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New comment by mysterydip in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

mysterydip — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:17:17 +0000

Isn’t the most overused trope the most statistically weighted to be chosen from a group of options? It makes technical sense but as you say leads to boring outcomes

New comment by mysterydip in "Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them"

mysterydip — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:40:28 +0000

> Google’s own developer (Lalit_Kumar, 2025) wrote that the chat is actually not the JSON file in Drive, but only metadata. Due to the loss of the metadata, AI Studio “does not recognize” the chat — but this is not a deletion.

This is like deleting a shortcut and saying the file is gone, right?

New comment by mysterydip in "Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA"

mysterydip — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:27:51 +0000

I hadn’t thought of that possibility but it would indeed be fantastic!

New comment by mysterydip in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"

mysterydip — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:23:54 +0000

I’m really tempted by current sienna hybrids, my current gas one gets 20mpg on a good day. Plug-in for the daily school commutes and after school activities would be great

New comment by mysterydip in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"

mysterydip — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:18:19 +0000

It doesn’t seem irrational if their friends/family/donors have investments in the incumbent energy systems.

New comment by mysterydip in "Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?"

mysterydip — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:23:13 +0000

As the saying goes, “the best time to start would have been 10 years ago. The second best time is today”

New comment by mysterydip in "Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?"

mysterydip — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:21:01 +0000

The code we write here is all human-generated. There’s been an initiative to explore LLM usage. So far it’s been in a reviewer role only, as in “here’s some things I found that you could fix”, and then humans discuss each one and determine if it’s valid and how to fix it.

Also one of my domains is in microcontrollers and using specific hardware that needs bit-banging drivers written for, so it’s unlikely any LLM has enough data to write those things itself.

New comment by mysterydip in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

mysterydip — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:58:15 +0000

Which also explains why response speed is so important.

New comment by mysterydip in "OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI"

mysterydip — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:04:33 +0000

> Interfaces must be generated in under a second

Why? Is two seconds too long? Would your other constraints be easier (usability and hardware spec) if this was longer? Does anyone actually need a UI generated in under a second?

New comment by mysterydip in "Elevator of the Year Winner Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building"

mysterydip — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:48:44 +0000

Oh, definitely. I just saw a funny parallel with projects even today, where something is done to make something work at the time (and we’ll make it better later), and later never arrives.

New comment by mysterydip in "Elevator of the Year Winner Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building"

mysterydip — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:11:19 +0000

“this is just temporary,” said the construction worker in 1907

New comment by mysterydip in "Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building"

mysterydip — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:44:40 +0000

My first thought was “there’s an elevator of the year award?” but reading it was fascinating. A lot of planning and work went into executing that modernization project from what was originally a fairly unique system. And 45-50% energy savings per year is a great ROI.

New comment by mysterydip in "120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom"

mysterydip — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:49:09 +0000

(warning dumb question incoming): since android apps are java, is it possible for a third contender to create a jvm for their platform and some hooks for android api’s and run anything that was made for them?

New comment by mysterydip in "Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets"

mysterydip — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:04:41 +0000

I agree overall, with the caveat that it really depends on the infrastructure available and sprawl. I had flown in to a city late at night, and all the subways and busses had stopped for the night. My only option was a taxi or stay at the airport.

New comment by mysterydip in "Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets"

mysterydip — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:56:02 +0000

Back in the early 00s my host family had an imported left hand drive chevy blazer, and it felt enormous there. I can only imagine in the years since how ridiculous it would be with ballooning SUV sizes.

New comment by mysterydip in "ReactOS 0.4.16"

mysterydip — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:45:54 +0000

Looks like a lot of improvements on long-standing hard-to-find issues. Kudos to the team and thank you for providing an alternative OS that keeps getting better

New comment by mysterydip in "LLMs are making me lose my savviness"

mysterydip — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:12:53 +0000

But that’s not the right analogy, in my opinion. It would be a carpenter saying “I used to carve by hand, but now I tell the carving machine to make a chair and it spits it out.”

New comment by mysterydip in "Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice"

mysterydip — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:27:43 +0000

Could the sequence of events be:

1) open source project publishes source

2) AI scrapes source

3) AI generates code for proprietary game similar to that of the source

4) AI tool scans jar files and finds similar code, triggers copyright violation

New comment by mysterydip in "USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida"

mysterydip — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:17:58 +0000

“According to Beef Magazine” wasn’t a phrase I expected to read today, but I’m delighted to add it to my lexicon

New comment by mysterydip in "Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days"

mysterydip — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:50:54 +0000

I think the difference with the calculator analogies is a calculator just speeds up calculations you could do yourself (granted some very slowly). I can’t type in “sally has 35 apples, and wants to give an equal number to each of her 7 friends. how many apples does each get?” I have to know to do 35/7. But an ai will do that problem solving for me, with zero understanding on my part.