Hacker News: namrog84

New comment by namrog84 in "Hacker News front page as a site"

namrog84 — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:09:50 +0000

Is it just me or is there something slightly weird about scrolling? Maybe font or color. Im on mobile.

New comment by namrog84 in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

namrog84 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:28:49 +0000

Having worked in such environments. This particular team will try not to do it again But many other teams didn't make the commitment or learn any lesson. And even the original team will churn over people and people will forget or new leadership comes in.

I believe they were being sincere but reality is often more complicated than 1 persons statement.

New comment by namrog84 in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

namrog84 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:37:51 +0000

I thought that was part of the issue, is the poor understanding of is the test to evaluate if it can think or only if we think it can think. And even that is generalizable since there are different categories of thinking or concepts of the mind.

New comment by namrog84 in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

namrog84 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:24:42 +0000

So it's perfectly fitting the noun for c++ dev is undefined behavior :D

New comment by namrog84 in "Are You YES AI or No AI?"

namrog84 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:50:43 +0000

At least for me it tells me about some options to use ai privately for duckduckgo so I assume it's from them. Possibly collecting views for Ai generated search results.

New comment by namrog84 in "Dead Internet Theory"

namrog84 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:32:00 +0000

I dont know if it's true or not. But I remember reading about this person who would do the community reports for cheating for a game like cs or something. They had numerous bot accounts and spent a hour a day on it. Set up in a way that when they reviewed a video the bots would do the same.

But all the while they were doing legitimate reporting, when they came across their real cheating account they'd report not cheating. And supposedly this person got away with it for years for having good reputable community reporting with high alignment scores.

I know 1 exception doesnt mean it's not worth it. But we must acknowledge the potential abuse. Id still rather have 1 occasionally ambitious abuser over countless low effort ones.

New comment by namrog84 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

namrog84 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:39:18 +0000

While I do agree with you. To play the counterpoint advocate though.

What if we get to the point where all software is basically created 'on the fly' as greenfield projects as needed? And you never need to have complex large long lived codebase?

It is probably incredibly wasteful, but ignoring that, could it work?

New comment by namrog84 in "Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results"

namrog84 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:54:47 +0000

Bullets 2,3, and 4

* I'm using my own software

* I did 301,432 flashcard reviews in 2025.

* Those reviews covered 52,764 distinct cards.

New comment by namrog84 in "The suck is why we're here"

namrog84 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:33:02 +0000

The downside of this is what happens in other places. You won't neccesarily stand out.

The entities doing endless reposts are building faster bigger audiences and might or will repost your stand out piece.

If you care that you wrote it and that people enjoy it. All is good. But I'd you wanted to stand out with it or build around it. The low effort reposters might take that from you.

In a rare occasion I've even seen a reposter shorten or better edit the original piece.

Though I am still hopefully optimistic that in the long run for the good

New comment by namrog84 in "Vibe coding creates fatigue?"

namrog84 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:16:16 +0000

I've also seen the term. You've been permanently banned for 12 hours.

Instead of temporarily suspended.

Whatever happened to the word suspended for temporary and ban for permanent and places say permanent with an expiration date.

New comment by namrog84 in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

namrog84 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:19:11 +0000

In addition to random recipe.

Have a recipe of the day. Rotated per 24 hours.

So we can all enjoy and refine a recipe together

New comment by namrog84 in "GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders"

namrog84 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:56:23 +0000

I briefly worked at Microsoft xbox back compat where we made the Xbox OG and Xbox 360 games work on Xbox one and newer generations and I know the PMs spent considerable time and effort doing similar things for the earlier Xbox games to be allowed for us to have them work on newer Xbox generations. It's really surprising that sometimes IP changes hands enough in some cases the owners might not have even known they owned something. I think the legal and permission always definitely one of the harder problems. I know music in some games were also particularly challenging, a few games had to have sound tracks removed or replaced.

New comment by namrog84 in "Introduction to AT Protocol"

namrog84 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:10:19 +0000

When discord alternative?

New comment by namrog84 in "Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)"

namrog84 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:16:16 +0000

I'm no ai expert so consider my opinion having little value besides casual user. But I really like this. It seems clever and easy for me to grasp some pros for this approach.

I could envision a bunch of use cases about this workikg well. Ive personally encounter scenadios where sometimes the ai gets hung up on irrelevant outdated fact. But could still look up if specifically needed.

I could see even an automated short summary of all history that is outdated being updated in the vector db from this too. So not all context is lost.

Keep up the great work!

New comment by namrog84 in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

namrog84 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:16:11 +0000

it's a bit of work and effort to give a talk. And he is rich enough to not need to do it for the money. Time is important. If he'd be doing it for free he'd probably get too many requests. Adding a high $ can simply help filter down to a reasonable thing.to only the largest locations and highest number of people.

I dont want to do contract work but people ask so I just quote an unreasonably high number and on occasion someone bites. I dont need the money so I need an easy filter.

New comment by namrog84 in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

namrog84 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:44:23 +0000

Would people consider obsidian juat a note taking app and not a todo app?

New comment by namrog84 in "U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD""

namrog84 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:50:38 +0000

Daily volume could just be more bluray high quality downloads with people with better internet. And not neccesarily larger number of people right?

New comment by namrog84 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

namrog84 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:24:20 +0000

An inventory system for my games in unreal engine.

Supporting grid, multiplayer, predictive moves, item locking and more.

https://github.com/brokenrockstudios/RockInventory

It's been interesting and challenging. Probably the most important part is I've been learning a lot.

It was a lot of fun earlier on but it's becoming less fun the more I work on it.

New comment by namrog84 in "Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism"

namrog84 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:38:41 +0000

What about those drones that charge via power lines?

New comment by namrog84 in "Ask HN: How do I turn my love for programming into independent source of money?"

namrog84 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:19:53 +0000

More background of skills? More back end? Front end? Ignoring skills do you have any specific interests.