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PointlessQuest puts a full MMO on Playdate's 2.7-inch screen

oidar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:47:43 +0000

Article URL: https://boingboing.net/2026/06/15/pointlessquest-puts-a-full-mmo-on-playdates-2-7-inch-screen.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557142

Points: 2

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New comment by oidar in "Why does paper fold so well?"

oidar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:21:02 +0000

> If you fold it clean, the crease is a straight line. In fact I don't know of any other good way of obtaining a straight edge from scratch quickly, meaning without transporting one existing straight edge to another.

It would be interesting to see how progressively larger pieces of paper handle this. A roll of masking paper would be the easiest way to test.

3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing

oidar — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:39:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496103

Points: 6

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New comment by oidar in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

oidar — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:58:22 +0000

Opus 4.6. My standard battery of questions included solving an ascii maze (20x20 grid) without using a script, using only "thinking" as a tool. It was the first model to be able to solve it. It was the first model that really appeared to be able to reason spatially.

New comment by oidar in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious"

oidar — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:16:03 +0000

Maybe “What's Expected of Us”?

New comment by oidar in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oidar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:23:53 +0000

The demo song sounds fantastic. I'm never going to have a time to build this, any chance it can be turned into a plugin?

New comment by oidar in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

oidar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:04:24 +0000

A person can certainly be conscious, but can they also be not-conscious? I think that most of our cognitive time is spent in activities that don't require consciousness and consciousness itself isn't needed for the majority of activities that people do. I would go so far as the a non-trivial part of people's time is spent in a not-conscious state.

New comment by oidar in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

oidar — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:46:58 +0000

>Elo is zero sum.

In a closed, static pool only.

New comment by oidar in "AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers"

oidar — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:06:36 +0000

I believe that the average elo of players is increasing since powerful chess AI / Go AI.

New comment by oidar in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

oidar — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:01:31 +0000

> Does not make any sense for them since it’s not a unique environment.

nonsense. If it worked for one hotel, that would be ground breaking. Hotels would line up to have theirs be the next test case.

New comment by oidar in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

oidar — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:33:34 +0000

Some schools don’t allow children to leave the classroom to get a drink of water unless it’s at recess or between classes. So that’s why they carry water bottles nowadays.

New comment by oidar in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

oidar — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:45:32 +0000

From my cursory search, it just looks like they have a stock ownership position in Roland, not any real say in how Roland is ran. Kinda like how Game Stop has a position with eBay.

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

oidar — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:00:39 +0000

On the upside, perhaps the LLM will understand the intent of search operators now.

New comment by oidar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

oidar — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:42:00 +0000

I'm slightly curious how PG handles heavily illustrated books. I've downloaded some years ago, and the quality of the illustrations was always pretty poor. Has it been improved lately? What's the QA like for illustrations?

New comment by oidar in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

oidar — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:50:28 +0000

It's the OODA loop for LLMs writing code.

New comment by oidar in "Claude for Creative Work"

oidar — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:46:33 +0000

Which reverb and at what levels? It's way, way faster to hot swamp for previewing and getting the sound at what levels. Same with drums, I believe there are about 10 different kits per each of the 909 and 808 flavors in the factory tool kit. Typing out claude commands to do this kinda thing would be way slower than actually doing it. I'm not opposed to LLMs having control of the ableton interface, but adding and tweaking devices is going to be glacially slower via an LLM.

New comment by oidar in "To my students"

oidar — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:29:52 +0000

You could write this from the perspective of a historical luddite [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite] and the points would be identical.

New comment by oidar in "Show HN: I built a dual crossword puzzle where two crosswords share one grid"

oidar — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:12:55 +0000

Doesn't load on latest firefox.

New comment by oidar in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

oidar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:14:46 +0000

It's against the law for it to be in the wild. And the temperature range in which it can survive is quite narrow, it would probably die sometime this year if left alone.

New comment by oidar in "New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production"

oidar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:07:05 +0000

> Inputs for solar? Do you mean the sun? That's a new complaint I've never heard anybody state.

Well more precisely, the inputs for making the solar panels compared to the inputs for making geothermal plants. The best of solar last 30 years atm and the best of geothermal atm last 100+ years. Not to mention you don't need any rare imported minerals to make geothermal plants.