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New comment by DaveChurchill in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

DaveChurchill — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:24:17 +0000

Just cite me any sort of study or financial data showing that AI provides long-term financial gains for any company besides small startups

New comment by DaveChurchill in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

DaveChurchill — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:16:33 +0000

Source: trust me bro

New comment by DaveChurchill in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

DaveChurchill — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:49:28 +0000

The gains are so obvious that nobody can cite a source proving them

New comment by DaveChurchill in "How RSS beat Microsoft"

DaveChurchill — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:30:38 +0000

The real beta killer feature was that VHS extended recording mode could fit an entire NFL game on a single tape.

New comment by DaveChurchill in "How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website"

DaveChurchill — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:47:03 +0000

How will they know if they don't visit because of the summary?

New comment by DaveChurchill in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

DaveChurchill — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:19:41 +0000

I am worried the app is just a honeypot made by bad actors to get a create a database of the "rebels" they will soon be hunting down.

New comment by DaveChurchill in "Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry"

DaveChurchill — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:47:42 +0000

The death of deterministic computing and unverifiable information is a horror show

New comment by DaveChurchill in "418 I’m a teapot"

DaveChurchill — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:43:09 +0000

I think that in such a UI where it's trivial to mirror left and right just give an option and let the user decide their preference

New comment by DaveChurchill in "418 I’m a teapot"

DaveChurchill — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:07:29 +0000

Also a +1 for the solitaire! One suggestion: how about an inverted mode where the piles grow up from the bottom? I think it would be much easier to control while playing on phone

New comment by DaveChurchill in "Furilabs Linux Phone"

DaveChurchill — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:30:41 +0000

"I love the new furry phone"...

Just like DuckDuckGo I think the name will hamper adoption of this.

New comment by DaveChurchill in "I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them"

DaveChurchill — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:12:39 +0000

Get a FireWire cable and rip the data straight from a dvcam to get the raw video files. Then compress with desired settings

New comment by DaveChurchill in "Flight engineer reveals what it was like to operate Concorde"

DaveChurchill — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:14:50 +0000

As a passenger all I really care about are the safety stats. If fly by wire is safer than manual flight them I'm all for it.

New comment by DaveChurchill in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

DaveChurchill — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:59:11 +0000

Great! How do I opt out?

Show HN: C++ Game Programming and Intro to AI Course Lectures on YouTube

DaveChurchill — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:40:08 +0000

Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 I have been recording my university lectures for all of my courses and posting them online for free for anyone to watch.

You can click the link for a YouTube playlist, or click the Google Spreadsheet for a breakdown of all the lectures of that course offering.

Here is my standard response for those asking for the assignment files, which I unfortunately do not provide: https://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/teaching/youtube.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348135

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

The AI Engine for the Strategy Game Prismata Is Now Open Source

DaveChurchill — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 06:02:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/davechurchill/prismataai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22653081

Points: 20

# Comments: 0

A History of Starcraft AI Competitions

DaveChurchill — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:21:58 +0000

Article URL: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~cdavid/starcraftaicomp/history.shtml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335296

Points: 16

# Comments: 0