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Comment · 8 days ago
Cool idea! I had lots of fun looking at stuff nearby.
Right now it seems that it simply removes links for stuff without a geotag that's nearby. But many articles are in fact nearby and are simply missing geotags, or perhaps encompass a slightly larger area where only a part of it is close by. Also, all the pictures don't have working links so I can't click on a picture to make it bigger.
Comment · 11 days ago
Lack of anti cheat is rather outdated perception of Windows on Arm. Most popular competitive games like League of Legends have native arm versions now.
Comment · 16 days ago
I recently had the displeasure of using Passkeys:
- trying to sign in to Okta on my personal Linux desktop computer. It has bluetooth and I had my phone right next to me, also with bluetooth turned on. But Firefox simply refuses to even show the option for "connect to your phone" or to give a QR code... it just said "tap your security key or biometric device". I had neither; my passkey is on my phone. Then it timed out and I gave up trying to log in.
- trying to sign in on my work Macbook using Google Chrome (enterprise managed one). For some reason, upon scanning the QR code, my phone was stuck on "Connecting..." and timed out. I had bluetooth turned on on both devices, they were five centimeters apart, both were connected to internet with a great gigabit connection. It turns out, I had to quit and restart Chrome and it magically started working.
- trying to sign in on my work desktop using a physical Yubikey remotely using VNC. It's not possible by design. I had to get my coworker to press my Yubikey in the office.
- trying to get Muse and OpenAI Dot to sign in using a passkey. It's not possible by design.
Generally, the user experience is really horrible with passkeys. It is also ironic that it trusts my phone (used for shitposting; easily lost or stolen) instantly, but simply refuses to trust my personal Linux desktop computer, which is fully encrypted, securely stored in my house, and contains all my life's work and everything that is dear to me.
Comment · 17 days ago
I wonder if they were already training AI on decompiled games. It's plausible that the large labs are already using AI to decompile existing software way before random people on the internet found out this was possible. That would also explain why some AI are oddly good at generating video games.
Comment · 18 days ago
My complaint applies specifically to the CLI. I have never used the gui app. Here are the various goal-breaking bugs I've run into:
- Goals get blocked due to .git and other stuff becoming randomly read-only when daemon auto-updates in the background (the linked issue in my comment above)
- Goals get blocked due to transient "Selected model is at capacity"
- Goals get blocked due to "Codex ran out of room in the model's context window". Somehow, both auto-compaction and manually running /compact don't work. https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52567#issuecomment-61...
- Goals get blocked due to bwrap randomly failing with `bwrap: loopback: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation not permitted`. I traced this one to `apparmor` on Ubuntu 24.04 interfering with bwrap and found a local workaround.
Comment · 18 days ago
The daemon has many bugs. For example, when auto-updating, it would randomly ruin the permissions and block the goal as .git became read-only. Generally, it is extremely annoying how many bugs Codex has. I basically can't trust it to execute on any goal since it would often get blocked every few hours due to random bugs.
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52251#issuecomment-60...
Comment · 18 days ago
new one is actually smaller than the original (3760 mm long vs 3830 mm). but batteries and modern safety makes it heavier
Comment · 25 days ago
He has a writeup about the office and desk setup too: https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/
Comment · 29 days ago
Chess is an interesting case. I remember in 2023, GPT 3.5 or something used to be surprisingly good at chess. There was even a "stochastic parrot chess" website [1]. I recall it was playing decently at around a 1800 level. Even as a fairly okay player myself (2100 bullet on lichess), I struggled to beat it. However, modern LLMs are a lot worse at chess. I guess having too much chess data in the training set probably regressed performance on stuff that actually matters, like coding.
[1] parrotchess.com, no longer available. Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=parrotchess.com
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah but on the US government website [1] it says
> Submit the original, unchanged photo.
> Do not change your photo using computer software, phone apps or filters, or artificial intelligence.
and many other countries have similar requirements.
EDIT: I just read the "Common Questions" that says: "This editor crops and centers the photo you provide and can replace the background. It does not invent or beautify a face." I guess that's not as bad then. Still mildly iffy and weird marketing though.
[1] https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/apply/help/photos.html
Comment · 1 month ago
Also, I don't have a monopoly on "pictures that look like this".
Adam Magyar and Jay Mark Johnson have line scan photos in fine arts as well, and they were in fact a big source of inspiration when I started out on my own line scan journey in 2017.
- https://www.magyaradam.com/wp/?page_id=368
- https://www.jaymarkjohnson.com/works
Seth Itow, Philomena, and Elm-chan both also have hobbyist line scan camera setups:
- https://www.sethitow.com/posts/2026-linescan/
- https://elm-chan.org/works/lcam/report.html (be sure to scroll down and click on the train pics)
There are also Japanese rail fans:
- https://kr64.seesaa.net/ with a bewilderingly huge collection of trains all over Japan,
And faux-line scan cameras using regular video cameras, stitching together thin chunks rather than 1 px columns:
- https://x.com/yamakox/status/2089934720759144653
- https://kakeyama.image.coocan.jp/index.htm
- https://trains.jo-m.ch/#/trains/list
Line scan cameras are also commonly used for machine vision in the rail industry to inspect trains for damage and detect graffiti and stuff. And conversely, line scan cameras mounted on trains are used to inspect rails and tunnels.
Comment · 1 month ago
I actually reached out to Philo on GitHub Issues but she hasn't responded yet [1]. I also mentioned her cool camera on my blog [2].
By the way, I recognize your username as the person that Philo credits with "rewriting grindstone in idiomatic NumPy". That's super cool!
[1] https://github.com/FlamingSpork/grindstone/issues/1
[2] https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-06-12-standalone-cnc-li...
Comment · 1 month ago
I just set up a shop at https://shop.lawrence.lu/. I also emailed Rick Laubscher and Alison Cant at streetcar.org [1] yesterday but they haven't gotten back to me yet.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you want to use a regular phone or camera, check out TrainScanner!
https://github.com/vitroid/TrainScanner
It converts a regular video into a line scan style photo. It works by stitching together small chunks rather than 1px thin slices, so the background has a repetitive texture rather than being smooth horizontal stripes. But at lower resolutions, it looks similar, especially if you pick a spot with a clean background. Also the trains turn out very detailed.
Example work by Kakeyama from Japan using this: https://kakeyama.fan.coocan.jp/tec/e5e8r.htm