<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: GalahiSimtam</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=GalahiSimtam</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:38:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=GalahiSimtam" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A solo gamedev project; upgrading my free Skyrim mods; thinking about learning vibe-coding for the little "web 2.0" side-project idea of old, seems could be fun to squeeze it in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:38:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305521</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funny they both originated from Sclaveni/Sklabenoi, just one of the tribe of south Slavs. But for the slave trade in middle ages, maybe you guys would call us Slovs (the jury is out on that)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:44:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165980</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right now, a video game. If there ever will be AI that does the particular assignment no worse, I'll consider it the coming of the age of AGI. (modulo my game getting sucked into the training set, of course)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:35:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43532619</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43532619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43532619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In copyright law, moral rights are the right to attribution, integrity, that sort of stuff. It's a loan translation from French 'droit moral'<p>Unsure if the original baiter meant this</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38804947</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38804947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38804947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "New OpenAI CEO Was in H. Potter Fanfic That's Popular with Effective Altruists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It appears that Bloomberg ran such a story this year spring.<p>I recall I was aware of lesswrong.com when it was still about bayesian stuff and not the hive of basilisk oil salesmen. So, before I stumbled on the fanfic (penned by "Less Wrong"), but for plenty of folks it might have been the other way round.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:14:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38385916</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38385916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38385916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Not Everyone Agreed with Einstein"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But Tesla was a-okay with atoms. Just not electrons<p><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tCcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA171&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tCcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA171&re...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333854</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Persuasion through status rather than argument"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Save you some reading, it's about political biases of academia in USA, not about "why Elon Musk renamed Twitter to X" kind of ideas/people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:39:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333618</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most gamedev studio employees are artists, not programmers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 20:59:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37814354</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37814354</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37814354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Tell HN: A Year for PC Gaming: Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield, GFN Streaming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, what's the performance of BG3 in Act 3, in streaming?<p>I had an unfortunate incident of my GPU going kaputt this summer, and while waiting for the warranty repair I tried playing games on an older machine. But not that old, at the onset of lockdown it was considered new. And on that rig, BG3 suffered even in Act 1. The game after a few minutes would go from nice 45+ FPS  on ultra to 10-15 on lowest graphics settings, staying in that slow mode for up to hours. It wasn't correlated with GPU temperature, or fixable by some weird setting.<p>I wasn't aware of GeForce Now. Maybe I would shell out a few bucks. Assuming the savegames would be transferred eventually to my gaming PC with GPU replaced. There, BG3 works fine in Act 3 (except for crashing in one area, fortunately it's a side-quest that can be skipped).<p>Seems to me a software bug, and I suspect owners of rigs in between encounter it only in Act 3.<p>Avoiding such horror stories could be an incentive to use streaming, even though GeForce Forge doesn't seem to have a free tier the same way Stadia did, it might make for it in other aspects. (it has a free tier however for 1 hour daily, and right now I have 52 gamers ahead of me waitlisting. I'm curious about BG3 performance there, so I'll wait it out)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:17:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37582134</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37582134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37582134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, the test kitchen demo is pretty limited.<p>If you are curious about their linguistical style, the difference between GPT-3 and Lamda is akin to the difference between Ralof and Hadvar playthrough, respectively - <a href="https://www.palimptes.dev/ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.palimptes.dev/ai</a><p>Mind you, these made silly mistakes, mixing overlapping tasks and whatnot. ChatGPT with GPT-4 beats that, even if it is primed to remind us from time to time about the name of the company who made it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:43:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37581511</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37581511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37581511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then I doubt you would approve as a novel game mechanic anything that Nintendo attempts to patent within that claim. An exemplary new mechanic recent decade game is Baba Is You. It isn't obvious. If it was, someone would come up with Baba Is You pretty soon after Sokoban was made 40 years ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:17:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37168228</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37168228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37168228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This isn't a new debate in the modding community. There were all kind of opinions voiced. Robbie is not fond of AI voices, but he tracks NSFW mods because they are a natural concern.<p>Anyways, it is the custom there that Nexusmods moderation reacts to suspected mod asset stealing and such an issue can be raised by any website user (as mod authors often leave and are no more around). However, for the voice cloning/impersonating, it requires a notification from the original VA, or some other credible confirmation that the particular VA is against this.</p>
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<p>In the context of the OP article, a similar functionality to querying a database is "Find matching references" kind of quest alias filling
<a href="https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Quest_Alias_Tab#Fill_Type" rel="nofollow">https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Quest_Alias_Tab#...</a>:<p>However it is not 100% documented what kind of optimization this "query engine" has implemented, there are some vibes that sometimes it could be faster than a full scan.<p>A serialized data format is here if you are interested <a href="https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_Mod:Mod_File_Format" rel="nofollow">https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_Mod:Mod_File_Format</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:43:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36228332</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36228332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36228332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do I see this fallacy all over anti-porn threads? Keto diets might be a fad and about as difficult as quitting porn, but still.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 17:32:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35791199</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35791199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35791199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Low Code Software Development Is a Lie"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every low code sounds like a plan, until you have to make something like "computer AI for Heroes Of Might & Magic 3 battles".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:17:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584153</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584153</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Show HN: A text adventure game where GPT-4 is the player"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be fair, I had a lot of fun last year asking various LLMs to play Skyrim, imagined as a role-playing adventure with a human game master, and watching as they break sooner or later 
   <a href="https://www.palimptes.dev/ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.palimptes.dev/ai</a><p>With ChatGPT-4 though, I haven't yet got it to make something that dumb, though I had to remind it not to hallucinate the part of the story that traditionally is governed by GM.<p>Could it be what your demo is doing behind the scenes?</p>
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<p>Per description of a certain item in Fallout 2, "if you need to ask, you don't want to know".<p>UPDATE:<p>while fanfiction might be behind this vocal minority, there could be other uses of LLMs, for example translation<p>I don't go as far as "gender-swapping", because GPT4 swaps a man on a beach wearing only beach shorts for a woman wearing only beach shorts</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:57:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525229</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "What archaeology is telling us about the real Jesus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Uhm, if you are interested so, you should realize it is these false narratives that are used most convincingly in support of Jesus historicity.<p>Consider that passage from Flavius referencing Jesus. It is somewhat different in the Arabic translation version. Some people goes as far as to doubt if this passage is altogether an insertion of later christian scribes.<p>On the other hand, they usually argue that Jesus being born in Bethlehem is made up to match some old prophets, and then they accept that if Jesus was completely made up he would not be from Nazareth. (*)<p>There are more analyses like that in "Gospel of Afranius" by Kirill Eskov (who is known for "The Last Ringbearer"), and I found out only today that it was translated to English recently, wikipedia says Dec 2022. Enjoy!<p>(*) it is relatively rare that someone will observe that there could have been another settlement called Bethlehem just closer to Nazareth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:19:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484206</link><dc:creator>GalahiSimtam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GalahiSimtam in "Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No need to be sarcastic when ChatGPT-4 has issues using APIs, I mean software library interfaces</p>
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<p>you don't get to be a governor until you completed <i>cursus honorum</i> tho</p>
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