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New comment by boredhedgehog in "Gemini Omni"

boredhedgehog — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:21:21 +0000

Average shot length is down to something like 3 seconds in modern cinema. That's a pretty low bar.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

boredhedgehog — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:15:52 +0000

You can't just have that. It won't feel good unless you unlock it with honest gacha!

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

boredhedgehog — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:41:03 +0000

I wonder what language the encyclical was written in. Could it be the first one originally English?

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets"

boredhedgehog — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:54:58 +0000

We should distinguish between the moral condemnation of a behavior and the desire to outlaw it. The latter is hardly Christian in any universal sense and seems to be mostly an effect of Protestant puritanism. For example, many saints have argued to tolerate prostitution and other vices for the sake of man's weakness.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

boredhedgehog — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:43:07 +0000

> Why cooldowns? Most npm (or pypi) compromises were taken down within hours,

But won't more people on cooldown mean less likelihood to catch the bug, thus extending the need for cooldowns?

New comment by boredhedgehog in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

boredhedgehog — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:59:29 +0000

I stumbled over that metaphor. Isn't it true that a consequence of setting your kitchen on fire will be a new, better kitchen?

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

boredhedgehog — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:42:48 +0000

That depends on how you count, though.

Local storage and cache only have limits relative to available disk space in Chrome, IIRC, and can easily bloat to 100 GB without intervention. Personally I think that's a design flaw and they need customizable hard limits as well, but web browsers wasting space without asking is not a new or sudden development.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

boredhedgehog — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:12:33 +0000

Recognizing a unique selling proposition and capitalizing on it should count for the AI, not against it.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

boredhedgehog — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:42:50 +0000

C-evo development shifted to forks, New Horizons and Distant Horizon.

https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/

New comment by boredhedgehog in "The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces (2022)"

boredhedgehog — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:53:39 +0000

According to the CSS, this site requests the fonts Verdana or Geneva in order, and what you say about the capital 'I' is true for the former but not the latter.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue"

boredhedgehog — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:33:42 +0000

The aspiration is to replace the movie industry. That's a lot of demand.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

boredhedgehog — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:50:30 +0000

That line of argument is rather misleading, as some kind of content manipulation is inherent to the service an archive that violates paywalls has to provide. It needs to conceal the accounts it uses to access these websites, and their names and traces are often on the pages it's archiving.

Did AT go beyond that and manipulate any relevant part? That's rather difficult to say now. AT is obviously tampering with evidence, but so is Wikipedia; their admins have heavily redacted their archived Talk pages out of fear one of these pseudonyms might be an actual person, so even what exactly WP accuses AT of is not exactly clear.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

boredhedgehog — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:39:01 +0000

> The person running nanoclaw[.]net can put anything they want on that page tomorrow. A crypto scam. A phishing page. Malicious download links. They could fork the GitHub repo, inject malicious code, and link to it from the site that Google is telling thousands of people is legitimate.

A lot of handwringing about hypotheticals. The page is up there because it links the official repo. Changing that will quickly tank its search rank.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

boredhedgehog — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:36:17 +0000

Looks like Weatherwar 2 for the C64.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990"

boredhedgehog — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:15:22 +0000

As described by the posts, the original used 16-bit signed integers. The fix was to switch to 32-bit.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)"

boredhedgehog — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:27:10 +0000

I think what Tolkien would have hated the most was Aragorn murdering the Mouth of Sauron. Stylistic choices are one thing, but turning morality on its head is on another scale.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "AI sycophancy panic"

boredhedgehog — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:11:24 +0000

> The underlying architecture we have today can't actually do this.

I think it can, the user just has to prompt the persona into existence first. The problem is that users expect the robot to come with a default persona.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "GPT Image 1.5"

boredhedgehog — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:56:29 +0000

I disagree with gpt-image-1.5's grade on the worm sign. It moved some of the marks around to accommodate the enlarged black area, but retained the overall appearance of the sign.

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes"

boredhedgehog — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:18:18 +0000

*six

New comment by boredhedgehog in "Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1"

boredhedgehog — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:25:01 +0000

The way I see it, S2 was pretty lazy. They took a system that was fairly polished already and tinkered with it without understanding how it would impact the whole, like how they made a level-up system that heavily incentivizes a degree of micromanagement the UI isn't built to support.

Or take the pig farm: Clear pros and cons in S1; in S2 it's just a bad bakery. Or the perpetually broken ship navigation, and no way to do naval invasions.