Hacker News: richardjam73

New comment by richardjam73 in "The Functional Programming Hiring Problem"

richardjam73 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:25:17 +0000

I dabbled in F# which is quite good but I think the future belongs to mainstream languages adopting functional features.

New comment by richardjam73 in "NVIDIA's new DLSS 5 drops with uncanny AI filters"

richardjam73 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:58:24 +0000

The backlash against this is so strong that I can see Nvidia canning this version.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Ask HN: How to Learn C++ in 2026?"

richardjam73 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:08:20 +0000

I use the Back to Basic videos from CPP con. You can find playlists of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NReDubvNjRg&list=PLHTh1Inhhw...

Those are from 2023 but they have others if you search on their youtube page

The Cherno has a intro to cpp series as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18c3MTX0PK0&list=PLlrATfBNZ9...

New comment by richardjam73 in ""This Is Not the Computer for You" Debunked"

richardjam73 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:13:20 +0000

I feel that this article just reinforces my view that the original article was correct.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Ask HN: What is thick black row above top of header?"

richardjam73 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:06:03 +0000

Its used to indicate that someone of importance to the community has died.

New comment by richardjam73 in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

richardjam73 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:24:53 +0000

Verbosity doesn't equate to correctness.

New comment by richardjam73 in "ESafety commissioner wins two-day injunction against X over violent content"

richardjam73 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:59:39 +0000

But it is not really blocked in Australia though it is only geo blocked. People using VPNs can still see it in Australia.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Ask HN: How to model interplanetary light delays in a game?"

richardjam73 — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:28:37 +0000

I would probably do it via raycasting. You don't need to calculate all of the information sent just one ray per entity (ship, missile). project those rays through the battlefield and see if they collide at the correct time.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Warn HN: DuckDuckGo is doing AI summaries for search results now?"

richardjam73 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 01:20:25 +0000

It is appears to be pulling random text segments from the page because I got text that included Steam Communities censorship. The text appears exactly the same as on the page so it is not autosummarised.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Scotland apologised for forced adoptions – but this happened throughout the UK"

richardjam73 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:17:20 +0000

Happened in Australia as well. Makes me wonder just how widespread it was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_adoption_in_Australia

New comment by richardjam73 in "Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents?"

richardjam73 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 06:48:39 +0000

"hey go book me a place for drinks tonight in Peckham, it needs to have food and not be insanely busy"

The information needed to answer this request often just doesn't exist on the web. Often the true answer is obscured by lies. Personal agents don't have the ability to perform due diligence in a web of lies.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Apex Legends finals postponed after suffering unprecedented hack"

richardjam73 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:39:18 +0000

Those exploits require a client to connect to a hacked server, but Apex Legends has dedicated servers. You can't just randomly hack a client on the network. So it is not likely an RCE unless EA themselves got hacked.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Command And Conquer: Red Alert 2 remaster on the horizon"

richardjam73 — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 06:13:09 +0000

"After the launch of the first C&C Remastered Collection,"

I read that to mean that the C&C Remastered Collection is of the first games (C&C 1 and Red Alert 1) not that it is the first Remastered Collection (Remastered Collection 1).

Unfortunately this is just a rumour.

New comment by richardjam73 in "The Simplest Math Problem Could Be Unsolvable"

richardjam73 — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:13:43 +0000

I would have thought that the actual simplest math problem was to prove that 1+1=2 not the collatz conjecture.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Soviet Union 2.0 (2017)"

richardjam73 — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:44:15 +0000

If you simplify things enough, then those things will tend to look similar.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Dune Part 2 Response Is Less About the Movie and More About Hollywood's Problems"

richardjam73 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:41:26 +0000

Dune Part 2 is an excellent adaption but all adaptions of Dune are ultimatley inferior to the books. I was actually disappointed when I was watching it but I could see how it was trying to tell the story. The story is just way too complex and has too many things going on to adapt to movies or tv.

New comment by richardjam73 in "Criticism of Computer Game Journalism"

richardjam73 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:38:50 +0000

"While 80s and 90s computer game journalism can be criticized for this and that shortcoming, at least it led the way and broke new ground. Some of it was even great. In terms of form, content and integrity, 80s and 90s computer game journalism is head-and-shoulders above the gibberish that is all-too-common in the 2020s."

I read a lot of game reviews from the 80s and 90s and most of it is not very good. Writers were not given enough time or space to do a proper job. I think the author of this piece is letting nostalgia override rationality here. They do make a good point about rubbish being more visible today. However this can often be mitigated by good curation by the user. Curation you had to apply in the past but just in different ways

New comment by richardjam73 in "Ask HN: How the AI companies collect data to train models?"

richardjam73 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:44:17 +0000

They use datasets like common crawl.

Games from 1975 Charted the Course of Roleplaying Games [video]

richardjam73 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:05:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzvpXBJELA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570545

Points: 1

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New comment by richardjam73 in "LLM-generated docs are usually worthless"

richardjam73 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:48:45 +0000

I remember older Microsoft documentation being just like that.