<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: paganartifact</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paganartifact</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:51:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=paganartifact" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paganartifact in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The ugliest site in the world that just starts loading and saving files without user interaction.<p>Give me a play button, let me initiate the install, show me what the hell it is first.<p>This looks no different than a scam phishing link</p>
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<p>Who are these people talking about "agentic" stuff, and furthermore who are the people who can't stfu about "MCP"??<p>Literally 90%+ comments on HN personify their alleged use of AI in a way that is in NO WAY related to how the tool is really used.<p>Using LLMs for building software has NOTHING to do with those concepts. Nobody has "agents". That literally only exists in marketing. It's not even how it works.<p>AT ALL<p>Useless forum</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:58:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666112</link><dc:creator>paganartifact</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paganartifact in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Historical trends is another kind of trap, because employment used to mean something different compared to the necessity an income has become today.<p>For most of history anybody could just claim land. You literally just said "Mine!" And it was yours. You could shoot anyone who tried to enter it. You could do whatever you want - hunt on it and trade the fur and meat for pure gold, fish, drill for oil, create 100s of acres of opium fields.<p>Frankly, for most of history, nobody needed a job.<p>Today all land is owned by somebody, and even if you do own it, you still owe taxes and it comes with all sorts of restrictions and zoning for how you can use it. Often they are managed by POAs and HOAs, so it's not much different than renting. For those that do rent, it's even worse - you stay working forever.<p>I digress - even as recently as the 1970s or 80s, if you wanted a job, you had one. If you wanted a house, you had one.<p>Today, you need a job to survive, there's no safety net (at least not the United States) and basically no way to legally obtain the resources, space, and structures a typical human needs to survive well in the world.<p>So yeah, something like a 35% unemployment rate - where rent is the most expensive thing in the economy, nobody is allowed to build houses, nobody except for a few are allowed to sell goods, nobody is allowed to freely trade or construct anything - is a cause for immense daily suffering for no good reason.<p>hIsToRy will not look back on this brief era fondly. It's poverty and suffering for no reason, and we could (and will) do better.</p>
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<p>What is it like to be a lying retard?<p>You guys are pathetic, just lie at best lol.<p>Fucking loser.</p>
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<p>X to doubt.<p>Nobody is using anything from Anthropic lol. OpenAI and Anthropic can barely keep up with text-to-text and have basically given up on everything else.<p>Everybody uses Gemini for text because it's better with the web and far more accessible, or they use Kling/Vidu/Hailou, Singify, etc. for media production.<p>Literally nobody is using that Claude trash except tire kickers or to see what all the hype is about, since it's advertised down our throats.<p>No amount of advertising will make Anthropic good, as long as they are copying OpenAI they are doing nothing of value.</p>
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<p>Employ them</p>
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<p>Epic is trash. The whole company is basically Tim Sweeney crying on Twitter.</p>
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<p>> I think a VCS written in Javascript is also inherently a nonstarter<p>That's because you have no clue what it is, or why it's in JavaScript.<p>Nothing else you said is interesting or valid.<p>Keep copying other people without a clue why you're doing it. Let's see how many customers you get.<p>> Fortnite<p>The only cool thing they did (technically they didn't) - a game that is becoming a platform they can't handle.<p>> The idea that nobody else can make a gamedev-oriented VCS because somebody in the world made a little hobby project along those lines is frankly ludicrous.<p>They dropped the "folk" and just made it "lore", it's too close to our branding. It makes no sense for Epic - their site is basically a vibe coded trash version of our real one lol<p>All Epic does is copy other people, that's why Fortnite sucks now and the company is going downhill.</p>
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<p>It's a regular loading state.<p>Keep slowly copying other people's ideas without a clue why you are doing it.<p>Keep losing Fortnite to Roblox and random indie devs. You think copying another person is going to help you? Lol</p>
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<p>Lore is copying us with "git for gamedev" messaging, and their entire brand.<p>Epic interviewed me asking all sorts of questions about my customers and use cases.<p>"Pagan" "Lore" lol Our site used to say "Folklore" at the top of projects.<p>They still don't really understand the customer or use case, so have fun.</p>
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<p>What if a legislator got a job at, say, Uber for $9 million a year and suddenly all their politics begin to magically align with their employer?<p>It seems like you want the opposite right - as little meddling with private/govt as possible?</p>
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<p>The majority of people (>50%) do not have an income at all in the United States.<p>Only ~160 million of America's ~340 million had a job last year (raw figures).<p>While places like China have over 90% home ownership and very high employment among their citizens, the majority of Americans are denied work and priced out of housing.<p>Institutional wealth is being increasingly reserved only for those who already have it, and is being extended to include once-basic things like having a house.<p>They are saying: Nobody deserves a house. If you build enough wealth, you may buy one - as if it's a Ferrari.<p>So yeah, maybe we're not savvy or maybe the game is rigged and the asset owning class likes to see people suffer.</p>
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<p>Unemployment metric is not "number of lazy people" lol<p>I am providing the raw number of human beings who live in America do not work - which is the majority.<p>Take away children and elderly and it's still an absurdly high number at 30-35%</p>
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<p>72.9 million - <a href="https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-national-detail.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2...</a><p>I also said "160M" instead of "168.3 million" for simplicity.<p>10/10 nitpick</p>
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<p>Agree with you - what % is not employable?<p>About 75M people. So it's still over 30% unemployment not a laughably absurd ~4%</p>
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<p>That isn't what raw figures means though but yeah I agree mostly</p>
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<p>Ok remove the 50-75M of those, still like 30-35% unemployment.</p>
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<p>My definition of "raw" is literally employed vs not employed. That's as raw as it gets.<p>Minimum employment age varies.<p>Even if you don't count all 50M who are under 16 it would still be like 35% or higher unemployment.</p>
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<p>According to a black box "bureau". I provided figures.<p>Even if you say some % is not employable - what %?<p>Let's talk facts</p>
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<p>340 million total Americans.<p>160 million were employees last year.<p>So, raw figures alone, doesn't that mean over 50% of Americans are unemployed?</p>
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