Hacker News: ambyra

New comment by ambyra in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

ambyra — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:01:38 +0000

A browser extension or addon that automatically sets the user's preferences and hides the site's popup. Does it exist?

New comment by ambyra in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

ambyra — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:23:26 +0000

For unity gamedev code reviews, I much preferred the gpt5 code. Claude gave me a bunch of bad recommendations for code changes, and also an incorrect formula for completion percentage.

New comment by ambyra in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

ambyra — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:02:27 +0000

With duck typing, you don’t need type hints. You’re just supposed to use the variable however you “feel” it should be used when you’re using it, and it automagically just works!!! Try it! /s

New comment by ambyra in "An engineering history of the Manhattan Project"

ambyra — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:40:45 +0000

Podcast/narrated version would be cool.

New comment by ambyra in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

ambyra — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 18:31:12 +0000

Would be cool if they started using displays with multiple layers, kinda like the looking glass 3D display, to get actual 3d layering of UI. Would look amazing with this new UI design.

New comment by ambyra in "Discord Can Make Money"

ambyra — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:57:13 +0000

I feel like ads are the least clever/most damaging way to make money for a platform. Maybe better would be to charge large servers a hosting fee. The server owners could figure out how to make money to pay for the fees, through donations to the channel, externally, etc.

Discord Can Make Money

ambyra — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:57:13 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/discord-cto-says-hes-constantly-bringing-up-enshittification-during-meetings/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201566

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ambyra in "Did "Big Oil" Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?"

ambyra — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:22:27 +0000

I feel bad for all the sorters that have to sift through trash, who know most of the stuff will just get thrown in the landfill. Some people treat the recycle bin as a second trash can.

New comment by ambyra in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

ambyra — Sat, 31 May 2025 16:46:16 +0000

I’m surprised these never took off in Mexico. Water is cheaper than toilet paper, and you don’t have a basket of used toilet paper in the bathroom.

New comment by ambyra in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?"

ambyra — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 01:56:04 +0000

I think they look more like eyes or portals. I guess you see what's on your mind.

New comment by ambyra in "Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games"

ambyra — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:32:33 +0000

Lotta people playing on the deck. Hoping to port to switch one day. Local multiplayer would be awesome.

New comment by ambyra in "Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games"

ambyra — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:29:32 +0000

The rules make it so every new tetris release is just a boring clone. TGM has to fight for innovation, really sad. When I made my four player variant, https://duo.itch.io/reaktor I made sure to follow NONE of the guideline rules, and it ended up being a breath of fresh air for a lot of people. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1fdzcsc/how_i_publ...

New comment by ambyra in "Firing programmers for AI is a mistake"

ambyra — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:03:31 +0000

It's a meme at this point. People who don't know anything about programming (lex fridman): "It's revolutionary. People with no programming skills can create entire apps." People who program for a living: "It can reproduce variants of code that have been implemented already 1000s of times, and... nothing else".

New comment by ambyra in "Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M"

ambyra — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:01:20 +0000

I love beavers!! They don’t just build the dams, but the also change the rivers into special types of ponds that their favorite food grows in (green leafy shoots). So they don’t just build a house but also a farm! So cool!!!

Game developers keep reinventing Tetris

ambyra — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 03:51:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.polygon.com/gaming/513931/tetris-inspired-games-design-reaktor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827552

Points: 36

# Comments: 3

New comment by ambyra in "Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets"

ambyra — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:35:34 +0000

Are there any good sites like this for game music?

New comment by ambyra in "A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)"

ambyra — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:21:18 +0000

https://youtu.be/ky1nGQhHTso?si=XN5Hny_Yd6Svx5M_

Asianometry has a good one on this. They’ve become dependent on US software (and hardware), and programming is considered a low prestige job.

New comment by ambyra in "Mitochondria Are Alive"

ambyra — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 13:30:45 +0000

Today I learned that mitochondria are the only organelles that replicate “on their own” inside a cell, while the other organelles just bud off the preexisting ones. I wonder how they are signaled to do so though.

Reminds me of sea slugs that eat plants and then integrate their chloroplasts to produce energy, or my dad who kept swapping the same Honda motor through all our go karts because it was too good to get rid of.

New comment by ambyra in "Passport Photos"

ambyra — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:23:39 +0000

Would be great to tape the whole picture inside the passport. I’m sure the passport officials could use a good chuckle. … or you’ll go to jail.

New comment by ambyra in "The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes"

ambyra — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:41:20 +0000

Yeah, like why would anyone want to revive toxic potatoes.