Same

Like a single header c lib from some eastern European S tier programmer.

tsoding mentioned

I really loved his ocaml days. Learnt alot. He does only C these days, but his streams are fun to watch nontheless.

Curious about background removal with BiRefNet. Would you consider it the best model currently available? What other options exist that are popular but not as good?

I'm far from an expert in this area. I've also tried Bria RMBG 1.4, Bria RMBG 2.0, older BiRefNet versions, and I think another I forgot the name of. The fact I'm removing backgrounds that are predominantly white (a sheet of paper) in first place probably changes things significantly. So it's hard to extrapolate my results to general background removal.

BiRefNet 2 seems to do a much better job of correctly removing backgrounds in between the contents outline. So like hands on hips, that region that's fully enclosed but you want removed. It's not just that though, some other models will remove this, but they'll be overly aggressive and remove white areas where kids haven't coloured in perfectly — or like the intentionally left blank whites of eyes for example.

I'm putting these images in a game world once they're cut out, so if things are too transparent, they look very odd.

Love the vibe!

Thank you!

The problem is that most sites implement dark mode wrong with too much contrast. It doesn’t work if you make it “black”. It’s more about dimming the lights.

Reading dark pages will never be as good as reading in a well lit room. But there are ways to make it work.

This. Thanks for illustrating how little is required for a basic dark mode support.

It depends on the environment. Of course, reading HN in a dark room will never be pleasant. But looking into a bright white flashlight can really hurt. Good dark modes are not simply black/white but make use of the right font weight and color to reduce glare.

And soon even your oven will require an account with subscription so that the built-in camera can notify you when the bread is browning and it asks for permission to lower the temperature

I'm imagining it even worse: you have to pay a subscription to get your oven to go above a certain temperature and for it to "fast pre-heat" and to not have it show you ads.

“Temperatures above 160C require Oven+ Pro Premium Prime (3P tm), please upgrade (9.99/month) to cook your food faster.”

Landlord bought a Samsung smart oven that requires Wi-Fi to keep track of time. We manage without, but requires (re)setting the clock every day.

I enjoyed reading the article and found it interesting. Had no prior interest in the topic but it was an entertaining read. Last time I used binary and calculated with it was in high school. Didn’t know about UNIX signals and now I understand how processes are terminating.

This is quite genius. Instead of wasting time with responsive design, grid and flex layout complexities, this solutions gets the job done.

That’s how I would have approached it in Flash back in the days when 800x600 was all you had to worry about.

Noteworthy: Contributions by Claude

Is true. I wrote a ton of tests, testing just about everything I can think of, including using a reverse parser I wrote to exhaustively generate the simplest 65k json values, ensuring that it succeeds with the same values and fails on the same cases as JSON.parse.

Then added benchmarks and started doing optimization, getting it ~10x faster than my initial naive implementation. Then I threw agents at it, and between Claude, Gemini, and Codex we were able to make it an additional 2x faster.