Hacker News: aurumque

New comment by aurumque in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

aurumque — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:59:49 +0000

I would think that building a environment which can be managed by a game engine is the first pass. In a few years when we are able to render more than 60 seconds it could very well replace the game engine entirely by just rendering everything in realtime based on user interactions. The final phase is just prompts which turn directly into interactive games, maybe even multiplayer. When I see the progress we've made on things like DOOM, where it can infer the proper rendering of actions like firing weapons and even updating scores on hits and such it doesn't feel like we're very far off, a few years at most. For a game studio that could mean cutting out almost everything between keyboard and display, but for now just replacing the asset pipeline is huge.

New comment by aurumque in "Transfering Files with gRPC"

aurumque — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:54:06 +0000

S3 also gives you multipart parallel uploads. Each part gets stored and then when you're done the concatenation is performed close to the storage layer.

New comment by aurumque in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

aurumque — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:37:43 +0000

Did you know that software specifications used to be almost entirely flow charts? There is something to be said for that and waterfall.

New comment by aurumque in "Many hells of WebDAV"

aurumque — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:29:07 +0000

Golang is one of the only languages with a more or less working library. I built with it and using some hacks got it hooked up to AWS API Gateway with Lambda. Reading the room, the lack of language support does make it pretty suspect in 2026, even if the client support is still pretty good. Recently I have abandoned in favor of AWS Mountpoint (rust S3 mounting) and combined with Lambda object get and list functions have achieved most of the same functionality. The downside being that you lose the ability to talk to the many varied clients like an old HP printer which (obviously) can't use FUSE.

New comment by aurumque in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

aurumque — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:59:51 +0000

In a circuitous way, you can rather successfully have one agent write a specification and another one execute the code changes. Claude code has a planning mode that lets you work with the model to create a robust specification that can then be executed, asking the sort of leading questions for which it already seems to know it could make an incorrect assumption. I say 'agent' but I'm really just talking about separate model contexts, nothing fancy.

New comment by aurumque in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

aurumque — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:19:55 +0000

I wonder if it could still be usurped by another standard that is somehow more popular. If adoption of that leapfrogs over IPV6 then maybe it will have just been a waypoint along the way.

New comment by aurumque in "How uv got so fast"

aurumque — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:01:38 +0000

This kind of writing goes deeper than LLM's, and reflects a decline in both reading ability, patience, and attention. Without passing judgement, there are just more people now who benefit from repetition and summarization embedded directly in the article. The reader isn't 'stupid', just burdened.

New comment by aurumque in "Guests ejected mid-stay from bankrupt hotel chain Sonder"

aurumque — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:09:09 +0000

Having been affected by this personally, I don't think Marriott cares about their brand at this point as they have achieved relative monopoly status. There are plenty of other horrible things they've accomplished in the last few years besides this. It makes me want to watch out for CitizenM similarly, because it's increasingly unclear what Marriott's actual role in your stay even is anymore.

New comment by aurumque in "Let AI do the hard parts of your holiday shopping"

aurumque — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:47:55 +0000

This holiday season, consider giving the gift of a well-researched gift list, and then letting them decide if they want to buy it or not. Most people don't want more stuff, they just want to know you understand them and care about them.

New comment by aurumque in "Some people can't see mental images"

aurumque — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:45:39 +0000

There is a related set of experiences that articles like this tend to conflate.

* presence of internal monologue

* ability for visualization

* ability for audiation

* affective memory (remembering feelings)

* SDAM (weak autobiographical memory)

It speaks to the larger questions around the human experience, and that we are only now discovering the many ways it differs for each individual.

New comment by aurumque in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

aurumque — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:55:42 +0000

Azure goes down all the time. On Friday we had an entire regional service down all day. Two weeks ago same thing different region. You only hear about it when it's something everyone uses like the portal, because in general nobody uses Azure unless they're held hostage.

New comment by aurumque in "AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say"

aurumque — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:42:14 +0000

For those of us who have been using AWS for almost 20 years now, I can't imagine why anyone would willingly choose us-east-1 for anything. It is the oldest, highest traffic, most critical path region and is subject to turbulence.

New comment by aurumque in "Type checking is a symptom, not a solution"

aurumque — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:45:01 +0000

Right. Try building thousands of transistors without rigorous EDA and basic checking in VHDL. This article is such a bad take.

New comment by aurumque in "Go is still not good"

aurumque — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:08:18 +0000

This has always been my takeaway with Go. An imperfect language for imperfect developers, chosen for organizations (not people) to ensure a baseline usefulness of their engineers from junior to senior. Do I like it? No. Would I ever choose it willingly? No. But when the options at the time were Javascript or untyped Python, it may have seemed like a more attractive option. Python was also dealing with a nasty 2-to-3 upgrade at the time that looks foolish in comparison to Golang's automatic formatting and upgrade mechanisms.

New comment by aurumque in "Show HN: Typed-arrow – compile‑time Arrow schemas for Rust"

aurumque — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:28:26 +0000

I congratulate you. This is a clever extension of a great framework.

New comment by aurumque in "Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis"

aurumque — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:16:18 +0000

Let's not forget just how much of Alan Turing's work went towards "defense of the state" before they discarded him. Even with the royal pardon, my biggest gripe is that they continue to use his name and likeness for anything government affiliated.

New comment by aurumque in "Using AI to secure AI"

aurumque — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:44:30 +0000

And yet when I recommend that replacing senior leadership is one of highest ROI potentials for AI they immediately shut down the conversation.

New comment by aurumque in "Convo-Lang: LLM Programming Language and Runtime"

aurumque — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:22:31 +0000

This is a really great experiment that gets a lot of things right!

New comment by aurumque in "The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing"

aurumque — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:59:29 +0000

The fact that Mixxx works as well as it does on Linux is a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance. It is truly The People's mixing deck.

New comment by aurumque in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

aurumque — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:30:01 +0000

When I was a younger man, I fought long and hard and spent many late nights on the phone with the lawyers abroad, to convince my company to open source a tool that I was proud of and thought would help our brand and attract new developers. They finally granted approval, but I was not allowed to accept features or updates, customer service, spend time on fixes, accept pull requests, etc. Unfortunately my name was all over it, and I came to hate the fact that I had championed this, forced to watch the code rot and interest wane because the company couldn't fathom anything OSS besides lobbing some dead code over the wall periodically.

After I left I would still receive emails from frustrated users, but I had no access anymore. I could have forked it, but it just seemed too messy. I made some suggestions and wished them luck.

There is a lesson here, somewhere, but mainly it just convinced me to not rock the boat for the next decade, and to seek out smaller companies for employment.