Nick Fisher
@hydroxide.dev
Mostly 3D+AI+voice. Building https://mixreel.ai
Flutter/Dart/C++/PyTorch/Blender
https://github.com/nmfisher/thermion
https://nick-fisher.com
https://playmixworld.com
https://bit.ly/3RkzFfH
Flutter/Dart/C++/PyTorch/Blender
https://github.com/nmfisher/thermion
https://nick-fisher.com
https://playmixworld.com
https://bit.ly/3RkzFfH
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@hydroxide.dev
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Creating & animating sample scenes really helps uncover which parts of the interface are frustrasting/unusable, which parts are buggy/broken, and which parts are working well.
Definitely the most complex UI I've ever attempted (and I also admit that UI is not my strong suit).
Definitely the most complex UI I've ever attempted (and I also admit that UI is not my strong suit).
I'd never seen this until now, great talk. The modern tech era (which I'd define as 2007 until present), it's very rare to find people who are motivated by a strong sense of how things *should* be, rather than just money.
High-speed, high-cost is for working with humans in real time. Brett Victor showed us the magic you get from extremely responsive interfaces.
You'll have an AI collaborator running on your own GPU.
4/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv6...
You'll have an AI collaborator running on your own GPU.
4/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv6...
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
YouTube video by Rui Oliveira
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I'd never seen this until now, great talk. The modern tech era (which I'd define as 2007 until present), it's very rare to find people who are motivated by a strong sense of how things *should* be, rather than just money.
I’ve absolutely hit a wall in the last day or so, the tank is empty and I need to take a couple of days off to recharge.
I think it was (stupidly) staying up late on Wednesday messing around with some photogrammetry for a possible client project.
I think it was (stupidly) staying up late on Wednesday messing around with some photogrammetry for a possible client project.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’ve absolutely hit a wall in the last day or so, the tank is empty and I need to take a couple of days off to recharge.
I think it was (stupidly) staying up late on Wednesday messing around with some photogrammetry for a possible client project.
I think it was (stupidly) staying up late on Wednesday messing around with some photogrammetry for a possible client project.
If this works well, it’s actually super useful. Colab has a really sluggish interface (file upload in particular). Even something like JupyterLab on runpod (with SSH access for when something craps out) is night and day.
Any improvement is welcome.
Any improvement is welcome.
HUGE: Google Colab can now run inside VS Code.
Which means you can:
- run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode
- use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook.
Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.
Which means you can:
- run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode
- use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook.
Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If this works well, it’s actually super useful. Colab has a really sluggish interface (file upload in particular). Even something like JupyterLab on runpod (with SSH access for when something craps out) is night and day.
Any improvement is welcome.
Any improvement is welcome.
Plot twist: the mother is the one who killed grandma immediately after recording the video.
(In all seriousness, this video gives off major Black Mirror vibes).
(In all seriousness, this video gives off major Black Mirror vibes).
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Plot twist: the mother is the one who killed grandma immediately after recording the video.
(In all seriousness, this video gives off major Black Mirror vibes).
(In all seriousness, this video gives off major Black Mirror vibes).
I’m sure there are people out there who have good reason to stick with it, but Windows is completely dead to me as a developer and user OS.
Can’t see any reason for sw engineers to choose Windows with this weird direction they are doubling down on
So odd because Microsoft has building dev tools in their DNA… their OS doesn’t look like anything a builder who wants OS control could choose
Mac or Linux it is for devs
So odd because Microsoft has building dev tools in their DNA… their OS doesn’t look like anything a builder who wants OS control could choose
Mac or Linux it is for devs
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I’m sure there are people out there who have good reason to stick with it, but Windows is completely dead to me as a developer and user OS.
Reposted by Nick Fisher
Since the embargo is now over, happy to share the slides of the first ever presentation of Baguettotron at EPFL at the invitation of the Apertus team. Also include very early results motivating the choice of a deep architecture for Baguettotron. docs.google.com/presentation...
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Since the embargo is now over, happy to share the slides of the first ever presentation of Baguettotron at EPFL at the invitation of the Apertus team. Also include very early results motivating the choice of a deep architecture for Baguettotron. docs.google.com/presentation...
I feel like photogrammetry would be a lot easier if I was a halfway decent photographer.
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I feel like photogrammetry would be a lot easier if I was a halfway decent photographer.
Results from Hunyuan World Mirror (original video captured with an iPhone 17 Pro).
It's still falling over with >60 images and I haven't had much success trying to stitching rooms together manually.
I keep coming back to LongSplat because it's exactly what I need but no luck so far.
It's still falling over with >60 images and I haven't had much success trying to stitching rooms together manually.
I keep coming back to LongSplat because it's exactly what I need but no luck so far.
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Results from Hunyuan World Mirror (original video captured with an iPhone 17 Pro).
It's still falling over with >60 images and I haven't had much success trying to stitching rooms together manually.
I keep coming back to LongSplat because it's exactly what I need but no luck so far.
It's still falling over with >60 images and I haven't had much success trying to stitching rooms together manually.
I keep coming back to LongSplat because it's exactly what I need but no luck so far.
Unfortunately my ancient GTX1080ti is too slow to train LongSplat (well, not literally, but it will take ages due to lack of tensor cores for fused SSIM).
I've been futzing around for a couple of hours with Lightning's cloud notebook, but keep running into build incompatibilities.
I've been futzing around for a couple of hours with Lightning's cloud notebook, but keep running into build incompatibilities.
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Unfortunately my ancient GTX1080ti is too slow to train LongSplat (well, not literally, but it will take ages due to lack of tensor cores for fused SSIM).
I've been futzing around for a couple of hours with Lightning's cloud notebook, but keep running into build incompatibilities.
I've been futzing around for a couple of hours with Lightning's cloud notebook, but keep running into build incompatibilities.
Reposted by Nick Fisher
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
Just saw there’s a Reddit AMA with the Kimi/Moonshot team:
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
I’m too tired to figure out time zones but I guess it’s starting soon.
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
I’m too tired to figure out time zones but I guess it’s starting soon.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just saw there’s a Reddit AMA with the Kimi/Moonshot team:
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
I’m too tired to figure out time zones but I guess it’s starting soon.
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
I’m too tired to figure out time zones but I guess it’s starting soon.
I just discovered this "First Principles of Computer Vision" series which looks like an incredibly well-designed course on the basics of lenses, image features, convolutions and more advanced image processing.
Definitely worth bookmarking if you're new to the field.
fpcv.cs.columbia.edu
Definitely worth bookmarking if you're new to the field.
fpcv.cs.columbia.edu
Monographs
fpcv.cs.columbia.edu
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I just discovered this "First Principles of Computer Vision" series which looks like an incredibly well-designed course on the basics of lenses, image features, convolutions and more advanced image processing.
Definitely worth bookmarking if you're new to the field.
fpcv.cs.columbia.edu
Definitely worth bookmarking if you're new to the field.
fpcv.cs.columbia.edu
I've mostly been working with Modal/Colab Pro notebooks, but after yet ANOTHER batch of Colab compute units expired, I've reverted to running something on my local Linux machine (GTX1080ti). It's very dated but this thing is a workhorse, I think it's been with me for almost 10 years now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I've mostly been working with Modal/Colab Pro notebooks, but after yet ANOTHER batch of Colab compute units expired, I've reverted to running something on my local Linux machine (GTX1080ti). It's very dated but this thing is a workhorse, I think it's been with me for almost 10 years now.
I’m seeing various mentions of Nano Banana 2 - does anyone have access? One of my ongoing projects could benefit from improved image style transfer.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I’m seeing various mentions of Nano Banana 2 - does anyone have access? One of my ongoing projects could benefit from improved image style transfer.
I’m looking at structure-from-motion models and a thought popped into my head - how similar is the binocular field from human to human? Is it possibly like colour blindness where some people perceive depth/perspective differently from others?
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I’m looking at structure-from-motion models and a thought popped into my head - how similar is the binocular field from human to human? Is it possibly like colour blindness where some people perceive depth/perspective differently from others?
There's some useful benchmarks here to compare Dart vs Dart-with-FFI performance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJR5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJR5...
Using Dart FFI for Compute-Heavy Tasks - Robert Odrowaz-Sypniewski | Fluttercon EU 2025
YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
There's some useful benchmarks here to compare Dart vs Dart-with-FFI performance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJR5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJR5...
Say what you will about CMake, I don't think there's ever been a case where I wasn't able to hammer it to do exactly what I wanted.
It might not be pretty, but it works.
It might not be pretty, but it works.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Say what you will about CMake, I don't think there's ever been a case where I wasn't able to hammer it to do exactly what I wanted.
It might not be pretty, but it works.
It might not be pretty, but it works.
Researching options for hip surgery (not for me).
I have a lot of gripes about the Australian government at the policy level, but they (generally) do a pretty good job for the actual administrative/executive functions.
I have a lot of gripes about the Australian government at the policy level, but they (generally) do a pretty good job for the actual administrative/executive functions.
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Researching options for hip surgery (not for me).
I have a lot of gripes about the Australian government at the policy level, but they (generally) do a pretty good job for the actual administrative/executive functions.
I have a lot of gripes about the Australian government at the policy level, but they (generally) do a pretty good job for the actual administrative/executive functions.
Re-reading discussions about WASM, some on the Dart GH repo, some on HN.
I really wish WASM was renamed to something like Virtual Assembly/VASM so we could totally silo discussions about the bytecode target from discussions about web. They're totally unrelated.
I really wish WASM was renamed to something like Virtual Assembly/VASM so we could totally silo discussions about the bytecode target from discussions about web. They're totally unrelated.
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Re-reading discussions about WASM, some on the Dart GH repo, some on HN.
I really wish WASM was renamed to something like Virtual Assembly/VASM so we could totally silo discussions about the bytecode target from discussions about web. They're totally unrelated.
I really wish WASM was renamed to something like Virtual Assembly/VASM so we could totally silo discussions about the bytecode target from discussions about web. They're totally unrelated.
Never forget what they took from us.
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Never forget what they took from us.
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Funding: if your mid/large business uses Dear ImGui - and maybe you are approaching end of year budget/planning etc. - please consider reaching out (PM/email) so I can help you help Dear ImGui !
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Funding: if your mid/large business uses Dear ImGui - and maybe you are approaching end of year budget/planning etc. - please consider reaching out (PM/email) so I can help you help Dear ImGui !
Gives me Half Life 2 vibes, but still less creepy than the humanoid robots we’re seeing.
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Gives me Half Life 2 vibes, but still less creepy than the humanoid robots we’re seeing.
I can grudgingly excuse/defend *very very* occasional crunch. Something like one to two weeks per year.
But telling candidates to expect 9am to 11pm, 6-7 days a week, every week,? I'm definitely doing something very wrong. Particularly when you're paying the usual $150k-$250k pa!
But telling candidates to expect 9am to 11pm, 6-7 days a week, every week,? I'm definitely doing something very wrong. Particularly when you're paying the usual $150k-$250k pa!
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I can grudgingly excuse/defend *very very* occasional crunch. Something like one to two weeks per year.
But telling candidates to expect 9am to 11pm, 6-7 days a week, every week,? I'm definitely doing something very wrong. Particularly when you're paying the usual $150k-$250k pa!
But telling candidates to expect 9am to 11pm, 6-7 days a week, every week,? I'm definitely doing something very wrong. Particularly when you're paying the usual $150k-$250k pa!
The shadow problem was much simpler than I originally thought - it seems I disabled backface culling at some point! I suppose this projects shadows on both front-face and back-face, so the z-fighting was causing the flickering.
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The shadow problem was much simpler than I originally thought - it seems I disabled backface culling at some point! I suppose this projects shadows on both front-face and back-face, so the z-fighting was causing the flickering.
Every time I open LinkedIn, I come away feeling so greasy. How do you people do this?
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Every time I open LinkedIn, I come away feeling so greasy. How do you people do this?