Stories by jasonthorsness
With Gemini Flash so fast, I wondered what it would be like for an LLM to generate web pages and images on-demand as the URLs are requested. It's been a couple of weeks now since release and there are a ton of cool examples people have created at <a href="https://ginprov.com/" re...
While writing, I loathe leaving my editor to edit images in some GUI. It's worse during the revision process, when the same image might need to be adjusted over and over as the article changes. So, to support <a href="https://www.jasonthorsness.com" rel="nofollow">https://ww...
Do you remember when Dropbox was announced? Bitcoin? Go?<p>Hacker News remembers. It has become one of the best databases of post-2006 tech history.<p>I attempted to recreate the feeling of "being there" for noteworthy discussions by animating the comments as they unfold:<p>Dropbox introdu...
I built this as a visualization of where most discussions are happening at any given time. It <i>works</i> on mobile but the data-density makes it better on desktop. The "About" page explains what it is doing (<a href="https://hn.unlurker.com/about" rel="nofollow">https:...
I wrote an SVG editor and physics simulation to determine how pieces connected by rigid rings will dangle when hung. I was surprised at how well the simulation actually predicted reality!<p>This was done with a lot of help from Gemini over last week (so half with the upgrade).<p>Main link is an expl...