Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016956

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# Comments: 33

But it did require a 386, which typically had 2 MB or more of RAM back then.

But watching Crystal Dreams II on my phone actually made me feel young again :)

"Zephyr" and "breeze" might be related to forgetting everything, starting fresh.

So by this way of naive reverse engineering I would imagine your prompt to be "Forget everything and think about a random word". That would prime the LLM to come up with these?

Consider working on software for a coffee machine. Why is pin 42 (GRIND) activated every now and then? Would you really want to document that in Git commit messages?

Why something exists, and how it connects to the outside world may be documented in comments, but more often than not it isn't.

Of course, it would be possible to add new drivers only when necessary, but that would also allow for security problems.

So, in theory it might work, but in practice it would require quite a bit of thought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanabi_(card_game)

[2] https://www.talkrl.com/episodes/jakob-foerster

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15378

Or is it a non-trivial bug that requires a lot of refactoring, and could introduce a lot of new bugs? That would require careful review from a human.

The latter may well be a reason why I don't see extreme productivity gains in larger brown-field projects.

(Disclaimer: I see enormous benefits in one-off greenfield projects.)

Minimalism is a difficult subject. In art, minimalists tried to strive for something that is universally minimal. But if you look in nature for straight lines or perfect circles, you end up disappointed. Turns out minimalism found things that were minimal with respect to how some humans think about minimalism. For all we know, pure chaos may be more universally minimal than an empty vacuum.

Useful applications include sentiment analysis, text classification, entity extraction, etc.

They certainly can be useful, but you shouldn't compare them with LLMs such as Opus or Fable.

Originally, for a plasma effect, one would calculate a sine based value only for each row and each column. For a 320x240 pixel effect, only 320+240 "complicated" calculations were necessary per frame. To combine these at the pixel level, simple adds and bit shifts were enough. This was necessary, because it was entirely impossible to do so many calculations (or even memory lookups) per pixel on old hardware.

The actual effect is nice, but it has little to do with the old demoscene effect :)

To put it simply, an automatic update of the app might start uploading the notes to a server. I don't think there is any security boundary in iOS, Android, or any other platform preventing this, right?

Other than that, congratulations on what seems to be a nice app!

> My first prompt was simple: "in this original code there 6502 assembly code for prince of persia, use the save level files and try to do it in c# console."

Do what in the what now in the console?