Hacker News: pests

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

pests — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:34:52 +0000

I wish the chats ended up in the gemini app. I never know which model or how much personalization its using in AI mode after a search.

New comment by pests in "Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell"

pests — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:29:22 +0000

I mean yes and no. If I knew your address, I could 100% ring your doorbell from the Internet.

CTRL+T, doordash.com, McDonalds, "ring doorbell please", pay, done.

I know this isn't what you mean, but, humans are buttons (or button pressers?)

New comment by pests in "Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space"

pests — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:32:48 +0000

It did take using the sun as an amplification source.

New comment by pests in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

pests — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:35:37 +0000

The same way they do now?

New comment by pests in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

pests — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:16:46 +0000

Thanks, it does. I've been playing since about 2000, came from Cosmic Rift / Infantry when they went non-free.

We're lucky we got Priit to release the encryption/security module so Continuum clients could connect to ASSS servers without the security warning. I doubt it'll ever be updated, someone will have to take up the mantle.

New comment by pests in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

pests — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:43:34 +0000

I play SubSpace (a MMO spaceship game released in the 90s) to this day. It was shut down soon after release.

The original server binaries were left on the original CDROM by a programmer.

Then PriitK, a creator of Kazaa and then Skype and Joost!, went on to re-create the client due to cheating/hacking, naming it Continuum.

Years later the server is reimplemented as A Small Subspace Server (ASSS), making it a complete fan remake of the original game (sans graphics). This is also when we finally got server side mods, everything before that was client only or a hack.

We even got on Stream Greenlight.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum...

New comment by pests in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

pests — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:59:31 +0000

I live minutes from Ford's new HQ in Dearborn and I see multiple lidar equipped vehicles daily. Or at least vehicles loaded up the wazoo.

New comment by pests in "A History of IDEs at Google"

pests — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:01:47 +0000

Ive had that issue with touchscreens before and was able to disable the driver for it. Linux so not sure if possible or how on a chromebook but an option.

New comment by pests in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

pests — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:30:13 +0000

Honestly. I do more with my hands and spend more time outside post-degree, post-reality, than I ever did when in school.

New comment by pests in "Ted Turner has died"

pests — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:34:14 +0000

Numbers 145 were common on N@N.

New comment by pests in "Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?"

pests — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:06:40 +0000

By your logic, heart disease and cancer are the real concern. Why you so worried about cars? Your comment is irrelevant otherwise.

New comment by pests in "Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?"

pests — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:05:25 +0000

A small city near me in the suburbs of Detroit just had to have a town meeting / facebook post / etc about teens driving electric scooters and bikes driving recklessly, causing accidents, injuring themselves and others, etc.

New comment by pests in "Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?"

pests — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:02:47 +0000

A vending machine is not a human tho.

New comment by pests in "NetHack 5.0.0"

pests — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:01:07 +0000

Agree 100%.

I watched Million Dollar Baby for the first time a year or two ago. I thought it was just a boxing movie, something like rocky or something.

I don't think reading the synopsis would have affected me like that movie did. I thought about it for days afterwards.

New comment by pests in "NetHack 5.0.0"

pests — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:27:39 +0000

I disagree with your movie watching routine. A movie is more than just its plot.

New comment by pests in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

pests — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:06:57 +0000

also bad for your product name to start with a competitors brand

New comment by pests in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

pests — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:49:27 +0000

The system prompt will always match in the prefix cache. I just meant it could be prefilled before any user queries on completely different hardware. Then you are only dealing with the n^2 only for the actual user prompt. We're in agreeance I think.

New comment by pests in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

pests — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:12:59 +0000

The state of the system can be cached after the system prompt is calculated and all new chats start from that state. O(n^2) is not great but apparently its fine at these context lengths and I'm sure this is a factor in their minimum prompt cost. Advances like grouped query or multi head attention or sparse attention will eventually get rid of that exponential, hopefully.

New comment by pests in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

pests — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:10:37 +0000

> And it gets churned by every single request they receive.

Not true, it gets calculated once and essentially baked into initial state basically and gets stored in a standard K/V prefix cache. Processing only happens on new input (minus attention which will have to content with tokens from the prompt)

New comment by pests in "Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine"

pests — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:03:04 +0000

This is also what UnityHub does. Lets you manage installed versions and start new projects with whatwhatever version.