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New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things"

ajdoingnothing — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:06:14 +0000

At which level of instruction abstraction would you deem it to be someone's creation? You could argue anything high level is not someone's creation (e.g, the use of other people's libraries, compiler, machine language etc.)

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine"

ajdoingnothing — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:08:35 +0000

I love your articles. Used some techniques almost 10 years ago for hobby projects. Box2D/3D would make physics synchronisation a lot easier.

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster"

ajdoingnothing — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:55:30 +0000

Agreed. The "Apple Vision Pro" would have (rightfully so) never been released under Steve Jobs.

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra"

ajdoingnothing — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:48:12 +0000

Astronomy is not named "Telescope Science" though. ;-)

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Signal: Online MIDI Editor"

ajdoingnothing — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:57:06 +0000

Fantastic work!

DJ-Trainer (2002)

ajdoingnothing — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:19:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.worteldrie.com/WD5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392427

Points: 1

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How GTA IV's car deformation worked (from a Rockstar Games physics programmer)

ajdoingnothing — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:19:18 +0000

Article URL: https://pybullet.org/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=16852#p16852

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41082836

Points: 4

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New comment by ajdoingnothing in "GPT-4o"

ajdoingnothing — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:42:37 +0000

If there was any glimmer of hope for "Rabbit M1" or "Humane AI pin", it can be buried to dust.

"Where is James?" – A reminder to choose your open-source libraries wisely

ajdoingnothing — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:04:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mock-server/mockserver/issues/1865

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252374

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Space shuttle Endeavour's giant orange external tank begins final journey"

ajdoingnothing — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:08:27 +0000

Yes! Win-win imho — the orange made it look much better along with the white SRBs, orbiter and a blue sky in the background.

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down"

ajdoingnothing — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:29:03 +0000

I recall in some interview that Rockstar never wants to show footage of the development process or have any "behind the scenes". Even video interviews at their office is rare (I know of only one). Their reason for it is that it would ruin the "magic" when you play the game. Especially back in the day, you'd pop in the DVD in the PS2, and you'd get to see Liberty/Vice city or San Andreas quickly (— no install required). You rarely see an interview of a producer/developer as well.

Honestly, for their current "modern" games, it is understandable. But almost 20 year old games? Come on.

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2"

ajdoingnothing — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:12:24 +0000

GTA IV's tech was quite ahead of its time (2008), with the integration of Euphoria (which had to be integrated in-house by NaturalMotion engineers inside Rockstar's studio @ Edinburgh). The other comment correctly pointed out that NaturalMotion was acquired by Zynga, who in turn got acquired by Take-Two (parent of Rockstar Games).. So who knows, perhaps we'll still see an updated version in the sixth major instalment of the franchise.

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Clone-a-Lisa"

ajdoingnothing — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:40:58 +0000

You're a very creative & talented person!

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Java 21: What’s New?"

ajdoingnothing — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:27:02 +0000

I can't wait until major frameworks (such as Spring in version 6.1) support virtual threads. Reactive programming (e.g., Webflux) would become a niche (unless your use case truly requires streaming with a high number of TPS).

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Happy Teacher's Appreciation Week to All the CS Teachers"

ajdoingnothing — Fri, 12 May 2023 20:03:09 +0000

I have tremendous admiration for all teachers, especially computer science teachers who (presumably) could make more money working as engineers in the industry, but instead choose to educate others and help them chase their dreams. You are an inspiration and thank you!

Nice post – I'd like to echo those words. The (Assistant/Associate) Professors, lecturers and researchers @ research institutes I have seen could easily move to the industry and make plenty of money (whilst facing less politics and get more funding/time for their research), yet their love for teaching and inspiring students is admirably greater.

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?"

ajdoingnothing — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:58:43 +0000

Completely agree. It reminds me of 'They Write the Right Stuff' (1996) [1], how a group of engineers developed the software for the Space Shuttle.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Babylon.js 6.0"

ajdoingnothing — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:15:43 +0000

Havok physics is certainly an interesting addition! Especially since Cannon.js & Oimo.js are not being maintained anymore. Ammo.js (port of Bullet) seems to have some updates here and there (IIRC, it was easier to setup using Babylon considering that it used a wrapper across all physics libraries).

Good to see that Babylon.js is doing well.

Virtual Threads Promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target Status for JDK 21

ajdoingnothing — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:08:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/virtual-threads-arrives-jdk21/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35512481

Points: 5

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New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)"

ajdoingnothing — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:24:25 +0000

Ah, PARADOX. Nostalgia when hearing the Photoshop CS2 Keygen music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYvjFOKOP7c

New comment by ajdoingnothing in "Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?"

ajdoingnothing — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 22:08:46 +0000

Completely agree. Heck, even the current 'waiting list' page (bing.com/new) looks so outdated and a mess. I don't know whether it is the font, the colors, the composition or margins.. Bing itself looks like a mess too. Microsoft truly has no taste.