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mclau156··on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
https://boomsupersonic.com
mclau156··on Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016)
Andrej just posted a video yesterday about LLMs and commented on the YC post for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952960
mclau156··on Hacker News for Gamedev
Godot game engine has blown me away lately, such a small footprint at about 100MB, loads very quickly, and can render high quality 3D
mclau156··on Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code
Its cope
mclau156··on Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
hopefully we eventually push them to make more classic games like motherlode
mclau156··on Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
Is the new LLM benchmark to create flappy bird in pygame?
mclau156··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
not a single comment about overpopulation?
mclau156··on AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers
Its also creating a generation of non-programmers who can now program
mclau156··on What I Learned Failing to Finish a Game in 2024
So many games will use a Capsule as their player for so long that it seems impossible to get a fully rigged player later on
mclau156··on Spline Distance Fields
Terrain deformation by curves in Godot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1s1zdTGliQ

mclau156··on ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
Sinjid: Shadow of the Warrior and Swords and Sandals are both great flash games
mclau156··on TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English? (2023)
Side note but is it really that crazy for Github to implement a feature to see file size of a repo?
mclau156··on Dog Aging Project
"Animal domestication is really wild"
mclau156··on Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island
I am seeing more reason to re-make in Unreal, Unity, Godot, Blender lately, these softwares are becoming increasingly more beginner friendly and downloading 3D assets and programming 3D skeleton animations are becoming easier
mclau156··on Developing Developers (2015)
what do you mean by "write code"
mclau156··on Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling
I have attempted to do financial modeling practice with ChatGPT and Claude, but they struggle to come up with interesting data needed to make any real insights, is this really just testing our knowledge of which business terms to use and which functions to use, or is there enough good data to require some ingenuity to gain insights from?
mclau156··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
reminds me of the Sims 3!
mclau156··on Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
The idea of working 5 days a week began when an extra day of working meant you could manufacture an extra 100 cars, workload in the Tokyo government is not going to suffer much output at all if any by going to working 4 days a week
mclau156··on Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
there are lots of 3D modelers spending hours on 3D worlds and assets to use in training, this seems to automate a lot of that work
mclau156··on USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur Space Record
This is not traditional rocket science of turbines and cryogenic fluids, this is igniting solid propellant and ensuring your rocket is strong enough to not explode
mclau156··on World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image
I believe Fei-Fei is focused on physical world interaction, https://behavior.stanford.edu/ is a project she works on for more physical interaction with AI
mclau156··on Show HN: Flash Kitty – Archive of Adobe/Macromedia Flash Movies from Flash Kit
any flash games?
mclau156··on Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game
now re-make it in Godot?
mclau156··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Did they just invent a new world of warcraft or runescape bot?
mclau156··on Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy?
A lot of people think it landed on the large grid fins, this is not true it actually landed on much smaller landing pegs
mclau156··on Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy?
Could use more simulation data with NVIDIA Omniverse and thrust vector control
mclau156··on Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
at that point I would rather re-make the game in Godot
mclau156··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
meetup.com
mclau156··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
I dont understand the residency thing at all
mclau156··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
that website is bad
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