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New comment by mister_mort in "Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract"

mister_mort — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:02:52 +0000

Most of SC Ghost's plot was absorbed into a special DLC campaign for Starcraft 2. They'd need to do something else.

(The site also seems to indicate the new game's plot takes place about 75 years after the end of SC2.)

New comment by mister_mort in "Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract"

mister_mort — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:18:02 +0000

The Starcraft site is clearly doing some sort of intentional glitch out ARG, and the rumour going around is that they are doing some sort of singleplayer shooter set in that universe.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113435/blizzards-next-starcra...

New comment by mister_mort in "iPhone Duo"

mister_mort — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:08:18 +0000

The general public is always better at destructive testing than a machine built for that purpose.

New comment by mister_mort in "Grok outage"

mister_mort — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:19:48 +0000

It turns out AI was just An Individual.

New comment by mister_mort in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

mister_mort — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:31:27 +0000

I'm not so sure. You could literally see configuration options start disappearing from the Mac Mini ordering flow over time as demand increased and supply dried up.

New comment by mister_mort in "Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most"

mister_mort — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:55:35 +0000

The hospital toilets in Melbourne definitely have that setup. It was weird seeing basically every surface as just a shade of blue and nothing else.

I do wonder - now that most people have a phone with a flashlight - would not the druggies illuminate their own arms with white light and not be too bothered?

New comment by mister_mort in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

mister_mort — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:48:08 +0000

I think the most interesting thing I've seen from these leaks are the Portal 2 beta content videos. The temporary time-slow mechanic and the beta voice acting have been really interesting to see. The time slow mechanic in particular could have made the game a lot more accessible to gamers with slow reflexes and refocused the game on the puzzle elements.

New comment by mister_mort in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

mister_mort — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:44:35 +0000

Similar to that idea of trying to derive stuff from an indirect channel, but much more distant. (There is an obvious link between food consumption and building occupancy.)

Stuff like watching the order of names on public lists of attendees for dinner events, etc. If someone disappeared or moved off the top few names, perhaps they're in trouble or have been purged from the party ... or maybe they're just sick this week.

New comment by mister_mort in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mister_mort — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:45:34 +0000

It's a theory that labs in Mexico switched back over to P2P 'biker' meth (instead of the old stuff based on cough/flu meds) and that the new meth is causing progressive brain damage to users.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

New comment by mister_mort in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

mister_mort — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:35:40 +0000

It's like the old tale about the national park bin with the smartest bear / dumbest tourist crossover, except we're now comparing capabilities of the smartest AI with disabled humans.

New comment by mister_mort in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

mister_mort — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:26:25 +0000

I imagine Carmack's plan files were monitored because people were starving for as much id Software news as they could get, and going straight to the source rather than waiting on gaming news sites for digests would be the smart thing to do.

New comment by mister_mort in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

mister_mort — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:05:11 +0000

Some people have an inner drive like a rat that likes pushing the reward button in the cell to dose them with opium. They want to see the YOU WIN screen and absolutely do not care what it takes to get them there. Hence the booming market for custom memory modding cheat devices and subscription cheat services. They don't want to improve their skills, they just want to be number one on the board.

New comment by mister_mort in "Recycle – Floppydisks"

mister_mort — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:43:40 +0000

I definitely remember doing that as a kid, and I remember bending the thin metal off some broken ones. Whatever brand I was using allowed that metal to work a bit like a spring, you could launch it by compressing it. (Sorta like the frogs you find in Christmas bonbons.)

New comment by mister_mort in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

mister_mort — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:59:25 +0000

It all sounds like having to rely on a dodgy housing contractor that wants to steal from you, take shortcuts AND choose the gold-plated options from their supplier friends, and will start doing this the minute you are not on site supervising. You don't do it yourself (because the contractor is faster and stronger than you in many ways) but you can't leave, so you're stuck on the worksite just watching them.

New comment by mister_mort in "Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler"

mister_mort — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:43:25 +0000

I think they could get a close-enough effect by removing the horizontal lines on the text glyphs themselves. This would still keep the colorscheme and slight glow, but drastically improve readability.

New comment by mister_mort in "You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML"

mister_mort — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:08:38 +0000

I think some of the Youtube thumbnail stuff is lazy-loaded, so depending on the speed of your browser and connection it can just hang there doing nothing for a while.

New comment by mister_mort in "Taste Is All That's Left"

mister_mort — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:30:28 +0000

Well, this has been true (to a lesser extent) for decades. See "Worse Is Better" and all the subsequent essays and writing following on from that

New comment by mister_mort in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

mister_mort — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:06:27 +0000

This has been a core belief of the EA/LessWrong/Rationalist people for many years - that above a certain level of intelligence you effectively get hypnotic powers, and people will obey AIs no matter what. So they said you can't keep a superpowered AI airgapped as merely offering a chat interface will immediately take control of the next person to interact with it and they will deliberately compromise the airgapping.

New comment by mister_mort in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

mister_mort — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:11:46 +0000

Like hitting pinball bumpers, except the high score in the end is the bill you pay the token provider.

Can you make a Wii U gamepad from a Raspberry Pi? [video]

mister_mort — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:30:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si-TUEwC5_M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105501

Points: 6

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