News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

zulban

I've built engines from scratch. I don't think that would work at all. It's a whole extra challenge to make an engine feel like a human. The engine has to come up with its best move and then sometimes choose not to play it and play something else for some reason. There are statistical patterns to how humans make mistakes based on their level, what kinds of mistake, how big and how often. Cheat detection is less about knowing the engine and more about statistics.
"with a bit of clever harnessing" I think perhaps you're minimizing the amount of effort that goes into the best moat AI companies still have.
The title is about LiveCodeBench, not a creative writing benchmark.
Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:07AM (#50303344)
If a business is not "profitable" a ton of people can still be personally earning a ton of money. I feel like finance and accounting is just a game to abuse, but what really matters is who is personally getting rich, or even just earning a high salary.

Nobody cares about abstract profit. They care about money in their personal bank account.

Re:CSS-Tricks has a new owner on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:29PM (#50247587)
I think it's very ominous that their post doesn't even directly mention AI generated CSS.
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:07AM (#50231143)
> I've put well over 100 hours of my time into it. Still running into a lot of people knee-jerk calling it "slop"

Indeed. The number of hours is my goto defence too. So far I've put in maybe 200 hours of time into design, iteration, playtesting, QA, and balance of my game. Sure - almost zero has gone directly into writing code but this is still a major project.

People who one shot a crappy game have no idea how much work it still takes to get something really good over the finish line.

>I'm not really sure what to do with people who dismiss AI-assisted projects

Mostly I've stopped worrying or trying to convince the haters. I'm having a blast and building great things (lots more than just Asteria).

Good luck with your apt project!

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @07:57PM (#50226745)
In the spirit of the latter, here's mine!

https://blog.stuartspence.ca/introducing-asteria.html

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5482440/Asteria_4X/?beta=...

To be clear, I've made large software and game projects over the years, but no way I'd have found the time to do a remake/enhancement of a game I loved as a kid from 1995 that has zero business case. Not without AI.

Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:56PM (#50226269)
Then my comment could be repeated verbatim, no?
Re:Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:57PM (#50225777)
You may need to brush up on your game theory. It's worth it to spend $1 for a 1% chance to win a million dollars. You don't need to be certain the key is there for it to be worth it to do a supposedly trivial exploit.
Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:51PM (#50223538)
A major software project is changing from one major software tool to another major software tool. How is it not important? Or at least notable for HN?
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:53PM (#50126714)
You should apply your brilliant insights to win cash prizes like that then.
And then it changes a month later. Then new (bad) defaults. And again and again. Good luck with that.
Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:04AM (#49964324)
Why do they need to be sustainable as a business..? The best museums are a service that the public funds (or not). Side note: the museums in America generally suck and are just capitalist activity centers for kids, in my experience. You can't manufacture a good museum's exhibits. I don't think many Americans even know what a museum is, based on their reviews of some I've been to.

Museums are worthwhile to fund instead of throwing them to the wolves of the private sector.

Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:31AM (#49954770)
"I'm right until you get me a conversation with Terence Tao".

Sorry, a random stranger on the internet is not going to spoonfeed you. You need to do the work to enlighten yourself.

You don't need a lawyer "well versed in metamath". You're being elitist and dismissing perfectly competent experts who know more than enough to demolish your ideas.

Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:28AM (#49953758)
Your low res rushed phone scans are already available.
Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:24AM (#49953729)
I don't get upset. I just know that you have no idea what you're talking about. Talk to some tech native, smart, practicing lawyers for an hour about this.
Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:20AM (#49953706)
Low res scans are already generally available for lots of these. This case is about high res scans that phones cannot do.
Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:19AM (#49953697)
Low resolution scans like yours are already available, generally. This case is about the high res ones.
Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:17AM (#49953681)
This case has been going on for years and I read a lot about it awhile ago. The write ups are so extensive I'd be surprised if they didn't, somewhere, write paragraphs about the documents you mentioned.
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:14AM (#49945017)
You've missed the point so I'll try to spell it out.

Bike sheds are important. Their color is not.

Event promotion is important. The color of the poster is not.

Re:Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:34AM (#49783735)
My advice: stop your fomo. Just get useful work done.
Not sure what point you're trying to make. Do you think politely asking an ad company to disable ads on their browser is a reasonable thing to spend your effort doing?
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:36AM (#49765272)
Making a good poster is bikeshedding. Organizing an event is hard and making better posters than this is a waste of their limited resources.
I have a master's in education technology.

There's no "simply put" here. Your position is not obvious, established, or universal and this is not simple.

Sloppy conclusion about edtech startups.

If everyone is hiring a "tutor" to just do their homework for them, that doesn't mean that all tutors are bad.

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:45PM (#49569337)
No. But almost always, the car company is fine.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:11AM (#49564926)
Brilliant. AI message board honey pot.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:08AM (#49564886)
Indeed. It's another example of a law that sounds good and obvious, but has no thought put into what it would actually end up doing to the world.

So many other problems. If we apply this law to cruise control - simple outcome. We get no cruise control.

There's problems with every system, but as a Canadian, it doesn't sound like you know anything about our health care.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:21AM (#49222064)
> See translator jobs getting wiped out. Nobody even blinked an eye, it didn't spark any discussion, no deep thoughts were had.

Whenever someone writes something like this "nobody talks about it, nobody cared" I always think that just tells you more about the media sources and community of the author (you) than anything else.

Of course people talked about it. They are still talking about it. Of course they cared. They still care. Don't be ridiculous. Go talk to some human translators in real life.

"Nobody is talking about AI". Sounds even more ridiculous when written like that.

Older »