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New comment by vaylian in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

vaylian — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:30:07 +0000

I found these e-mails always impolite. I knew perfectly well, that they were an automated response that only causes work on my end.

But this HN submission also highlights something else: AI content should be labelled. It is not always obvious that an AI has produced a PR.

New comment by vaylian in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

vaylian — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:14:19 +0000

Covid helped a lot with digitalisation and working from home.

But these things don't get momentum in a vacuum. People need to advocate for them beforehand, so that when the time is right, the decision makers will know who to turn to.

New comment by vaylian in "Dopamine Fracking"

vaylian — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:55:24 +0000

Then e-mail should also be considered social media. We need a better definition.

New comment by vaylian in "Dopamine Fracking"

vaylian — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:34:05 +0000

Why should it? Can I add you as a friend on HN? Can I become your follower? What are the social features that would make HN social media?

New comment by vaylian in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

vaylian — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:33:22 +0000

Trump is POTUS. And Zuckerberg seems to be on good terms with Trump.

New comment by vaylian in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

vaylian — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:46:21 +0000

Over a century, as a matter of fact.

New comment by vaylian in "Bot vs human traffic"

vaylian — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:09:14 +0000

Given how many rounds of captchas I have to fight through, I'm not sure if these numbers are accurate.

New comment by vaylian in "Show HN: DropLock – E2EE secret sharing web app with no backend"

vaylian — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:41:15 +0000

> The private part is saved by this browser as a non-extractable key, so it cannot be exported

Which storage API is used here?

New comment by vaylian in "Why are large language models so terrible at video games?"

vaylian — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:50:42 +0000

LLMs are the wrong tool for video games. There have been plenty of successful non-LLM AIs that have been trained with reinforcement learning to play games.

If you want to implement actual bots inside the game, then you want to use explicit logic instead of inferred logic. It's much more efficient and easier to debug.

If you want to create Bots for an existing game, which doesn't have its own pre-programmed bots, then you should look at other types of AI. See https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/deep-learning/reinforcement-le...

New comment by vaylian in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

vaylian — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:33:04 +0000

> or a printer

Someone else is doing that: https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

New comment by vaylian in "Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

vaylian — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:44:32 +0000

docs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/manage-workflow-r...

New comment by vaylian in "The Green Side of the Lua"

vaylian — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:03:33 +0000

The nice thing about Lua is that it can easily be combined with compiled languages. If you identify the hot path in your program, you can implement them in a more efficient language.

New comment by vaylian in "We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin"

vaylian — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:55:47 +0000

> Latin language should be become the official language of the EU

It would be more practical, if everyone spoke the same language, but the EU does deliberately not want that. The EU wants to preserve language and culture of its member states and regions. "United in Diversity" is an important idea of the EU.

New comment by vaylian in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

vaylian — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:01:05 +0000

How does this work for you UX-wise? Do you use github? Do you and your collaborators select each commit individually inside a pull request?

New comment by vaylian in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

vaylian — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:37:01 +0000

> This allows reviewers to step through your pull request in small bites, with each set of changes scoped to a single aspect of the feature.

Is that a frequent way of reviewing? On GitHub you get shown all changes together in the review tab. You can select individual commits for closer inspection, but where is the benefit?

New comment by vaylian in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

vaylian — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:40:38 +0000

The biggest problem is not the broken commercialization, but the broken attribution. People should be recognized, when they create art. Art is an important way of how we humans express ourselves.

New comment by vaylian in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

vaylian — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:31:20 +0000

> But our leaders are clearly unable to do so.

What should be done then?

New comment by vaylian in "Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git"

vaylian — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:49:37 +0000

I noticed that they moved to a different domain last month: https://radicle.dev/2026/04/23/domain-move

New comment by vaylian in "Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website"

vaylian — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:38:36 +0000

Meta-relevant xkcd: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027014324/http://xkcd.com/

Background info: https://www.downes.ca/post/50539

New comment by vaylian in "Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers"

vaylian — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:56:24 +0000

I'm intrigued. But can the AI part be turned off?