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Show HN: Sims 1 Legacy MCP

ph4evers — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:16:47 +0000

I’ve released a legacy mod that exposes The Sims 1 via MCP. The project started as a joke and demonstrates a super fast reverse engineering workflow using Claude Code, Ghidra and GhydraMCP.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779555

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New comment by ph4evers in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

ph4evers — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:04:50 +0000

Nice write up! It is cool to see that PostgreSQL is still standing. Adyen has some nice blog posts about squeezing the max out of PostgreSQL https://medium.com/adyen/all?topic=postgres

New comment by ph4evers in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

ph4evers — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:34:02 +0000

The desktop app is pretty terrible and super flaky, throwing vague errors all the time. Claude code seems to be doing much better. I also use it for non-code related tasks.

New comment by ph4evers in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

ph4evers — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:30:03 +0000

This is why AI won’t suddenly fully replace a software engineer.

New comment by ph4evers in "TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA"

ph4evers — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:56:08 +0000

Such a cool project! Next one is to run jaxprs via the driver?

New comment by ph4evers in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

ph4evers — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:13:09 +0000

Are they not performing well because they are trained to be more generic, or is the task too complex? It seems like a cheap problem to fine-tune.

New comment by ph4evers in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

ph4evers — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:02:05 +0000

How does it compare to Mistral’s model?

New comment by ph4evers in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

ph4evers — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:14:14 +0000

Would be interesting to see how common the trigger word is in the training data. Maybe a more random word would trigger even faster.

New comment by ph4evers in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"

ph4evers — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:52:09 +0000

Reminds me a bit about the SolidGoldMagikarp: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm... . Even though the SolidGoldMagikarp was clearly a bug in the tokenizer.

Show HN: Parkiet – Fine-tune a large TTS model for any language under $100

ph4evers — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:32:01 +0000

A lot of the open-source TTS models are released for English or Chinese and lack support for other languages. I was curious to see if I could train a state-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) model for Dutch by using Google's free TPU Research credits. The results are fantastic and on-par with ElevenLabs with just 10,000 hours of data.

I open-sourced the weights, and documented the whole journey, from Torch model conversion, data preparation, JAX training code and inference pipeline. I spent about $300 in egress costs, but it can be as cheap as $100 to train this model (I ran the data collection pipeline on my 5090 Desktop PC as well as fine-tuning Whisper).

Hopefully it can serve as a guide for others that are curious to train these models for other languages (without burning through all the credits trying to fix the pipeline).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357002

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New comment by ph4evers in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

ph4evers — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:23:32 +0000

With a new French CEO, such a coincidence

New comment by ph4evers in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

ph4evers — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:54:05 +0000

Whisper-v3 works well for multi-lingual. I tried it with Dutch, German and English

New comment by ph4evers in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

ph4evers — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:53:20 +0000

Whisper works on 30 second chunks. So yes it can do that and that’s also why it can hallucinate quite a bit.

New comment by ph4evers in "GPT-5"

ph4evers — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:45:49 +0000

That’s been done to see if it could extrapolate and predict the future. Can’t find the link right now to the paper.

New comment by ph4evers in "Supplements Linked to Reduced Fertility in Male Bodybuilders"

ph4evers — Sat, 24 May 2025 19:38:48 +0000

BCAAS have been debunked countless of times. The only people recommencing BCAAS are selling them.

New comment by ph4evers in "Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses"

ph4evers — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:03:50 +0000

Yes! I did something similar with daily exercises at https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/daily

New comment by ph4evers in "I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors"

ph4evers — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:08:19 +0000

Congrats on the success! Are you not afraid that MS ships a wiki upgrade at a certain point?

New comment by ph4evers in "Scientist Left OpenAI Last Year. His Startup Is Already Worth $30B"

ph4evers — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:25:37 +0000

Crazy that a reputation without a product can be worth so much.

New comment by ph4evers in "A Postmortem of a Startup"

ph4evers — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:41:18 +0000

Yes but the industry is so rooted and vendor locked that it is extremely hard. People pay for Autodesk, Ansys, comsol etc. because it is proven and engineers are trained to use it. I would not be eager to use something new if I’m a constructor or car manufacturer.

New comment by ph4evers in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

ph4evers — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:08:05 +0000

Keep going! I love Cursor. Don’t let the haters get to you