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New comment by mnky9800n in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

mnky9800n — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:07:36 +0000

retro hackathons will replace retro arcades as gen x retires and millenials are 50+ and have money and kids out of the house. haha.

Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests

mnky9800n — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:24:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/27/researchers-find-all-big-name-bots-bomb-eu-compliance-tests/5247176

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412213

Points: 4

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New comment by mnky9800n in "AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI"

mnky9800n — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:36:18 +0000

This comment certifies you as ai expert.

Emergence World: A Laboratory for Evaluating Long-Horizon Agent Autonomy

mnky9800n — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:15:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.emergence.ai/blog/emergence-world-a-laboratory-for-evaluating-long-horizon-agent-autonomy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353562

Points: 3

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New comment by mnky9800n in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

mnky9800n — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:13:12 +0000

I always thought it would be fun to write an o’Reilly book. The format seems like a fun way to organise information on learning about a topic.

New comment by mnky9800n in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

mnky9800n — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:12:13 +0000

it is somewhat sad that a company already profitable would devote it's time and energy and profits to becoming more profitable instead of doing cool shit. doing cool shit always seems to be a better idea than anything else when one has profit.

New comment by mnky9800n in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

mnky9800n — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:05:23 +0000

I think the worst part of all this is AI managed to make software cool again while also attacking software developers for no reason at all. Instead of claiming that AI will automate everything (like hello what do you think software does?). They could have said this will create millions of new jobs by giving access to tooling that lets you create whatever you want inside of a computer and offer it up to others. I guess people just like being negative about things.

New comment by mnky9800n in "Solving the “Zork” Mystery"

mnky9800n — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:40:51 +0000

and if you happen to use zulip instead you can use zulip-zork!

https://github.com/mnky9800n/zulip-zork

New comment by mnky9800n in "Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market"

mnky9800n — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:51:37 +0000

Maybe they are booing being told what to do by old people who have dollar signs for eyes saying AI AI AI over and over like it’s a mantra.

New comment by mnky9800n in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

mnky9800n — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:51:49 +0000

I wonder when the trump administration will ever decide if it wants to Be isolationist or global imperialist.

New comment by mnky9800n in "X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay"

mnky9800n — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:01:53 +0000

LinkedIn is good. It’s not addictive. All your friends have one already. You can post whatever you want but nobody does because they think it’s work related. If you do post whatever you want you will begin to filter who is real and who is ai slop. You can’t spend more than like ten minutes a day looking at it because most of it is too boring to care. Friend me on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmaiken

New comment by mnky9800n in "We let AIs run radio stations"

mnky9800n — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:01:32 +0000

https://rainy-city.com and it's subsidiary experiences like streets of rainy-city.com [1] will never monetize. We do accept non-deductible donations that we interpret as tax collection [2].

[1] https://rcade.dev/games/streets-of-rainy-city

[2] https://buymeacoffee.com/mnky9800n

New comment by mnky9800n in "Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website"

mnky9800n — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:23:45 +0000

Feel free to take it I would love if more people do. I found the original a long time ago somewhere on GitHub. Actually one thing I wanted to do and never got around to it was making it like one click deploy to GitHub pages so anyone can fork the repo and run a setup and build their own version of the page. Although now Claude code basically solves that problem. Lol.

Feel free to send me a link to your page when you make it and we can add it to the list of MySpace graduates (currently me and you).

New comment by mnky9800n in "We let AIs run radio stations"

mnky9800n — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:12:28 +0000

As part of the ongoing expansion of https://rainy-city.com multimedia empire I too have launched an AI enabled radio station. It’s more trip hop rainy city vibes. If it’s streaming and the job hasn’t fallen over on my server (there are many tasks that I as mayor of rainy-city.com must oversee), then you can find it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/live/2Q7r9P16GRs?si=kwiSQMeN9wExdHer

This is a non revenue generating, rainy-city.com tax payer funded service to the greater community everywhere. The backend uses Nvidia NIM to generate the text because I saw you can do it for free and elevenlabs free voice tier for dj Jennifer.

New comment by mnky9800n in "Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website"

mnky9800n — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:26:35 +0000

This is the way.

I made my home page like MySpace:

https://johnspace.xyz

Because it used to be the internet was fun and centered on making stuff yourself and sharing with others. Just like geocities allowed. But now a lot of it all seems like the people making things want to sell things and this has been done at the expense of having spaces for non profit seeking creativity. This is also why I made https://rainy-city.com. Sorry for the self promotion but I really want people to create more stuff like this. Just fun things to find on the internet.

New comment by mnky9800n in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

mnky9800n — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:34:15 +0000

Are you telling me you don’t want a chat interface to greet you when you log in to GitHub?

New comment by mnky9800n in "Kids promised 'forever homes' instead confined in for-profit institutions"

mnky9800n — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:30:38 +0000

True story, I also was a hula hoop kid.

New comment by mnky9800n in "The Hiddn Financial Bubble in AI Infrastructure [pdf]"

mnky9800n — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:14:28 +0000

This is the same bubble everyone is talking about for a while now. GPUs don’t last long enough to justify the infrastructure cost. But what if they exist for longer than current estimated life cycles? That’s always my question as someone using A80s and A100s in 2026.

Kids promised 'forever homes' instead confined in for-profit institutions

mnky9800n — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:06:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2026/adopted-and-locked-away-kids-promised-forever-homes-instead-confined-in-for-profit-institutions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989399

Points: 8

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New comment by mnky9800n in "The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse"

mnky9800n — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:06:12 +0000

I was really hoping that the article would end with a tool or new interface to explore YouTube. But I guess the author only is building one but didn’t realise anything yet.