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As the sentence says, because Australians and Norwegians both have an affinity for shithouses.

I agree. Game design is what makes a good game, not the programming. And I'm actually excited about game designers and artists being able to take their independent ideas and prototype games in a day/week/month/year/whatever.

The problem is psychology. People don't HODL while their retirements drop by 20, 30, 40% in a week. High earners might, institutions can, but regular every day people they take the loss, and might never go back into the market again, forgoing those recovery years.

The average recovery is 18 months I think (I'm in a meeting, and can't look it up), but people like my dad watched his retirement fizzle out in the dotcom bubble, because he was all in on tech. Then he moved to safer bond and realestate funds, and his value never recovered, and then 07/08 happened and he watched what he thought were "safe" investments disappear almost immediately. He pulled everything out of the market, and never invested again. He went through 2 crashes on his portfolio, and to this day doesn't trust stocks and bonds.

He was sold an annuity that according to him is supposed to double it's payout every 5 years it is left un touched, so he didn't touch it for 15 years, now that he is drawing it down, it draws from principal before ever touching the growth, and when he dies, only the principal will get passed to my mother. It was basically a scam.

Glue down a mag safe phone charger stand.

In everyone's day jobs where they used an IDE 5 years ago, or even a year ago, are those jobs abandoning the IDE?

I still use Visual Studio in my day job, where Claude's output while VERY helpful, requires my ownership of everything, meaning I am inspecting every single line it changes. If a change is bigger than I think it should, I kill it before I commit.

I know I don't HAVE to use an IDE for that, but if the change is small enough, I am faster than asking Claude to understand the subtext behind my personal context of the product, and the IDE is supremely helpful for making a quick change across a handful of files.

Good news, there is now a KVM switch, and you can have multiple instances in a single tab

> Like I was about to go build a basic BIND service to serve DNS traffic over and let my Internet Explorer browser use it for host name resolution.

Do it, and I can back port that to the voyager, but the biggest thing this needs is the ability to run a server "headless" so people can start building infrastructure and leaving it running without the browser tab being open. But I love the idea that their tab closing actually turns off their server resulting in an outage.

I added a Show HN[1] if you want to discuss on their, I highlighted some of your sites, but I guess they've moved, now.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921544

A domain registrar was my next one, but trying to find a good way to "balance" that so that one person doesn't just register everything. I was contemplating adding in-game money, and a banking system, and expose an API for e-payments, then the registrar could charge for domains. Then that just pushes the buck down the road to how do you get money? So opening a bank account gets you a toaster and $200 or something, but then whats stopping you from opening 10 accounts... so THEN I invented government and a national ID... anyway, all that seemed hard and I got distracted by "easier" ideas.

I hadn't even planned on releasing this yet, it's been a weekend project for the last few months, that I try to add one thing each time. Lately I've been working on software for it, I was going to create a better IDE. A mix of VB6 and FrontPage, but I keep getting distracted by other weekend projects.

A few services you can find through the browser:

* http://simbook.56k.net/ - a simple social media site

* http://asksim.56k.net/ - a search engine

* http://eliza.56k.net/ - a chat bot

* http://coldmail.56k.net/ - email

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You can also write your own desktop or web applications using the built-in language called Spark.

Thank you so much for inventing social media in 1995!

Honestly, thank you, though, for actually building something with this. I never thought anyone would use it for real.

This is very similar to a project I'm working on called Sim95 [1]. It has an entire networking stack and visual basic style language. You can host your own websites, chat servers, anything you want, and everything runs over a virtual network (websocket that passes through a relay).

It has all the warts of the early internet era: you can program a virus, get people to download it, delete their documents, etc., but it also has a lot of the charm, build a website, chat with strangers, enjoy the lack of facebook (for now until someone builds it).

1: https://sim95.kippy.io/

> would explain why the liar-in-chief is so sweaty about the ICC.

In what world do you think Trump even remembers about the double tap on a fishing vessel more than a day ago? He has no worry about anything, he has escaped prosecution for everything he's ever done, and I doubt he believes he might face a tribunal at the Hague, if he even actually knows what the Hague, or a tribunal, or the ICC actually are.

A is significant in it's own right. But most models follow instructions well enough when you prompt it, "Choose one of the following answers:", it will follow that 90% of the time. Use temperature tuning, and a LoRA, and you are 99% of the way there, just without the speed that Jev has.

Yesterday, just to prove to a friend that Jev isn't that "revolutionary" I extracted some image classification code that Claude had written for my private image organizer that used Qwen3-VL, and stopped the output at a single token, then used the probabilities. Input processing on my GPU was somewhere around 1000ms per image, so not too fast, but each question used the prompt cache, so followups were 100ms-ish.

That was my baseline of an untrained, non-optimized single pass classification. It would connect to my llama-server, and use the logprobs for the choices.

After that, I had Claude remove llama-server from the solution, and write it directly to the transformers, then I kept prompting it to profile and find more speed. Eventually my "Decision Engine" running locally on a trained 1B model got to just under 85% accuracy across my 500 validation prompts (images and text) not used or derived from the training set, and an 8MB image, with 10 questions with 5 choices per question, got down to just under 500ms. Pure text prompts and questions are below 100ms for 300tokens + 10 questions + 5 choices per question (average).

It did better on text than images, just because my training set included 90% text. I'll do more training and validation for images when I get home, but for now, I'm more than happy that I can get a local "decision engine" running in 4GB of VRAM and responding in under 30ms for most use cases I've had.

I don’t know how this wrapper works, but if it is like any of the classifiers I’ve had Claude build off an LLM in the past, it grabs the probabilities of the tokens you are looking for, and then computes their relative probs against each other.

Even if the LLM thinks it’s made up D is the highest probability, that isn’t part of the set.

You never actually generate the prose, only the first pass, and grab the probabilities. It couldn’t ask for more details even if it wants to. It gets stopped before the first token renders.

I bought my Quest 2 when it first came out, and I played it for a while, about 2-3 hours a week, peaking at about an hour a day when I found that Blade and Sorcery is a really good game for "exercise".

I bought the Quest 3 as an upgrade because I had noticed my Quest 2 started having intermittent input lag issues. I never pinpointed what was causing it, but my Golf clubs would fly out of my hand and I'd have to wait a few seconds for them to eventually find their way back to me. My controllers would drift out of view when navigating menus. I uninstalled everything, reinstalled it again. When that didn't work, I upgraded.

The issues persisted in the new version as well. So for about the last 20-ish months, I've averaged under an hour a month, most months I don't even pick it up. I might do some homemade PC VR "experiments" (still have access to mouse and keyboard for the game, and not the controllers) on some random claude code experiments. I have a "cyberpunk" mobius strip space station walking sim I've been working on, that will eventually hook into a treadmill.

My first real job was 2006, turning a Visual FoxPro application into a Web Application using ASP.Net 1.1 Web Forms and VB.Net.

With that said, I've never actually used FoxPro. I only had a database as the contract for what my web app was supposed to do.

Not in my experience. Multiple submissions (non Show HN) of mine have been second chanced. I can't be certain, but I don't think any of my Shows have been... I guess that says more about the content I create than the content I share.

They already do this. It's called the "second chance" pile. You will get an email saying that your submission didn't get the love they felt it should, and will add it to a list of submissions that get submitted to the front page, to see if the community agrees.

A bespoke design like that a year ago would have cost $200-2000+ between design and development. Hell, it probably still does unless the person wanting the design is already a developer who knows how to prompt.

Everything costs more now than it did a year ago... except for THIS, and we are still complaining that a 90-99% reduction in cost is STILL too expensive. And a 50-75% reduction in time is STILL too long.

We used to have to wait for weeks for a design like that when I worked at a consultancy, and that is a week of salary. For the design, then it got handed off to a front end developer to slice it and get built so the back end developer can hook it up to a CRM. We are talking a month turn around with design, revisions, development, testing, and bug fixing.

It can now be done in a couple of hours for less than a single hour's cost. If it were 10x slower and 10x more expensive, it would STILL be "good deal".

I worked for a different Steve Ross (Dolphins owner, Related Companies, etc), and we did this in house.

From 2008-2017, “we” (I was a contractor 08-09, and employee 15-17) basically turned every spreadsheet into a web application internally.

We added authentication and authorization, used a LOT of ETL-type processing to move data around. So many things could have been packaged and sold, but that was the “secret sauce” that kept the company so profitable.

Then the end in 2017 when a new CIO came in, killed off IT (laid off all non-managers over the course of a year), and replaced everyone with South African consultants to turn IT from a cost center to a profit center.

He lasted another couple years then left.

Years ago, I lived in NYC, and my roommate was a director of photography for National Geographic, and various other nature documentaries. I loved photography (still do, but much less time for it as a late 30s adult than a mid 20s adult), and she was kind enough to answer any question I had regarding film/photo.

She told me that "left to right" denoted progression in the story, "right to left" told the viewer the subject was "exiting" the current scene.

She didn't go into the details of WHY, and I probably didn't probe deeper, but it stuck with me, and I notice it all the time in film and television.

Opposite policy at one of my clients (kind of). I am responsible for the code that upper management's Claude produces. Some Mondays, I will start work with a half dozen emails with attachments of Claude generated code for something I don't even know what the point is, with the task of "integrate this and make sure it works." without any context to go along with it, so I have to read the code, usually hundreds of lines and understand WHY manager wanted it, before I can start to code it myself, because it is 1) in the wrong language, 2) doesn't understand our codebase, 3) is using libraries we can't license, etc.

My job has been less watching Claude Code, and more watching Managers Claude Code.

I don't know which I hate more as a programmer.

Wow! I'm utterly speechless.

I love space "browsers" - I lose myself in them, just clicking through all the entities.

Also TIL that there are satellite galaxies, and I've never noticed those on other toys/tools like this. I always though Andromeda was the closest galaxy, but it is FAR away compared to `Sgr dSph` which is within 50kly from the center of the Milky Way.

I've done pretty decent local prose->json extraction using Qwen and Phi and Gemma.

I'm sure most of it comes down to prompts, and all of them run over 100tps on a 3090. Smaller cards will likely be slower, but Qwen3.5 9B is small enough to fit on most consumer cards.

They cost more to run than hosted anyway. But that isn't the point of having them. They are a playground, a backup when the internet is down, or claude is down. They can render Blender scenes pretty well. They play any game I want.

You can do each of those at various hosts and own nothing. Or own a couple "over priced" cards and do it all at home on battery power for a few hours while the power is out.

I don't think there is tunnel vision. I'm just saying that I have a couple 3090s I invested in a handful of years ago, and they are still going strong today as multiple GPU-needing technologies emerged.

I'm not saying everyone has to run local LLMs, because the APIs are in a race to the bottom, and my $10 of OpenRouter credits I bought months ago is down to $8.94 because most models give you MILLIONS of tokens for a US Quarter.

Having multiple 6 year old cards doesn't seem like it's that big of burden for local LLMs.

I get that a lot of people don't have them. And a single one can be VERY performant. And the smaller models like a 7B can run on much smaller hardware like a mid-range [3|4|5]060.

My entire AI Dev Box cost $4500 in parts. 128GB RAM, i7-10700, 1TB and 2TB SSD, and 2x 3090s. Today's prices and inflation have definitely made that price tag seem a lot better than it was, but it was an investment in all things GPU that were happening in 2020 (crypto, blender, image gen), then LLMs exploded.

To me, most local models work just fine for anything you can be patient for. If I want something quicker, I will go to a SOTA model via API, but with multiple 3090s, I have never really needed a hosted model for a lot of my experiments.

For code, they are great, but for creativity for NPC controllers, they leave something to be desired, but work well enough for testing, so I don't burn tokens until I'm actually playing my games.

But nothing one-shots a prototype better than Fable 5. I can have a prototype built in 30 minutes, hooked up to my local LLMs and Claude Code is very good at testing the interactions and even tuning the prompts of the NPCs for better experiences.

I know this is mostly true at huge companies, but having spent my career at various "small" corporations, with maybe a few thousand employees total (and only ~50 of which were in IT). I was always surprised when the CEO knew names of people like me, the lowly developer 5 layers below them on the org chart, but beyond that, remembered the last conversation we had, or an interest we might have shared (golf, hiking, travel, etc.).

Even as a temporary consultant, at a company for only a couple of months, I remember seeing the CEO walk the hallway, greeting every single person on the way between a meeting room and the bathroom. I can barely remember my family member's names, or the last thing we talked about, let alone have the memory space for all that information to seem kind and courteous to "low level" employees.

In my entire career, I've never worked at a behemoth-sized company, though, so my experience has been much more "intimate" environments, and primarily in consulting firms or satellite offices away from the main HQ (even by only a couple blocks some times). So everyone in the office knew each other.