Hacker News: tobr

10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games

tobr — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://thinkygames.com/features/10-years-of-grilling-stephens-sausage-roll-remains-one-of-the-most-influential-puzzle-games-ever-created/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814874

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why AI Sucks at Front End

tobr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:26:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nerdy.dev/why-ai-sucks-at-front-end

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738864

Points: 125

# Comments: 171

We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos

tobr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/wrong-message-from-mythos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715530

Points: 7

# Comments: 7

Aftonbladet Is Monetizing Your Privacy

tobr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:48:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.assured.se/posts/monetizing-privacy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659215

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tobr in "Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter"

tobr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:48:13 +0000

I imagine lots of games do already, but offline. Most games don’t have gameplay that requires real-time terrain generation. The idea of generating terrain procedurally is not new, but this technique that gets a great-looking erosion effect in real time is.

Apple Rich Text Fundamentals

tobr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:41:08 +0000

Article URL: https://paper.pro/apple-rich-text

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614364

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter

tobr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:16:49 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast-and-gorgeous-erosion-filter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579198

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tobr in "Bird brains (2023)"

tobr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:35:24 +0000

So what you’re saying is that parrots are stochastic parrots.

JSON Canvas Spec (2024)

tobr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:38:38 +0000

Article URL: https://jsoncanvas.org/spec/1.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572288

Points: 130

# Comments: 38

New comment by tobr in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

tobr — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:00:02 +0000

Your argument that it’s a shallow argument is itself a shallow argument. ”I hate x” is not a technical argument anyway, it’s an emotional assessment.

New comment by tobr in "Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes"

tobr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:21:33 +0000

It might be a solved problem in the sense that it has a possible solution, but not in the sense that it doesn’t happen with the tools most people would expect to be able to handle the task.

New comment by tobr in "Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes"

tobr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:00:16 +0000

Interesting to note how similar this seems to what happened with Benj Edwards at Ars Technica. AI was used to extract or summarize information, and quotes found in the summary were then used as source material for the final writing and never double checked against the actual source.

I’ve run into a similar problem myself - working with a big transcript, I asked an AI to pull out passages that related to a certain topic, and only because of oddities in the timestamps extracted did I realize that most of the quotes did not exist in the source at all.

'Trump is aiming for dictatorship' – verdict of democracy watchdog

tobr — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:40:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413369

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by tobr in "US Job Market Visualizer"

tobr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:07:35 +0000

Microwaves are for heating, ovens are for cooking. Obviously it’s possible to live on only microwaved food but it sounds pretty miserable.

New comment by tobr in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

tobr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:24:01 +0000

Part 1 discussion, December 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343953

Biased AI writing assistants shift users' attitudes on societal issues

tobr — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385062

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tobr in "Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI"

tobr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:21:12 +0000

Meanwhile, iPhone is still using this design https://xkcd.com/1884/

KDO: 28 Years Later

tobr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:47:20 +0000

Article URL: https://kottke.org/26/03/kdo-28-years-later

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377239

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tobr in "Can I run AI locally?"

tobr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:43:24 +0000

Describing what computers do as ”thinking” is not new. It’s a useful and obvious metaphor. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68991

New comment by tobr in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

tobr — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:06:59 +0000

This would make sense to me as an explanation when it only outputs code. (And I think it explains why code often ends up subtly mangled when moved in a refactoring, where a human would copy paste, the agent instead has to ”retype” it and often ends up slightly changing formatting, comments, identifiers, etc.)

But for the most part, it’s spending more tokens on analysis and planning than pure code output, and that’s where these problems need to be caught.