Ned 🔹

I made a browser extension called Gitcasso that adds syntax highlighting to GitHub comment boxes, just posted its github along with a making-of video to Show HN. Creating a YouTube thumbnail is uniquely embarassing, lol

FBI Director Kash Patel on X: "This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities. While the investigation is https://t.co/SMOyxiKLqA" / X This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities. While the investigation is https://t.co/SMOyxiKLqA

twitter on a social blockchain, low character limit, high PoS and PoW to create a post, relies exclusively on central law enforcement nodes to attest and attribute posts, families of the dead run helper nodes verifying only that tx fees were paid x.com/FBIDirectorK...

this is the most personal thing i am ever going to post on here: “generate an image that shows what it feels like chatting with me on any given day”

antimimetics in practice - working on an uninstaller today. had some problems, finally fixed it. tried to commit the fixes, but the uninstaller deleted the git repo i was working in. that guard condition i commented out, i remember now, i wrote it 9 years ago, the last time...

Any reason I shouldn’t be 25% GLDM and 75% ISHG (1-3 Year International Treasury Bond ETF)? Equities seem asleep at the wheel, no?

not quite as good...

NBA x Ghibli thecontextwindow.ai/p/nba-x-ghibli

with different amounts of money, different kinds of things are good

"In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." lol, thoroughly enjoying Sorcery by Terry Pratchett

The Auteur, The Cat, and The Flood of GPUs Bill Hader: The best movie I saw this year was Flow. I’ve watched it now three times. It makes me want to get a cat (and I’m allergic to cats).

If you're a programmer and you haven't seen Flow yet, I think you should! Here's my pitch: open.substack.com/pub/theconte... Thanks to @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social for the amazing piece of work!

Why can't relativists agree on good and evil? They each observe morality bending differently around mass opinions. (via gpt-4.5)

Worst case is that the dynamics of our length / time / Dunbar scales have played out, but we’ve got a chance to meaningfully change those now (for the bots if not ourselves) so it’s still early game.

People mock VCs for valuing startups with no traction and no launch above startups with no traction but with a launch and some learning. But the VCs are systemically correct because of Monty Hall and follow-on rounds.

People mock VCs for valuing startups with no traction and no launch above startups with no traction but with a launch and some learning. But the VCs are systemically correct because of Monty Hall and follow-on rounds.

🐋 vs 🦅 (made with #veo2 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸)

I for one am in favor of doing a worse job managing our forests. Look at where doing a better job has gotten us!

cardinals live in the snow anyway, so you can maintain suspension of disbelief a little longer than you can with sandpipers bsky.app/profile/ned....

sandpiper building a snowman 🤯 #Veo2

second attempt, no longer using the raw tweet...

lol, #Veo2 prompted by the famous @dril.bsky.social
corncob tweet. I think I like it better than the one I got from Sora. bsky.app/profile/ned....

Want a python snapshot testing library that lets you cache the results of genAI, and then build other tests on top that? pytest-selfie & selfie-lib 1.0 published today!

Selfie Python Snapshot Testing | Caching A snapshot can be used as a cache from which an expensive or non-deterministic operation can be read.

It is *so* useful, and you can use the exact same mechanism to cache slow/non-deterministic data (eg AI) to test against. I just released 1.0 of the first snapshot testing library that does both (testing & caching). Python & JVM so far, I think maybe Go next… selfie.dev/py/cache

Selfie Python Snapshot Testing | Caching A snapshot can be used as a cache from which an expensive or non-deterministic operation can be read.

I wrote a snapshot testing library, and we just ported it over to uv, and that switch was an insane value, lol selfie.dev/py/cache#exa...

8s: The happy white friends laugh harder than ever, with a small regular corncob in front of them.

7s: The standing angry yellow man's expression grows even more intense, and he yells wordlessly as his skin transforms into a texture resembling corn kernels. Finally, he transforms completely into a corn-like figure.

3s: The two white friends on the couch laugh even harder.

4s: "I'm not owned!" the standing angry man shouts again. His pale skin morphs into yellow.

5s: The two white friends on the couch laugh even louder, pointing at the angry yellow man, clearly entertained by the bizarre scene.

0s: Two white adult friends sit comfortably on a plush, beige couch. They are chuckling heartily, seemingly amused by a situation unfolding in front of them. The room is well-lit and cozy, with a coffee table

2s: In front of the two friends stands an angry pale white man. "I'm not owned!" he shouts

so I specified in every shot what shade of white or yellow each person was to make the meme work, and it added black people on its own while angry white people turn into corn cobs (full prompt in next post)