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New comment by cwiz in "The End of an Era"

cwiz — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:39:33 +0000

Writing gives meaning, despite fact if anyone reads your stuff or not. Surely publishing a book is a major achievement but many authors wrote without publishing for many years. It's a therapy and getting a book printed is an achievement, but it's not mandatory.

It works like talking to yourself, your conscience and you also get a gut feeling about using AI in humanities with time. It starts to _feel_ bad if you go too far with it. It feels good when I write my text myself. Using AI for humanities feels like borrowing on bad terms.

New comment by cwiz in "The End of an Era"

cwiz — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:25:30 +0000

Perhaps this is a question of ethics. Should we come to a conclusion that human effort makes a text worth reading despite it's objective quality. Literacy is humanities by definition.

New comment by cwiz in "The End of an Era"

cwiz — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:08:24 +0000

I started writing because AI made me obsolete in software development. Or at least gave me depression that blocks me from writing code. What I did instead I started writing my thoughts as short stories and then made an attempt to write full blown 50k words novel. It worked as therapy surprisingly well.

I write mostly without AI but then I use AI for editing and grammar correction. Sometimes when I struggle with plot threads I ask AI for an advice. When I write about something that a have a vague understanding about I may ask AI to write a paragraph or two. I'm also open about it and warn reader in preface and mark generated text using italics.

As a new author I find AI both helpful and discouraging, because it CAN write better prose than me. I think text that's written for humans should be written by humans, but temptation to ramp up quality with zero effort is huge.

Then I experimented with different regimes when I only allow myself a couple of prompts at the end of the day when I done writing and only allow minor edits. At least my conscience is clear.

New comment by cwiz in "Drone Physics"

cwiz — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:49:04 +0000

If you're into simulators then you may try applying forces directly rather than integrating ODE. If sim's has tiny numerical instabilities or integrator schedule is wrong the whole thing gonna fall spectacularly. The interest is with running large-scale simulations where along with ODE you need to handle collisions and deformations. The best one currently is MuJoCo.

New comment by cwiz in "Maybe you should learn something"

cwiz — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:41:45 +0000

I learned a lot myself, but lately I just can't make it on stable regime because you don't get much positive feedback you you're learning something yourself. There's no grades, no exams and all of your motivation is internal. In that case you need to work on a motivation and goals. Why would you learn something that doesn't pays off then?

New comment by cwiz in "Maybe you should learn something"

cwiz — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:39:11 +0000

Technology is a choice. If you speak natively you get completely different immersion in culture.

Imagine your perception as a VR headset, and any gadgets and apps are inserting a layer between you and your VR headset, making it worse.

The same goes with any augmenting technology you perceive not the real thing.

New comment by cwiz in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

cwiz — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:59:04 +0000

I'm looking for an active (open-source) robotics projects with rust / python. I maintain robotics presence in rust-land with some of simulation-based crates (bevy_mujoco, bevy_urdf), and now looking for a projects that either solves real-world problems or a have steady interest.

my github: https://github.com/stillonearth

New comment by cwiz in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

cwiz — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:22:03 +0000

well, maybe adopt an outlook that things you think are real aren't, and just maybe it will work just as fine if you completely ignore them. going forward ignoring ai that are smarter than autocomplete may be just the way to go

New comment by cwiz in ""I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI""

cwiz — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:37:51 +0000

It might also mean overproduction which is bad for economy.

New comment by cwiz in "Show HN: Rust Vector and Quaternion Lib"

cwiz — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 05:19:48 +0000

There's also bevy_math with quite large number of crates depending on it.

New comment by cwiz in "Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it"

cwiz — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:36:44 +0000

What about using adderall to get an edge in cognitive skills?

New comment by cwiz in "Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?"

cwiz — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:38:19 +0000

Gamedev is sweatshop for a single person because it requires not only the programming but also art, game design, music and all should work together. The key thing here is keeping high resource and motivation. In gamedev the can evaporate easily and they can appear suddenly. Don't expect any feedback in early years. It takes time.

New comment by cwiz in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

cwiz — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:35:55 +0000

Animations and artworks is what make this game special. Thanks for inspiration.

New comment by cwiz in "Launch YC: Optifye.ai – AI performance monitoring for factory workers"

cwiz — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:28:21 +0000

Developers of this will eventually end up doing factory work. I've been this path. Inevitable

New comment by cwiz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

cwiz — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:31:47 +0000

A generative visual novel where you play roguelike poker (balatoro-inspired by simpler) to buy narrative and character cards that fed to LLM to create a story.

New comment by cwiz in "The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine"

cwiz — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:16:36 +0000

They might take it with storm and we see influx or high quality stories that can't be distinguished from those written by nips.

New comment by cwiz in "Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks (2024)"

cwiz — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:55:17 +0000

They started to appear after Finnish localbitcoins.com went out of business, most are vendors from there.

New comment by cwiz in "Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please"

cwiz — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:18:09 +0000

Nvidia robotic tools were somewhat convoluted last time I checked them couple years ago. I've seen people train robotic control systems with their sim, but for me it seems that the correct way is to set them as reference designs and reimplement in open source setting with constant community interest. Nvidia hardware and software reminds me military-grade stuff in their engineering approach, which may be sound for robotics. World models and simulators still in the state that doesn't require multibillion dollars to make progress in open setting.

New comment by cwiz in "Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents?"

cwiz — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 06:01:29 +0000

Robotics has less people involved in and less hype at least in open source GitHub projects. The good part that there is still lot of low hanging fruit to harvest even without touching real hardware. Namely simulators, models (most don't need multimillion dollar rigs) and infrastructure / robotic os projects such as ros.

New comment by cwiz in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

cwiz — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:48:56 +0000

You're about to discover political foundations on which this world runs. That leaving working class is a bad idea.