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New comment by mawadev in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

mawadev — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:47:05 +0000

I'm on the wrong site for this, but isn't it interesting how we don't ask what is the most interesting field I can join, but rather ... how do I stay employed with this for the next 44 years? Seems to me we missed the entire point and just accept it as reality and that it has to be this way. I'm not asking this to be snarky or smart, I'm just genuinely curious why everything seemed easier back in the day.

New comment by mawadev in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

mawadev — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:15:15 +0000

I have to say, Epics vibe is just malicious and toxic. Steam is silent and just lets things speak for themselves. What is the value of an idea if it does not work in the real world?

I just wish the people at Epic collectively took some vacation and came back with a less breathing down neck attitude towards everything. Just chill out, relax, it is a browser for searching, buying and downloading games

New comment by mawadev in "I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep"

mawadev — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:45:11 +0000

The doom posts will continue until profits are up.

Jokes aside, its like working for a company, individually you can lift mountains and someone else will take credit. When you use LLMs for a single bit, all credit goes to LLMs lol

New comment by mawadev in "OpenCode 2.0"

mawadev — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:53:44 +0000

The site took a minute to load in completely and when I scrolled to the bottom I couldn't read the SDK text, it was literally cut off, kinda resembling the current state of coding very accurately lmao

New comment by mawadev in "Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents"

mawadev — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:32:55 +0000

You can do a loooooot more with regular cloud providers. I think this platform just targets the niche of people who want to simply run containers.

New comment by mawadev in "How to engineer an AI harness for game development"

mawadev — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:34:14 +0000

I started coding because of gamedev, seeing this and potentially having some agents take care of the coding part is a blessing. I doubt this works as advertised but imagine iterating on stuff with a couple prompts and you can alt tab back into blender or libresprite. Very cool, lets put economics and employment aside

New comment by mawadev in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

mawadev — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:45:29 +0000

Yes, very much. I just fear we may end up there at some point...

New comment by mawadev in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

mawadev — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:35:49 +0000

I think they are very capable, for me personally, I start to lose control and understanding and I don't see much value in that. What I rather do is use them to enhance my understanding, by creating one off debugging tools that pipe some internal state of a program to a dashboard, just like tracy profiler does. A small debug bridge running over TCP/Websockets and a visualization that shows what wiring is active. Building frontends for that has always been an unrealistic chore to me.

New comment by mawadev in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

mawadev — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:23:49 +0000

I was thinking about the literal fingerprint sensor a device has. Imagine a "prove youre not a bot" challenge and the finger scanner pulls up. What a nightmare, reminds me when a website asked me if I want to login with windows hello (facescan)

New comment by mawadev in "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"

mawadev — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:41:33 +0000

It is wild how AI ends up in the trenches of plagiarism, going from art to text, from software to games...

New comment by mawadev in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

mawadev — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:53:50 +0000

I have bigger fish to fry, Jack, get those mines defused

New comment by mawadev in "How Protein Took over the World"

mawadev — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:39:56 +0000

If I go to the store, I can buy extra protein milk, it is the most absurd product. Its like taking vitamin pill supplement tier marketing

New comment by mawadev in "God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser"

mawadev — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:43:35 +0000

That made me chuckle

New comment by mawadev in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

mawadev — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:32:45 +0000

I think if you talk to LLMs and give feedback or openly say what works and what doesn't, you are essentially solving a captcha and produce accurate training data, while you pay for the token spend. I'd be a bit nervous with this lol.

Just one unsanitized input and you leak info. Or one hidden character and code may or may not belong to you anymore. Its very odd on many levels

New comment by mawadev in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

mawadev — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:47:40 +0000

I start my day with plenty of optimism, then I go back and forth in the CLI and find out most of whats posted online is fake, and then towards the end of the day 2h past my bed time I end up ed zitron maxxing, it is the way it is ig

New comment by mawadev in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

mawadev — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:29:25 +0000

Oh yes, pretty obvious now.. :(

New comment by mawadev in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

mawadev — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:27:24 +0000

I'm very far away from this topic and your last sentence sparked my interest, could you please say who would tell such things?

New comment by mawadev in "Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri"

mawadev — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:47:04 +0000

That is a very good idea and there is a market for that, especially if a company manages to source the hardware and then install the stack on a german or EU customer site

New comment by mawadev in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

mawadev — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:45:49 +0000

I joined a call once to meet a guy and he was all energetic and speaking in tongues of an LLM hitting epic one liners and I thought he was just a coke addict. Turns out his reality is basically linkedin. Like how the hell can you be like this unironically?

New comment by mawadev in "Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI"

mawadev — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:43:10 +0000

Why do none of the projects it built work on my machine? Even the fps game looks cool but can't be downloaded? :0