Hacker News: dtagames

New comment by dtagames in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

dtagames — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:09:46 +0000

What's wrong here is that Apple decided devs need their permission to install standard web tech apps on Apple devices.

Apple is anti-dev, pro control of the income stream, and only interested in supporting devs that are all in on the cult.

The fact that the dev made a web version with all the same functionality just proves we don't need an app store nor Apple to gatekeep it.

New comment by dtagames in "A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies"

dtagames — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:54:16 +0000

Where did you hear that? Ceuta is entirely surrounded by Morocco and all of the people who moved into Spanish territory in Africa for 30 minutes did so by coming from Morocco. The confusion surrounding the geography there is... confusing!

New comment by dtagames in "A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies"

dtagames — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:51:16 +0000

Crossing a breakwater and going home 30 minutes later does not make them legal EU immigrants. It was an overblown news story that only have been believed by someone who has never been to the region, like so much news today!

New comment by dtagames in "LLMs reward expertise"

dtagames — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:46:31 +0000

This is absolutely a case where you can't get any output that better than the input, and the input is you.

New comment by dtagames in "A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies"

dtagames — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:03:25 +0000

Geographically, they're not. Ceuta occupies a tiny corner of Africa. None of these people reached peninsular Spain and they are not migrants fleeing into Europe to live there.

New comment by dtagames in "Hiring game developers Triumph Arcade"

dtagames — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:04:14 +0000

HN isn't a job board per guidelines, but I know the game dev community would appreciate hearing about this through the ASGC community site:

https://asgc.gg

New comment by dtagames in "How IPTV delivery works, end to end"

dtagames — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:59:23 +0000

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New comment by dtagames in "Supabook – AI Native Business OS"

dtagames — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:58:12 +0000

I hate these kind of services and the businesses that use them.

Can we please have software that helps take good care of customers, not shovelware that treats customers like numbers to be passed off to an AI?

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: Could you please check out my social media website/mobile app?"

dtagames — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:36:32 +0000

The idea of a scrolling window inside another scrolling window makes life difficult on mobile.

New comment by dtagames in "Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses"

dtagames — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:28:57 +0000

https://archive.ph/4yj7n

New comment by dtagames in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

dtagames — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:39:50 +0000

What this really makes clear is that you should neither trust people you work with nor share personal information with them.

New comment by dtagames in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

dtagames — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:55:46 +0000

Came here to say this! You beat me to it.

New comment by dtagames in "X-OS – Building an Operating System for the AI Era"

dtagames — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:38:27 +0000

In fairness, MacOS, iOS, Linux, and Android were all derived from BSD.

New comment by dtagames in "ECB launches survey on the new euro banknotes"

dtagames — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:05:38 +0000

The actual page announcing the contestants is terrible and missing the info I'm complaining about. The survey is arguably worse. It just ask people to choose among random bills. But that's not how the contest will work. They'll choose one artist's entire submission, not the most popular individual bills from the survey.

New comment by dtagames in "ECB launches survey on the new euro banknotes"

dtagames — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:11:03 +0000

And the site! Is it 1996? Impossible to navigate. Tiny photos. Zero information about contest parameters or where the "birds and buildings" (all the same) came from.

New comment by dtagames in "Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?"

dtagames — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:02:19 +0000

There are only two types of thinkers: people who think people can be divided into types, and people who don't.

New comment by dtagames in "Trump announces 2028 presidential bid"

dtagames — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:57:26 +0000

I watched the event live, and nothing about it was humorous, least of all the suggestion that the United States would even consider for a moment undoing one of our strongest Constitutional protections, term limits on the presidency.

New comment by dtagames in "Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?"

dtagames — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:55:20 +0000

The author seems surprised that the downloaded content is only "loosely connected," like a blog post about selling a house and a porn flick about a realtor. But that just proves that no humans were involved in scoping the content at all.

AI training data was vacuumed up without any consideration for the source or even the content itself. The fundamental way LLM models are built invites you to do just that. To get to the biggest "L" (for "large") you must suck up as much content as possible.

They brought it on themselves, by design, and are only now finding out what they actually ingested.

New comment by dtagames in "Ask HN: Why call it "inference" instead of just "model hosting"?"

dtagames — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:54:13 +0000

Like so many things in computing, we like to make up words and also reuse old ones for completely different things.

I'd say "hosting" means making something available to you in the cloud. Model makers don't offer that.

They sell "inference," which is a compute task with real hardware costs for them. The task runs against their model, which is not hosted for you.

New comment by dtagames in "White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science"

dtagames — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:45:45 +0000

The famous writer Umberto Eco grew up under Mussolini.

In an essay called Ur (Eternal) Fascism[0], he described how totalitarian systems are anti-scientific and instead promote religion, "the old ways," and gambling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism