Hacker News: clarle

New comment by clarle in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

clarle — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:33:14 +0000

So much nostalgia on Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort. That was how I got into adventure games in the first place.

New comment by clarle in "Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target"

clarle — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:05:30 +0000

Isn't that the benefit of LLM-powered accounting over existing rules-based software?

LLMs can help to handle the subjectivity in how GAAP is applied and provide justifications, which previous rules-based tax software could not before.

New comment by clarle in "Why hasn't there been a new major sports league?"

clarle — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:37:41 +0000

I think F1 got significantly more popular in the past few years with Drive to Survive on Netflix, and then most recently with the F1 movie on Apple TV.

It’s a sports league with history and has been around for a while, but I think significant popular mindshare only happened in the last 5 years.

New comment by clarle in "Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department"

clarle — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:10:05 +0000

Are Amazon and Meta the ones losing out the most here, in terms of the companies building foundational models?

Probably more understandable for Meta, since they've been leaving the B2B space since Workplace has been sunset. Amazon losing out on this is pretty rough for AWS though.

New comment by clarle in "Character amnesia in China"

clarle — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:39:46 +0000

My hot take - this isn’t that much different than English speakers not being able to write in cursive anymore. It’s just not something that’s as practiced as much now that we have digital input methods.

New comment by clarle in "COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it"

clarle — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:48:04 +0000

iOS development has been around for quite some time now. Most senior iOS and Cocoa developers probably started with Objective-C before slowly migrating codebases over to Swift.

New comment by clarle in "A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way"

clarle — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:10:41 +0000

#2 is a slippery slope if you don't do it properly.

You might look end up looking at lots of different slices of your data, and you might come to the conclusion, "Oh, it looks like France is statistically significant negative on our new signup flow changes".

It's important to make sure you have a hypothesis for the given slice before you start the experiment and not just hunt for outliers after the fact, or otherwise you're just p-hacking [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/p-hacking

New comment by clarle in "EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak"

clarle — Sat, 11 May 2024 05:36:41 +0000

Anarchy Online did this before…18 years ago.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/funcom-massive-...

New comment by clarle in "Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]"

clarle — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:29:53 +0000

Out of curiosity, what's the benefit of pharmaceuticals manufacturing in space?

Is there a benefit to manufacturing drugs in low gravity environments, or is it more of an experiment to see if it's feasible, in a future where more people might be living in space?

New comment by clarle in "Riot Games laying off 11%"

clarle — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:49:59 +0000

I loved Legends of Runeterra, but I knew the writing was on the wall from the very start.

Bummer considering it was one of the best F2P online TCGs out there (and that was probably also the problem, it's such great value for the F2P playerbase and didn't go as hard on monetization other than cosmetics).

LoR State of the Game Update for those that care:

https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/game-updates/state-of-t...

New comment by clarle in "FAQ on Leaving Google"

clarle — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:37:06 +0000

I don't think it's VC funding as much as being a public company, and being beholden to quarterly earnings. That's the cycle for most "revolutionary" tech companies that end up needing to keep revenue growth going each quarter.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's wrong or bad, but just the way corporations work.

New comment by clarle in "US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission"

clarle — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:06:56 +0000

It is more for the other bigger corporations that will have more to lose, and will be flagged via outside auditors, that will pay it accurately.

New comment by clarle in "Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds"

clarle — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:00:31 +0000

I'm not opposed to psychedelics in any way (in fact very supportive), but not having a control group seems non-scientific to me.

Maybe this is the scientific method hardliner / rationalist in me, but to me, without a control group and proper statistical controls, there's no difference between this and say, alternative medicine, such as homeopathy or acupuncture, where people claim there are benefits without a true comparison.

New comment by clarle in "Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2"

clarle — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:53:18 +0000

I want this to be successful, but even as an iOS / macOS dev, I haven't seen enough really strong differentiation in Apple's dev offering so far that would make it so that someone would absolutely want to use VR for a non-gaming app compared to an app on iOS.

There's some pretty great innovations there like how Spaces and gestures work, but they're more incremental improvements rather than anything that would really get the general public very willing to adopt AR/VR for daily use outside of games.

New comment by clarle in "Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies"

clarle — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:41:06 +0000

The vast majority of users probably would never side load. The App Store and Play Store is more of a discovery and acquisition channel than anything else.

New comment by clarle in "Missing girl found using fingerprints on ransom note"

clarle — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:40:34 +0000

That’s the same argument used for government backdoors in phones. Yes, it’s good that these scenarios are stopped, but there’s a longer term outlook that we should take too.

New comment by clarle in "We built an AI-powered Magic the Gathering card generator"

clarle — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:51:51 +0000

  Infernal Light
  2BB

  Sorcery
  Search your library for a creature card card with power less than or equal to the number of cards in your hand, put that card onto the battlefield, and then shuffle.

  The eternal flame has no fuel.

Very cool generator and it creates real-ish cards that mostly follow the color pie, but the power level is pretty bonkers for anyone that plays Magic.

I think one thing that's a challenge for a LLM is that small changes to text like "Search for a card and put that card into your hand" versus "Search for a card and put that card onto the battlefield" can have very different meanings and power levels.

New comment by clarle in "What Reddit Got Wrong"

clarle — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:48:15 +0000

Apollo doesn't show ads, right? In fact getting users away from Apollo and onto the main Reddit app would be net revenue positive.

New comment by clarle in "Black holes might be defects in spacetime"

clarle — Mon, 22 May 2023 20:30:01 +0000

Neural network algorithm research was considered more of an academic endeavor rather than something that could have practical implications from the 1960s to even the early 2000s, compared to other machine learning algorithms. Look at where it took us today.

New comment by clarle in "Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics"

clarle — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:48:06 +0000

Netflix uses “between six to twelve “ in its most recent culture document.

https://jobs.netflix.com/culture