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bspammer··on Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)
I don't think he had his diagnosis when he wrote this.
bspammer··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
If that happens one time at any company, it would be discovered and reported on eventually, and people would never trust any Chinese model again. The motivation for China is clearly to prevent America gaining a monopoly on AI, not spycraft. They have much more effective ways to do the latter anyway.
bspammer··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
I remember some early posts from him about how he really liked how the debug mode made the iteration loop very short. Here's a video of him doing exactly this - it does look like a very pleasant development environment even now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BES9EKK4Aw4

bspammer··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
Does "companies will cut unnecessary costs" need a citation?
bspammer··on Learning a few things about running SQLite
A more general solution for dealing with complex AWS services is learning just enough terraform to let LLMs do the rest. It also makes it much easier to tear stuff down later as you won’t need to remember what you created.
bspammer··on The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
Would you allow advertising class A drugs? TV adverts on kids channels for heroin?

Your position is absurd, I’m sorry.

bspammer··on UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
China is very similar, no one uses cash
bspammer··on Show HN: 18 Words
Clear your cookies for the site or open incognito mode. But I agree there's no reason not to let people continue and just mark where they ended "legitimately".
bspammer··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
The article you linked lists a bunch of downsides to powdered sugar: it doesn’t kill the mites it just encourages the bees to brush them off, it has reduced effectiveness when it’s humid, it doesn’t work on mites that aren’t actively on a bees body, and it has to be applied regularly.
bspammer··on StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
Seems like it's pretty out of date, from the site:

Site updated at 2024-03-03

It's a shame because it seems very useful.

bspammer··on What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
Did you read to the end of that list and then close the article?
bspammer··on Exapunks (2018)
The person who submitted this doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Zachtronics, why are you assuming it’s an ad?
bspammer··on Exapunks (2018)
Listening to the podcast linked elsewhere in this thread, it sounds like he’s not at all reached the level of financial independence to indefinitely fund future projects. In fact the only game that went moderately viral (Opus Magnum) is not owned by him at all.

This is really disappointing to me as many of his games are some of my favourite games of all time and I assumed he’d be set for life off them. I guess the target audience is just too small.

bspammer··on Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
They aren't actually. They make me feel like I'm not going crazy - that I'm not the only person noticing that the quality of the average article on hacker news has dropped off a cliff in the last 6 months. Links from different people with different cultures, life experiences, and languages have the same tone of voice, the same sentence structure, and the same breathless, boring, staccato yet arrhythmic, emotive yet soulless style.

I hope everyone keeps pointing it out. Even better, change the site guidelines to make AI generated articles a flaggable offense. It's already been done for comments.

bspammer··on Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606
You're likely thinking of Yuzu which was a switch emulator. Nintendo probably targeted them because they were about to launch the switch 2 and wanted to send a message.
bspammer··on Steam Machine launches today
Ok but organizing a separate address for each delivery is going to be a pain
bspammer··on The AirPods Effect
No doubt this website has a better range of sounds, but this is also built into iOS/MacOS as an accessibility feature which means you can use it even when offline.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl3061cdc6/...

bspammer··on How LLMs work
No? One affects the actual text and the other doesn’t.
bspammer··on Words of Type
This doesn’t feel vibe coded at all. It looks beautiful on mobile, the illustrations are all credited to specific artists, the text doesn’t scream AI to me either.
bspammer··on Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
https://web.archive.org/web/20230506100057/https://www.talis...
bspammer··on Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue
To be realistic, 99% of the time it should be a totally innocuous command. If half of the commands are dangerous then you don't get fatigue because you're aware what you're doing is dangerous.
bspammer··on Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
They deleted my account from 2010 because I didn't convert it to a Microsoft one. They baked an incredibly aggressive chat filter into multiplayer, even if you're not playing on official servers. They've added microtransactions for things that we previously free (skins, resource packs). They force you into their shitty, bloated, user-hostile launcher with adverts.
bspammer··on We've made the world too complicated
Child mortality rates have dropped off a cliff in every country in the world in the last 100 years. More people than ever have access to clean drinking water, to toilets, to doctors.

Fewer people die in wars. Fewer people die in pandemics. The Black Death killed half of Europe.

This purely pessimistic, nihilistic view of the modern world is as widely inaccurate as a purely optimistic one.

bspammer··on iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
You can double tap the lock button to open your wallet with all your passes. Also it automatically raises the brightness for QR passes to make it easier for readers.

You could do the same thing with shortcuts I guess but using the first class feature is nice.

bspammer··on Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
The individual numbers for git operations, pull requests, and actions are all still single-nine.
bspammer··on Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
This kills an entire class of useful crowdsourcing web apps though. Just off the top of my head, contributing to OSM is much easier when you can just take a bunch of photos and see them displayed on a map.
bspammer··on Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
This is a really nice little game. My feedback is that on mobile at least, the text that pops up often blocks vision of the ball, which is quite frustrating. I would move it down a bit
bspammer··on Taste in the age of AI and LLMs
It’s an unbelievable lack of self awareness. I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt because surely no one would stoop to that level, but 5 paragraphs in and I’m certain it is AI written.
bspammer··on Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
I think the actual best footage of the launch was from Everyday Astronaut on youtube, including a great shot of the booster separation

https://www.youtube.com/live/QOsSRRBMNoc?t=6h49m36s

bspammer··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
In case you haven't seen, AI-written comments were recently banned here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

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