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New comment by wilbur_whateley in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

wilbur_whateley — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:55:06 +0000

How did he punish them?

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek"

wilbur_whateley — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:23:36 +0000

My own experience. I'm working on something complex that's not in the datasets these models were trained on. There I see V4 flash breaking down and hallucinating much more often than GPT/Claude. For normal, common tasks, I also don't see much of a difference.

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek"

wilbur_whateley — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:31 +0000

V4 flash is much worse than any Claude model. If you're doing something simple, it can be a good way to save money though.

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

wilbur_whateley — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:45:46 +0000

Working on Nichess (chess with health points) - https://www.nichess.org/

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "Turning chess into a roguelike via design first principles"

wilbur_whateley — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:38:58 +0000

If you like this, you might find Nichess interesting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947041

Adding health points to chess gives you a lot more options for balancing and abilities.

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "Show HN: Nichess – Chess with Health Points"

wilbur_whateley — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:21:19 +0000

Games from that time had so much soul. I wish I were better at the art side of things.

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "Show HN: Nichess – Chess with Health Points"

wilbur_whateley — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:06:29 +0000

You're right, I'll add that. You remember them after playing for some time, but it is useful for a new player.

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "Show HN: Nichess – Chess with Health Points"

wilbur_whateley — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:06:53 +0000

Yes! Special abilities (Queen-Maenad and Pirate-Pirate) deal 20 damage to neighboring pieces. The only difference between 10 HP pieces and 30 HP pieces is that 30 HP pieces can survive that.

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "Show HN: Nichess – Chess with Health Points"

wilbur_whateley — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:53:44 +0000

AI playing Nichess 1 against itself - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN0TnHkszmgQSnFrvF_ANIzX8...

Show HN: Nichess – Chess with Health Points

wilbur_whateley — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:51:24 +0000

Hi, I've been making a game like chess where pieces have special abilities and health points. This allows for much finer balancing and many more variants compared to regular chess. For example, pieces can push or pull other pieces, deal area of effect (AOE) damage, have lots of health points and be difficult to destroy, use ranged attacks, etc.

There is no video explaining all the rules, but the current version is very similar to chess. These are the main things you need to know:

1) Standard attack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhGNNlnM7K8

2) Special abilities - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbE_jL7RB0E

Here's the link - https://www.nichess.org/ (you can try it without making an account, just start a new game).

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947041

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New comment by wilbur_whateley in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

wilbur_whateley — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:29:22 +0000

Claude with Sonnet medium effort just used 100% of my session limit, some extra dollars, thought for 53 minutes, and said:

API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output token maximum. To configure this behavior, set the CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS environment variable.

New comment by wilbur_whateley in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

wilbur_whateley — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:36:57 +0000

Working on https://www.nichess.org/

Nichess is a game like chess, where pieces have special abilities and health points. This allows for much finer balancing and many more variants compared to the original chess. It will take some time, but it will become great eventually.