Hacker News: opyate

New comment by opyate in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

opyate — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:06:38 +0000

goddammit

https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband

New comment by opyate in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

opyate — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:05:24 +0000

This is your friendly PSA that pip-tools still exist.

https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools

New comment by opyate in "Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?"

opyate — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:39:58 +0000

Seconding Python

New comment by opyate in "Show HN: I built a website for games that catch my eye"

opyate — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:55:43 +0000

All I see is a list of "content not viewable in your region".

(UK)

New comment by opyate in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

opyate — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:36:52 +0000

This is all I know: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

New comment by opyate in "Game design is simple"

opyate — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:26:27 +0000

Raph replied to another video on fun (which also critiques his book) in the Youtube comments, referring to said blog post:

https://youtu.be/56ENqlUST9U "What is fun? Let's overthink it!" by Indie Game Clinic

New comment by opyate in "Chief Bookmark Officer"

opyate — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:33:11 +0000

Sounds like a job for RAG. We're about to prototype a system at work to point to all our confluence, Google docs, Jira tickets, gitlab source, and hand written KB articles, so adding a section for interesting links should turn the RAG system into a CBO.

New comment by opyate in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

opyate — Sat, 17 May 2025 21:56:46 +0000

I prefer the Perplexity summary over the nytimes' style of weaving facts with narrative:

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/baby-born-with-life-threateni...

New comment by opyate in "PDF to Text, a challenging problem"

opyate — Sat, 17 May 2025 09:27:57 +0000

The first thing I did when I saw this thread was ctrl-f for doclaynet :)

I've been at this problem since 2013, and a few years ago turned my findings into more of a consultancy than a product. See HTTPS://pdfcrun.ch

However, due to various events, I burned out recently and took a permie job, so would love to stick my head in the sand and play video games in my spare time, but secretly hoping you'd see this and to hear about your work.

New comment by opyate in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"

opyate — Sat, 03 May 2025 11:37:53 +0000

Lol, yeah, god forbid they make new friends in the queue.

New comment by opyate in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"

opyate — Sat, 03 May 2025 11:36:29 +0000

Feature of flip phone is plenty for what you just described, which is what my kids have.

Smartphones, no. I'm not subjecting them to any algos, thank you very much.

New comment by opyate in "Ask HN: What did you learn too late in your tech career?"

opyate — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:46:36 +0000

To chill out. You work with humans, so give them good UX and make it pleasant for them to work with you.

New comment by opyate in "Show HN: Buzzled – a three axis hex logic puzzle"

opyate — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:31:32 +0000

Fantastic game. The help mentions "genius" but the game page has "master". Also, it would be nice to play the previous dailies. I sent this to my 82-year-old in law who loves games like this, so I bet they'd like more games to play asap

New comment by opyate in "Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing?"

opyate — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:40:55 +0000

This.

Using LLM coding assistance makes you dumb. You lose the ability to think.

New comment by opyate in "The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps"

opyate — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:52:29 +0000

You guys should see my Tunic notes, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

If you haven't played it, go in blind.

https://tunicgame.com/

New comment by opyate in "The benefits of learning in public"

opyate — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:34:38 +0000

You won't see this, but try

https://www.hnreplies.com/

New comment by opyate in "For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house"

opyate — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:28:05 +0000

Trying it now for the first time, and getting an HTTP Basic Auth pop-up. They caught on.

New comment by opyate in "Wait Until 8th"

opyate — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:13:47 +0000

In the UK:

https://smartphonefreechildhood.co.uk/

New comment by opyate in "Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index"

opyate — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 16:22:22 +0000

"YC Public Companies" widget on the front page showing a -46% return: joke or bug?

New comment by opyate in "Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers"

opyate — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:49:14 +0000

Still, plenty of old stuff was scraped/sniffed under the "store now, decrypt later" methodology.