Vas3k
vas3k.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2018
Vas3k writes long illustrated explainers on computational photography, machine learning, AR, and home automation, plus pieces on teams and tooling.
What HN saysCommenters recommend his computational photography and machine learning articles as clear, relaxed overviews, and praise the old-school site. One notes another company copied an article.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Computational photography from selfies to black holes10 people · 252 points · first shared 2019 · 58 comments on HN
- 2Machine Learning for Everyone7 people · 225 points · first shared 2019 · 19 comments on HN
- 3Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines6 people · 677 points · first shared 2018 · 460 comments on HN
- 4Dumbass Home 2.0. How modern IoT works, how to automate your rented box today4 people · 289 points · first shared 2019 · 54 comments on HN
- 5Augmented Reality (Deep Explainer)3 people · 14 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6How to build teams without bullshit3 people · 6 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7No Code2 people · 132 points · first shared 2020 · 59 comments on HN
- 8We stopped trusting clouds and started encrypting our data2 people · 24 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Illustrated History of Machine Translation: From Cold War to Deep Learning2 people · 10 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Vibe Coding. A whole useful app in an evening2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Homepage2 people · first shared 2019
- 12Machines Predict the Weather for Us1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
lloeki · 2024-09-05
I 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-touch-bar…
https://github.com/niw/HapticKey
hhr · 2022-05-19
Great 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.
npteljes · 2022-05-17
Because 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/
glenneroo · 2019-12-10
I 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.
rozhok · 2019-12-10
>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!
hberg · 2019-06-20
Interesting 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.
Irongirl1 · 2022-02-06
I have this article by a Czech coder named Vas3k: https://vas3k.com/blog/nocode/
I saved it for another reason, but in it he solves for "X". Maybe it will help you.
anta40 · 2022-01-15
True, 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. Say hello to computational photography: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
:D
yori · 2019-12-10
The article on letsenhance.io is a rip off of the original here: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
vas3k · 2019-12-10
Usually 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:(
zuppy · 2019-06-09
you can already do that without hacking anything, Spotify exposes that information through Apple Script:
if application "Spotify" is running then
tell application "Spotify"
if player state is playing then
return (get artist of current track) & " - " & (get name of current track)
else
return ""
end if
end tell
end if
source:
https://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/#scroll60
You can also install a collection of scripts from here: https://goldenchaos.net/goldenchaos-btt.html
You will need Better Touch Tool for that: https://folivora.ai/
akeck · 2019-05-10
Your comment reminded me of https://vas3k.com/blog/dumbass_home/?ref=sn
brazzledazzle · 2018-05-12
Check out this post about customizing the touchbar that was on HN a little while ago: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/
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freediver · 2018-08-16