Hacker News: makerofthings

New comment by makerofthings in "We must pace the frontier"

makerofthings — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:08:29 +0000

They don't care about any of that. They're looking for more regulatory capture, to keep smaller labs from catching up by raising the cost of play, and perhaps keeping chinese labs away.

New comment by makerofthings in "IBM Bob"

makerofthings — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:21:46 +0000

It's definitely chip muffin. I have no patience for those heretics up the road with their chip barms.

New comment by makerofthings in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

makerofthings — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:14:28 +0000

A huge marketing budget can push a mediocre game far further than a really good indie game that doesn't get lucky with youtube.

New comment by makerofthings in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

makerofthings — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:07:20 +0000

Which is exactly the problem. All the folks in charge care about is money. Money has absolutely nothing to do with whether a game is fun to play or not.

An eternal curse on the houses of anyone involved with these AIs.

New comment by makerofthings in "Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive"

makerofthings — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:07:40 +0000

yes, I saw that and hit back in a second.

New comment by makerofthings in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces"

makerofthings — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:33:20 +0000

It's more of a story about a character that is sentient than an actual sentient character.

New comment by makerofthings in "As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value"

makerofthings — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:35:32 +0000

Police work is supposed to be difficult.

New comment by makerofthings in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

makerofthings — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:46:49 +0000

What's with this current trend of grouping GenX with Boomers? I am GenX and the difference between us and Boomers is wild. My GenX friends are on here. Boomers I know are afraid of self-checkout machines.

New comment by makerofthings in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

makerofthings — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:49:35 +0000

Imagine a program that generates the digits of pi, one after the other and stops when it is finished. A general purpose program analysing this program to decide if it stops or not would have to know about pi. And about every other possible algorithm.

New comment by makerofthings in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

makerofthings — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:14:28 +0000

That’s a lot of brands. You might have to buy a chicken.

New comment by makerofthings in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

makerofthings — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:14:16 +0000

I get really bad motion sickness, I tried reading hacker news in the car with these on when the feature first appeared. It didn't help.

New comment by makerofthings in "Illegal Numbers"

makerofthings — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:24:29 +0000

The recent post on ripping DVDs reminded me of the DeCSS prime number. Fascinating topic to think about.

Illegal Numbers

makerofthings — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:24:29 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436883

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by makerofthings in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

makerofthings — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:48:24 +0000

What if the language model writes a story about a character who is conscious and that story is written live about how the character interacts with the world.

New comment by makerofthings in "Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023)"

makerofthings — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:26:45 +0000

I have been very successfully ignoring Windows on Arm since it first appeared :)

New comment by makerofthings in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

makerofthings — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:44:09 +0000

We might well be the most advanced species in the universe. Seems unlikely, but we really don’t have anything else to measure against at the moment.

New comment by makerofthings in "The Eternal Sloptember"

makerofthings — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:17:45 +0000

I wish these posts that talk about non-human mistakes that agents make would post some examples. They would be interesting to see.

New comment by makerofthings in "ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?"

makerofthings — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:45:48 +0000

It’s the annoying thing about AI. If it works, the AI is magic. If it doesn’t work, you’re using it wrong.

New comment by makerofthings in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

makerofthings — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:21:57 +0000

This is me. Different music, same deal. Finding you’re not as alone as you thought you were is what the internet is for.

New comment by makerofthings in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

makerofthings — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:35:43 +0000

Anybody know how much ram you would need in a Mac to run the Pro model?