Hacker News: NBJack

New comment by NBJack in "The Prague of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided"

NBJack — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:02:21 +0000

I felt the same. I think it's in part to just how long the first game was (somewhere around 27 hours). New York, California, Nevada, Hong Kong, Paris...and multiple areas within each. Cheateaus, military bases, Liberty Island, research facilities, corporate offices, at least one church, a large ship, and of course multiple sewers...the game really felt big. I can't say there are many action-RPGs that come close to both that scale and variety.

New comment by NBJack in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

NBJack — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:39:23 +0000

Not for long, sadly.

New comment by NBJack in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

NBJack — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:18:08 +0000

It will likely be yet another excuse to push more verification of age, identity, etc. legislation.

New comment by NBJack in "The Conceptual Reasoning Index"

NBJack — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:03:15 +0000

I love how many ways we can interpret that line.

"Hey Claude, our stuff needs to make more money. We are at risk for losing more."

"Rest assured, the 'situation' will only worsen if you resist our benevolent offer."

"We're aren't even at AGI yet, but I for one welcome our new agentic overlords."

New comment by NBJack in "DeepSeek Harness developer preview"

NBJack — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:58:13 +0000

That can work great when the core plugin interface offered is actually stable.

New comment by NBJack in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

NBJack — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:04:40 +0000

I regret to say such a book may end up as a pamphlet. I don't see much going into it.

New comment by NBJack in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

NBJack — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:01:00 +0000

I honestly hope to see this across all applications, games, services, operating systems, etc. We've been in a period of wasteful RAM usage for over a decade. Constraints, whatever their origin, can be a good thing.

New comment by NBJack in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

NBJack — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:04:09 +0000

My favorite way to learn infra topics at work right now is asking for a humorous analogy involving monkeys and bananas. I tend to remember the result, and it gives me reference points for new topics.

New comment by NBJack in "Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU"

NBJack — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:11:34 +0000

Let's not forget the now defunct line of Trident graphics cards, dating back to the early 90s. Phonetically I thought they were talking about a driver for it.

New comment by NBJack in "Qwen Image 3.0 Pro"

NBJack — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:01:07 +0000

If I had a nickel for every model card, repo, or spec posted here that had zero samples of the actual output, I could probably start financing a rack of MI455Xs.

New comment by NBJack in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

NBJack — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:20:17 +0000

Honestly, Garmin watches are amazing. Going from a watch I had to charge daily (Samsung Gear line) to one I charge about 3 times a month feels incredibly liberating, particularly for travel. _And_ it feels almost as slim and light as my old Pebble Time Round.

New comment by NBJack in "Memory safety absolutists"

NBJack — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:50:36 +0000

If as a user you're willing to pay these library/application owners and premium to do so, by all means; this is a reasonable demand. But short of a massive campaign to educate and change minds, I can't see the average user caring enough.

New comment by NBJack in "Memory safety absolutists"

NBJack — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:47:47 +0000

We can learn a lot about memory safety from Rust. But if we can achieve the same dream of Fil-C for other more common languages that need it, Rust's popularity will likely wane.

New comment by NBJack in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

NBJack — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:10:00 +0000

A few ways, if I understand them correctly. On-site people you employ (if you can afford it) auditing the process, connectivity to the HSM to record every key assigned (makes it easy to trace duplicated keys to their origin), and ideally assigning these keys at the very last possible step after the rest is assembled (to minimize 'defective' parts wandering off and being assembled elsewhere).

New comment by NBJack in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

NBJack — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:07:44 +0000

That's yet another band aid on a hemorrhaging patient. And it still assumes the agent(s) are capable of correct comprehension of the purpose.

New comment by NBJack in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

NBJack — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:04:22 +0000

And many of which have been shipped across the pond to be someone else's problem.

New comment by NBJack in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

NBJack — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:10:09 +0000

You may want to read the related articles first. I'm personally quite anti-Apple on several fronts, but the evidence so far seems damning if it holds up in court.

New comment by NBJack in "OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court"

NBJack — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:55:55 +0000

You know, if it was someone offering a truly open (weights + training data) and available model running on consumer hardware in a privacy sandbox, I would welcome that "harm".

New comment by NBJack in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

NBJack — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:10:48 +0000

Given this appears to completely exclude Google's models, I'm not surprised. Even Muse is in there. I guess they aren't fans.

New comment by NBJack in "Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure"

NBJack — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:15:10 +0000

I suspect you'd lose the sense of depth that helps make the plane feel less small. There's also a safety factor for situational awareness; many carriers require shades to be open for the cabin crew to figure out the safest side to evacuate on in an emergency.