Hacker News: dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dosiskingHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:37:59 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?"]]>TLDR; There was a guy who sailed west. Other people didn't like that guy, so they sailed the opposite way.

]]>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:23:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882305dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882305https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882305<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"]]>JS is Self, which is a dialect of Smalltalk. So not really Lisp imo

]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:36:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859751dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859751<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"]]>Python is definitely Light Side

]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:33:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859710dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859710<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"]]>Just look for the people who like Rust and filter them out

]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:31:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859685dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859685https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859685<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years"]]>Everytime I try and use one of those Complex 3D web games, all 8 cores of my computer go to 100% and my computer becomes unresponsive until I kill the web browser.

Its really amazing how inefficient those Complex 3D web games are.

]]>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:06:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803077dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803077https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803077<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years"]]>And Fireworks Construction Kit

And Garry Kitchen's Game Maker

]]>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:24:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48801619dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48801619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48801619<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Programmers need to start meditating"]]>So maybe try the weapons industry? If you write a bug, it will probably miss the target, and people won't die.

]]>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:24:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794153dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794153<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials"]]>China is not the enemy.

]]>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:51:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777804dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777804https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777804<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?"]]>AI climate change.

]]>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:53:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772597dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772597https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772597<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"]]>Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.

LLM AI is like Uber for the mind.

]]>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:01:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772226dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772226https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772226<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Old Computer Challenge"]]>Early Usenet was similar, there were no flamewars or anything like that.

]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:12:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742904dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742904https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742904<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"]]>Nothing beats NHL '94

]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:07:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742878dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742878https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742878<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"]]>No, OP is correct, you are wrong. N64 hardware is much more powerful, and the MMU makes a big difference.

]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:47:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742744dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742744https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742744<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf]"]]>I guess Diocletian was the first Communist, before there was such a thing as Communism.

The price fixing was a failure, as would be expected. I am not sure if 'sophistication' is the right word to describe it.

]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:33:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704943dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704943https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704943<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "The fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers"]]>LLMs in general have a limited use, and are a dead end. So small local LLMs are also a dead end. That of course, does not stop people from using LLMs for purposes that they are not good at.

]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:18:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686290dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686290https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686290<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"]]>Basically, you are saying "There are 4 lights"

]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:35:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682064dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682064https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682064<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"]]>Most everything they teach in economics class is wrong. You would be better off ignoring everything they teach you.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:56:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669899dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669899https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669899<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time"]]>No they are not. They are bland and unoriginal.

]]>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:11:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663608dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663608https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663608<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?"]]>90% of "Senior" Programmers are not very good programmers, but they think that they are, and look down upon "Junior" Programmers.

]]>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:04:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663533dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663533https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663533<![CDATA[New comment by dosisking in "A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading"]]>It's hard to take an article that uses the word 'ginormous' seriously

]]>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:19:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658605dosiskinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658605https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658605