Hacker News: mentos

New comment by mentos in "Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict"

mentos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:15:01 +0000

Yea I feel like if even one kid was introduced to the world of computing through a Franklin it justifies their existence.

New comment by mentos in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

mentos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:09:50 +0000

And since Cortana isn’t a widely used name like Alexa, it spares a whole generation of people named Alexa from that inconvenience.

New comment by mentos in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

mentos — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:29:13 +0000

The music for that episode still takes me galaxies/dimensions away

https://youtu.be/IYpO3EbvMK4?si=n70N7hi8v29NiZvr

New comment by mentos in "Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?"

mentos — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:41:51 +0000

I think Discord performs great

As an Unreal game dev what I’ve wanted to remake in QT is the Epic Games Launcher.

I think Epic may be underway on this now but if you did a good enough job I feel like there may still be a window to pitch them on acquiring your work.

New comment by mentos in "From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures"

mentos — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:56:57 +0000

I assume it’s not possible to get the same results by fine tuning a model with the documents instead?

New comment by mentos in "Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor"

mentos — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:05:34 +0000

Caffeine -> Suppresses appetite -> Lowers Caloric Intake -> Reduces Cell Turnover -> Prevents Dementia ?

New comment by mentos in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

mentos — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:43:50 +0000

Absolutely not sounds like a be careful what you wish for Black Mirror episode where you wake up trapped in some simulation you can’t break free from but it’s ok because you signed on the dotted line to donate your mind and body to science.

New comment by mentos in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

mentos — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:58:52 +0000

What are we going to do about software for critical infrastructure in the coming decade?

Feels inevitable that code for aviation will slowly rot from the same forces at play but with lethal results.

New comment by mentos in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

mentos — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:48:05 +0000

What if global warming is beneficial to keep the next ice age at bay?

New comment by mentos in "Microgpt"

mentos — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:15:43 +0000

Curious if you could try to explain it. It’s my goal to sit down with it and attempt to understand it intuitively.

Karpathy says if you want to truly understand something then you also have to attempt to teach it to someone else ha

New comment by mentos in "What AI coding costs you"

mentos — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:04:32 +0000

>> That deep, focused, creative problem-solving where hours disappear and you emerge with something you built and understand.

Yea but for how long? Go back and read any code you wrote a year ago and realize it could have been AI that wrote it.

New comment by mentos in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"

mentos — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:52:56 +0000

Ha funny I had a similar idea I was calling ‘GameFlock’ but game date is much better.

To the creators I think there is something here worth continuing to push and try to find traction. As a game developer this is just a matchmaking algorithm with a week to month long wait time :)

My plan was to try to prime the pump with a few popular games and reaching out to existing communities to make them aware and possibly help organize the software/tools to help onboard new players.

For example Ultima Online has Outlands. Tribes2 has a popular discord that arranges matches. I imagine WoW classic and I know C&C Generals have active communities on Discord and I think they’d be willing to work with you to help prime the pump.

Then once you’ve got that critical mass of usage hope that players will participate in other games outside their main passion to make other game dates a success.

New comment by mentos in "Automatic Programming"

mentos — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:54:18 +0000

I believe the future of programming will be specs so I’m curious to ask you as someone who operates this way already, are there any public specs you could point to worth learning from that you revere? I’m thinking the same way past generations were referred to John Carmack’s Quake code next generations will celebrate great specs.

New comment by mentos in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

mentos — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:41:38 +0000

What’s the main use case for you or feature with the greatest promise?

New comment by mentos in "What Is Clawdbot? (and Why People Are Losing Their Minds over It)"

mentos — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:38:47 +0000

I bought a Mac mini m4 last year to compile UE5 for iOS/iPad. It’s just been sitting around while I do my main dev work on Windows. Been wondering how I might put it to greater use and recently saw the hype around Mac Mini + Clawdbot. It would be fun to think that the Mac Mini unlocks some sweet spot of performance but I’m seeing responses from the Clawdbot developers showing how you can run Clawdbot on AWS’ free tier so guess the mini is not necessary / just a fantasy.

New comment by mentos in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

mentos — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:16:23 +0000

What do you estimate the cost would be to have each tile hand drawn by an artist?

I don't think there are enough artists in the world to achieve this in a reasonable amount of time (1-5 years) and you're probably looking at a $10M cost?

Part of me wonders if you put a kickstarter together if you could raise the funds to have it hand drawn but no way the very artists you hire wouldn't be tempted to use AI themselves.

New comment by mentos in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

mentos — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:40:06 +0000

The pragmatic side of me wonders if there is any way to shape this inevitable future now so we might see a better outcome 20 years.

New comment by mentos in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

mentos — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:42:42 +0000

The opening paragraph I thought was the agent prompt haha

> The park rating is climbing. Your flagship coaster is printing money. Guests are happy, for now. But you know what's coming: the inevitable cascade of breakdowns, the trash piling up by the exits, the queue times spiraling out of control.

New comment by mentos in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

mentos — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:46:38 +0000

Is there a graph view that charts all GPU prices on one graph?

If not I think the landing page should be just that with checkbox filters for all GPUs on the left that you can easily toggle all on/off to show/hide their line on the graph.

New comment by mentos in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

mentos — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:17:08 +0000

I’ve got a stairwell outside my apt takes about 3 minutes to run up 10 flights. Try to do it once an hour never felt better.