Hacker News: American87https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=American87Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:56:22 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by American87 in "You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow"]]>Playing devil's advocate:

If someone revealed to you that they enjoyed "You are a shark" as much as "Cave of Time", and after inquiring you learned that they don't read the page, they just skip to the decision, and backtrack if they get a The End:

Did they enjoy the game? If there are enough of these type 2 readers should the industry start catering to them over legacy type 1 page readers?

]]>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:26:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772278American87https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772278https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772278<![CDATA[New comment by American87 in "Brood War Bench"]]>I don't normally anthropomorphize the AIs but this is super cute, lol.

]]>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:49:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772122American87https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772122<![CDATA[New comment by American87 in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"]]>I remember techchrunch.com making the argument that IP Infringment != Theft in the music piracy era.. how quickly the tide turns :)

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