Hacker News: dwroberts

New comment by dwroberts in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

dwroberts — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:05:51 +0000

Is this the X marketing team or something? You’ve posted about discussing BBQ with different nations twice in the comments here

New comment by dwroberts in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

dwroberts — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:58:19 +0000

> But this is not the way. This is how things devolve into chaos.

Meanwhile

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-people-ha...

> U.S.-based rights group HRANA said 3,636 people have been killed since the war erupted. It said 1,701 of those were civilians, including at least 254 children.

(Mentioning this specifically because we know the DoD is using AI)

New comment by dwroberts in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

dwroberts — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:05:25 +0000

They were just following orders, right

New comment by dwroberts in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

dwroberts — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:56:56 +0000

What I am saying is if you involve yourself in violence (and directly profiting from violence) you should not be allowed to act shocked when that same violence turns up on your doorstep

New comment by dwroberts in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

dwroberts — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:20:25 +0000

Didn’t we just go through several weeks of hearing about OpenAI allowing its tech to be used for conducting warfare?

Not saying that justifies harming Altman but I am confused that he seems surprised he is now in physical danger? [Or chalks it up to just some single specific incendiary article rather than the companies actual actions?] If you involve yourself in the act of killing people then, yeah, you’re going to get blowback for that and some people are obviously going to want to hurt you

New comment by dwroberts in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"

dwroberts — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:18:20 +0000

I think there are a few scammer red flags in this - it stood out to me that they said "support watched me setup 3 different accounts" - not saying MS support couldn't do this, but remoting into the machine and watching a victim enter form details is a very scammer-y thing for sure

New comment by dwroberts in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"

dwroberts — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:12:45 +0000

Blocking the account because the image was used by another account that had been suspended etc. sounds more like the specific image had been flagged as offensive while in use by that account, rather than it having anything to do with them establishing a relationship between the actual accounts

(If they established connections between accounts by using images, surely they would block vast swathes of people using generic harmless images you can find online)

New comment by dwroberts in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

dwroberts — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:29:36 +0000

Yeah this was my immediate impression as well. The assertion that homing every homeless person is the same as putting them up in unique per-person accommodation that ends up costing 65 billion is absurd.

New comment by dwroberts in "Sourcehut seems to be under attack again, Git service is down"

dwroberts — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:30 +0000

Although git.sr.ht is not responding, I saw this same page and noticed it is dated from December last year, so I'm not sure the cause is accurate.

(Unless it's supposed to be a continuation of the same event that has never resolved since December, but it's unclear?)

New comment by dwroberts in "Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua"

dwroberts — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:20:48 +0000

This is very interesting - I’ve tried to make custom syntaxes for describing dialog etc multiple times, for embedding into game projects, especially since things like Ink aren’t really amenable to porting to other languages easily. So the multitarget/multi-language focus is very attractive.

One thing I will say though - I think something that would set a language/toolset like this apart, would be a high quality UI for showing how different parts flow into each other (a diagrammatic view as an essential / main view instead of just eg an addon).

I mostly say that out of jealousy after seeing the kinds of tooling that companies like eg Obsidian have for writing dialog and narratives

New comment by dwroberts in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

dwroberts — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:56:59 +0000

Go watch a big chimney stack being demolished. It hangs around in the air for a long time, before it is suddenly gone. But it’s definitely collapsing the whole time.

New comment by dwroberts in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

dwroberts — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:16:35 +0000

> ours seems to be climate collapse. It used to be nuclear war

Except climate collapse is actually happening already, gradually.

There were escalating tensions during the Cold War, but it wasn’t like there were actual nukes being dropped in slow motion

New comment by dwroberts in "Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer"

dwroberts — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:46:09 +0000

I think the status page while waiting for generation is showing messages from across other users too? I saw a mishmash of different progresses, "Please provide dimensions" and then it returned to showing other random inputs

New comment by dwroberts in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

dwroberts — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:02:31 +0000

Wine configuration -> Drives -> Remove

It's like the most trivial thing to change

New comment by dwroberts in "Goodbye to Sora"

dwroberts — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:58:38 +0000

Disney's involvement with this was always strange. Their business lives and dies on the strength of their characters and their designs - why would you risk allowing a service to dilute them down and maybe misuse them?

New comment by dwroberts in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

dwroberts — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:56:34 +0000

The title here needs changing, this is for nvidia cards but it is not an official project and has nothing to do with them

(Feels especially deceptive when there is another top story right with the headline “nvidia nemoclaw” which is an official project)

New comment by dwroberts in "A Decade of Slug"

dwroberts — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:40:12 +0000

Seems more like he had the patent long enough to build a sustainable business from his own work, and now he’s been able to earn enough from it that others’ implementations aren’t a risk to him.

Which is kind of the entire point of patents, just that they last way too long relative to the speed of technological progress

New comment by dwroberts in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"

dwroberts — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:26:08 +0000

Ahh thank you, didn’t make the link between the names

New comment by dwroberts in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"

dwroberts — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:46:26 +0000

How did you find out their game used this library? Maybe I missed it but didn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere

New comment by dwroberts in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"

dwroberts — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:55:10 +0000

I would imagine it’s all UDP and the reliable+ordered is just a different mode which does the re-sending etc.

I would be surprised if they actually had TCP at all