Hacker News: BatFastard

New comment by BatFastard in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

BatFastard — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:24:44 +0000

Does anyone here remember owning games on disk?

It was a royal pain in the ass!

You had to inset the disk every time you wanted to play game. The disks got scratched, destroyed, or rearranged by the wife.

Steam has saved me from all of that. Plus I can share my whole library with my family members.

Sure I might lose access to them all when I die, but 20 years from now who is going to care?

New comment by BatFastard in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

BatFastard — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:11:11 +0000

I love Costco, but I hate that they constantly move shit!

New comment by BatFastard in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

BatFastard — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:59:21 +0000

As someone who has spent years creating virtual environments, all I can say is "Its turtles all the way down" every detail contains more details.

New comment by BatFastard in "Redeploying Fable 5"

BatFastard — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:03:02 +0000

Yeah! I only knew it for 3 days but I was starting to fall in love!

New comment by BatFastard in "Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image"

BatFastard — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:01:12 +0000

That looks like just what I have been looking for. Now time to see how well it works!

New comment by BatFastard in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

BatFastard — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:59:45 +0000

what do you imagine the social network would/could/should become? Obviously what we have is not working for some folks.

New comment by BatFastard in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"

BatFastard — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:04:58 +0000

December for me too, went from hallucinating a lot, to doing really well. I guess it was opus 4.5?

New comment by BatFastard in "Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability"

BatFastard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:20:47 +0000

Seems like a great opportunity for the "Boring Co" to start specializing in digging underground bunkers for data centers. You KNOW our AI Overlords are going to want it!

New comment by BatFastard in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

BatFastard — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:42:13 +0000

Wasn't Epstein a conspiracy theory once? Epstein cover up has made me believe that cover ups DO happen, and if this one was covered up, what else has been cover up?

New comment by BatFastard in "The Hive Mind"

BatFastard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:28:19 +0000

How we are moving towards a hive mind with AI as the bridge

The Hive Mind

BatFastard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:28:19 +0000

Article URL: https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-hive-mind/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293377

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by BatFastard in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

BatFastard — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:17:10 +0000

IMHO any idiot can create a piece of crap. It takes experience to create good software. Use your experience Luke! Now you have a team of programmers to create what ever you fancy! Its been great for me, but I have only been programming C++ for 36 years.

New comment by BatFastard in "Don't become an engineering manager"

BatFastard — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:24:09 +0000

As someone who has been a coder/em/vp/founder for over 40 years.

The last 3 months of using Claude Code has convinced me that in order to have a job in software very soon you will have to a both a coder and an engineering manager.

It takes both of those skills to effectively manager AI, and managing AI teams is all it will be about within 2 years. Problem is if you dont understand coding, its hard to see the traps AI falls into. They are both amazingly smart, and incredibly dumb at the same time. Just like people!

New comment by BatFastard in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

BatFastard — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:08:39 +0000

Does anyone know if this uses Microvoxels or an Octree? As someone who has built an Octree engine I am curious. I will say it is gorgeous!

New comment by BatFastard in "Excommunicated devs making games with AI"

BatFastard — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:00:38 +0000

yes, we are using gpt-image-1.5

New comment by BatFastard in "Excommunicated devs making games with AI"

BatFastard — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:03:56 +0000

>I mean all the major hurdles of making a game aren't really helped much by AI...

I have been using Claude Code to develop a game in unreal engine. It is fricking amazing. Its like hiring someone with 10 years experience to work for you. I am really impressed by how it know game patterns.

>It definitely doesn't get anything visual right really. Sometimes it struggles to things things right visually, other times it nails it!

I have been using an MCP from gemini image 1.5 to generate my icons. And once it go my styles down, after 20 experiments, it does really good. Notice: It uses high quality by default which will burn up your credits. But if you turn down the image quality to low, it cost around 3 cents an icon.

>There isn't large amounts of automated testing.

Some things can be easily automated for testing. But other things require play testing.

>The art is also going to all be really derivative plagiarism

I am just using it to generate icons, and it does great. For 3D artwork I either use things from the FAB Store, or I pay a team of artists in Pakistan to do it.

Overall I say it is the equivalent to have a senior dev on your team, for 100 bucks a month

edited for line breaks.

New comment by BatFastard in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

BatFastard — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:12:44 +0000

I applaud Anthropic choice. Choosing principle over money is a hard choice. I love Anthropic's products and wish them success!

New comment by BatFastard in "Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder"

BatFastard — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:31:02 +0000

anyone have a suggestion for a good ad blocker for chrome?

New comment by BatFastard in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

BatFastard — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:38:57 +0000

Honestly the HBO streaming engineers should be promptly shot (or possibly their managers). HBO has the worst streaming interface of any service. Netflix on the other hand is quite good.

New comment by BatFastard in "Some thoughts on personal Git hosting"

BatFastard — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:20:26 +0000

I recently began running Gitea on my NAS to host an unreal5 project which requireds significant LFS, Github's free LFS limits are very small. And honestly trying to decipher their paid account limits was too much for my old brain that day.

Anyone have experience with LFS on other repos?