Hacker News: Mobius01

New comment by Mobius01 in "Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates"

Mobius01 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:50:09 +0000

I wish nothing but success to Tarn and Zach, it’s great that releasing on Steam and adding a friendlier UI helped the game reach new audiences. It’s the proverbial time black hole.

New comment by Mobius01 in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

Mobius01 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:25:46 +0000

One Sharon Apple concert before the end!

New comment by Mobius01 in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

Mobius01 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:53:48 +0000

I remember in 2006 when online sports gambling was banned, and witnessed first hand some sleaze bags flee to Costa Rica where many of the actual operations were located. What I witnessed regarding addiction and exploitation put me off sports for a long time. Now here we are, with the tech industry and political capital behind it, this time engineered to engulf the entire population. It's repulsive.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?"

Mobius01 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:27:51 +0000

> I do not see AI taking jobs, I see it more as everyone got a great secretary/junior to offload 'busy' work onto.

I’m afraid that your perspective is flawed. There are many jobs whose output can’t be enhanced by offloading certain tasks to improve productivity - the output itself is replaced by AI.

For instance, a family member who is a successful freelance illustrator and whose field has dramatically shrank with the introduction of image generation. They don’t need a secretary, they need clients. The same clients that now are happy to replace 50%-80% of their demand with AI-generated imagery.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

Mobius01 — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:41:53 +0000

Timely, just this morning I took an interest in Obsidian and the immediate query about it being open source returned a disappointing “no”. So count me in to try this one.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

Mobius01 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:24:28 +0000

Becoming aware of typography practices will drive you insane. The world is full of atrocities. Live in bliss. But still buy the calculator :)

New comment by Mobius01 in "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"

Mobius01 — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:17:34 +0000

I had some credits sitting on Audible doing nothing, so I picked this up out of curiosity about Mr. Yudkowsky's reputation as an irredeemable AI pessimist. Hopefully this is better than the AI Doc film, which was borderline insulting.

New comment by Mobius01 in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

Mobius01 — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:53:51 +0000

Am I supposed to take The Department of Defense seriously when the presentation of these alleged real findings looks like a website best described as marketing for the Call of Duty crowd?

New comment by Mobius01 in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

Mobius01 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:21:24 +0000

Microsoft has historically made poor choices in product naming, but this has to be a new low.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Not buying another Kindle"

Mobius01 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:10:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing Bookshelves. It’s great.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

Mobius01 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:09:53 +0000

It would require an administration that had a modicum of care for the average consumer/taxpayer, and the current one isn’t it.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Demis Hassabis on DeepMind's Journey to AGI"

Mobius01 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:45:41 +0000

What is this? An AI generated article based on a podcast? Are you serious?

New comment by Mobius01 in "US carmakers say proposed EU rules could block large pickup trucks from Europe"

Mobius01 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:16:58 +0000

I will take a wild risk here and say that… it’s probably by design.

New comment by Mobius01 in "'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)"

Mobius01 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:51:45 +0000

I grew up in the 80s/90s further south, and still the film was very much a high fidelity memory playing on-screen. The production design will never be fully appreciated by people that didn’t live that time, it was truly special.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

Mobius01 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:09:54 +0000

This is really unfortunate. Google Fiber has maintained a low, no-nonsense price for years with near-perfect uptime, and besides the odd upselling email, they have never really pushed upgrades. More importantly, I can use my own hardware without having to engage in a war with technical support on 2 hour long calls.

Maybe I was in denial that Google would behave differently about this product considering their track record.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Ask HN: What do you want people to build?"

Mobius01 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:42:42 +0000

I have to be honest - build a blog and post your thoughts. Human thoughts, your ideas, the projects, the tips, and the art. Just add more human voices to the internet. We need them.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Product and design are the new bottlenecks"

Mobius01 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:56:59 +0000

Engineering is never the bottleneck… until it is. I have at this very moment months of completed design features that engineering should have already implemented if they were not in a constant churn of refactoring, reorganizing and spiking to fix self-inflicted defects.

Bottlenecks happen everywhere.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Use social media mindfully"

Mobius01 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:26:33 +0000

My mental health improved in meaningful ways when I dropped all social media close to a decade ago. Now I can feel the impact when someone insists I look at some shared item they sent me on Instagram or whatever. I´d rather not return to algorithm-driven services if I can avoid them.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

Mobius01 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:10:48 +0000

Definitely a perfect timing situation, though with substantial risk. Considering the time the game was in development, an alternative could have showed up in the market.

However, I believe Stardew Valley’s appeal wasn’t simply of fulfilling a void in the market. It is great because there is genuine passion for the subject in the execution, and the content in the game is truly compelling for a wide audience. An amazing story.

New comment by Mobius01 in "Paradox and Colossal Order have mutually decided to pursue independent paths"

Mobius01 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:20:16 +0000

This seems like a breach of publishing terms / loss of confidence on Colossal Order. They released CSII in late 2013 clearly unfinished and unoptimized, delayed paid DLC expansion and content for nearly 2 years and there seems to be no end in sight for the performance problems. But the key part is that the announced console ports never materialized, leaving a large addressable market on the table. That Colossal Order may have captured lighting in a bottle with the first title when there was a gap in the market after the demise of SimCity, but looks like the second time around they were overambitious and may have put the franchise in a position to be sunsetted.