hamish-b

(disclaimer: I work at ampcode)

Give the oracle at amp a go :) Our TUI is really nice as well. Get in touch for some credits.

Excellent course (I did mine ~2019), super grateful to Paul and Stanford for continuously releasing it publicly and updating them all these years later.

What a wild ride, the traffic to my site is more akin to a rollercoaster. Got better for a few mins and then fell back apart.

I'm surprised people aren't really talking about how this affects Adobe going into the future. Adobe frankly has been hostile to it's users for the past while, this should really shake up the game. Creatives now have access to a pro-level tool for free with the option to pay extra for AI features. This is a clear shot across Adobe's bow and positions Canva to control the creative vertical from professionals to the average person.

Nice work, what you're up to is pretty impressive :^)

Site is currently down, wayback machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250919031347/https://lenowo.or...

My problem _still_ with all of the codex/gpt based offerings is that they think for way too long. After using Claude 4 models through cursor max/ampcode I feel much more effective given it's speed. Ironically, Claude Code feels just as slow as codex/gpt (even with my company patching through AWS bedrock). Only makes me feel more that the consumer modes have perverse incentives.

I've been working hard at this problem over at https://kurnell.ai. Our thesis is that going forward it's unrealistic to ban or detect-and-reprimand AI, therefore we need to meet students where they're at and democratize access to the best AI for all.

We have great traction with universities in USA and Australia. The flywheel that we've constructed means that students are being prepared for industry + research in a Post-AI world, and professors can see exactly how students are using AI tooling. Our findings are that knowledge of how students are using AI goes a long way to helping institutions adapt.

Keen to chat and share our findings - reach out at hamish(at)kurnell.ai !

Note that the article references 65B -- this is in AUD.

Extremely well said, as someone from the inner west suburbs I totally get it. Brisbane is having it's time in the sun, we deserve it!

I had hand-done mine on https://kurnell.ai - its really cool to see that I could have computationally done this instead :)

I used rive.app to encode the frames and create a state machine to move between the states. Perhaps I can simplify this even more.

Super cool! I don't see any clear description of what the difference between the pro and the free licenses are. Maybe the website could be updated with that?

I like seeing what users are currently viewing the same page, but man the constant jostling of users coming and going made it hard to read the post.

This sounds great, and is similar to the workflow I get from a high level stand point with https://ampcode.com/ - albeit without the model wrangling.

To the author & anyone reading - publicly release your agent harnesses, even if its shit or vibe coded! I am constantly iterating on my meta and seeking to improve.

My father spent a lot of time in Surry Hills in the 90s. Got the shock of his life when I told him I was moving there. I have been living around the area for the past 4 years, and he was amazed just how much had changed while I was showing him around recently!

Will do! Will drop you a line when I do.

This is exactly what I was wanting to reach for, wanted my chrome extension UI to match my react website. Appreciate your work!

I'm not sure how I hadn't heard about Charle's Proxy for iPhone before! I've done some light pentesting before and had to manually result to grepping for strings throughout the app binary. Glad to have found out about this, especially for when apps are only on iOS.

Interesting! Can you perhaps elaborate a bit more on what you saw at the time, in the sense of why it was so bad (Nintendo lawyers, look away)?

Immediately something felt off when I saw the AI generated cover photo. Hard to describe, but I immediately profile a page online when I see clear AI slop. I wouldn't want to taint something that I had taken the time to write with something so... low effort.

Just seeing the date on the article as 19 years ago rather than 2005 hit a little harder than I expected

Call me crazy -- I like it's whimsical nature

Incredible insight, thank you! Could you elaborate on any more of your experiences with PPU/SPU programming? Also, what have you gone on to do since then?

This is massively popular in the medical student scene. They can't get enough of it, but also complain about it's restrictiveness at the same time. I wonder if there are any other platforms / if this is a space for disruption...

I finally created a hackernews account after lurking for years just to write this. Thanks for taking the time to capture what (for many) was a mystical black box for years. I have distinct memories of being super nervous whilst jailbreaking my iPod 4G on iOS 4, wondering what all the scrolling terminal messages meant. Then, doing it for my mates over school lunch, worrying that I might unintentionally screw up their phone and be responsible for a few hundred dollars worth of 'bricked' technology lol.

In a way, all those years later, that 'magic' of breaking through Apple's walls and running custom code is what enticed me to get into programming. I have immense gratitude to all involved.