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New comment by everyone in "Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026"

everyone — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:10:21 +0000

Here's an awesome free wolfenstein game series based on DOOM source port

https://boa.realm667.com/

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This is also fun, more arcadey, like an updated version of the original, also using DOOM source port.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-wolfenstein-3d

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and if u still want more there's this

https://www.moddb.com/mods/wolfendoom

New comment by everyone in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

everyone — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:44:50 +0000

Yeah, I thought it was Starliner on top. I dont know anything about Orion then. SLS is very crappy and disappointing, its using shitty old space shuttle tech, + its ridiculously expensive in terms of payload to orbit, but it will probably work.

I didnt know, cus I just dont give a shit about this stupid project.

New comment by everyone in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

everyone — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:33:05 +0000

Saturn 5 had a flawless record. The leftover space shuttle parts which SLS is cobbled together from, not so much. SRBs are inherently dangerous, theyre designed to quickly launch nukes from silos, not people. And Orion is just a typical modern Boeing project. So far its fallen at every hurdle right?

New comment by everyone in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

everyone — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:27:10 +0000

"This needs to be studied against people in real life who have a social contract of some sort, because that's what the LLM is imitating"

What? These models are all trained from books and text that are scraped from the internet. ChatGPT literally used reddit in its training data afaik.

New comment by everyone in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

everyone — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:53:30 +0000

Just curious has anyone ever contacted customer support in the past decade and not gotten the message saying their call volume is high atm and thus the wait will be "longer than average"?

New comment by everyone in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

everyone — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:59:59 +0000

I was surprised by how may VR games I played and how many hours I put into it once I got a headset.

That being said I still think VR will always be a niche thing. We had VR headsets decades ago, aimed at the kind of person who builds a full cockpit setup at home for playing extremely nerdy flight sims. Now things are amazing if you're one of those people but I dont see VR ever being truly popular.

New comment by everyone in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

everyone — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:56:34 +0000

It had those e-fuses in it right? *Seriously* it should be illegal to sell anything with those.

New comment by everyone in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

everyone — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:03:34 +0000

The most surprising thing imo is that the chatter is a real person and female.. I would have assumed that they were, in order of likelihood...

1. AI chatbot 2. A reddit mod type guy

New comment by everyone in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

everyone — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:39:52 +0000

Is there anyone here who wouldn't just immediately exit and stop pursuing the job if that happened to you?

New comment by everyone in "Iran warns U.S. tech firms could become targets as war expands"

everyone — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:24:34 +0000

History is positively littered with examples of powerful empires embarking on a "quick" "easy" campaign then ends up taking years or decades.

New comment by everyone in "Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office"

everyone — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:46:30 +0000

The vast majority of our media, most of our culture, has been created by artist / writer types, you know; kinda shallow, superficial, not particularly intelligent, not very well educated people, with nothing to say aside from meaningless platitudes like "all you need is love"

I guess that's normal? I dunno, I dont have any further conclusions. Maybe we should be concerned about it?

New comment by everyone in "Nobody ever got fired for using a struct"

everyone — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:59:15 +0000

Just cus structs and classes work differently, and classes are much more common. I tend to make everything a class, unless there is a really good reason to make it a struct.

New comment by everyone in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

everyone — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:02:06 +0000

stackoverflow, how quaint. Anyone here remember when it was actually useful and questions like the one featured could be asked and answered?

ChatGPT's Writing Style

everyone — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:10:36 +0000

We can all detect that particular style. I've just thought about what may define it.

It writes in such a way that the human reading it assigns meaning to it. We're accustomed to reading the words of others and being generous with our interpretation. I think GPT takes advantage of this. What it says can be interpreted as correct and incisive, but if one were to be very strict and uncharitable then what it says can usually be interpreted as meaningless and vague.

Considering it was trained to be a chatbot and the rubric for success is how well it can fool a human reader, it makes sense that it would take advantage of this aspect of language. I think it's a master of being just vague or ambiguous enough. I can imagine chatbot politicians doing very well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169729

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New comment by everyone in "EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)"

everyone — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:09:51 +0000

If you havent played the Ashes 2063 mod series for DOOM I highly recommend it. https://www.moddb.com/mods/ashes-2063

Ive played a lot of excellent doom and quake mods...

* brutal doom, hell on earth starter pack

* blade of agony

* Hedon

* quake brutalist jams 1 to 3

* Arcane Dimensions

* alien armageddon (for duke3d)

but that one really stand out.

New comment by everyone in "EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)"

everyone — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:06:16 +0000

This is the most fun I've had with Duke Nukem this century https://www.moddb.com/mods/duke-nukem-alien-armageddon

It's a sort of duke roguelike with 100's of potential levels, you play through a a certain random number of them in a run. Also you unlock all sorts of power ups as you progress, enemies also get stronger and get random buffs. + Theyve added a load of mechanics, more weapons, enemies, more playable characters etc.

New comment by everyone in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

everyone — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:16:51 +0000

I have so many freakin' rules in ublock just to make youtube's UI acceptable

New comment by everyone in "What color are your bits? (2004)"

everyone — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:17:21 +0000

Well, at least vote with your wallet, support FOSS and drm free stuff. Never support drm (if u still want access to drm containing stuff, just pirate it)

New comment by everyone in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

everyone — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:59:56 +0000

U have internet and browser on Linux phone.. If the service cant be used with those (or some other normal software) then its not worth using.

New comment by everyone in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

everyone — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:32:02 +0000

What? there's probably millions of programs for Linux.