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Re:Show HN: Krashout, multiplayer car soccer in the browser on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:44PM (#50050699)
Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Krashout, multiplayer car soccer in the browser on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:20AM (#50041256)
Odd, it loads without any issues here. Are you seeing this after a refresh?

Show HN: Krashout, multiplayer car soccer in the browser

https://ball.krashout.io

Hey HN, I built this after looking for an easy to pick up game with a deceptively high skill ceiling - something we could play at remote friendly end of work drinks. I ended up with something in between TagPro and Rocket League.I was particularly interested in making it playable on poor and patchy connections, so spent a bunch of time on prediction, especially around player-to-player...

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Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:59PM (#49042121)
Agreed. I’ve interestingly found 5.6 sol to produce much better writing, and it can generally cut to the point much more effectively.
*all we needed was the technical leader of the company that produced the product to...

the same could be said for pretty much any change or update rolled out by any of these companies.

Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:21PM (#47840992)
Dare we not look to Android.

goto fail was relevant in 2014 - perhaps not the most useful point in 2026.

Perhaps the prompts you are using could do with some love. We're pretty consistently getting great results up to and beyond the 10 minute mark in a large monorepo.

We tend to use Opus 4.6 High and GPT 5.4 High.

Popular in tech circles, but largely unused outside them.
Re:Sharp on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:16AM (#46285373)
Have a look through the rest of the images. TMPI has some pretty obvious shortcomings in a lot of them.

1. Sky looks jank 2. Blurry/warped behind the horse 3. The head seems to move a lot more than the body. You could argue that this one is desirable 4. Bit of warping and ghosting around the edges of the flowers. Particularly noticeable towards the top of the image. 5. Very minor but the flowers move as if they aren't attached to the wall

Re:iPhone Air on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:39AM (#45196778)
Ah, fair enough! I read this as saying almost exactly that, but yeah, I get what you mean.

> but not appropriate for a mobile phone that you may want to operate untethered for hours at a time.

I do think this shifted a little when the first M1 Air came out. Anecdotally, many now associate it with being more than capable unless you’re an actual professional.

Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:37PM (#45191039)
Did you uhhhh read any of the announcement, or just jump straight to writing this comment?

The 17 Air reports 27 hours of video playback - the same as the 16 Pro.

It was in response to your original, unedited comment: "Pretty well understood" or something to that effect.

My point is that discounting historical accounts with a link to current information is neither particularly useful nor interesting.

IMO it is much more interesting to understand how our understanding has changed over time.

> In ensuing decades, high altitude electrical discharges were reported by aircraft pilots and discounted by meteorologists until the first direct visual evidence was documented in 1989.

From your link.

Re:Native visionOS platform support on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @01:27AM (#43768891)
Looks like it would be in their interest to do so, so yeah I don’t see why not.
Meta analysis of the various studies (74 of them from a large range of countries):

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

Re:uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users on Monday March 17, 2025 @06:42AM (#43386994)
Projects breaking so frequently on npm and node is simply not the case unless you are trying upgrade an old project, one dependency per day…
Re:1-800-ChatGPT on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:47PM (#42458509)
> Where did I say it wasn't? That's a straw man.

This isn't a straw man - I'm not claiming you think life is all about movie optimization. I'm making the point that the effort of optimization might not be worth it in the broader context.

> Straw man again. And again -- why not choose quality instead of choosing ignorance and rolling the dice?

Also not a straw man. I'm illustrating that the downside of a bad movie is so minimal that extensive optimization might not be justified. This directly addresses your argument about opportunity cost by suggesting the cost is actually quite small.

> Again, straw man. Nobody's talking about ruining your life. But why intentionally choose a bad movie...?

Again, not a straw man. I'm making a proportionality argument about how much a sub-optimal movie experience actually matters in practice.

> To the contrary. For a lot of busy people, the plane is one of the few moments they have time to watch a movie. So it sure does apply.

Even on a plane, the stakes just aren't that high. A less-than-perfect movie isn't going to meaningfully impact your life regardless of how busy you are.

> You're arguing in favor of choosing bad things, because it's not going to ruin your life. Huh?

You're interpreting my position as "arguing in favor of choosing bad things," but that's just not accurate. I'm suggesting that the effort of optimization might outweigh the minimal downside of occasionally watching something mediocre. There's a middle ground between actively choosing bad things and obsessing over choosing only the very best.

Re:1-800-ChatGPT on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @06:31PM (#42456695)
Life is about more than optimizing the movies you watch.

Watching a bad movie is not going to harm you. Maybe you'll take something away, maybe you won't.

Much like having a bad day is unlikely to ruin your life - it'll just give some nice context to the good days.

And we're talking about watching them on the plane, so the "busy person" argument really doesn't apply here.

There's a big difference between compensating skilled professionals for their work and running healthcare as a profit-maximizing business. Doctors deserve fair compensation for their expertise and time, just like any other skilled professional.

The issue with for-profit healthcare isn't about individual compensation - it's about corporate entities having the power to make sweeping decisions that affect access to healthcare. When large healthcare companies control substantial market share, they can unilaterally raise prices or restrict coverage in ways that leave patients with few alternatives. Unlike choosing a different doctor, patients often can't easily switch insurance providers or hospital systems, especially in emergencies or in areas with limited options.

Re:How to Succeed in Mrbeast Production (Leaked PDF) on Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:26PM (#41551637)
I agree on money != success in a broader sense, but we live in a capitalistic society where wealth creation is possibly the top indicator of "success", so in that sense wealth captured and created is _the_ metric.
If you don't want to use your own product, why should anyone else? Empathy and understanding for your users is what drives a great product.
Re:Llama 3.1 Official Launch on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:20PM (#41052059)
My experience reflects this too. My hunch is that GPT-4o was trained to game the benchmarks rather than output higher quality content.

In theory the benchmarks should be a pretty close proxy for quality, but that doesn't match my experience at all.

Agreed, I assume people are flagging this post for some reason?

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