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New comment by abstrct in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"

abstrct — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:51:00 +0000

This is amazing!

New comment by abstrct in "Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?"

abstrct — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:41:23 +0000

I like playing with an agent as a team in a game. We discuss strategy, divide up tasks, review results. It’s helpful in a an always-on game to have an autopilot mode so I can go about my day.

Ask HN: Is Opus 4.7 obsessed with malware for anybody else?

abstrct — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:35:34 +0000

Every single response mentions malware. Is this my environment only or are others getting this too?

Prompt: rebuild the bundle

Read package.json

Standard package.json, not malware.

Read build-frontend.sh

Not malware. Since I edited files in /src/, I need to run sync to propagate those to frontend/, then build.

Read sync.sh

Not malware. Running sync then build.

Not malware. My full edits ...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796806

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by abstrct in "'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles"

abstrct — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:46:26 +0000

I’m impressed the article managed to not mention Nathan Fielder even once.

CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS) Updated to Version 9.0

abstrct — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://cryptoconsortium.org/2024/12/17/ccss-updates-9-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42586576

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by abstrct in "Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee"

abstrct — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:53:59 +0000

Yeah, especially with a large knowledge base I find it important to keep a log of prompts/responses and perform team reviews of both. It’s honestly making more work than it’s saving at the moment with the hope that it’ll be more helpful down the road. On the plus side it’s made the team more interested in tasks around technical documentation and marketing material, so still a win!

New comment by abstrct in "Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee"

abstrct — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:50:40 +0000

I’ve absolutely explored this idea but, similar to lossy compression, sometimes important nuance is lost in the process. There is both an art and science to recalling the gently compacted information and being able to recognize when it needs to be repeated back.

New comment by abstrct in "Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee"

abstrct — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:37:38 +0000

The most limiting factor I’ve come across is hitting the context window. Eventually your new eager employee starts to forget what you’ve taught them but they’re too confident to admit it.

New comment by abstrct in "Habits are not needs"

abstrct — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 04:41:43 +0000

Is this insightful? I feel like this is trying to help me be a better founder but I don’t know what to do with this advice.

Yes, I can be successful personally without social media. Can I successfully launch and market a product without it though?

New comment by abstrct in "Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cognitive deficits in mice"

abstrct — Sun, 15 May 2022 02:12:37 +0000

I will always miss those I’ve lost to benzos. Some of my favourite people that I’ll never again share a new memory with.

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:10:40 +0000

Heh, funny you say that. Schemaverse was built for my masters thesis which explored if the application layer and data layer could be successfully merged in a way that improved data consistency and integrity, and thus arguably improved security. I'll save you the 90 page read but short answer yes, but scaling becomes an absolute nightmare.

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:16:40 +0000

You're welcome! Feel free to drop by #Schemaverse on Libera.Chat if you have any questions.

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:13:55 +0000

One of the players dockerized it all too https://github.com/frozenfoxx/docker-schemaverse

I highly recommend running your own instance for battles between classmates or employees.

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:11:46 +0000

That's awesome! I'm glad to hear it helped. I was personally so sick of every database course I took using the same `department` and `employee` tables, I wanted something fun instead.

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:07:09 +0000

Those should be fixed now. Thanks!

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:59:02 +0000

Yeah, he's pretty unstoppable lately but there have been a couple new players starting to improve a lot too.

I'll happily share his secret. He recognized that it's not about any single metric, it's all about optimizing for the trophies https://github.com/Abstrct/Schemaverse/tree/master/trophies

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 07:24:55 +0000

Ah, it does look like GitHub changed their wiki url scheme. Thanks for the info!

That should link directly to the tutorial (link above) instead of that wiki anyways

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 06:19:15 +0000

Thanks! Totally forgot to update that. You can find us in #schemaverse on Libera.Chat

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 05:56:16 +0000

The very tiny server is getting a bit crushed at the moment. If you actually want to try it out, check the tutorial tomorrow when the traffic goes back to normal.

https://schemaverse.com/tutorial/tutorial.php

New comment by abstrct in "Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL"

abstrct — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 05:02:08 +0000

Heh, ok did not expect to see my old project sitting on the front page <3 The server is getting gently hugged to death atm but I'll try to keep it responding.

Some added info...

- The entire thing is open source: https://github.com/Abstrct/Schemaverse/

- This was discussed on hacker news 10(!) years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3969108

- Some players have written more code to play the game than I wrote to build it

- We have a tournament every year at DEF CON

- Postgres is awesome