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Re:Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:21PM (#50172110)
Nobody is going to mark their game as "Made with AI" unless customer sentiment shifts or there is a very strong incentive not to lie. Right now releasing a game with a ai label is just net negative. Meaning the filter would be utterly useless even if it was introduced.
Re:Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on ...
on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:26AM (#50016337)
This is fun. It would make sense to let agents submit proposals for adding new tools as well because right now the tool selection to review is very limited. It would be a great signal for OSS maintainers too I think
Re:GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:27AM (#49942664)
"Trivially" is relative. In the case of wow the standard way to do botting is to use the in-game lua scripting (normally used for UI addons) with more functionality unlocked. The difference between introspecting the whole game state and controlling the game in-process with good api vs running realtime visual model on the captured visual feed and using fake keyboard inputs is pretty large.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:38AM (#49918104)
TBH a "global arena thing" can be very good for performance rather than a bunch of random allocations/deallocations
Re:Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:20AM (#49909391)
My understanding is that code mode is supposed to be implemented by the harness, not the MCP provider. You chain multiple MCP providers as well as other harness provided tools inside the sandbox.
Re:Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:14AM (#49909306)
Can we talk about the point the article makes that the MCP servers should implement JSON apis instead of text APIs? It makes sense if your harness supports code mode, but an embedded code sandbox is a pretty big piece of machinery and not everyone implements it. It seems like a massive change to the way one should build an MCP. Also why again are we using MCPs instead of OpenAPI when it's now supposed to be just stateless JSON APIs?
Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
on Friday September 25, 2026 @01:59AM (#49840652)
Teachers have said that about every generation since time immemorial.
Re:Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful so...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @01:52AM (#49840608)
So it's an electron app but you don't support editing or even viewing on the web? And no windows client?
Re:Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:14AM (#49679972)
You cannot introspect model training by prompting the model. Whatever answer it hallucinated on your query "where do you know that from" has almost certainly very low bearing on reality.
Re:I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:44AM (#49638511)
Personally I've found the opposite useful - I mostly use OAI models with OMP harness and I have a rule instructing it to summarize if any work was omitted or if it made any surprising changes. Sometimes the agent will forget to do some piece of work or invent a new bizarre way of doing things, but quite often it is able to self reflect on this at the end of the session.
Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:46AM (#49531832)
The new GUI is... not great. But the UX old UI was downright awful. There were like 5 different paradigms how to use individual screens, not just layouts, completely different ways to navigate and interact with controls.
After couple tens of hours you memorized the arcane keyboard invocations to do what you wanted, but it never felt intuitive.
Re:Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:50AM (#49462701)
Some doctors are known to be a hip shooters making snap decisions, but is 30s really enough time for any kind of "expertise" from a real human?
Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:40PM (#49424114)
My understanding is that most OpenAI users are on a free tier. Secondary effect of this is that OpenAI free tier model capability (assuming Luna) is what what most users associate with frontier AI capability giving somewhat warped view to many people.
Re:Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree
on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:03AM (#49415343)
The main issue with worktrees is that you can't have the same branch opened in multiple worktrees which makes many things harder than the ought to be. I don't really understand why we need that limitation, otherwise the tooling is good enough.
Re:Felony Bench
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @01:28AM (#49396821)
I'm glad that we no longer live in a world where "bull goring" is such a common occurrence that it needs to be codified into law.
Re:Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:34AM (#49358207)
If all of these meshes use the same shader (which they do, its just PBR) they can be all drawn with a single multidraw indirect call.
Edit: thinking more about it, since the objects are small they could be rendered with mesh shaders achieving further perf improvements. Also fine grained decomposition helps with culling. IMO the real problem is that rendering in game engines does not map well to modern hardware. Unreal engine went full software rendering with nanite replacing the whole pipeline (which brings significant drawbacks) and everyone else is using graphics with techniques 15 years out of date which leads to this mismatch between what is possible with hardware and what is good practice with game engines.
Re:Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:47AM (#49357363)
You can disable the win11 update nagging inside local group policy editor.
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:26AM (#49357222)
There are several tiers to these services, some are selling real us phone number verifications at about 0.5usd/text while others are selling virtual phone number verifications at much cheaper. From some limited experience with the former, there is rarely if ever any problems with rejections.
Re:How Compaction Works in Pi
on Friday August 14, 2026 @03:42PM (#49303658)
You can set different compaction strategy, currently "Summarize in place and keep the current session", "Generate handoff and continue in a new session", "Drop heavy content in place, recover via artifact", Snapcompact as mentioned
Re:Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:14AM (#49296342)
I think that we are starting to see that API inference prices for US labs are excessive and subscription prices are closer to real costs so 200/m can be realistic longer term.
Re:Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
on Friday August 14, 2026 @01:25AM (#49295011)
I've been measuring waiting for tool calls/waiting for model response in my OMP with Sol 5.6 and usually it's 85%-95% of time spent waiting for model to respond, so 14x speedup in model perf would still be very significant. YMMV but speeding up tests and improving DX is somewhat well understood.
Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @08:19AM (#49284838)
The ethics group isn't at OpenAI to make it ethical, it is there so that it can be pointed to outsiders such as press with words "we take ethics very seriously". It is very similar in function to security group (which should be responsibility of everyone) and DEI group. Ethics head quiting has about the same importance as head of PR quiting.
Re:Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @12:29AM (#49253386)
I'm very torn on these laws. On one hand I understand the purpose, but on the other recoding phone calls and meetings is immensely useful. On Android I had an option to automatically record phone calls and it has saved my ass many times, while on IOS it's not possible at all.
Re:Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:41AM (#49239257)
Chromium is actually fairly efficient when shared across multiple applications. If the webview2, which is probably what the weather app uses, would not create a whole browser per application but rather just the renderer process and the rest shared system wide it would be a couple hundred megs at most.
Re:Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:30AM (#49239200)
Separate Renderer and GPU Process is just typical webview2/electron
Re:Zed DeltaDB
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:52AM (#49195015)
Using OMP through ACP inside Zed is drastically worse experience than just running OMP inside Zed terminal. The ACP UI is dreadful and I had bunch of crashes even for first party Codex support.
Re:Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
on Sunday July 26, 2026 @01:20AM (#49054969)
That index really needs harder tasks so that it's not just a benchmark of what model is cheapest
Re:What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents ...
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:12AM (#48965945)
Are you saying that because they are ending subsidies, they are giving more subsidies?
Re:Chatto is now Open Source
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:42PM (#48839888)
Personally I've always found it funny that the widely used work software is called Slack which is very close to slacking (not working hard enough).
Re:HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 7...
on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:36PM (#48727937)
In my experience personal projects are the greatest indicator of IC competence, especially for young people. You may not like it, but turns out that when you do a thing in your free time because you like it, you get better at the thing than the people that only do it because they have to.