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New comment by oulipo2 in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

oulipo2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:12:48 +0000

I mean it's all there in the text... it's for the introductory class "in an introductory class focused on game design fundamentals, students can’t afford a long learning curve."

New comment by oulipo2 in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

oulipo2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:20:28 +0000

Learning to code for Unity is the easy part, learning to build great architecture, optimize resources, create a creative game is the hard stuff

New comment by oulipo2 in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

oulipo2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:36:27 +0000

Well, "awful personal character" SHOULD count for much in response to the question "Who is your favorite entrepreneur", actually

New comment by oulipo2 in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

oulipo2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:35:48 +0000

No, because the goal of the university is to teach students to think. Not necessarily just to "acquire the skills to apply in industry". Constraints are great for that.

So is teaching them assembly, even though most people no longer directly code in ASM. But a constrained language that's close-to-the-metal gives them an interesting view of how computing really works, etc

So I'd say it's actually much better for a class teaching coding and creativity

New comment by oulipo2 in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

oulipo2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:33:19 +0000

The article makes it quite clear as you read that the appeal is the constraints, it allows the students to think outside of the box, and ask themselves a lot of interesting questions

New comment by oulipo2 in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

oulipo2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:31:58 +0000

The article mentions you can use the free PC/Mac simulator which doesn't require a device

New comment by oulipo2 in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

oulipo2 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:34:48 +0000

Anyone that worked unselfishly for the public good. People like doctors and scientists putting their career at work to improve humanity

New comment by oulipo2 in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

oulipo2 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:33:38 +0000

He's got a lot of sexual assault allegations against him. Also awful personal character

New comment by oulipo2 in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send"

oulipo2 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:52:56 +0000

So whatsmeow requires a browser, and Baileys not right? So it's a bit more lightweight in terms of RAM?

New comment by oulipo2 in "[dead]"

oulipo2 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:41:40 +0000

Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor; colleagues continue working around his body – ‘Let’s get back to work’

New comment by oulipo2 in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

oulipo2 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:09:32 +0000

Interestingly some people are going to do this, the bot is going to buy drug on some shady darkweb site, and the author is going to be jailed... so much for the "win" lol

New comment by oulipo2 in "Distributed DuckDB Instance"

oulipo2 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:05:07 +0000

Seems cool! But would be nice to have some "real-world" use cases to see actual usage patterns...

In my case my systems can produce "warnings" when there are some small system warning/errors, that I want to aggregate and review (drill-down) from time to time

I was hesitating between using something like OpenTelemetry to send logs/metrics for those, or just to add a "warnings" table to my Timescaledb and use some aggregates to drill them down and possibly display some chunks to review...

but another possibility, to avoid using Timescaledb/clickhouse and just rely on S3 would be to upload those in a parquet file on a bucket through duckdb, and then query them from time to time to have stats

Would you have a recommendation?

New comment by oulipo2 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

oulipo2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:47:55 +0000

Thanks for your message! All our systems have the valve indeed :)

New comment by oulipo2 in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

oulipo2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:47:04 +0000

Wait!! He's not ALREADY a robot?

New comment by oulipo2 in "Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election"

oulipo2 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:58:35 +0000

Good news, now let's rid the rest of Europe and the world of fascists and authoritarians

New comment by oulipo2 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

oulipo2 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:27:42 +0000

We're building a repairable and fireproof e-bike battery at https://infinite-battery.com :)

New comment by oulipo2 in "EFF is leaving X"

oulipo2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:01:56 +0000

At long last. It should be the case with everybody.

Those who stay there because "it's practical", or worse they like it, or worse they support Musk, should be ashamed

New comment by oulipo2 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)"

oulipo2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:59:42 +0000

We're building a repairable, connected and fireproof e-bike battery at https://infinite-battery.com :)

New comment by oulipo2 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

oulipo2 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:37:53 +0000

They are trying very hard to convince themselves that it's going to work, when we see all the models plateauing... it's clearly hitting the ceiling

New comment by oulipo2 in "Ask HN: Where have you found the coding limits of current models?"

oulipo2 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:16:33 +0000

Quite obvious once you do anything that requires a modicum of logic or coordination (eg working with mutexes, concurrency, etc)