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New comment by robotnikman in "Suno v6 released for music creation"

robotnikman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:56:24 +0000

>I'm also in disbelief that not one music streaming service has implemented a system that weeds out ALL generated content.

I've been using the SkipIfFake app since apparently the streaming services won't do something similar to identify AI music. It will automatically skip any AI generated music for you if it plays.

New comment by robotnikman in "iPod Classic 6G in QEMU"

robotnikman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:14:15 +0000

Oh nice! There were 2 games I loved playing on my iPod Nano I would love to try again

-Spore, basically the first phase of PC Spore game, was still fun though.

-This one game which was like guitar hero, but used the clickwheel and would automatically generate tracks from your songs.

New comment by robotnikman in "Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived"

robotnikman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:04:17 +0000

Tbh I kinda enjoyed writing essays in college if the topic was interesting.

New comment by robotnikman in "Show HN: Bodily Oddities"

robotnikman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:54:03 +0000

Random chest pains like you describe cause so much anxiety for me. And yet every time it turns out to be nothing.

New comment by robotnikman in "I have a theory that software drives people insane"

robotnikman — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:24:55 +0000

Man I wish I was born 20 years earlier so I could be working in the golden age of developers like this (and also buy a home at a decent price)

Japan's 'killing stone' splits in two (2022)

robotnikman — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:02:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/japans-killing-stone-splits-in-two-releasing-superstitions-and-toxic-gases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635816

Points: 5

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New comment by robotnikman in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

robotnikman — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:22:25 +0000

>This reminds me of a mod for Rimworld that adds in other people's failed colonies and decays the structure making a real ruins from other people's playthroughs of the game. Awesome concept

This sounds like it would be a great mod for Factorio. Adds other players factories but in a dilapidated and decayed state.

New comment by robotnikman in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

robotnikman — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:21:18 +0000

I actually created a Minecraft server plugin a long time ago which did this. It allowed server owners to create their own dungeons/buildings/etc and they would generate randomly in the world. It even supported custom procedural generated dungeons and structures.

New comment by robotnikman in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

robotnikman — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:17:21 +0000

I feel like this is where AI would come in handy. An AI can get a lot more 'creative' than a procedural generation algorithm.

New comment by robotnikman in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

robotnikman — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:49:18 +0000

Thats the nice thing about alternate frontends like Nitter, if the main instance goes down you can just clone the repo and make your own very easily, or choose from one of the many alternate instances out there.

I highly recommend the extension libredirect, which will redirect you to instances of your choice (or just stick with the defaults). It doesn't just work for Twitter/X, but also Reddit, Tiktok, Youtube, and many others

Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ Chromium Instructions - https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

New comment by robotnikman in "A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's"

robotnikman — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:43:14 +0000

My bad, didn't mean to derail things with my little quip, for what its worth I did read the article and it was an interesting read. Overall I do hope for more smaller models in the future which I can run on my 3090 that deliver similar performance, or for hardware costs to drop in the next few years to prosumer levels.

New comment by robotnikman in "How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)"

robotnikman — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:33:00 +0000

Not sure why this comment by KurSix is marked dead:

>What stands out to me is that the real transfer wasn't a specific ingredient or recipe, it was institutional knowledge: how to engineer repeat consumption and then market the hell out of it

But this really is the gist of it. The execs from the Tobacco industry saw the writing on the wall, and moved over to the food industry where the knowledge of making things addictive to consume was applied to food.

New comment by robotnikman in "I wanna live an NPC life"

robotnikman — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:02:31 +0000

>Being nothing special is quite different.

Related, I would also recommend the book "The courage to be disliked"

New comment by robotnikman in "A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's"

robotnikman — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:44:20 +0000

Now if only I could afford 8 RTX PRO 6000's

New comment by robotnikman in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

robotnikman — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:46:34 +0000

>Eat a teaspoonful, and you might feel pleasantly warm and slightly lightheaded. Eat more than a few tablespoons, and your heart rate can drop to life-threatening levels.

Reminds me of the Futurama episode with the space bee honey. Wonder if the writers got the inspiration from this.

New comment by robotnikman in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

robotnikman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:51:03 +0000

IIRC a decade ago Samsung smart TV's were found doing this.

New comment by robotnikman in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

robotnikman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:45:14 +0000

Another reason to use your own Wifi router and modem

New comment by robotnikman in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

robotnikman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:39:56 +0000

>You know what? There's really nothing good to watch on TV anyways. If Hollywood has to subsidize the television industry just to keep its base, it doesn't have any money to invest in anything new. Every channel just wants to brainwash you. So throwing the Flat Panel into the garbage might be a good idea anyways.

Definitely have to agree with the author on that. Only use for a TV for me is for playing on the Steam Machine.

New comment by robotnikman in "Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map"

robotnikman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:53:35 +0000

As a big W40K fan, holy shit this is awesome!

New comment by robotnikman in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

robotnikman — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:24:57 +0000

I still have nostalgia for Window 95 and 98, they were the OS's I grew up with as a kid