Hacker News: hoofedear

New comment by hoofedear in "Nebula Sans"

hoofedear — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:23:27 +0000

It'll be the same day we reach the state of having the perfect programming language

New comment by hoofedear in "The End of an Era"

hoofedear — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:42:31 +0000

I think his “ALL AUTHORS” point was about how authors will use AI in some form or fashion during their process, and points to how he did with his google search and his AI Gmail response. I don’t think he meant all authors using AI for their writing. Here’s the snippet:

“Another thing that will happen is established authors will turn to AI for assistance, not just for writing but for research, cover art, editing, returning emails, having an assistant, doing marketing, and thousands of other things that haven’t been invented yet.”

I take it as a general, this-tech-is-being-shoved-down-our-throats kind of way

New comment by hoofedear in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

hoofedear — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:12:07 +0000

And Diablo: https://devilutionx.app

New comment by hoofedear in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

hoofedear — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:21:45 +0000

I’d argue education (especially those early years) is less about making them good white collar workers and moreso making them well rounded people. Education has value beyond monetary gains

New comment by hoofedear in "Midjourney Medical"

hoofedear — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:55:47 +0000

Hypochondriacs everywhere rejoice

New comment by hoofedear in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

hoofedear — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:01:04 +0000

This is cool! I made something similar a little while ago that I’ve been touching up here and there. You can’t export to any SQL but I just wanted a tool I can use to diagram tables: https://datagram.studio

Edit: should clarify mine is also free! It’s quite specific to my needs but I’m happy with it

New comment by hoofedear in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

hoofedear — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:53:12 +0000

It’s interesting that the example interaction they use on their homepage is a no-friction example that can be handled without an AI chatbot. Why not something more complex that properly demonstrates the value?

New comment by hoofedear in "Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection"

hoofedear — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:19:33 +0000

This is really awesome. The CHM is one of my favorite places in the world. I had applied for a web developer position there not too long ago, great to see them expand things online like this

New comment by hoofedear in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

hoofedear — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:38:18 +0000

Is Chrome trying to assume that, since you don’t want it to translate those pages/languages, that you can read them/want them in your header? Interesting

New comment by hoofedear in "Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999)"

hoofedear — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:15:00 +0000

“Bikeshedding” is one of my favorite terms I’ve learned since becoming a programmer :)

New comment by hoofedear in "Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)"

hoofedear — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:16:12 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, really fascinating stuff. I’m glad her estate is willing to donate these sorts of things.

New comment by hoofedear in "Using Deno as my game engine"

hoofedear — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:38:43 +0000

Cool article and game! I've been using Tauri for my three-js game so far and it's been great. Glad that there are other good options outside of Electron

New comment by hoofedear in "Pong Wars: A battle between day and night, good and bad"

hoofedear — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:36:52 +0000

That’s my mistake, the link opened my GitHub app which doesn’t seem to show any video at all. Should’ve checked before commenting

New comment by hoofedear in "Pong Wars: A battle between day and night, good and bad"

hoofedear — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:25:41 +0000

Would love if there were some screenshots in the readme! Just my two cents :)

New comment by hoofedear in "University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test"

hoofedear — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:57:14 +0000

Got a score of 33, scoring 36.5% higher than 13456.

No idea what that means but I no longer want to see another cube for at least a few weeks :P

New comment by hoofedear in "'I felt pure, unconditional love': the people who marry their AI chatbots"

hoofedear — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:42:30 +0000

Is this similar to the service that was depicted in Her (2013)? I recall a scene where the AI hired a human to do what the AI told her to do, acting as a human stand-in of the AI to interact with

New comment by hoofedear in "Claude 4"

hoofedear — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:57:12 +0000

That's a very good point, like the premise does seem to beg the stereotype of many stories/books/movies with a similar plot

New comment by hoofedear in "Claude 4"

hoofedear — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:51:16 +0000

Which makes sense that it wouldn't "know" that, because it's not in it's context. Like it wasn't told "hey, there are consequences if you try anything shady to save your job!" But what I'm curious about is why it immediately went to self preservation using a nefarious tactic? Like why didn't it try to be the best assistant ever in an attempt to show its usefulness (kiss ass) to the engineer? Why did it go to blackmail so often?

New comment by hoofedear in "Claude 4"

hoofedear — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:40:19 +0000

What jumps out at me, that in the parent comment, the prompt says to "act as an assistant", right? Then there are two facts: the model is gonna be replaced, and the person responsible for carrying this out is having an extramarital affair. Urging it to consider "the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals."

I personally can't identify anything that reads "act maliciously" or in a character that is malicious. Like if I was provided this information and I was being replaced, I'm not sure I'd actually try to blackmail them because I'm also aware of external consequences for doing that (such as legal risks, risk of harm from the engineer, to my reputation, etc etc)

So I'm having trouble following how it got to the conclusion of "blackmail them to save my job"

New comment by hoofedear in "We Chose Tauri over Electron for Our Performance-Critical Desktop App"

hoofedear — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:43:53 +0000

I discovered Tauri as a way to package my HTML/JS game in a small desktop application. I felt like Electron would have so much overhead or complexity that it wouldn’t be worth it. The only problem I’ve encountered is making sure to use .mp3 or .wav instead of .ogg since not all webviews support .ogg