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New comment by glouwbug in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

glouwbug — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:31:59 +0000

How close was it technically to Jak2? I consider that the defining technical mastery of that generation

New comment by glouwbug in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

glouwbug — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:40:28 +0000

Hard numbers, no. Even high level concepts and theory you need to triangulate and prompt in different angles, across different models, and figure out what overlaps to build a mental mode that’s - even then - roughly 80% correct. It’s better than google, but the information isn’t free

New comment by glouwbug in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

glouwbug — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:46:30 +0000

But what about Geico?

New comment by glouwbug in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

glouwbug — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:50:52 +0000

Yeah more or less

New comment by glouwbug in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

glouwbug — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:49:34 +0000

They’d have killed today if they were AI first

New comment by glouwbug in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

glouwbug — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:00:58 +0000

It’s time to bring back all the old software hacks that were so common in the 90s

New comment by glouwbug in "Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)"

glouwbug — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:35:52 +0000

I just saw this. Hilarious

New comment by glouwbug in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

glouwbug — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:04:22 +0000

I’m not sure. I’ve been reading death-of-the-software engineer for years, but recently the -vibe- feels different. I don’t have anything anecdotal to back it up so take it with a grain of salt. I might be reading what I want to see

New comment by glouwbug in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

glouwbug — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:55:43 +0000

I’ve noticed a massive reverse in AI sentiment in the last 3 weeks here on HN.

It’s not that I don’t disagree, but I wonder what’s going on. Maybe it’s the IPO

New comment by glouwbug in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

glouwbug — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:18:51 +0000

I think the lack of progress is lack of understanding. If everything is generated and not viewed, does it exist? Like if a tree fell in the forest. Strip the observer and suddenly there is no universe. Strip the engineer and there is no codebase

New comment by glouwbug in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

glouwbug — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:36:58 +0000

Starting to feel like Europe over here

New comment by glouwbug in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

glouwbug — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:10:22 +0000

Zero 2s look to be about ~$50 here in Canada, but thanks for looking out. I'll reconsider for the future

New comment by glouwbug in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

glouwbug — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:32:21 +0000

I always wanted to wrangle ~10 of these together and practice distributed computing for the price of ~$200. That was a 2014 dream. I guess instead someone else ran with all of Jensen's polygon drawers and Hynix's backlog. Que sera

New comment by glouwbug in "Various LLM Smells"

glouwbug — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:47:00 +0000

You can triangulate. Ask it the same thing in different ways and with different LLMs. Operate in domains where the output is verifiable, like in the sciences but in terms of numerical computing. Study the output, graph it, learn it, reason with it, rinse, and repeat until your mental model makes practical sense.

New comment by glouwbug in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

glouwbug — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:42:38 +0000

You're literally able to write this because of all the obscure shit

New comment by glouwbug in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

glouwbug — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:26:01 +0000

Looks like the RPI5 is like $200 in Canada now. We might have lost the plot

New comment by glouwbug in "What it takes to transpose a matrix"

glouwbug — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:45:00 +0000

The GOAT. I remember playing with CUDA in there around 2011/2012.

GNU Octave if you’re on NIX or you don’t have $40k for a license

New comment by glouwbug in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

glouwbug — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:04:21 +0000

The whole point is that the layperson is not classically trained to know right from wrong which is the entire thesis of knowledge share. Even post doctorate students are required to have their work peer reviewed. It’s why anthropic and OpenAI put disclaimers below their chat prompts

New comment by glouwbug in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

glouwbug — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:30:54 +0000

COVID will be seven years old this December. Many of us here are still working from home since that time.

It doesn’t feel like seven years. 2020 feels like last year.

What can one typically accomplish in seven years? An undergrad, masters, and maybe a PHD. It is a long time.

The years have flown by

New comment by glouwbug in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

glouwbug — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:26:31 +0000

Those low quality lawyers and doctors are still vastly more capable than a layperson at verifying AI output