<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mrnotcrazy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mrnotcrazy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:06:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mrnotcrazy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrnotcrazy in "Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If its a revolution you probably aren't hitting them 40k in the air, your hitting them when they park similar to how Ukraine sent drones after bombers behind enemy lines. I really hope we can avoid any kind of conflict, with the way American's think I could see one or both sides resorting to biological/chemical weapons faster than they start making missiles. There is also no reason to assume what starts out as your side will remain such, revolutions are crazy risky.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:11:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426760</link><dc:creator>mrnotcrazy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrnotcrazy in ""Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have agents run at night to work through complicated TTRPG campaigns. For example I have a script that runs all night simulating NPCs before a session. The NPCs have character sheets + motivations and the LLMs do one prompt per NPC in stages so combat can happen after social interactions. IF you run enough of these and make the prompts well written you can save a lot of time. You can't like... simulate the start of a campaign and then jump in. Its more like you know there is a big event, you already have characters, you can throw them in a folder to see how things would cook all else being equal and then use that to riff off of when you actually write your notes.<p>I think of my agents like golems from disc world, they are defined by their script. Adding texture to them improves the results so I usually keep a running tally of what they have worked on and add that to the header. They are a prompt in a folder that a script loops over and sends to gemeni(spawning an agent and moving to the next golem script)<p>I also was curious to see if it could be used it for developing some small games, whenever I would run into a problem I couldn't be bothered to solve or needed a variety of something I would let a few llms work on it so in the morning I had something to bounce off. I had pretty good success with this for RTS games and shooting games where variety is something well documented and creativity is allowed. I imagine there could be a use here, I've been calling it dredging cause I imagine myself casting a net down into the slop to find valuables.<p>I did have an idea where all my sites and UI would be checked against some UI heuristic like Oregon State's inclusivity heuristic but results have been mixed so far. The initial reports are fine, the implementation plans are ok but it seems like the loop of examine, fix, examine... has too much drift? That does seem solvable but I have a concern that this is like two lines that never touch but get closer as you approach infinity.<p>There is some usefulness in running these guys all night but I'm still figuring out when its useful and when its a waste of resources.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:03:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049786</link><dc:creator>mrnotcrazy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrnotcrazy in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the URL should be suno.com, the link you posted is a different thing? Suno.com is the one I've used, I generally use it for DND type campaigns when I need custom music for scenes or background noises. It does pretty good sound effects and spoken word so sometimes I use it for that as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:18:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606287</link><dc:creator>mrnotcrazy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrnotcrazy in "Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you think the republic is one of the worst books in human history I would ask what makes a good book? When there are plenty of implementation issues for direct democracy it feels strange to blame Plato... Particularly when the world has benefited from the republic in so many ways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:27:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748582</link><dc:creator>mrnotcrazy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrnotcrazy in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on an escape room! Initially I was working on a software/hardware bundle that I was planning to market to other escape rooms but I think that is the wrong approach. So I am going to build a bunch of modular stuff in my garage and eventually start my own, its been an awesome project so far! I want a more dynamic and action oriented experience so it might not really be an escape room anymore but I don't know what to call it yet.<p>Escape rooms are honestly... almost always a let down but the concept has a lot of potential and there are some really neat ones that standout like this local one where you pilot an airship <a href="https://www.portlandescaperooms.com/steampunk-airship" rel="nofollow">https://www.portlandescaperooms.com/steampunk-airship</a><p>Once I build the best escape room on the planet, I can consider selling the tools.</p>
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<p>Can you expand on what’s wrong about it? I have some ubiquiti gear and I haven’t noticed anything wrong but I haven’t taken a close look.</p>
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<p>I think in engineering maybe you can have different levels of doneness? At my job closing a ticket means the job is done but better than closing a ticket is documenting the solution. Even better is automating a solution for the future so maybe coasters are more likely to be close tickets and move on.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure its that they aren't interested, I think its just really hard.</p>
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<p>I think the better deployment of this would be 1 human and 4 AI buddies so you could have a more tactical experience and games could have larger more realistic battles.<p>I think strategy might be more important in the future than switchy aiming</p>
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<p>I’m taking some time to go back to school and finish my bachelors. I work with a lot of rural ISPs so I think for the moment I’m ok. I might pick up some networking skills. It seems like networking changes slower than server side stuff cause it more often requires hardware upgrades.</p>
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<p>I think depends on the context as to whether or not it’s cynical and how much is hard evidence vs personal perception. You think the world is in bad shape cause the national trend is towards a lower trust society? I don’t think that is necessarily cynical. If you doom scroll and have now collected a bunch of scary things you
Have to be anxious about, probably a bit cynical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 02:48:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441682</link><dc:creator>mrnotcrazy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrnotcrazy in "LLMs and the End of Programming – CS50 Tech Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it might be the reverse? I think if your goal oriented your not programing for the sake of programing, your programing to solve problems. LLMs are exciting if you like solving problems because you can now tackle things you would otherwise never be able to alone.<p>If programming didn't help me automate my sys admin work, help me make games, websites and other creations I wouldn't bother with it.</p>
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<p>Is it possible to go from linux administrator into something related to robotics without a major amount of training? or is that leap more of a go back to school for four years type deal?</p>
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<p>My big hope for all this AI stuff is that normal people start to use computers to solve problems more often. I work as a sys admin, if I want say a specialized script to organize my music in a special way. I can write that, probably wouldn't be the best code cause it doesn't need to be.<p>The average person could be using computing to solve all kinds of problems but it requires expertise and a time investment that is just not a good value proposition for a lot of people. If GPT or some other thing comes around and makes it so my uncle could say to his computer "hey build me a site so I can show off all my fishing trophies" and it just does it? the world would have a lot more niche software, more weird stuff and overall everyone would be more productive and happy.(or so I hope)</p>
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<p>I don't think the average person has a concept of what digital privacy is but its still a fine list of things to work towards.<p>I think these are policies which are important but parties are built around ideologies right? so maybe by looking at all of these and finding a common thread you could make that the corner stone of the hackernews party or whatever.<p>Getting people to believe your party aligns with them wont be enough though, you have to get people to believe that by not voting for their favorite entrenched party they aren't helping their opponents to win.</p>
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<p>Meetup groups! I live in Portland Oregon and there are so many awesome board game meetups. I also tend to like hacker spaces but they can be less social and you aren’t guaranteed to have personal interaction</p>
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<p>I don’t think everyone is getting tired of LLMs. Citation needed. Personally I use chatgpt everyday for all kinds of stuff, it’s just a part of my workflow now</p>
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<p>Shouldn't this be verifiable in some way? Like if enough people start posting about mastodon and then comparing their notes?<p>I see a lot of posts about Elon(twitter) allegedly taking down posts and limiting the reach of posts but I am not sure how much of it to believe. Especially with the limiting claims, I don't know how you would measure when its being artificially limited and when people just don't care to engage with a post.<p>I don't doubt that there is some level of manipulation going on but that is always the case with social media.</p>
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<p>It sounds like they are saying take the job and then don't show up? Cause this will cause them an inconvenience? I don't know if that is a good approach OR maybe I also don't understand what they meant.</p>
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<p>I work in the Industry and I can assure you Smaller ISPs often offer faster speeds without datacaps than comcast and such. There are some rural places where this is the exception but often the larger ISPs either aren't offering anything or everyone is offering the bare minimum.</p>
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