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New comment by ansipunk in "We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry"

ansipunk — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:23:20 +0000

Moreover, in their private training sessions, their models played cumulatively about 180 years worth of games, so I doubt there were many mechanics left to be mastered.

New comment by ansipunk in "We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry"

ansipunk — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:14:13 +0000

I don’t think they did. If I remember correctly, the only limitation they have introduced was the available playable character pool.

New comment by ansipunk in "We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry"

ansipunk — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:59:15 +0000

No image recognition, the bot gathers info about the game from Dota's developer API. Which, to be fair, is a massive advantage, but it, in my opinion, doesn't make the achievement any less.

New comment by ansipunk in "We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry"

ansipunk — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:29:20 +0000

That's what I said in my comment, that LLM is just not what you want for such a task.

New comment by ansipunk in "We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry"

ansipunk — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:11:01 +0000

It is impressive, but it is also a display that LLMs are simply not suited for this, there's way too much latency. Obviously, a more specialized neural network would be much better, but would you believe this:

In 2017, OpenAI presented the first version of their program that plays Dota 2, a very complex, fast MOBA with endless mechanics and defeated one of the world champions in a one-on-one match. Next year, they showed the world OpenAI Five, a version of the program, that runs a full five player team of those bots and they managed to defeat a full team of world champions in 2019. They ran an event where the bots would play for 4 days straight and they won 99.4% of 42,729 matches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Five

New comment by ansipunk in "Type Server Protocol"

ansipunk — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:21:36 +0000

It’s really good that folks over at Astral decided to implement it. It was difficult for me to understand what does this protocol provide that couldn’t be implemented with a new LSP capability, the linked document doesn’t really explain that, but what did become clear to me is that seemingly Microsoft are trying to invent new features for their proprietary LSP server that only works in VS Code so people will have harder times switching to other editors. This way, no matter what Microsoft comes up with, will be matched with very high quality open source tools.

It took me five years to write 200 lines of Python

ansipunk — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:21:23 +0000

Article URL: https://ansipunk.me/blog/databasic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50191857

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

I Pretend I'm from Denmark

ansipunk — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://ansipunk.me/blog/denmark/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165517

Points: 14

# Comments: 9

New comment by ansipunk in "Someone behind the software"

ansipunk — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:27:32 +0000

I read this article and the first thing I thought about is “What kind of a mind created FFmpeg?”. And, turns out, an exceptional brilliant mind — it’s the same person who created QEMU and tcc. But, having interacted with FFmpeg CLI, maybe also an overly pedantic and insufferable mind. A mind that is inhumanly brilliant and expects everyone around them to be as smart. Which is fair for FFmpeg — it chose accuracy over convenience. But the interface is so obtuse it’s unreal. It’s the radial opposite of what the article is praising.

His website is also incredibly fitting. You couldn’t possibly come up with a more fitting website for a person like him.

https://bellard.org

New comment by ansipunk in "Passkeys are a trap"

ansipunk — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:01:29 +0000

If that’s the case, then there’s even less to be done, isn’t there?

New comment by ansipunk in "Passkeys are a trap"

ansipunk — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:03:40 +0000

First of all, what’s wrong with the author, if you have to read through 14 paragraphs to finally reach the point where they actually write on the topic directly.

Second, I think the article is really silly. If they are concerned that eventually service providers might restrict passkey authentication to authorized passkey providers, what prevents them from disabling password/TOTP authentication? That’s just silly. I’ll use passkeys while they are convenient. If service providers start disallowing my passkey provider, I’ll either switch to password/TOTP if that’s possible or just stop using the service whatsoever. What’s the big deal?

New comment by ansipunk in "Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore"

ansipunk — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:14:49 +0000

This raises an obvious question. Why Gleam team weren't doing that in the first place? Obviously they didn't have direct Gleam AST -> Erlang source pipeline, they must have had to build some their own custom Erlang AST representation that they then translated into the source code.

New comment by ansipunk in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"

ansipunk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:56:41 +0000

>Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

Return YouTube Dislike recent permission changes

ansipunk — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:06:45 +0000

Article URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/reviews/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621284

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Bun team is rewriting SIMD from Rust to C++

ansipunk — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:24:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/31351

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265607

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by ansipunk in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

ansipunk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:08:30 +0000

That’s silly. Cat will get on your keyboard anyway. The only real solution is to get heated floors. So my cat prefers sitting under my chair or desk and never gets on it.

New comment by ansipunk in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

ansipunk — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:40:15 +0000

Why so many people use ~/bin/? What’s wrong with ~/.local/bin?

The Apple Gaming Console [video]

ansipunk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:34:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZkD3bbfM4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765436

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ansipunk in "The C3 Programming Language"

ansipunk — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:47:18 +0000

Competing with each other would be trying to one-up each other feature-wise, whereas what I have witnessed was things like discussing trade-offs made in different languages and juggling around ideas on if some feature from language A would make sense in language B too.

New comment by ansipunk in "The C3 Programming Language"

ansipunk — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:26:28 +0000

I haven’t tried C3 myself, but I happened to interact a lot with Christopher Lerno, Ginger Bill and multiple Zig maintainers before. Was great to learn that C3, Odin and Zig weren’t competing with each other but instead learn from each other and discuss various trade-offs they made when designing their languages. Generally was a very pleasant experience to learn from them on how and why they implemented building differently or what itch they were scratching when choosing or refusing to implement certain features.