Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693723

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The goal is not perfect security in all situations for all products. The goal is to make the effort required for your particular product excessive compared to the payoff.

Ten years before that I worked on a bespoke commercial game engine that had its own memory tracker. First thing we did with it was fire up a demo program, attach the memory analyzer to it, then attach a second instance of the memory analyzer to the first one and found a memory error in the memory analyzer.

Now that I'm out of gamedev, I feel like I'm working completely blind. People barely acknowledge the existence of debuggers. I don't know how y'all get anything to work.

A quick google for open-source C++ solutions turns up https://github.com/RudjiGames/MTuner which happens to have been updated today. From a game developer, of course XD

AFAICT, the general populace is anxious about AI. So, the news knows they can get clicks with “You are right to be afraid. AI bad.” Meanwhile, CEOs know they can get stock boosts by saying “We are so AI we don’t need expenses. Infinite ROI!”

Put together we’re getting a ton of scary reporting on what looks like a quite normal business cycle (at least as far as layoffs go). And, everyone being afraid to hire is the only thing actually making it self-fulfilling.

> produced by frontier AI with ~2 person-days of human effort versus an estimated ~2.75 person-years manually (a 350x speed-up). We achieve this through task-level specification generators...

This hardware won’t make the technique attractive for ALL computation. But, it could dramatically increase the range of applications.

Now I do fun code on a laptop on the sofa with my family. I’m only typing in tiny breaks between socializing and I’m still getting lots of fun stuff done.

https://help.obsidian.md/cli

I’ve been having a lot of fun recently using AI CLIs with Obsidian. No plugins necessary because it’s just a directory tree of markdown files.

So, in order to make use of users new fancy hardware without abandoning other users old and busted hardware, you have to support multiple back-ends. Same as it ever was.

Actually, a lot easier than it ever was today. Doom 3 famously required Carmack to reimplement the rendering 6 times to get the same results out of 6 different styles of GPUs that were popular at the time.

ARB Basic Fallback (R100) Multi-pass Minimal effects, no specular.

NV10 GeForce 2 / 4 MX, 5 Passes, Used Register Combiners.

NV20 GeForce 3 / 4 Ti, 2–3 Passes, Vertex programs + Combiners.

R200 Radeon 8500–9200, 1 Pass, Used ATI_fragment_shader.

NV30 GeForce FX Series, 1 Pass, Precision optimizations (FP16).

ARB2 Radeon 9500+ / GF 6+, 1 Pass, Standard high-end GLSL-like assembly.

https://community.khronos.org/t/doom-3/37313

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnuhp3Xd9PYTt6svyQPyR...

https://guide.handmadehero.org/hmcon/

https://guide.handmadehero.org/

https://handmade.network/forums

I'll add on https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3-coder-next

The full model is supposedly comparable to Sonnet 4.5 But, you can run the 4 bit quant on consumer hardware as long as your RAM + VRAM has room to hold 46GB. 8 bit needs 85.

Folks have been optimizing SuperMario64 to run much faster on actual N64 hardware. And, there is a project that has ported it to run on the PlayStation 1. That’s much weaker hardware that has no hope of emulating the N64.