Hacker News: FrojoS

New comment by FrojoS in "Open source AI must win"

FrojoS — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:46:44 +0000

What about pirated models?

New comment by FrojoS in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

FrojoS — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:34:11 +0000

25 years roof lifetime might be right for cheap asphalt shingles that are popular in the US. Concrete and clay tiles, which are common in e.g. Germany, will last 50y and 100y respectively.

https://pitchroofing.com/roofing/the-best-time-to-get-a-roof...

New comment by FrojoS in "A History of IDEs at Google"

FrojoS — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:39:41 +0000

From the article: “ Cider was a light client that opened much faster than traditional IDEs. All the magic happened on a backend that indexes the entire codebase, so that all the data was ready whenever someone opened the webpage. ”

Sounds like all other editors were slow compared to Cider.

New comment by FrojoS in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

FrojoS — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:01:23 +0000

> there's no reason to believe the progress of LLMs [...] will stop anytime soon

Wrong. Every advancement has followed a s curve. Where we are on that curve is anyones guess. Or maybe "this time its different".

New comment by FrojoS in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

FrojoS — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:00:30 +0000

"Goodwill Industries was established in 1902 and is widely known across the country as the place where we all donate clothing and household goods to help others."

That's the first sentence from your link. Clearly people don't treat this org, literally called "good will", the same as they treat freakin eBay.

New comment by FrojoS in "A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games"

FrojoS — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:25:53 +0000

Very cool! Thanks for the detailed tech blog explainer.

Some, hopefully constructive, feedback:

- You mention "other games" several times. It would be so much more interesting to read, if you named them. Your readers may know that game but have no knowledge about those under the hood details. Like the user wordpad, I immediately thought about Planetary Annihilation when I saw rollback and multiplayer.

- Your landing page needs an easy to grasp "About" / "What is this" section. I'm more or less familiar with several popular game engines (Unity, HL, Source, Unreal, Godot, Spring etc) and never heard of yours before. Even after clicking around a bit on your website, I still had almost no idea what your engine (or is it a language?? [1]) can, and more importantly, can not do. I mostly went by the screenshots of the game examples shown and concluded that it is a 2D engine with simple graphics. Wikipedia [2] and web search were not that helpful either, so I had to resort to an LLM [3].

[1] https://easel.games/docs/learn/key-concepts "Easel is a unique programming language with some unusual features." [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easel [3] https://search.brave.com/ask says "No, Easel is not a 3D game engine. It is a web-based game engine specifically designed for creating 2D multiplayer games without the developer needing to code the networking or server infrastructure"

New comment by FrojoS in "DeepSeek v4"

FrojoS — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:46:05 +0000

It’s not bs. France is lobbying for “Eurobonds”, debt they can take at German interest rates and with Germans etc holding the bag, for about two decades now.

https://youtu.be/tMd7EfFsPIc (Video claims France is against them, but if they ever were they are not anymore)

Hacker breached one of China's supercomputers and is attempting to sell data

FrojoS — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:28:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomputer-hackers-hnk-intl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766917

Points: 4

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Leaked Chinese military NSCC files: Specific questions of terminal ballistics

FrojoS — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:24:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/texhnolyze_d/status/2036750151818055782

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766874

Points: 4

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New comment by FrojoS in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

FrojoS — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:54:17 +0000

Maybe, but there is a trend towards more and longer education. More college graduates, more PhD grads, etc.

New comment by FrojoS in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

FrojoS — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:46:17 +0000

Given how many of these problems are self-inflicted, maybe we should focus more on trips to the moon and beyond, not less.

New comment by FrojoS in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

FrojoS — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:09:47 +0000

Sorry, I should have quoted properly in my reply. My first sentence ("Yes.") was in general agreement with you, the second sentence was specifically about

> Mathematica has been able to do many integrals for decades and yet we still make students learn all the tricks to integrate by hand

But maybe, integrating by hand is still as big as ever in other parts of academia. Or were you thinking about high school? I'm fairly sure, that symbolic solving of integrals is treated as less important in education these days, than it was before digital computers, but I could be wrong. Mathematica's symbolic solve sure is very useful, but numeric solutions are what really makes the art of finding integrals much less relevant.

New comment by FrojoS in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

FrojoS — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:06:43 +0000

> There is no history of any sort of long planning

Sure there is. Its the formal education system that produced the college grad.

New comment by FrojoS in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

FrojoS — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:29:35 +0000

That would be cheating. If the exam is 'gate keeping', I will say that it is a gate worth keeping.

To be clear, I am not against alternative forms of education. Degrees are optional. But if you want a degree, there have to be exams and cheating has to be prevented.

New comment by FrojoS in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

FrojoS — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:08:13 +0000

Yes. But to be fair to your specific point, symbolic solving of integrals used to be a huge skill in the engineering education. Nowadays, it is not a focus anymore, because numerical solutions are either sufficiently accurate or, more importantly, the only feasible approach anyway.

New comment by FrojoS in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

FrojoS — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:24:51 +0000

Every PhD program I'm aware of has a final hurdle known as the defence. You have to present your thesis while standing in front of a committee, and often the local community and public. They will asks questions and too many "I don't know" or false answers would make you fail. So, there is already a system in place that should stop Bob from graduating if he indeed learned much less than Alice. A similar argument can be made for conference publications. If Bob publishes his first year project at a conference but doesn't actually understand "his own work" it will show.

The difficulty of passing the defence vary's wildly between Universities, departments and committees. Some are very serious affairs with a decent chance of failure while others are more of a show event for friends and family. Mine was more of the latter, but I doubt I would have passed that day if I had spend the previous years prompting instead of doing the grunt work.

New comment by FrojoS in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

FrojoS — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:04:11 +0000

Awesome! Small feedback: The test should maybe auto run. I solved the first level and was confused why I didn't proceed. The out was -1 (but goal was z) and it took me a while to see the 'run test' button.

Impact of screen size on cognitive training task performance: An HMD study

FrojoS — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:34:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167876021001835

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638941

Points: 4

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New comment by FrojoS in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

FrojoS — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:32:01 +0000

Guys, this is a well known and under utilized effect of human psycho physiology. Visually focusing on a single point, small object, or just small visual field (aka tunnel vision) increases mental focus.

AFAIK it’s also one of the reasons we all get “glued” to smartphone screens.

In this paper, more than 20 deg visual field for a screen and subject performance went down: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01678...

Cheap drones are reshaping the war in the sky (scrolling infographic)

FrojoS — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/IRAN-CRISIS/DRONES/dwpkyamxqpm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427635

Points: 42

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