Hacker News: atrus

New comment by atrus in "Pre-2022 Books"

atrus — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:04:35 +0000

It's replies like this that make me wonder which is more demotivating to artists. LLMs, or people screeching "it's ai" regardless of proof.

It has to be absolutely demoralizing to make something on your own, and have it immediately labelled ai by someone who can barely spell it.

New comment by atrus in "Amateur may have cracked Linear A"

atrus — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:14:29 +0000

somehow I suspect it was a bit more involved than: Claude, please solve Linear A.

New comment by atrus in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

atrus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:21:40 +0000

Which censored prompts do you test with non-chinese models?

New comment by atrus in "DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List"

atrus — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:54:45 +0000

No religion on the list, I suppose that counts.

New comment by atrus in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

atrus — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:01:21 +0000

Your points are valid, but they're also on the wrong side of what I'm saying; however, you're speaking from the consuming side, I was talking from the producing side.

AI is never going to stop people from creating new things. Will it make it harder or different to make a living? Sure, but ai isn't the first thing to do that, nor will it be the last.

But making a living off of your art is incredibly, incredibly difficult, and always has been. If AI doubled, or halved, your chances of winning the lottery, it still wouldn't really change your odds of winning.

New comment by atrus in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

atrus — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:16:05 +0000

Is the next Terry Pratchett not writing because AI exists, or because they'll just get accused of being AI?

This is a little like saying no one will ever paint anymore because cameras exist.

It might be harder to make a living off art now (which...debatable), but at no point, ever, was it easy.

New comment by atrus in "Colonization of Venus"

atrus — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:38:40 +0000

Yeah, and the fact that no one is doing "practice runs" on them is telling how serious any colonization effort really is. Zero chance of a successful mars city if we can't even colonize the trivial in comparison ocean.

New comment by atrus in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

atrus — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:23:51 +0000

It's just the "outline" of the controller/puck, it doesn't include internal features for the internals. You won't be building your own controller off these files (without a lot of work).

It's more helpful for making things that conform to the controller, like a holder or stand for your desk or carrying case.

New comment by atrus in "If I could make my own GitHub"

atrus — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:20:56 +0000

Close the email client. No emails, no notifications.

In the mood for dealing with email, open client.

New comment by atrus in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

atrus — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:48:14 +0000

Fair, I was talking more the initial pregnancy use, but even still that further pushes my point that those examples have either never been considered perfectly safe, or have been in active normal usage for so many years that you really have to squint to say it's unsafe.

New comment by atrus in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

atrus — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:32:23 +0000

Those aren't really great examples, considering that Arsenic and Asbestos have been known to be harmful for centuries/millennia.

Thalidomide never even made it to use in the USA.

Fluoride being good for teeth was discovered by fluoride naturally being in the water already

Can't speak for the other two, but I hope you're not basing your fears on stuff like that.

New comment by atrus in "Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon"

atrus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:53:34 +0000

No, because the Soviets have to in on faking the moon landing. They were also landing a spacecraft at the same time as the landings. To fake the moon landing you'd also have to fake the entire cold war.

New comment by atrus in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

atrus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:21:49 +0000

Syncthing? I'm taking 'offline' to mean 'not requiring the internet', which means you can have plenty of computers!

New comment by atrus in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

atrus — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:43:12 +0000

They did though! From what I understand from people who made those profitable games is that Facebook funded, either though investments or grants most vr games out there. Even ones not owned by the company (like beat sabre, batman, deadpool, etc).

The problem is, like someone else mentioned, the company itself. Facebook is a middleman company. other people make stuff, showcase it on one of their properties (insta, marketplace, whatever), and then go back to the people actually doing stuff.

New comment by atrus in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

atrus — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:34:20 +0000

Despite the shock at the amount of money meta spent on their version of the metaverse, I don't think they spent nearly enough to accomplish their vision.

Meta, to the detriment of the market, tried too early in the VR lifecycle to own the market. They basically tried to become the iPhone and Apple in the year 1990.

Tell me, do you believe any singular company in the year 1990, with 100B to burn, would be able to create the iPhone, in any of its varations? Absolutely not, there too much research, too much to invent, too much to program and not nearly enough talent and money for one company to manage.

New comment by atrus in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

atrus — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:43:46 +0000

Even sites with that option already (like wikipedia) still report being hammered by scrapers. It's the full-funded aligned with the incompetent at work here.

New comment by atrus in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

atrus — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:16:46 +0000

Good luck. To have something that a regular family could use would require remote access from the company for troubleshooting, updates, maintenance.

So you get all of the downsides of cloud hosting (company employees can still remote in), with none of the upsides (all the hardware is now geographically distributed, instead of one big building) with the privilege of paying for it instead of being "free" like facebook/google.

New comment by atrus in "Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones"

atrus — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:27:59 +0000

Honestly? They might. A game I play (Torn.com) started using AI and over dramatic ads, and they outperformed (higher signups, and higher retention) the more traditional and even player created ads.

The owner expressed surprise and frustration over it, because it kinda sucks that's what works.

New comment by atrus in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

atrus — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:36:42 +0000

You're not. You feel obligated to send a thank you, but don't want to put forth any effort, hence giving the task to someone, or in this case, something else.

No different than an CEO telling his secretary to send an anniversary gift to his wife.

New comment by atrus in "Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse"

atrus — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:40:23 +0000

Convienence. Consoles are popular because you just plop down, hit the on button and play (in theory).

And while people don't care how much spy/adware their computer is, they do care when frequent notifications, popups and updates interfere with what you're doing. Nothing more annoying that having a windows notif steal focus from a game you're playing through steam link in the other room (personal experience).

I'm so glad that they've improved steam and link on linux so much, having to run it on my s/o windows computer was a pain.