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New comment by sech8420 in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

sech8420 — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:27:27 +0000

Awe, why I love hacker news. This game was my childhood! I played it again recently on an emulator and was astounded how much easier it was. Made it to Damian without losing a single race. That seemed impossible at age 10.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:52:06 +0000

"5 years ago" - you may be right but this is also very debatable.

We've used Hunyuan 3D and while better than Trellis in most cases, it was no where near the type of quality we would and have gotten from a $500 human touch. This is within the last year. And I would very much argue that 5 years ago the $500 model would still win.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:49:07 +0000

Yes the tech will catch up but a clean svg and a clean glb are so vastly different from one another that it's hardly worth making the comparison.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:27:32 +0000

That’s a fair point. I know a few foremen who use photogrammetry religiously for site surveys and volume tracking where 'lumpy' geometry doesn't matter. It’s a huge win for that niche. But yes, 3D has been lagging behind and I'm having a really hard time guestimating when it's good enough for high quality product models.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:23:42 +0000

Precisely. Until the AI can 'one-shot' the topology and the UVs, it’s not a shortcut but rather a more power intensive way to generate technical debt.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:17:05 +0000

"We've seen this with photogrammetry before" - I do not believe we have. It's progressed but even a good scan is still not close to being something you would put on a legitimate eCommerce product page.

I honestly hope you are right and that I'm full of copium. Truly. But the progression has been nowhere near as fast as code, text, image, or video generation. And as it stood 2 years ago vs now is the same conclusion - unusable slop for most use cases.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:10:53 +0000

I really like this framing of 'Internal Agency.' In 3D, that lack of a 'Seed' is exactly why a model fails when you try to animate it. A human modeler understands that a joint needs extra edge loops to bend correctly. It has 'intent' for the model's future. The AI, performing a 'Statistical Harvest,' only cares that the surface looks right in a static frame. It provides the 'Illusion of Completeness' but none of the functional DNA required for a production environment.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:09:34 +0000

Touché. Though if the current 'eCommerce Standard' is 'dropshipped junk that looks slightly better than a hallucination,' then I’ll happily die on the hill of being over-confident.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:07:44 +0000

In no capacity do these create clean topo, textures, and uvs. If you do not believe me, use the reference image from the post and upload it to Meshy or Tripo and see what happens. Yes, slightly better than the open source Trellis, but still nearly impossible to work with and a model you would never put on any slightly serious eCommerce site.

We've tried them all. If one existed, it would save us money, speed up our pipeline, and trust me we'd be using it.

New comment by sech8420 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

sech8420 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:03:52 +0000

"High-quality code can be a joy to extend and build upon." I love the analogy here. It is a perfect parallel to how a good 3D model is a delight to extend. Some of the better modelers we've worked with return a model that is so incredibly lightweight, easily modifiable, and looks like the real thing that I am amazed each time.

The good thing about 3D slop vs. code slop is that it is so much easier to spot at first glance. A sloppy model immediately looks sloppy to nearly any untrained eye. But on closer look at the mesh, UVs, and texture, a trained eye is able to spot just how sloppy it truly is. Whereas with code, the untrained eye will have no idea how bad that code truly is. And as we all know now, this is creating an insane amount of security vulnerabilities in production.

An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop

sech8420 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:05:15 +0000

Article URL: https://aircada.com/blog/ai-vs-human-3d-ecommerce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157841

Points: 143

# Comments: 76

New comment by sech8420 in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

sech8420 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:56:50 +0000

Awesome concept, but loading took 30 seconds and too many studders/lag on my phone.

11/10 creativity.

New comment by sech8420 in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

sech8420 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:14:17 +0000

Same exact time for us as well.

Azure major outage: Portal, Front Door and global regions down

sech8420 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:05:52 +0000

Just started ~5 minutes ago: multiple global regions report that Azure is offline — portal won’t load (even cached), Front Door services unreachable, CDN failing — US East/Central, West US, Netherlands, UK, Italy, NZ all reporting issues. Status pages still show green. Heads up to anyone on Azure. Last week AWS, now this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748756

Points: 93

# Comments: 3

New comment by sech8420 in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

sech8420 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:19:37 +0000

I stopped being a fan of slack long ago. Such better and free alternatives.

New comment by sech8420 in "GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire"

sech8420 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:03:32 +0000

"Some people think the GenAI bomb is going to kill GenAI,"

Sure, a very very small percentage of people who know hardly anything about GenAI might think this.

New comment by sech8420 in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"

sech8420 — Wed, 21 May 2025 04:41:50 +0000

First test is... very confusing - https://x.com/Seancheno/status/1925049073230372980

New comment by sech8420 in "[dead]"

sech8420 — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:52:46 +0000

After more than a decade working with 3D graphics on the web, nothing has been more fun or magical to play with than transmission, IOR, and bump/env maps (thank you Three.js and now WebGPU).

I put together this rough diamond configurator so you can try it yourself.

Hope you enjoy!

New comment by sech8420 in "Show HN: Aircada – Create interactive 3D content for the web"

sech8420 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:23:04 +0000

Working on it! Thanks for the nudge.

New comment by sech8420 in "Show HN: Aircada – Create interactive 3D content for the web"

sech8420 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:09:34 +0000

That is confusing. We'll get this fixed by creating camera presets that combine multiple effect cards! Thank you.