Hacker News: mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mclau156Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:37:38 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"]]>Every single person in the supply chain has a lever they can pull to change price, except the end consumer

]]>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:55:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635127mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635127https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635127<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Gemini 2.5"]]>Generated 1000 lines of turn based combat with shop, skills, stats, elements, enemy types, etc. with this one

]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:40:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476314mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476314<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood"]]>Would still benefit from eventually moving the initial meetup group to a green space, especially if there can be a community garden to work on (yes I realize we are re-inventing the wheel of a village)

]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:13:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475404mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475404https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475404<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "4o Image Generation"]]>I would love to see advancement in the pixel art space, specifying 64x64 pixels and attempting to make game-ready pixel art and even animations, or even taking a reference image and creating a 64x64 version

]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:04:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475302mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475302https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475302<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "OpenAI Audio Models"]]>It seems to start out strong, but then starts loudly talking by the end, do you know why it loses focus?

edit: I actually got it to stay whispering by also putting (soft whispering voice) before the second paragraph

]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:30:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43428544mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43428544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43428544<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "OpenAI Audio Models"]]>Does whispering work? I could not get it to work when I tried it

]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:04:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427553mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427553https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427553<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090"]]>I have never seen knowledge to be the limiting factor in success in the 3D world, its usually lots of dedicated time to model, rig, and animate

]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:55:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423488mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423488https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423488<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Gemini Robotics"]]>there is a security risk for having to pay for a service to wash my clothes, I would prefer no human interaction

]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:52:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423432mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423432<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Building and deploying a custom site using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages"]]>https://codename-recon.github.io/Gridlock/

]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:50:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423400mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423400https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423400<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Nvidia released Isaac GR00T N1 under Apache 2 license"]]>Google Gemini never open sourced their robotics model from a couple days ago, hopefully this will push them

]]>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:35:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416396mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416396https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416396<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure"]]>Reading Wikipedia can easily become research

]]>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:32:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416363mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416363https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416363<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment"]]>Putting so much emphasis on cars, and being in cars is a national embarrassment

]]>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:59:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365282mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365282https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365282<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Gemini Robotics"]]>I dont see why a Gemini robot couldn't grab 20 dark clothing items from a hamper, put them in the laundry machine, wait an hour, take them out and put them in the dryer while I was at work (thanks return to office)

]]>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:35:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354382mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354382https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354382<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories"]]>The same approach could be used in life

]]>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:09:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336513mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336513https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336513<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon"]]>The company Intuitive Machines first and second moon-landers both tipped over, hopefully the third does not tip over

]]>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:50:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292994mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292994https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292994<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"]]>Ok sorry I thought maybe there was a chance that the decomp project could edited in a way that would create a ROM that allowed RL to be done easier, but it seems like it just came in handy for looking up values along with the GB ASM tutorial, the alternative of my thought process is re-creating pokemon red in a modern language which you also mentioned

]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:02:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271564mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271564https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271564<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"]]>Could you have used the decompilations of pokemon on github? https://github.com/pret/pokered

]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:26:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271070mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271070https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271070<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters"]]>Claude 3.7 recently failed to finish Pokemon after getting stuck in a corner and deciding it was impossible to get out

]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:21:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271011mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271011https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271011<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control"]]>Why the focus on speech-to-text and not purely on radar and predicting 3D movement or at least shutting down in 3D space a runway that is occupied?

]]>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:20:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258218mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258218https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258218<![CDATA[New comment by mclau156 in "Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon"]]>need a sense of scale in that video

]]>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:08:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242461mclau156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242461https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242461