Hacker News: nickandbro

New comment by nickandbro in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

nickandbro — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:36:25 +0000

Wow! Curious how you did multiplayer over the web? What stack did you use?

New comment by nickandbro in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

nickandbro — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:14:46 +0000

Why do I have an urge to buy this? I have no use for it. But damn did they sell it to me well.

New comment by nickandbro in "Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI"

nickandbro — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:43:29 +0000

This is a very good model, but can it be run on the web?

New comment by nickandbro in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

nickandbro — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:12:02 +0000

I think there are engineers that can’t think without AI. But the best think with it. Unfortunately, we are now living in a day and age where simply ignoring AI is no longer an option.

New comment by nickandbro in "GPT-5.5"

nickandbro — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:09:54 +0000

I just prompted GPT-5.5 Pro "Solve Nuclear Fusion" and it one shotted it (kidding obviously)

New comment by nickandbro in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

nickandbro — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:04:26 +0000

A lot better than what Oracle offered their laid off employees which was `Severance includes 4 weeks' base salary plus 1 week per year of employment.`

New comment by nickandbro in "GPT-5.5"

nickandbro — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:10:02 +0000

Very impressive! Interesting how all other benchmarks it seems to surpass Opus 4.7 except SWE-Bench Pro (Public). You would think that doing so well at Cyber, it would naturally possess more abilities there. Wonder what makes up the actual difference there

New comment by nickandbro in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

nickandbro — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:25:42 +0000

I asked it to make me a xkcd comic:

https://chatgpt.com/s/m_69e8cc31dac48191a09bb9c00d5aa3fe

kinda funny, I guess

New comment by nickandbro in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

nickandbro — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:19:26 +0000

Reminds me of when hedge funds started laying increasingly shorter fiber-optic cable lines to achieve the lowest possible latency for high-frequency trading.

New comment by nickandbro in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

nickandbro — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:01:38 +0000

I am curious what workloads Citadel Securities is running on these TPUs? Are you telling me they need the latest TPUs for market insights?

New comment by nickandbro in "FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX"

nickandbro — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:25:50 +0000

A lot of people are saying it’s disconnected, but even if it was, if a string of your country’s top rocket experts started disappearing, you wouldn’t just sit idly by

New comment by nickandbro in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

nickandbro — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:11:20 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adsaiyr7Nv8

New comment by nickandbro in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

nickandbro — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:54:42 +0000

200+ points in Arena.ai , that's incredible. They are cleaning house with this model

New comment by nickandbro in "Modern Rendering Culling Techniques"

nickandbro — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:20:43 +0000

Thanks for clarifying, so I guess I already have it on then.

New comment by nickandbro in "Modern Rendering Culling Techniques"

nickandbro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:36:27 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll try to get that sorted out.

New comment by nickandbro in "Modern Rendering Culling Techniques"

nickandbro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:56:26 +0000

I didn't use a game engine

New comment by nickandbro in "Modern Rendering Culling Techniques"

nickandbro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:22:23 +0000

Love this, I will now use backface culling for my game:

https://slitherworld.com

New comment by nickandbro in "We accepted surveillance as default"

nickandbro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:51:11 +0000

Whenever I read your articles, I get distracted by the space invaders and just play that instead. Maybe this is a problem with me being a bit ADHD, but I feel like I am not the only one

New comment by nickandbro in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

nickandbro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:56:52 +0000

Wow, if the benchmarks checkout with the vibes, this could almost be like a Deepseek moment with Chinese AI now being neck and neck with SOTA US lab made models

New comment by nickandbro in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

nickandbro — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:21:54 +0000

Love Hetzner. Cheapest prices in all the land (aside from Hosting your own server) from what I’ve gathered online. Host:

https://slitherworld.com

My foray into multiplayer games.