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New comment by petetnt in "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"

petetnt — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:40:26 +0000

Great article that really demonstrates why the copious amounts of AI generated PC ports do not fit under ”preservation” guise, which to me has been the point of doing these ports in the first place and what many of the enthusiasts before the LLM wave were aiming for.

> There are no noticeable bugs and all features of the original game are present.

> The remaining functions have been reworked repeatedly. While they still don’t match byte for byte, we believe their semantics are correct.

As there are no way to confirm this outside of ”believinh”, what you are left is with a end product that might contain thousands of micro changes that essentially make the game something else than it was intended to be.

New comment by petetnt in "You are no longer invited to dinner"

petetnt — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:57:08 +0000

Maybe it helps that 50 years ago people could actually afford to buy things like big houses where to throw parties at.

New comment by petetnt in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

petetnt — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:17:08 +0000

Have you considered looking up designers you like and asking them instead of "budget friendly designers on Fiverr"?

New comment by petetnt in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

petetnt — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:09:06 +0000

The author claims that the AI posters don’t have to be horrible, but fail to see that the dozen variations generated are not distinctive - they might have somewhat different typography or imaginary, but still have the same AI uniformity and smell as the crappy restaurant poster you see on the street. The core issue is not only technical, but also the lack of vision and imagination when creating art or even infographics.

New comment by petetnt in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

petetnt — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:14:14 +0000

I played it with Playstation VR2 and it was great, cost me around 350 euros for the headset and the PC dongle during black friday some years ago, but it might be more expensive now.

Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work

petetnt — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:49:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-cto-andrew-bosworth-ai-gains-work-2026-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219439

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by petetnt in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

petetnt — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:54:13 +0000

Unlike Steam keys, there are no ways to distribute Playstation keys outside of Playstation platform. By removing retailers and second hand markets, what exactly would make Sony or any other publishers to continue offering any deep discounts on their products on a closed platform, especially when their biggest competitor Xbox has dropped the ball heavily.

New comment by petetnt in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

petetnt — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:06:33 +0000

Homebrew 6.0.0 seems to be the first major version of brew that is heavily written using AI. There’s new document at https://docs.brew.sh/Responsible-AI-Usage that was added 11 hours ago. Do you think that these guidelines have been followed consistently since 5.0.0?

New comment by petetnt in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

petetnt — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:33:25 +0000

Breaking changes have had that tag for ages

New comment by petetnt in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

petetnt — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:48:21 +0000

With it’s current AI setup GitLab still couldn’t make anything that could be called great in UX so I can’t wait to see what they can do by eliminating the remaining human factor. Can’t personally wait seeing tickets like these [0] open for months with bots telling you that everything will be alright.

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/588806

New comment by petetnt in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

petetnt — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:35:38 +0000

The Wallet Pass[0] and PassKit[1] documentations are some of the sparsest and cryptic documentations around filled with absolutely archaic flows that _need_ to be supported for proper integration. If this solves the need of ever having to deal with those features ever again.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/walletpasses [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/passkit

New comment by petetnt in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

petetnt — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:32:32 +0000

Luckily we have had the perfect paradigm for this kind of mindset for decades: proprietary software. The spirit of open source is already essentially dead due to it being co-opted by companies and individuals working only for their own gain, and for it to rise again we probably need a total reset.

New comment by petetnt in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

petetnt — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:23:41 +0000

Fugazi released almost 900 shows on CD in the early 2000’s, costing 5 bucks a piece. Some of them are available on their Bandcamp page these days too https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/.

New comment by petetnt in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

petetnt — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:20:22 +0000

> This does not mean that Slack’s engineering investment was wasted, because Slack also built enterprise sales infrastructure, compliance capabilities, data security practices, and organizational resilience that a fourteen-day prototype does not include.

The LLM-agent team argument also misses the core point that the engineering investment (which actually encompasses business decisions, design and much more than just programming) is what actually got Slack (or any other software product) to the point where is it is now and where it's going in the future and creating a snapshot of the current status is, while maybe not absolutely trivial, still just a tiny fraction of the progress made over the years.

New comment by petetnt in "A Tour of Oodi"

petetnt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:30:13 +0000

Kino Regina, the movie theater mentioned, is owned and operated by the Finnish Arts and Culture Agency and does not only show classics, but also a lot of contemporary movies of note, right up until recent releases. It has modern hi-grade digifilm equipment but is also equiped to show film from eg. 70mm and cinemascope formats. They also host concerts and seminars.

New comment by petetnt in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

petetnt — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:52:38 +0000

Personally I’d like to thank you for raising the point, it seems that tsc members are willing to ram the PR through regardless as per jasnell’s LLM analysis that honestly seems like a hostile gish galloping attempt than an actual honest analysis.

New comment by petetnt in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

petetnt — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:04:16 +0000

Buddy invented RobotFramework, great job.

New comment by petetnt in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

petetnt — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:01:48 +0000

I guarantee you that I would endlessly rather read your streams of thought about amateur boat building than read another AI-generated Hacker News comment ever again. Don't sell yourself short.

Tell HN: OpenClaw is getting ~75 pull requests an hour

petetnt — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:33:53 +0000

Someone mentioned in a previous HN thread related to the topic this week that OpenClaw had absolute staggering amount of issues and pull requests open.

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls

I have been following the repo this week and it seems that the situation has only accelerated. In the beginning of the week the repo was getting around 25 PRs per hour, now the rate is closer to 100 per hour.

I haven't pulled accurate statistics, but quick look and napkin math shows that this is hundreds of thousands lines of code sent to review every day. With the struggling GitHub tooling you can see that so far in the past 7 days 4663 PRs were opened, and 653 of those were merged, generating around quarter a million added lines. This month (1.-6.3.) the project has consumed 765031 build minutes, 531 days worth of compute. And like mentioned, this is only accelerating daily.

What do you think about this future of open source software development?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273709

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by petetnt in "GPT-5.4"

petetnt — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:37:06 +0000

Whoa, I think GPT-5.3 Instant was a disappointment, but GPT-5.4 is definitely the future!