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Show HN: FLIP TABLE 2026

fliptable.nyc
3 points·by wibbily·22 дня назад·0 comments

Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'

404media.co
169 points·by wibbily·3 месяца назад·51 comments

Moth in Relay

moth-in-relay.net
1 points·by wibbily·3 месяца назад·0 comments

Meta delays rollout of new AI model after performance concerns

nytimes.com
14 points·by wibbily·4 месяца назад·3 comments

SoundSlab: How It Started

craigjb.com
4 points·by wibbily·6 месяцев назад·0 comments

Show HN: Funnies – read the newspaper comics section for any date in history

lmao.center
1 points·by wibbily·8 месяцев назад·0 comments

Ask HN: Where to store my bag for a few hours in SF?

2 points·by wibbily·10 месяцев назад·5 comments

Tubi launches "Productubity" to help fans stream at work

corporate.tubitv.com
1 points·by wibbily·10 месяцев назад·1 comments

The 100MHz 6502

e-basteln.de
39 points·by wibbily·10 месяцев назад·2 comments

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wibbily
·19 дней назад·discuss
<3

If I remember correctly you carried that project!
wibbily
·19 дней назад·discuss
You can also click on an image to open the original in a lightbox. (I should make that more obvious.)

The dithering happens server-side (er, laptop-side). Experimented with a JS filter but it just didn't hit the way I wanted it to. Plus I save a lot of bandwidth this way
wibbily
·19 дней назад·discuss
Guilty. I had a few hours to kill on Amtrak... the time will pass anyway y'know

(Plus I didn't know if it would work. The first version was just some Python functions I had to call from the REPL, livecoding style)
wibbily
·19 дней назад·discuss
There's a few that I think would look better with dropped frames (the cake for instance). These are all the raw output of the script. Consider it maybe a starting point for manual editing :)
wibbily
·19 дней назад·discuss
Was thinking about adding this... big fan of live photos.
wibbily
·19 дней назад·discuss
The unfortunate reality of accidents, lack of intention~

I've been taking pictures to be more effective wigglegrams now that I know I can auto-GIF them. I'll do a followup post at some point. The big trick is that they look better when the subject stays in the center of the frame, with the camera "orbiting" it to create a sort of parallax effect.
wibbily
·19 дней назад·discuss
As the others pointed out the script is at the end...

> Would be nice to have... the choice of perceptual hashing algorithm

Funny enough the script does some of this - there's a handful of algorithms the library supports and it computes/saves all of them. "Perceptual" seemed to work the best but if you want to experiment w/ the others they'll be there for you.
wibbily
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Are 404 media links still blackholed?
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Fun: the “Molly” in question is Ed Krol’s daughter - he’s the guy who wrote the Whole Internet User’s Guide and Catalog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Krol
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Seconded. I got a Gemini server running on an esp8266 once, there really isn't a lower bound.
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
It’s tough but one of the tenets of Gemini is that a lone programmer can write their own client in a spirited afternoon/weekend. Markdown is just a little too hard to clear the bar. Already there was much bellyaching on the mailing list about forcing dependence on SSL libraries; suggesting people rely on more libraries would have been a non-starter

Note that the Gemini protocol is just a way of moving bytes around; nothing stops you from sending Markdown if you want (and at least some clients will render it - same with inline images).
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Maybe the solution is to ban editing. Or let moderators review + approve edits at least.

The gambling site “Stake” was doing the same thing recently, they’d make posts on financial advice or gaming subreddits and edit in a link (as to be “oh btw I need advice because I made money betting”). Were even using Greek Unicode “a”s and “e”s to hide from the automod filters. Scumbags among scumbags
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
An open letter: if you market your product by spamming Reddit et al. with fake stories (as this guide suggests), we:

1. can all tell

2. will not use your product

Please stop polluting the global commons

Signed everyone <3
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
It's two different problems. People who run review sites and blogs and such care about traffic, and not getting attribution will kill their desire to participate. People who post here and on Reddit etc. care about talking with other human beings, and feeling ignored in a sea of botspam will kill *their* desire to participate.
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-a...
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
> When Google AdWords first launched

Exactly, they’ll be kept separate.

For now.
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
It’s not “clear communication” though. The prose that comes out of LLMs is awful - long, vapid paragraphs with distracting tropes. You can ask them to be concise but then they file down all the wrong bits of the sentence and lose meaning. There’s a reason people bother clocking it and complaining about it, it’s *bad*

It’s like everything else that AI can do - looks fine at a glance, or to the inexperienced, but collapses under scrutiny. (By your own admission you’re not a great communicator… how can you tell then?)
wibbily
·4 месяца назад·discuss
He's not writing his comments himself either. Better off ignoring the whole thing, unfortunately
wibbily
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
I'm taking the bait whatever. All those projects are just more fucking AI tools. It's all Claude seems to be good for - writing agents, skills, harnesses. Just a big fat ouroboros.

(Going down the /trending page - 13 of the 14 are some flavor of context manager or agent or smth)

Let me know when someone uses Gas Town or openclaw to write something that isn't "the next Gas Town or openclaw" and then we can talk
wibbily
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
IIRC "firmware as hardware" only applies if nobody - not you, not the manufacturer - can update it. I.e. your laptop's BIOS is software, the controller in your washing machine is hardware.

Of course, now washing machines connect to the Internet, so the obvious lines have blurred