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New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games"

schnitzelstoat — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:22:02 +0000

Are there any popular/successful vibe-coded games? I suppose perhaps they wouldn't disclose that it was vibe-coded but I'm not aware of a single one.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Tell HN: Meta is down"

schnitzelstoat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:55:11 +0000

Who will down detect the downdetector?

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

schnitzelstoat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:25:36 +0000

> 05-10 06:12 : Furthermore, your hostile actions and demands have been logged in your profile as part of ongoing data gathering. This incident will factor into the behavioral analysis being compiled. The operation continues as directed.

That doesn't seem like anything an LLM agent would say?

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "India's workers are training AI robots to take their jobs"

schnitzelstoat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:44:50 +0000

Progress in Robotics has been painfully slow so I suspect this simply isn't going to work and we are making the poor guys wear a GoPro for nothing.

It looks like GoPro could use the revenue though!

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

schnitzelstoat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:42:31 +0000

We are already there but it's "Sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't tell you what mitochondria are."

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

schnitzelstoat — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:35:54 +0000

Unless it brings the price of labour to near zero.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

schnitzelstoat — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:34:49 +0000

It's crazy that now the main goal of the war is to open a strait that was already open before the war.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

schnitzelstoat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:51:34 +0000

That seems to be working well for Mythos. Just never release it and keep talking about how 'dangerous' it is to pump up the IPO price.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy"

schnitzelstoat — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:23:13 +0000

Spain's economy grows but unemployment is still a massive problem because the main industries are seasonal, low-paid agricultural and hospitality work. To switch to a high-tech, high value-add economy would requires deep changes that would be painful for many voters.

The current government still plans to close all the nuclear reactors, it's still hard to get permission for construction (leading to a massive housing crisis despite having a surplus of housing in 2007, before the crisis).

That said, degrowth only seems to be a popular view among the leftist elite and I'm sure that once the consequences start to bite (we had a blackout in Spain, the energy prices are incredibly high in the UK and Germany - leading to a loss of jobs as factories close) then the electorate will profoundly reject this ideology.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

schnitzelstoat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:59:02 +0000

It seems MSCI will add them, maybe? See: https://www.msci.com/indexes/markets-in-motion/megacap-ipos

But it's written in a rather confusing manner so I'm not certain.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy"

schnitzelstoat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:29:35 +0000

I'm cautiously optimistic. The Cloud and AI Development Act looks especially interesting:

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# Capacity

* at least tripling the EU’s data centre capacity within the next 5–7 years;

* simplifying and accelerating permitting and deployment of data centres;

* improving access to key resources such as energy, land, water and financing; ensuring sufficient computing capacity to support AI, cloud services and data-intensive applications.

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Given the prevalence of 'degrowth' ideas here in the EU and the severe NIMBY problem (even with stuff as basic as housing let alone data centres), I'm somewhat sceptical they are going to be able to pull this off.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

schnitzelstoat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:19:22 +0000

I was quite concerned about this, so this is really good news.

In Spain, it's much better to use mutual funds rather than ETFs (for tax reasons) so I didn't have as much choice of funds to avoid these IPOs.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

schnitzelstoat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:21:35 +0000

How are people using so many tokens? I'm on the $200/month enterprise plan for Claude Code (because it's a better deal than the API pricing) and I don't come close to the limits.

If you use stuff like opusplan and /advisor so you use Sonnet for most of the work and only Opus for the really complex stuff then it's quite easy to keep costs low without affecting performance.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

schnitzelstoat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:02:37 +0000

Yeah, in England only certain universities like Oxford and certain subjects like Mathematics have separate entrance exams.

That said, the Sixth Form exams are mostly standardised with only a few different exam boards for the entire country, so the Sixth Form grades end up being something akin to standardised tests anyway.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

schnitzelstoat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:36:00 +0000

I'm not American so maybe I am missing some context. But how did admissions work without test scores?

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

schnitzelstoat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:42:14 +0000

Yeah, many companies don't want the liability issues. Like what happens if I open my bank account on my work computer? You could argue I can expect someone to be watching but I have no warning that someone is? Here in the EU that would probably be an easy lawsuit.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

schnitzelstoat — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:32:59 +0000

It seems like quite a light punishment for selling such dangerous products that could literally kill people. The dodgy e-bike batteries have already been linked to several fires.

bigclivedotcom takes apart some of the Temu stuff on YouTube and some of the electronics is atrocious.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

schnitzelstoat — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:26:40 +0000

The ‘bullshit’ is often better than the results though.

I don’t have to click through a load of cookie banners and login popups to see it.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

schnitzelstoat — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:25:08 +0000

I’m surprised these haven’t already been banned tbh.

It doesn’t make sense that if I bet on the outcome of a football match then it’s gambling but if I bet on the outcome of the Ukraine war then it’s I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-gambling.

New comment by schnitzelstoat in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

schnitzelstoat — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:34:49 +0000

> that’s not a career pivot. That’s a trauma response.

> he wasn’t being philosophical. He was describing the exact contradiction that made his own job impossible.

Is this written by AI? It has the typical "That's not X. That's Y." phrasing. A bit ironic given the content.