<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: curiousObject</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=curiousObject</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:25:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=curiousObject" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by curiousObject in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>not 15 million tunnels :D</i><p>That traditionally would be described as “a maze of twisty little passages, all alike”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:43:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993556</link><dc:creator>curiousObject</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by curiousObject in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I can't really think of a use case for a grocery tracking system that only tracks a third of my groceries.<p>Me too. I think I’m not communicating clearly. Sorry.<p>What I’m talking about is a system that does only one third of the steps in the total end-to-end process for ALL your groceries. You do the rest yourself, or use other help.<p>I’m not advocating a broken system that claims to do that complete process, but really ignores two thirds of your groceries. That would be damn stupid.<p>Do you understand what I mean?</p>
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<p>“tool” seems like a good way to describe a half solution. We use and combine various tools and our own skills to do what we want</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:07:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831671</link><dc:creator>curiousObject</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by curiousObject in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>A working grocery tracking system is a half-solution to effortless shopping.</i><p>><i>A half-working grocery tracking system is useless, much like a car without an engine.</i><p>Yes. Something designed to be a half solution can be useful. But a full solution which is broken is probably worse than useless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:04:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831635</link><dc:creator>curiousObject</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by curiousObject in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>”a smart fridge is a half solution at best”<p>A car is a half solution to going to work. A stove is a half solution to preparing food.<p>Half solutions are what people need. They’re the solutions we are using every day.<p>There is this <i>huge</i> problem with advertising that makes consumers think a half solution is a 100% solution. Most smart product makers do that trick. But, apart from that problem, ‘the perfect is the enemy of the good’<p>Edit: but no way would I buy any smart or connected fridge from Samsung. I don’t anticipate that being a positive experience</p>
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<p>Probably because it’s trained by humans and humans are more likely to choose certain numbers when they’re asked to choose randomly. 7 is a popular choice<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-often-pick-17-as-a-random-number-when-asked-to-choose-between-1-and-20-and-what-makes-it-so-special-compared-to-other-numbers" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-often-pick-17-as-a-rando...</a></p>
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<p>I assume that the support and community around Godot, Unity and Unreal still make them a no-brainer, unless you’re committed to relying on LLM for maintenance, non-stop<p>I don’t have any specific knowledge about more generalized dev environments such as rust for this scenario. If you go that route I think it would be important to  be hyper competent in rust or whatever you use because the game-oriented support is less specific than dedicated game-dev rigs like Godot.<p>You are developing a project. So you could rethink and repost this later with more focus on your actual project not a hypothetical</p>
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<p>Again? It sounds like we’re ready for ChatGPT Courts with ChatGPT judges for these lawyers to work in, and for the clients who’ll risk hiring them.<p>Low Low Prices! (Some Hallucinations)<p>More seriously. How do we fight this? Stricter penalties for these attorneys?<p>Edit - this case is particularly egregious because it’s not only false citations like you usually get, but even false testimony and false statements from witnesses</p>
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<p>This is a very vague question.<p><i>You should explain what you want to do</i><p>You should say where’s the position of the LLM in the stack. Top, bottom, whatever<p>I guess the answer to your question is most likely to be No. Perhaps you can be the first one to do it?</p>
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<p>Some pesticides may be linked to Parkinson’s Disease cases<p><a href="https://www.apdaparkinson.org/article/the-relationship-between-pesticides-and-parkinsons/" rel="nofollow">https://www.apdaparkinson.org/article/the-relationship-betwe...</a><p>That is what OP was trying to say I assume</p>
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<p><i>>the entire network probably has a smaller footprint than a single small/medium size bank</i><p>What research or statistics can you suggest to bolster this argument?</p>
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<p>><i>it had begun migrating its applications to Romania’s Government Cloud</i><p>This proclamation, coming from a governmental organization, makes me afraid they are doomed. Effectively they are saying they are fixing the mistake by repeating it.<p>What they should do is admit fault. Freeze the system. Get independent expert help.<p>Best wishes, recent Romanian land buyers and sellers<p>Edit: thank you @cbg0 for giving us this update</p>
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<p>Karl Marx would be horrified</p>
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<p>That rapid disaster response seems a good practical target to start with. Good luck.</p>
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<p>I understand you have created this for teaching - to help other researchers use LLMs better.<p>But, in its current state of development, is it of any use in earthquake preparedness or immediate response to an earthquake?</p>
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<p>This a good game. It’s fun, simple and quick. It’s self explanatory and clear what you need to do.<p>The UI is almost perfect, it’s seamless on mobile and desktop.<p>I made some criticism in other comments therefore I also wanted to make a comment saying what I liked.</p>
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<p>Those are all good options.<p>Also a version in which your unused time is accumulated for future rounds would be interesting</p>
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<p>It’s the same reason people will instantly close a site with unwanted animations (ads).<p>But if this game was called “Do A Word Puzzle While Being Distracted By Animated Numbers in Your Peripheral Vision”, that would be alright.</p>
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<p>Transcript: <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5872785" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5872785</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:31:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702839</link><dc:creator>curiousObject</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by curiousObject in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quake was an incredible leap forward in desktop games.<p>But Sandy Peterson is probably right, saying that it ‘Ruined’ the company - as an artistic creative force anyway.<p>The breakup of the brilliant and well-balanced ID Software team was caused by the trauma of developing Quake.<p>Romero and others were forced out or quit. This cut the heart out of the team, despite all of Carmack’s drive and technical brilliance<p>That is why the next leap ahead in games was not Quake 2 (1997), but Half Life (1998) which was, tellingly, based on the older tech Quake 1 engine</p>
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