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New comment by suprfnk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

suprfnk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:24:47 +0000

It's really not that hard. There's a lot to learn, but it's doable.

Start here: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/intro...

Or if you're impatient like me you click "Your first 2D game" or "Your first 3D game" in the left bar (whichever you prefer) and go through that -- and skipping back to the intro/step by step when you don't understand something.

By the end of that you'll have made your first game.

From there you just do something extra to it. Mix it up. Start a new project with a different (small) idea. Build small projects until small becomes medium becomes large.

Just like learning anything else, really.

New comment by suprfnk in "The AirPods Effect"

suprfnk — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:29:25 +0000

> you aren't really expected to talk or listen in this scenario

Absolutely bizarre. The cashier is not some sort of robot.

New comment by suprfnk in "Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces"

suprfnk — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:57:04 +0000

Interesting; do you think it’s a net positive for them?

New comment by suprfnk in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

suprfnk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:39:35 +0000

Feels like they’re just surfing the name recognition wave at this point.

New comment by suprfnk in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

suprfnk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:18:36 +0000

A lot, but these I still use a lot

A grocery app tailor made for me and my wife, offline first, seamless instant sync, barcode scanning, GPS/location hints

A macOS native high performance infinite canvas scribbling app for use with my Wacom for thinking through ideas

Lots of stuff for one pretty much finished video game, and currently lots of stuff for my new video game

New comment by suprfnk in "Claude Opus 4.8"

suprfnk — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:51:27 +0000

Why should we say stop?

New comment by suprfnk in "Claude Opus 4.8"

suprfnk — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:37:50 +0000

Agreed, these are my vibes too. It feels much better to do planning and strategy and architecture etc. with Opus 4.7 than GPT-5.5. GPT just feels like a robot that gets instructions and does exactly that. Opus feels like an almost human that sometimes has actually good ideas and pushes back on bad ideas.

So for now its planning/architecture/strategy -> Opus. Pure coding -> GPT.

Helps with agentic coding that GPT is much roomier with the tokens you get.

New comment by suprfnk in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

suprfnk — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:16:53 +0000

Oh, so that was actually a Token Per Second report! Wild!

New comment by suprfnk in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

suprfnk — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:14:48 +0000

I don't think they think. I still use them a lot despite that, because they are very powerful parameterised code generators.

New comment by suprfnk in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

suprfnk — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:29:26 +0000

> to start with a blank canvas and create something that others will value

AI is much faster at taking an idea and creating a working proof of concept than any human I've seen.

Not saying it's good engineering, but leave that to the gardeners.

New comment by suprfnk in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

suprfnk — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:19:03 +0000

But then, if an agent picks the best response, how would you know that that is reliable?

New comment by suprfnk in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

suprfnk — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:15:55 +0000

I also have a small private app that technically could have been a PWA.

It’s not a PWA because the UX is just always inferior. Even though we’ve come really far in browser UIs, the browser is still very clunky compared to the smoothness of a native app.

And I like nice to use software.

New comment by suprfnk in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

suprfnk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:40:16 +0000

And if not losing, the battery dies in 2-3 years, so you'll have to buy new anyway.

New comment by suprfnk in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

suprfnk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:03:22 +0000

No I can confirm this. I am at least an average C# dev, with 16 years of experience.

I have built a very nicely responsive real-time syncing iOS app in what amounts to a weekend of time. (I only have an hour here and there, young kids) I had zero iOS/Swift development experience prior to it.

I can also confirm that this wouldn't have been built if it weren't for Claude Code. It's "just" an improved groceries app, that works especially well for my wife and me.

Without LLM's, and with just an hour here and there, I wouldn't have done the work to learn the intricacies of iOS and Swift dev, set up the app, and actually tweak and polish it so it works well -- just to scratch the itch of a bit better groceries handling.

New comment by suprfnk in "New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?"

suprfnk — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:55:12 +0000

C# pays fine

New comment by suprfnk in "Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years?"

suprfnk — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:22:44 +0000

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

New comment by suprfnk in "Our First Generalist Policy"

suprfnk — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:21:41 +0000

A tiny bit of this is already here: our robot vacuum & mop vacuums and mops the living room, kitchen, and dining room every night at 01:00.

Coming downstairs in the morning to a completely clean floor is definitely a tiny bit of that magic.

New comment by suprfnk in "Apple's risky bet on CarPlay"

suprfnk — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:13:06 +0000

I agree with the sentiment, but: how do you navigate? Especially to unknown places?

New comment by suprfnk in "How Antithesis finds bugs"

suprfnk — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:00:04 +0000

@wwilson How do you define the X/Y "distance" of a non-Mario application? I.e. any (distributed or not) system that doesn't have a relatively trivial "higher x/y is better" fitness function?

New comment by suprfnk in "Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics"

suprfnk — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 18:32:53 +0000

Being by far the most convenient way to travel from home to pretty much any random location.

Speaking from the Netherlands with a relatively good public transit system.