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no ones upset, I think given the quality of technical write ups we see on HN with very detailed analysis that this article felt like a faux tech article to promote a product? But it kind of is a self own as it just looks like they didn't do due diligence with their tech choices.

Our TV died a while back and I was looking into this, but turns out we don't really need it as everyone's enjoying consuming on tablets and computers. Only thing is the PS5, but we haven't played it for a while.... But this is a useful thread for when I actually do get a TV though!

maybe checkout https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html before making more comments.

kindda interested in how many routers are vulnerable

maybe you don't recognize you've been downvoted a lot? my comment above has a LOT of upvotes, and it's your comment that is out of place and you should have thought about it a lot more. You did not nudge in a better direction. Total failure to realize how things like star trek have had a lot of influence on people in tech and that maybe its you that should behave better in the future. Your better course of action would have been to say nothing, no comment was necessary from you.

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none of that makes it less usable. That side bar where its shown is mostly just to see who is online and I found for many users, they don't even have that bar showing. The core chat/voice/streaming is just as functional as ever.

yep, many previous discussions on discord tend to result in many HNers poo pooing discord. All the things they say would happen never happened.

I really like discord. This seems like a good move, there is plenty of information locked inside discord at the moment. For instance I'm part of the Wooting keyboard discord and there's a lot info there on problem solving, customizing, etc. There are tons of other discords like this, especially for games. I personally have a dota2 guild discord, but none of these are likely to be searchable as mostly they are private (often with public invite links somewhere) and don't have many users (I think mines at 180ish).

yeah, it's still pretty good for a lot of things. I've found with AI it's now super easy to do native win32 apps really easily. It used to be doing all the plumbing was a PITA. There were wrappers to make it easier, but now you can do it directly. It means you get super performant, tiny binaries, that start instantly. Like windows should be. However, at home I've moved to linux a while back so way less useful to me now, though works fine with WINE. I still use it to make little utilities for work though.

super interesting, https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/?w=Auckland_Film_Studios is so near me its not funny, and weirdly never seen a movie star in these parts even though some big budget films have been made there.

the guidance / guardrails, agent roles, etc are the critical thing now, it's kind of like meta programming AI to get the outcomes you want. Any problems need addressing at this level. You don't need to understand all the code, but you should understand how the system is building up and adjust as needed. This would be an architectural review process you go through with AI. Features to code that should plug into existing architectural structures are generally no problem. It's just boilerplate code AI is generating. But architecture is only one aspect, you should have lots of guidance for all kinds of thing. There's security, performance, correctness, QA, Ux, Deployment, Process, Monitoring etc and having feedback systems for everything. You keep refining and reviewing your guidance and the impact it is having. As well as this you are molding the product for the things you want via feature development. What I'm not sure of is if you are some cog somewhere in a company like Meta whether whatever slice you become responsible for becomes a bit meh if you are mostly just prompting a feature and not much more. As a developer in a smaller company (we are global with a smallish tech team) I get to do a lot of things from interacting with our customers through to the entire backend and get to make critical decisions about nearly everything. Nearly everything in the company is starting to be driven via guidance and feedback loops (including on the guidance itself).

yes, but it's a hobby now. If you enjoy historical re-enactment of old software development practices, feel free!

I think a lot of these reactions by mathematicians are more akin to group theory than anything else. Reality is that things will naturally sort themselves out and there will be some role mathematicians play in all of it (most likely). To me it seems the timeline that some skill essentially gets retired such that if you want to keep doing it is more like "historical re-enactment" is getting quite short. Things like manually coding something is going to be a hobby. Some aspects of math are going to be a hobby, and professional math will be all about pushing up against the edge of what we can do mathematically with AI.

I run regular reviews with my AI, it's added quite a lot of rules to stop this happening. Though I have this all on linux, but still.

not in my experience, might cost more in the initial setup possibly (well within my plans limits anyways), then after that modifying and building the game is really incremental the AI game engine seems way more adaptable a fit for purpose. Costly thing with games (in terms of tokens) is generally dealing with images.

my guess would be virtually all games are going to made with AI assitance. People are going to have to get over their AI phobia and just judge the quality of the result, there's awful things and good things.

Interestingly, a number of my non coder gamer friends are having a lot of fun lately making their own games using AI.

why's it even needed? AI seems really good at doing it without any supporting libraries / frameworks.

Do you think its enterprise software? or the team? I work on a product ( https://www.mywildeye.com/ ) but we do a lot of back end enterprisey type stuff to manage our logistics / manufacturing as well. We are a small dev team with a lot of latitude to make decisions. For us, AI allows a dev to deal with a lot more things. We also churn out internal tools like crazy. Our Hardware, Firmware, Accounts, and Support people are all creating tools. Our CEO (former developer) is also getting back to making things, we recently released a free ios app https://epicfields.app/ so farmers can monitor water demand using free satellite data.

It doesn't match my experience. We are producing more software, and being a lot more ambitious about the things we develop. The trick is mostly to do with getting good guidance in place and then you can spend a lot more time iterating the product itself. I spend a lot more time play testing the product now and trying different things / refining. However, there is a lot of previous work that's been done to create a huge amount of technical guidance on how to do things. Lots of things on Specification, Design/Architecture/Coding, Performance, Testing, QA testing, etc. I think getting all this guidance/tooling/process in place is critical to producing software.

I started on the internet in 1991... used ftp, usenet, email, irc, telnet, gopher.

gopher is the one that seems really dead. ftp is still pretty common, usenet is still active (though maybe just for "Linux ISOs"), telnet lost its main use which was for remote shells and muds/moos but still use it from time to time for random devices that support it. IRC only had 400 or so active people on it at any given time. I haven't really used it in the last decade. The web destroyed gopher almost instantly.

me too, 240something.

I think its valuable for mathematicians to think through how AI changes things for them. I think it's a bit premature to know exactly the impact AI will have. Math is one field that I feel will just naturally sort itself out without trying to predict or prescribe how it should work, it's a bit like software development, you adopt it in and see where it takes you. The presentation then sort of tries to argue for human understanding because AI might optimize for the wrong thing. That may well be what we need for the immediate future, but it's hard to know how things will play out. It might be such that it will become more important to people that AI understands something. ie, Does AI, with access to all current medical knowledge, think this cancer drug will be effective and safe? or has only humans said it's ok? At the moment we are in the chaos of change and its going to take a while for things to settle.

I was recently trying to work out what advice I should be giving my 15 year old son, I asked various AI for their recommendations given "possible" AI time frame and it seemed pretty much study whatever you want but always add " and business". Investing in things that AI will just make better. However, in the case of AI improves robotics to the point it's better than humans... who knows. But all that may not pan out as reality. For me, AI is still making a lot of the same mistakes it was making last year, it's very marginally improved in some aspects (not quite sure how to categorize what its failing at, but its like an over eager worker who really doesn't understand what they are working on but super keen to do stuff). It's gotten a lot better at doing more from single prompts. But it feels like, for LLMs at least, they are bumping into limits. But it can be hard to see because at the same time they are actually doing more. More and more I feel like what I'm doing is getting more ambitious in what I'm asking and then a big cycle of correcting.

which is fine if you have good reasons not to depend on them (you can actually do the same kind of thing with a bunch of things) and somehow depend on whoever provides your cheap VPS instead? I have a VPS as well for bots (digital ocean), though VPS hosts containers and the containers run the bots. A decade or so ago I used VPS for websites, but now it seems a lot simpler using things like cloudflare. Thing about websites on little VPS's you have to be more concerned about patching/security etc which you can mostly automate but really need alerting then for when it goes wrong. Which all seems way more hassle.

what difference does that make? if you have to install 3 different things, same difference. There is no real burden in using 2 services, weird way to evaluate it. FYI wormhole is just a program https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

right, but curious why not use github + cloudflare pages = totally free and far better infrastructure/scaling. Also for file transfers, there's wormhole (which also handles huge files)

I run a discord bot for my dota2 guild, works well, deployed as a container

many of these people want to work in security, selling to the black market will legally and professionally screw you.

I used to use datagrip, but one of my first "vibe code" experiments was to create a datagrip replacement for myself ( https://github.com/keithn/sql ) that worked better for the kinds of things I did, a lightning fast tui, but then I stopped using that and now just use claude mostly.