Hacker News: oh_no

New comment by oh_no in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

oh_no — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:52:05 +0000

Foundation didn't create the dataset, just the framework for volunteers to do the work.

New comment by oh_no in "Steam Machine launches today"

oh_no — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:37:46 +0000

so i think you're a bit off. it's s/g but g is legit accounts who want to buy the steam machine.

we could say it's 5000 scalper accounts, and 50000000 gamer accounts. but it's not 5000/50000000, it's like 4500/20000. which isn't bad! but scalpers will still be way over-represented, because they'll be trying to buy it when most steam accounts won't.

now one fuzz factor is the queue system, as you're not putting down money to get in line i expect a lot of people who wouldn't otherwise sign up will, in case they decide to buy one when given the chance. so we might have 40000 gamer sign ups, but only 50% will pull the trigger. this also gives scalpers an out should the resale not be worth it.

(obviously all numbers made up)

New comment by oh_no in "Google changes its search box"

oh_no — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:15:14 +0000

except google does respect robots.txt so you do have a choice?

New comment by oh_no in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

oh_no — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:56:57 +0000

interesting that GPT Image-2 managed to 2-shot this with thinking turned on, I didn't save a copy and it disappeared from my window but I first got a failure very similar to the one in the article, but it saw the issue and said it was going to use a reference image, after which it came out with https://i.imgur.com/hlWpQNT.jpeg

New comment by oh_no in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

oh_no — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:30:28 +0000

1- Getting OpenAI's models in Azure with no license fee is pretty nice. 2- Microsoft owns ~15-27% of OpenAI, if the agreement was hurting OpenAI more than it was helping Microsoft, seems reasonable to change the terms.

New comment by oh_no in "GPT-5.5"

oh_no — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:23:47 +0000

yes but as far as i know gpt tokenizer is about the same as opus 4.6's, where 4.7 is seeing something in the ballpark of a 30% increase. this should still be cheaper even disregarding the concerns around 4.7 thinking burning tokens

New comment by oh_no in "GPT-5.5"

oh_no — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:19:07 +0000

oops, thanks. i had just been looking at their api docs

New comment by oh_no in "GPT-5.5"

oh_no — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:07:13 +0000

what's the source on that?

New comment by oh_no in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

oh_no — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:47:19 +0000

D&D is not a board game, nor is Warhammer 40k.

Tabletop games is already used as the broader category (covering board games, role playing games, miniatures games, and whatever I'm forgetting).

New comment by oh_no in "Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died"

oh_no — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:36:27 +0000

So I think this article is a bit misleading, he did not invent the polyhedral dice, he just made them better. "He was the first to create polyhedral dice for the U.S. market" is a weird sentence, I'm not sure what it's going for, but I think it's referring to the fact that early D&D dice were I believe imported, but I forget the details.

One bit I love from the early history of Gamescience is he didn't have the capital to make a full D&D set off the bat, so he'd get one dice mold made, release that one, then take the profits to make the next mold. Forget which was first but I think the d4 was early.