Hacker News: _bent

New comment by _bent in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

_bent — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:04:01 +0000

yes, this is called 'effective altruism'

New comment by _bent in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

_bent — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:57:36 +0000

just a quick example from the backtracking section:

"Here's the dirty secret of WFC: it fails. A lot. You make a series of random choices, propagate constraints, and eventually back yourself into a corner where some cell has zero valid options left. Congratulations, the puzzle is unsolvable."

New comment by _bent in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

_bent — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:54:31 +0000

It's extremely distracting to read heavily ai edited texts like these because every single aism throws me a curveball.

It doesn't help that the figures of speech ai loves to use are those that stress things and create tension and drama. And it uses one in every single paragraph, rendering the text into the literal equivalent of a deepfried faux HDR jpg (or a dialogue scene in a Michael Bay movie).

And beyond those practical concerns it's just hard to gauge how much the author truly understands of what he's writing about (and transitively if it's worth to continue reading)

New comment by _bent in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

_bent — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:18:46 +0000

Every single privately run company is authoritarian.

New comment by _bent in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

_bent — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:34:48 +0000

yeah I just wanted to contest the very idea that a car could be clean.

New comment by _bent in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

_bent — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:52:31 +0000

you still have tyre rubber, which is a major source of microplastics

New comment by _bent in "European Alternatives"

_bent — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:15:39 +0000

Wero is a land grab by the banks who fumbled building a PayPal alternative for 20 years, now desperately trying to stop the digital Euro.

Sure I'd rather use Wero than PayPal -if it was decent- and building it on top of SEPA instant transactions is neat. But the lack of buyers protection is a deal breaker for me! And quite frankly I'd rather use a digital Euro governed by the ECB than some rent seeking hobby project by a bunch of private banks. Especially because they will inevitably enshittify it with ads and hostile BNPL like PayPal.

New comment by _bent in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

_bent — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:48:03 +0000

I think it would be better to defer the Workspace trust popup and immediately open in restricted mode; maybe add an icon for it in the bottom info bar & have certain actions notify the user that they'd have to opt in before they'd work.

Because right now you are triggering the cookie banner reflex where a user just instinctively dismisses any warnings, because they want to get on with their work / prevent having their flow state broken.

There should also probably be some more context in the warning text on what a malicious repo could do, because clearly people don't understand why are you are asking if you trust the authors.

And while you're at it, maybe add some "virus scanner" that can read through the repo and flag malicious looking tasks & scripts to warn the user. This would be "AI" based so surely someone could even get a job promotion out of this for leading the initiative :)

New comment by _bent in "Eat Real Food"

_bent — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:30:44 +0000

thanks for the dietary advice, b00ty4breakfast

New comment by _bent in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

_bent — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:37:21 +0000

Untrue, there is a game (however it's not very good): http://cleancoder.com/space-war

New comment by _bent in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

_bent — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:23:35 +0000

It's not a lack of engineering, but a lack of time, no? 5 years later and Cyberpunk runs on the Switch 2, MacBook Air and Linux Gaming Handhelds. While also scaling beautifully to 64 core CPUs or $3000 Nvidia raytracing GPUs.

New comment by _bent in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"

_bent — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:22:34 +0000

this doesn't happen because the union is very much interested in keeping the company afloat

New comment by _bent in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

_bent — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:13:18 +0000

This should do the trick https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectionArea-class...

New comment by _bent in "Garry Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding"

_bent — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:31:37 +0000

No no, NFTs were ridiculously stupid, that's why it was so controversial, that's why there was so much backlash. Tan having been bullish on NFTs is a very good indicator that he isn't hyping $TRENDING_THING based on technological merit

New comment by _bent in "Blender 5.0"

_bent — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:13:36 +0000

Not disagreeing that usage in large productions is something that Blender isn't really designed for, but I don't think that it's for a lack of Python API features (if a studio wants something specific it could just maintain an internal fork) or the ever changing Python API surface (the versions aren't upgraded during a production anyways)

New comment by _bent in "Blender 5.0"

_bent — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:54:47 +0000

What Blender achieved is that lots of university programmes have started teaching Blender or becoming 'tool agnostic'. Studios have also started diversifying their pipelines (this coincidences with studios adopting Unreal and increasing usage of Houdini).

So while Maya is currently the standard, I don't believe that it's growing. It'll probably be around still in 20 years, with lots of studios having built their pipelines and tooling around it, with lots of people being trained in it, and because it's at the moment still better than Blender in some aspects like rigging and animation (afaik).

New comment by _bent in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

_bent — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:50:38 +0000

I know you're looking for something more universal, but in modern video workflows you'd apply a chain of color transformations on top the final composited image to compensate the display you're working with.

So I guess try separating your compensations from the original work and create a workflow that automatically applies them

New comment by _bent in "Show HN: a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser"

_bent — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:05:35 +0000

Why did you call the project rasterizer when it is not using rasterization but raytracing?

New comment by _bent in "Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users"

_bent — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:40:37 +0000

The original Affinity business plan included selling assets like brushes, textures, LUTs via their store. I guess this wasn't wildly successful and at some point every single person that would be interested in a professional grade design suite for 50€ each (often discounted to 35€) has already bought it.

New comment by _bent in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

_bent — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:47:36 +0000

I'd rather have no economy at all