·15 dni temu·discuss
Ahhhhh I'm guessing that's a Device Pixel Ratio issue I completely forgot to consider (EG rendering 4x pixels than it should makes it slow, and the nodes smaller). I'll play around with it, thanks for the heads up
yathern
·15 dni temu·discuss
Thanks for the feedback - horrible how? It works fine on my Android but someone else said similar that uses iPhone, just not sure exactly what the issues was
yathern
·16 dni temu·discuss
I intentionally have them excluded - I guess because my use case is mostly gaming, homelab, plex server type stuff. But people use them for OpenClaw and whatnot right? I'll add em back in
yathern
·17 dni temu·discuss
I've always worried about latency for that - but it's ironic since I regularly stream over dedicated WiFi to my Quest VR headset. I'll have to give it a try some time. If they have some asynchronous reprojection tech for streaming that would be ideal
yathern
·17 dni temu·discuss
I have a desktop with a relatively powerful 5070 (I think) GPU for playing VR games. But my priorities for couch & controller games is not really around super high graphics performance.

Lately I find myself playing classic games on emulator, or generally games without huge graphics demands (been playing that climbing game PEAK a lot lately).

For me, getting a random no-name-brand Mini PC is such a fantastic deal these days. Throw bazzite or now real Steam OS on it, have access to your whole library - it's a linux machine you can configure to your hearts content. I love it. Probably the best deal on amazon right now is this machine, though there's others if you know how to search.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK34WJ84

Example of real-life gaming performance here - nothing mindblowing, but more than you'd expect from a tiny box that costs like $400.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlup85AxRd0

Just wipe windows immediately and put SteamOS on it and you're good to go
yathern
·17 dni temu·discuss
Exactly - I just built myself a knockoff Steam Machine by putting Steam OS (might switch to Bazzite but so far real Steam OS is fine) on a $300 Mini PC and I'm super pleased with it. 16GB of RAM and a Ryzen 7640HS runs all of my library just fine, though to be fair, I'm not much of a AAA super modern high-graphics gamer. Doing a lot of emulation these days.
yathern
·19 dni temu·discuss
https://luke.zip/posts/zip-defense/

I get asked this a lot, so here's my defense!
yathern
·19 dni temu·discuss
Fixed!
yathern
·19 dni temu·discuss
Oh good point - I was thinking more like "how hot is this deal" (and thus red == best) as opposed to just "good or bad".

Now when clicking on the 'dealscope' button there's a little modal which tries to clear it up a bit.
yathern
·19 dni temu·discuss
Oh for sure - your feedback is totally helpful, I agree the colors are not obvious (especially red being good), perhaps my tone sounded dismissive but that was not the intention at all - symtom of a quick response from my phone! I'll definitely work on improving the readability of the colors and what it means (tricky to find the balance between nerdily over explaining how it works)
yathern
·19 dni temu·discuss
For sure - prices are bizarre right now - though if you sort by memory, there's some holdout units that have like 32GB of memory for $250 (though other poor stats)
yathern
·19 dni temu·discuss
Colors are distance to the pareto frontier for the given setting for "dealscope"! Easily noticed when axis and color are set to the same dimension (EG CPU) - but setting to different things allows you to visualize two dimensions (three, with price) without needing a 3D chart. I found it really useful to find outliers, but I realize it's a bit nonstandard!

Oh - and colors are grey-blue to red, with red being pareto optimal
yathern
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I made monkeys.zip - a project that was completely useless and reflects my interests and skills, and people have reached out with creative projects since
yathern
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Not a bad idea - one issue would be when the circle approaches a 'narrow' section that widens out again. If too big to fit into the gap, the circle method would simply not count any of this as land. I think it would be unreliable compared to moving along the coastline in fixed increments (IE one-mile increments or one-foot increments, depending on your goal)
yathern
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
> Another mistake is completely ignoring the ball and staring into the distance. I'm not entirely sure why, but I've seen it a bunch more with *rats* than anywhere else. In any case, I would recommend you just casually glance up at the ball as it reaches the top of its arc

Is 'rats' a juggling jargon I'm unfamiliar with? Or do rats stare into the distance often?
yathern
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I used PGLite for a project (monkeys.zip) and it was absolutely fantastic! Loved how speedily I could have a "real" postgres instance without spinning up docker. Worked really really well with pnpm workspaces and a monorepo setup (EG pnpm run will run the DB package, as well as frontend and backend).

The only downside (and this applies for SQLite as well) is that it runs too well that you can get some bad habits - or at least follow patterns that don't support horizontal scaling which you would want to do in production. A number of problems across different projects have bit me because I relied too long on SQLite (or PGLite) when moving from local dev to setting up cloud infra. This includes things like connection pooling, read replicas, consistency issues with sharding. Maybe all those people who productionize *Lite have a point!
yathern
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Hmmm I think you're sort of right but not entirely. It's true that a novel consists of a valid organization of tokens, and that this sequence can be feasibly made to be output from a model. But when you say this:

> So there should be a prompt that can cause that sequence to be output

Is where I think I might disagree. For example, the odds of predicting verbatim the next sentence in, say, Harry Potter should be astronomically low for a large majority of it. If it wasn't, it'd be a pretty boring book. The fact that it can do this with relative ease means it has been trained on the material.

The issue at hand is about copyright and Intellectual Property - if the goal of copyright is to protect the IP of the author, then LLMs can sort of act like an IP money laundering scheme - where the black box has consumed and can emit this IP. The whole concept of IP is a little philosophical and muddy, with lots of grey area for fair use, parody, inspiration, and adaptation. But this gets very odd when we consider it in light of these models which can adapt and use IP at a massive massive scale.
yathern
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
> Unless your strategy is to create a photo-lab-like screen in pure black and red, or wear deep-red-tinted glasses, it’s unlikely that a pure colorshift strategy will cut out that big of a chunk of the spectrum.

I absolutely think this is the right approach. The glasses which do 'blue light filtering' which barely change your perception are clearly placebo, but a very strong redshift I think is obviously a different creature.
yathern
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Thank you! Definitely an inspiration, sort of like a human proof-of-work canvas
yathern
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Yup! A fairly simple deterministic RNG such that it can be generated both client and server side. This strategy greatly reduces the burden of transmitting all the letters as you scroll around, only needing the subset of found words