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Vastrik
Personal blog · vas3k.com/blogprogrammingculture
Vastrik is a personal blog at vas3k.com about programming and culture. Since 2018, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Computational photography from selfies to black holes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Vastrik's posts on the Touch Bar, computational photography and machine learning basics. Commenters point to the photography piece as a way to see how much processing goes into camera images.
- Recommended for · 6 comments
- Praised as an excellent, very good-quality write-up on camera processing; ML post recommended for its relaxed style.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My blog about surviving in the world of technology and the cyberpunk going on around us
Most-linked posts?
- Computational photography from selfies to black holes10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2019-07-02
- Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-04-04
- Machine Learning for Everyone5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-02-06
- How to build teams without bullshit3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-10
- Augmented Reality (Deep Explainer)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-02
- Vibe Coding. A whole useful app in an evening2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-20
- Dumbass Home 2.0. How modern IoT works, how to automate your rented box today2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-14
- Dumbass Home 2.0 Internet of Things. How to Automate Your Rented Box Today2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-12
- We stopped trusting clouds and started encrypting our data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-09
What Hacker News says?
Hopefully see this article? [0] I don't have on-hands feedback on this but it sounded kind of promising (or at least a possible stairway to escape that special circle of hell) [0]: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/
Comment linking /blog/touchbar/
on “MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros”Submitted Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines as a story · 677 points
HN discussionI find the Touch Bar to be a brilliant idea, but the released execution didn't live up to the potential. https://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/ https://pock.app https://community.folivora.ai/t/goldenchaos-btt-the-complete... https://github.com/niw/HapticKey
Comment linking /blog/touchbar/
on “Dynamicland 2024”Submitted Dumbass Home 2.0. How modern IoT works, how to automate your rented box today as a story · 281 points
HN discussionInteresting idea, but I've found that making my own custom static touchbar has been the most useful way to use this hardware. Followed this article: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/ I personally have a mix of app launchers, brightness/volume controls and a play/pause button.
Comment linking /blog/touchbar/
on “Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar”Submitted Machine Learning for Everyone as a story · 212 points
HN discussionBecause the sauce is not in the camera, but in the software. I recommend the following article, if not even for reading, just to appreciate how much processing magic is going on: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
Comment linking /blog/computational_photography/
on “Using a "proper" camera as a webcam”Submitted Computational photography from selfies to black holes as a story · 204 points
HN discussionYour comment reminded me of https://vas3k.com/blog/dumbass_home/?ref=sn
Comment linking /blog/dumbass_home/?ref=sn
on “Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019”Submitted No Code as a story · 132 points
HN discussionThis[0] almost made me finally accept the idea of possibly having the TouchBar on my next laptop. [0]: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/
Comment linking /blog/touchbar/
on “Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen”Submitted Computational Photography. From Selfies to Black Holes as a story · 39 points
HN discussionIn case anyone interested, vas3k has a very good quality write-up of similar advances made in the field: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/ (even mentioning the related ML Enhance feature in Pixelmator)
Comment linking /blog/computational_photography/
on “Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the floor”Submitted We stopped trusting clouds and started encrypting our data as a story · 21 points
HN discussionTrue, for any non hobbyist, smartphone is more than sufficient. You take some pictures, do some editing, and post them to family Whatsapp group or Instagram. Mission accomplished. All done on the same pocketable gadget. Let's how the fancier Sony A7 RIV or Hasselblad XD handle that :) You want bokeh, long exposure, HDR, etc? Smartphones are obviously won't compete in image sensor size, but they have powerful CPU. Sa…
Comment linking /blog/computational_photography/
on “DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same”Submitted Illustrated History of Machine Translation: From Cold War to Deep Learning as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI don't know if this was recently appended but at the end of the article there is this: > The article was originally published by Vas3k in https://vas3k.com/ on 30.06.2019 Let's Enhance team is very thankful for given materials. Granted I still agree it's a blatant copy/paste and I also vote that dang replaces the link with the original.
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on “Computational photography from selfies to black holes”Submitted Augmented Reality (Deep Explainer) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe article on letsenhance.io is a rip off of the original here: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
Comment linking /blog/computational_photography/
on “Computational photography from selfies to black holes”Submitted Dumbass Home 2.0 Internet of Things. How to Automate Your Rented Box Today as a story · 5 points
HN discussion>The article was originally published by Vas3k in https://vas3k.com/ on 30.06.2019 Let's Enhance team is very thankful for given materials. What a shame! They've completely rip-off your article and "thankful" for that!
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on “Computational photography from selfies to black holes”Submitted Computational Photography: From Selfies to Black Holes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is a complete rip-off of https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
Comment linking /blog/computational_photography/
on “Computational photography from selfies to black holes”Submitted Mixed, virtual, augmented realities explained as a story · 4 points
HN discussionUsually I don’t mind reposting my articles but with a direct reference to original at the beginning https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/ Let’s be respectful to the original author, I spent couple of months writing it:(
Comment linking /blog/computational_photography/
on “Computational photography from selfies to black holes”Submitted Machine Learning for Everyone as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGreat overview, I like the proper, old school looks of entire site. Also I can recommend this article – https://vas3k.com/blog/machine_learning/ it is on a same subject but has a much more relaxed style.
Comment linking /blog/machine_learning/
on “AI and Machine Learning – The Basics”Submitted End-to-end Encryption: How we stopped trusting clouds and learned how to encrypt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMaybe using BetterTouchTool you could hack it to do mostly nothing: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/
Comment linking /blog/touchbar/
on “An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard”Submitted How to build teams without bullshit as a story · 3 points
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