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Show HN: GameHippo.art – Preserving a lost freeware game directory from 2004

hedin_hiervard — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:23:37 +0000

Article URL: https://gamehippo.art

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540901

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New comment by hedin_hiervard in "Building and Publishing Games to Steam Directly from GitHub Actions"

hedin_hiervard — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:27:02 +0000

How do you deal with Steam Guard code?

I solved the task with Claude 3.7 and got rejected by an AI startup

hedin_hiervard — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:37:08 +0000

I was interviewing for a senior software engineering role at a startup. They assigned a take-home algorithmic problem with a presentation, estimating about half a day of work.

For clarity: no restrictions were placed on tools, only on the deliverables. In previous technical interviews with other companies, I'd openly used AI—even running ChatGPT during live calls with engineers. Everyone seemed genuinely intrigued by this approach.

Could I have solved it manually? Certainly. Research the problem, internalize the domain knowledge, prepare the presentation... a few hours of work.

Or I could collaborate with Claude 3.7 and finish in ~30 minutes through quick iterations, including the presentation, a quick summary of the solution, and speaker notes. I chose the latter path.

They rejected me because of this.

The irony? This was an AI startup.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210255

Points: 6

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New comment by hedin_hiervard in "When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition"

hedin_hiervard — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:36:15 +0000

I was once asked a very similar problem during a job interview for a position of a software engineer. I was offered to solve it on a piece of paper or orally. We ran out of time and they offered me to take it home. I did and I spent a few hours thinking about it. Google and ChatGPT were not able to produce better results than the intuitive answer, so I built a test program that confirmed the weird behaviour. After meditating for a few hours I was able to find the correct answer and I was indeed fascinated by this. Do you also think it's too much for a usual interview?

New comment by hedin_hiervard in "The resting places of giants (2014)"

hedin_hiervard — Fri, 14 May 2021 11:06:45 +0000

What I find especially exciting here is the fact that the Geeeks were okay with the idea that Ahilles, Ajax and other guys from Trojan war stories were actually 4m high. You could never imagine that reading The Iliad.

The resting places of giants (2014)

hedin_hiervard — Wed, 12 May 2021 07:51:28 +0000

Article URL: https://romangreece.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/the-resting-places-of-giants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127813

Points: 11

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