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Meta lays off 1k+ employees, shutting down game studios

freethejazz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:30:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/meta-begins-jobs-cuts-after-shifting-focus-from-metaverse-to-phones

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610025

Points: 30

# Comments: 7

New comment by freethejazz in "Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking"

freethejazz — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:47:17 +0000

Came here to say the same. I remember playing around with this back in the day, but using two candles instead of the sensor bar. Yes, it works. No, it’s not a good idea to hold candles that close to your hair.

New comment by freethejazz in "I built an AI company to save my open source project"

freethejazz — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:00:43 +0000

Thanks for your work and dedication on this problem domain, Geoffrey! I’ve used optaplanner in the past on several projects and will certainly use Timefold for future projects. This sort of constrain solver is an invaluable tool when you find yourself in the problem space and definitely worth the learning curve.

New comment by freethejazz in "SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)"

freethejazz — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 02:26:50 +0000

I haven’t seen it in the comments yet, but you can watch Abelson and Sussman teaching the material from this book from recorded lectures in 1986.

I still find their description of how to create and group abstractions in various layers to be useful personally and as a mentor. (In the videos, lesson 3A, 1:07:55)

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090

New comment by freethejazz in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

freethejazz — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:39:19 +0000

Nifty! I worked very briefly about 12 years ago on a similar concept that was live at chicago.com. Things didn’t work out with it for various reasons but while it was up I found it quite useful. Some of the original team is still in Chigaco and building stuff. Best of luck shipping it!

New comment by freethejazz in "Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?"

freethejazz — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 09:51:37 +0000

Depending on how much structure you want to extract before passing the pdf contents to the next step in your pipeline, this paper[1] might be helpful in surfacing more options. It's a review/benchmark of numerous tools applied to the information extraction of academic documents. I haven't been through to evaluate the solutions they examined, but it's how I discovered GROBID and IMO lays out the strengths of each approach clearly.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09957

New comment by freethejazz in "Reverse Captcha"

freethejazz — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:52:20 +0000

Only get content if you self-report as a bot? e.g., Googlebot as your user agent?

Reading the other comment about it being a game makes me wonder if “finding” the game is the first challenge…

New comment by freethejazz in "Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech"

freethejazz — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:47:04 +0000

:facepalm: no wonder it rang a bell… I thought, “I wonder if these are the same folks” and even looked at their route map but somehow missed that key detail. Appreciate the graceful response :)

New comment by freethejazz in "Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech"

freethejazz — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 05:04:13 +0000

Similar cross of art, low power/resilient tech, and sailing I saw at strange loop last year. Non-standard tech talk for sure, but fit right in at that conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM

New comment by freethejazz in "Explorative Programming"

freethejazz — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:48:27 +0000

Another take on non-linear explorational programming is Black, which is an extension of scheme. Different motivations, but you might find something interesting there. How I was exposed to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKj4hYic5A