Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 20hOpenAI are halving the effective Astra usage of their $200/month plan (and adding a $500/month plan that gives you what you used to have). I assume the regular resets will stop too. A lot of people aren’t happy and say they’re cancelling. Doesn’t bode well for OpenAI. 1140
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 29/09/2026When OpenAI announces they're halving the usage on your 20x plan on the same day that bond yields hit their 20 year high 0120
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 28/09/2026Never underestimate how much of the economy relies on exploiting consumer inertia or information asymmetry. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig... 131
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 26/09/2026Dart + WASM is starting to gather speed, the great Simon Binder has started putting together a package to implement the missing host components needed to run a Dart-compiled app via non-JS runtimes like wasmtime. github.com/simolus3/was...github.comGitHub - simolus3/wasm.dart: Tools to run Dart in any WebAssembly runtimeTools to run Dart in any WebAssembly runtime. Contribute to simolus3/wasm.dart development by creating an account on GitHub. 051
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 26/09/2026Guy who just discovered TLA*: "I think TLA could be really useful here" * me 000
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 25/09/2026Trance music, best listened to at 2am driving on empty roads with the windows down with the cold winter air blowing in. 040
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 25/09/2026Some more lip rigging work, using the ribbon approach from Rik Schutte's course on Blender Studio. 040
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 25/09/2026Important for any Dart/Flutter devs - compromised package (universal_file_viewer) on pub: www.aikido.dev/blog/comprom...aikido.devCompromised Flutter package on pub.dev contains XCSSET malwareWe detected XCSSET malware inside a compromised Flutter package on pub.dev. Here is a full breakdown of the infection chain, propagation modules, and stealer logic we found inside. 040
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 24/09/2026Can LLMs retopologize a facial mesh? (I'll save you a click if you don't want to watch the video, the answer is no). youtu.be/oIB9J_NCZawyoutu.beCan LLMs retopologize a facial mesh?YouTube video by Nick Fisher 1130
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 24/09/2026I cancelled my Anthropic sub over this, so looks like it's time to reconsider my OpenAI sub too. 230
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 24/09/2026I've seen a lot of people sniffing out deepfake scammers on video calls (fake job interviews etc) by asking them to hold their hand or their fingers in front of their face. That hack won't last long though, so I don't know what people are going to do next. 100
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 22/09/2026My recent contributions to the Dart SDK have landed, adding support for importing multiple and/or shared WebAssembly memories. Getting closer to "native" interop between Dart and external WASM libraries (rather than hacky JS bridges). github.com/dart-lang/sd... github.com/dart-lang/sd...github.com[dart2wasm] Fix multi-memory operands and optimizer support · dart-lang/sdk@1dce1b4Closes https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/pull/64247 GitOrigin-RevId: 6b9d1a809f0d6eca72f0bd6b5dde3341a0bf9368 Change-Id: I70e4fdcae69cd2f18568b05706d88bbadbaaf0de Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.g... 161
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 21/09/2026I watched Two Prosecutors (2025) last night. Don't recommend to be honest, it was bleak and depressing, but in all the wrong ways. www.imdb.com/title/tt3552...imdb.com 000
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 19/09/2026Back-of-the-envelope calculation for "super-intelligent AGI can self-replicate over airgapped machines via CPU thermal signalling". BitWhisper did this, maxing out at 8 bits per hour, but let's be generous and assume 100x improvement in future hardware/sensors, so 800 bits / hour. 330
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 18/09/2026Sales from the Holotype website are starting to trickle in, which is great to see. Advantage is I only pay Stripe fees, no commission Gumroad takes 10% (with a caveat), Superhive is 30% BEFORE merchant fee & Blender fund contribution which is...a lot. 100
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 18/09/2026Overnight I set DeepSeek Harness + V4.1 Flash head-to-head with Codex + Astra to try and retopologize an awfully messy face mesh. Results and video coming soon! 010
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 17/09/2026I’m glad people are discovering exactly how moronic the EA movement can be. 000
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 17/09/2026This is a thread for the ages. Needs to be submitted to the Internet Archive for preservation. 010
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 17/09/2026My experience with a Nous Research sub wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either: 1) servers were down regularly, unfortunately the least reliable service I've tried 2) no option to remove credit card after cancelling sub 3) e-mail support about removing CC, still no reply after 2 days 020
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 16/09/2026Followed up with a short blog post too: hydroxide.dev/articles/ble...hydroxide.devNick Fisher | Normalizing Vertex Group Weights in Blender 040
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 16/09/2026Precisely this. I don't see the point in wringing our hands about risks like "super-intelligent AI engineers biovirus" until we've at least properly planned for the more mundane, but much more realistic risk, of dumb models doing dumb things in poorly secured environments. 040
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 16/09/2026Obviously retaining healthy skepticism until I see this in action, but this looks like a great fit for the coding harness I've been (vibe)coding in the background. One orchestrator + a swarm of fast-but-dumb "classification" agents giving simple yes/no questions for a small unit of the codebase. 190
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 15/09/2026I came across TopoRig today (a paper/repository for facial rig prediction), and took their implementation for a spin via the HuggingFace space. It's no easy task! The eyes/lips are almost always the problem, a single misplaced vertex visibly wrecks the whole result. 110
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 15/09/2026OK maybe there's still a reason to keep my Twitter account: 220
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 15/09/2026I'm sure this was well-intentioned, but "it's a race to the nuclear bomb and the communists need to win" is quite possibly the worst conceivable way to present this argument. 020
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 14/09/2026New week, new video. If you don't know how weight normalization works in Blender, this one is for you! youtu.be/EfMtDpyGidA #blender #animation #rigging #3dyoutu.beWeight Normalization in BlenderYouTube video by Nick Fisher 020
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 12/09/2026More Astra frustration. Ask for help refactoring github.com/nmfisher/ffi... (generates Dart<->JS bindings from C headers for WASM interop in JS-only environments) to add an arena allocator (since Dart currently can't share memory directly with WASM modules... 270
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 11/09/2026Next PR opened for shared memory support github.com/dart-lang/sd...github.com[dart2wasm] allow declaring shared memory imports by nmfisher · Pull Request #64255 · dart-lang/sdkFollow-up to the memory declaration API introduced in CL 470020 and the multi-memory encoding and optimizer fixes in CL 547420. When generated code needs to access memory through dart:ffi, dart2was... 031
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 10/09/2026Just made another sale by way of Bing! I don't get too many of these, but I see it pop up regularly enough, it's definitely not a dead channel. 020
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 09/09/2026First result via MiMo-X-Pro-Preview. Instruction was "launch blender and create a scene with stylized, falling snow" (20 minutes) 140
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 09/09/2026The WASM story for Dart is lagging a bit (limited support for linking external modules, no multi-memory support, etc), so in the background I've started pulling together a few changes that can hopefully bring this up to speed. First one opened today. github.com/dart-lang/sd...github.com[dart2wasm] Fix multi-memory operands and optimizer support by nmfisher · Pull Request #64247 · dart-lang/sdkCL 470020 introduced the Memory class for memory declarations and interoperability with modules that use linear memory. In the WebAssembly binary specification, the order of operands for a memory i... 120
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 09/09/2026Two more releases flying under the radar: 1) new deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910 model available in the API, *blazing* fast, plus a 50% price decrease 2) inception/mercury-2.5 (diffusion+reasoning model for code), discounted on openrouter & 100m free tokens via inception API 190
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 09/09/2026Just got an email from Xiaomi inviting me to join the MiMo Desktop beta, and confirming there are two new models on the way: 140
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 09/09/2026Hot take - Ocarina of Time didn’t need a remake and we’d all be better off re-playing the OG version. 120
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 08/09/2026“we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.” It should be easy to check if Tristan’s conversations were ingested as training data. The fact that they’re not screaming that it wasn’t probably tells you everything you need to know. 1111
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 08/09/2026Also a reminder that while I regularly express disgust for the orange man and his clown show in the USA, I've seen many sides of Chinese society firsthand that are equally deplorable (or even more so). 000
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 08/09/2026Whenever OpenAI put a usage reset on the table, I ask Codex to run wild and implement its own choice of shaders before the reset hits. This is from this morning: 130
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 08/09/2026My experience with Astra so far is that it's a definite step up from Sol (particularly for vision & 3D tasks), and it's really great at finding bugs in large codebases, but it still regularly makes some truly bizarre coding choices like this: 151
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 07/09/2026First day back from holiday also means the first day of working off four consecutive days of hotel buffet breakfasts, a task that is getting harder and harder each year. 020
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 07/09/2026I get back from a holiday and suddenly everyone's declaring AGI? 010
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 05/09/2026Fellow Codex users - what is “gpt-reserve Weekly limit”? It just appeared alongside the regular Weekly limit after relaunching and switching to Astra. 010
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 04/09/2026I’ll be a bit quiet for a few days, I’m on a short trip to Thailand (Phuket) with the family for a holiday. 010
Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 01/09/2026I understand decrying "old people now get all their information from ChatGPT", but this is definitely an improvement on "old people now get all their information from Facebook and TikTok". 31158