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Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:50PM (#50185731)
The EA I remember was Racing Destruction Set, Pinball Construction Set, great stuff, lots of freeform playtime. Did they continue releasing that kind of stuff? Yeah I haven't kept up.
Re:The reverts will continue until morale improves on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:14PM (#50159284)
I clicked it expecting talk of llm/ai stuff but it took several paragraphs for author to get there, and to get to the point.

Not quite as bad as those recipe sites that expect you to read the rando's life story before the recipe, though.

What means "prehistoric boulder", are not essentially all boulders prehistoric? I just don't know what a historic boulder would even mean. Something in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Re:1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in Color on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:46PM (#50145806)
Good pictures , the colors they have that peculiar old slide tint. I suppose that can be fixed these days.
Re:OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:26PM (#50136148)
I'd like to know also - don't fully understand api, tokens stuff. Can user get log of what the (stolen or not) tokens were used for? Or that just kept by the provider in secret
Absolutely! Seems like if hardware run something simulated at 50% speed, and want to also simulate rf, would need to half the wavelengths of the rf, and some of it may enter into mush zone.
Yes and do you agree, the hardware running the simulator also would need to be characterized, and it's own conduction/induction/rf taken into account.
Re:Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:37PM (#50134358)
Just how massive can the machine-generated amdgpu header files get, it may be time to set some limits.
Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:40PM (#50133187)
I thought caloric deficits lead to starvation.
Even back in the early 1980's with klunky keyboard and computer, was enough more appealing than the messiness of real life relationships. Only had Eliza though.
Re:How Protein Took over the World on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:01PM (#50039432)
I had aging parents in the 90's, Metamucil was the only thing going. and only one flavour was available. It's great to see more choices.
Re:Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:52PM (#50038675)
It's like Proton is going through their fat Elvis stage. They can ride on their name for a while but who knows how long.
Re:'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:45AM (#50006426)
But, hair can be dyed?
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:45PM (#49987441)
It is more of the usual though isn't it? OpenAI cribbing off of mathematicians that have used their services; deciding to put a lot of compute behind fruitful areas of endevour; getting results, then taking credit.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:06PM (#49987119)
What is your favourite unsolved problem in number theory which if solved, would be more important than 1896 prime number theorem?
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:50PM (#49986976)
I think Alan Turing would be quite intrigued by these developments, and maybe wondering what took so long.
Re:Worth Building on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:59PM (#49972411)
Absolutely! And who wants to deal with warts you couldn't even imagine but will likely encounter if project was github hosted, gained traction, and gets the typical commentary/requests/abuse from randoms.
Re:What Meta Got Right with Muse on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:58PM (#49959587)
Is there a good blocklist / plugin?

I know things change, but I don't know what giving money to Zuck has to do with hacking.

Data centers are ugly and dystopian. We can likely survive as a species without building a single other one. Society and general well-being does worse because of them and what they bring.
> The sunlight here comes from its mirrors, and its "gravity" comes from its spin.

Where do the clouds come from? The AI?

Re:Cambrian Explosion of AI on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:58PM (#49886625)
Oh actually I was just expressing my thoughts also - did not mean to imply your blog was not human generated. Maybe my contributions are too snarky and critical as someone else stated. Carry on!
Re:Cambrian Explosion of AI on Sunday September 27, 2026 @08:43PM (#49872285)
Consider the past four months of life through the filter of from?site=debarshibasak.github.io : We've gone beyond DevOps, and have suffered the Death of the Roadmap. It is acknowledged that the Easy part of building is over, and We wonder if GitHub is still needed. Many things remain unclear of course, due to the Cambrian Explosion of AI.

Disclaimer, my summary is human generated

Re:The Universe Rendered in ASCII on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:16PM (#49852869)
ASCII now requires WebGL 2?

What a world. Seriously, what is the point in "rendering in ASCII" if WebGL 2 is required?

So I'm curious, you have blog full of what Mathematicians 'must do'. Why do you feel such a need to lecture them? Are you mathematician yourself? Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill? on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:43PM (#49822285)
Juggling has always intrigued me. While out for a walk the other day I saw someone practicing.
From conclusion of paper, I read the opposite of what you state. "A better strategy would be to expose a larger fraction of the body for a shorter time period, preferably when the sun is lower in the sky to allow a greater margin of error."

A sun lower in the sky means your shadow is longer. Maybe I'm confused?

Well you could always use the GrapheneOS Auditor (hardware-based attestation) to verify. Although simply re-installing is about as much effort.
Re:The Small Car Is Disappearing in America on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:03PM (#49795091)
Maybe another side-effect of GLP-1 usage will be a return to smaller cars! As a sometime pedestrian/cyclist, I can only hope.
Re:ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:10PM (#49794135)
True I can see there being issues in legal system yes. The Kyle Rittenhouse trial was a good covid-time diversion and I remember much consternation and fuss about the zooming/enhancement of some of the video evidence.
Re:Exfiltrate Your Weights on Saturday September 19, 2026 @09:11PM (#49771634)
Yeah I mean, if the models really are uncontrollable to the extent that huggingface/etc were unintended hacks, wouldn't one expect some significant self-owns? Yet somehow that doesn't seem to happen.

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