<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: CuriousSkeptic</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CuriousSkeptic</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:44:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=CuriousSkeptic" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriousSkeptic in "fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could The Battle for Wesnoth fit into that description?<p>(<a href="https://www.wesnoth.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wesnoth.org/</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:20:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232517</link><dc:creator>CuriousSkeptic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriousSkeptic in "Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Someone mentioned PS, also consider if this new FDE thing is for you in that case.<p>Some other people suggested QA, if you enjoy interfacing with customers I would also suggest you look into the PM role.</p>
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<p>Note sure this is a strong counter argument. It not that surprising that a system optimised in a certain direction has trouble accommodating operating modes it hasn’t optimised for.</p>
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<p>> you pay them interest directly or indirectly through everything you pay for<p>I wonder how feasible that would be to track as an economic index. Even on individual level its popular to workout which day of the year you start earn money you get to keep after income taxes and vat.</p>
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<p>FWIW it was a genuine question. I’ve only seen charts where the exponential trend remains, or even accelerates.</p>
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<p>> We have probably hit a limit to scaling LLMs through raw parameter count alone, at least we're not seeing the exponential pace.<p>Source?</p>
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<p>Try handing them a copy of “10X Org”<p>(the authors tries to abstract over team topologies, adding some additional design dimensions)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:28:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992074</link><dc:creator>CuriousSkeptic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CuriousSkeptic in "Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do wonder though, how does metric based factoring compare to expert intuition based factoring? Can the latter be emulated by agents? Are there studies?</p>
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<p>Has it been tried?<p>I mean, it is a common moderation goal, in physical meetings, to make sure the silent ones gets heard.<p>Could be interesting to try a social network approach om those terms: promotion inversely correlated with engagement.</p>
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<p>A better analogy would perhaps be to consider the land the farm uses as the commons (it was before becoming private property)<p>We can debate the just access to land (commons) and point to Henry George, John Locke, Thomas Payne and others, but still agree that the value produced by the farm comes from the labour put in to refine the common resource into something more useful.<p>There can be rent seeking and value
produced at the same time.<p>Edit: One can provably extend the rent seeking parts of the analogy in terms of John Deere and Monsanto</p>
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<p>You can substitute Robin Williams with Peter Naur, and the speech with his “Programming as Theory Building” essay, and that is more or less what you’ll get</p>
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<p>> we must fix these top three problems!!!” And it’s all the stuff everyone has known for years but management has refused to give anyone the authority to fix<p>So a net positive then?</p>
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<p>You can’t is an acceptable answer. The entitle point of such a feature is to prevent people from doing that.</p>
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<p>Tristan Harris?</p>
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<p>Your graph model lack the aspect of increasing complexity. As you traverse the graph every available node gets increasingly more distant. In some areas of the graph less so than others, a good heuristic function not only identifies a single shortest path, but also dense areas of possible value in the graph.<p>The question is if blind speed scales quicker then distances grow.</p>
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<p>Could your observation be any other way though?<p>It recognise addiction (limited agency vs influence) and monetisation (economic rewards the primary means to influence behaviour) as problematic. It kind made “doing bad for pay” a premise of the system.<p>Large pay-checks incentivising bad behaviour is exactly another observable outcome of the same systemic issue.</p>
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<p>> death by 1,000 monthly subscriptions<p>Is another area needing new legislation. Changes to copyright, interoperability requirements and such, we can change more than one parameter</p>
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<p>I like to think of it as the period when software engineering finally grows up to be a respected discipline with a body of actual theory</p>
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<p>> the contractor<p>If there is a single policy change I could pick for public spending on IT it would be to forbid outsourcing to “contractors” and thinking of software delivery as “projects”</p>
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<p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/</a></p>
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