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New comment by larodi in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

larodi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:14:51 +0000

Im putting together a foraging map which correlates wood, heat, temp, and whatnot to tell me where various edible fungi fruit. It is mostly working so far, has bike trails and we tested it at least once.

The most challenging part was getting MVTs to fly but it is very fast already even in mobile. The fun part is tarring the solver solves correctly :) no public version though but I can upload a screen grab somewhere should anyone be interested.

New comment by larodi in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

larodi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:11:16 +0000

It takes understanding rotation and momentum to do right. Also different to bet chops in different ways.

New comment by larodi in "Keygen.music"

larodi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:19:07 +0000

it screems vibecoding without the slightest idea what they doing.

New comment by larodi in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

larodi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:51:42 +0000

The first two games to fall in love with - Karatéka and then Alley Cat.

New comment by larodi in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

larodi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:42:21 +0000

this’ the other Max from China, where they be scavenging leftover panels. The Mad Max we know surely happens somewhere else, and perhaps near Texas given all the participating parties…

New comment by larodi in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

larodi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:23:04 +0000

Doesn’t take intelligence to beat a human.

New comment by larodi in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

larodi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:21:07 +0000

Yea why everyone forgets the process wars have long ago started and raging like never :))

New comment by larodi in "MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to"

larodi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:11:31 +0000

I can well see and disambiguate what it is and is not what QGIs aims to be. Nothing is close to QGIS in terms of features, it deploys 1gig of open tech. The only trouble is the design of the app haven’t changed much in 20 years, while data sizes did 10x at least on every level. It struggles to breath u der heavy load…

New comment by larodi in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

larodi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:34:29 +0000

Depending on which vinyl you're talking about. I care very little about big names signed to big corpo - they can do whatever they want to their vinyl. There are plenty of indi/underground artists releasing both on vinyl and tampe, who succumbed to nothing, but are alive and well actually. Check bandcamp more often for clues, should you disagree.

New comment by larodi in "MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to"

larodi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:32:49 +0000

Well, nice try, but sadly maintaining up to date GIS data takes much more than a UI. The only thing that gets close to such datalake is perhaps OSM and ESRI World Atlas... but nothing is close to huggingface or github as positioning. Besides, data is a live thing, and all such cartography very quickly dates and gets irrelevant or incorrect.

New comment by larodi in "GeoLibre 1.0"

larodi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:49:43 +0000

QGIS will either get an LLM-assistent rewrite, or the next QGIS is already in the making in Rust/Swift somewhere. It is incredible it still works in v4.

New comment by larodi in "macOS Container Machines"

larodi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:01:40 +0000

and how is this, having containers run hardware one owns, a bad or even shameful idea, given people do it and want to do it with their hardware all the time?

New comment by larodi in "Claude Fable 5"

larodi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:18:08 +0000

As someone noted here recently - use the frontier models as much as u can, while you can.

New comment by larodi in "Claude Fable 5"

larodi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:05:08 +0000

One thing I can tell you is you are either favored by Anthropic, or your version of the CLI does not exhaust limits, or there's some major bug, as two people around me (myself included) claim it took half an hour to hit the ceiling. Which makes it practically unusable, where the same workflow a day ago produced a good 5-6 hours of workload with several agents.

New comment by larodi in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

larodi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:28:30 +0000

Indeed, people seem to try to engage more around me. May be generational, but it can definitely be felt. The internet of algorithmic media may experience a downfall nobody saw coming.

New comment by larodi in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

larodi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:38:33 +0000

getting deeper and deeper. the question is what goes one when breaches reach opensource-based stuff running nuclear reactors. i'd be concerned.

New comment by larodi in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

larodi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:34:01 +0000

Sumo produces plausible cheesy stuff that is otherwise sonically awful, ringing alongside the full spectrum due to how it works. As a musician I would not use it - I like to keep some creative power. Some people use it around me for samples… and then their tracks ring. But it works for them as they be advertising producers. Mind u - I’ve used paid version and I know one or two about music production.

As an information architect I find it amazing it works so good, but is useless to me except being a great think to play with… a toy really. I’m much more fascinated by Strudel.cc and LLMs do a great job to educate me into it, myself being mostly an autodidact.

As a dev I struggle to maintain coherence with Claude Code even though I’ve piped more than 10b tokens since Jan. Certain trivial stuff is easily remedied but even more devil lives in abundance of details now. So the task moves one level above in terms of abstraction, but is not solved.

If guys were good at typing one and the same thing in one and the same lang, which is nothing wrong about given how crafts went for ages, then they will be struggling to compete with the GPTs. But if they are in the architectural and operational perspective … well - work and demand just increased, so please stop whining.

New comment by larodi in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

larodi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:42:11 +0000

well, at some point I (like after 5 hours of CC) I can swear im looking at pure random coming out. so perhaps the ability of LLMs to make complex stuff even more complex, would be beneficial. obfuscation, after all, is not about having performant code, but an art form, right?

/curious though given the very nice conversation we're having here, why the parent topic gets down-voted. is neither off-topic, nor rude.../

New comment by larodi in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

larodi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:39:21 +0000

Tis a pity to not have LLMs compete, given level of obfuscation they be capable of.

New comment by larodi in "They’re made out of weights"

larodi — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:40:19 +0000

Compression and existence of mechanism to expound on it does not imply consciousness.

Otherwise, yes, finally people observe the very apparent fact that LLMs are one very smart compression.