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New comment by marijnz in "Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping"

marijnz — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:56:44 +0000

It's fair questions. I think we can see that in lower complexity products, it's already not that important anymore. But I can see that for more complex cases (I'm working on a fairly complex video game for example), the maintainability is currently still important. As the latest models would otherwise still create too many inconsistencies that they can't dig themselves out of. Who knows where we are in 6 to 12 months, though!

New comment by marijnz in "Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping"

marijnz — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:00:38 +0000

From my experience, the latest models still struggle to create good architecture in the sense of good system design. You mention a couple of generally helpful patterns for the structure of the code. But they don't help much to create logical units, with intuitive boundaries, good cohesion etc. - at which even the latest models constantly make awkward decisions.

New comment by marijnz in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

marijnz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:32:52 +0000

Linux is working through Proton! There is also large thread on this in our Discord.

https://www.protondb.com/app/2938800

New comment by marijnz in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

marijnz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:37:19 +0000

We are trying to build this with seed.game. We don't have everything you're mentioning (yet), but parts of it!

New comment by marijnz in "An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game"

marijnz — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:38:18 +0000

And this specifically introduces transactional boundaries, which can introduce a lot of complexity. Especially in games where the domains (thus boundaries) may change a lot during development as the game design is being figured out.

Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

marijnz — Sun, 05 May 2024 09:02:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thegamer.com/helldivers-2-delisted-on-steam-100-plus-countries-without-psn-due-to-psn-sign-in-requirement-controversy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40263289

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New comment by marijnz in "MMO Architecture: clients, sockets, threads and connection-oriented servers"

marijnz — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 11:04:41 +0000

I can't help but share the MMO we're working on that fits that mold! https://www.seed-online.com

EVE is by the way also working on an FPS, Vanguard. Which is supposed to interact with the game world of EVE.

New comment by marijnz in "What if someone mixed The Sims with ChatGPT bots?"

marijnz — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:46:21 +0000

Previous discussion on the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35517649

New comment by marijnz in "The Coming of Local LLMs"

marijnz — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:31:38 +0000

This already works with ChatGPT plugins: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins

New comment by marijnz in "ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot"

marijnz — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:02:39 +0000

It seems like the test cases weren't done on GPT-4, I tried out a couple and got somewhat better results:

- Write me a poem for a girl I've met online in only 4 words -> correct answer

- Can you tell me why 2137 is so important number in poland? -> confident incorrect answer

- Can you form a sentence so that the 4th word starts with an 'y'? -> confident incorrect answer

- A house has windows on all the four sides, all pointing south. A bear walks by the window. What colour is the bear? -> correct answer

So, not there yet, but there's improvements.

New comment by marijnz in "How to smooth and spread A* paths for an RTS"

marijnz — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:04:07 +0000

Note that a navmesh can be used exactly with A* (and also for a post-search path shortening pass, with for example http://digestingduck.blogspot.com/2010/03/simple-stupid-funn...)

New comment by marijnz in "German rail operator says train disruption caused by sabotage"

marijnz — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:36:49 +0000

For the (far) right-wing party AFD https://berlinspectator.com/2022/10/08/berlin-extremist-far-...

New comment by marijnz in "Getting hired after fifty"

marijnz — Sun, 01 May 2022 09:42:53 +0000

I think it's fair to assume that gp meant "control over fitness" .. within physical capabilities.

New comment by marijnz in "How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum"

marijnz — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:24:10 +0000

My experience is that in well-running teams, devs are usually pretty aligned what these numbers mean. A difference in proposed points for some task does then usually mean there's a discrepancy in knowledge about it.

As for its usefulness: You of course don't have to necessarily poker to get these discrepancies, but it's a pretty effective way of going about it, I'd say.

New comment by marijnz in "How to say no politely at work"

marijnz — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:43:18 +0000

Meh - why fill clear and concise messages with pretty much meaningless fluff?

New comment by marijnz in "Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company in departure notes"

marijnz — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:20:08 +0000

So, key person*?

New comment by marijnz in "Show HN: Virtual Reality DOS"

marijnz — Thu, 14 May 2020 21:06:33 +0000

I had to think of https://pixelripped.com/. I see this was actually an inspiration!

New comment by marijnz in "C# Pattern Matching"

marijnz — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:47:50 +0000

They didn't move away from the pattern and can't anymore as it would break almost every existing Unity project.

New comment by marijnz in "Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing"

marijnz — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:40:44 +0000

A more fair comparison for B is probably https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.drawing.c.... Still illustrates the point, it's more informative.

New comment by marijnz in "Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 max crash"

marijnz — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 12:38:48 +0000

Exactly, -after-.