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mclau156··on How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
Every single person in the supply chain has a lever they can pull to change price, except the end consumer
mclau156··on Gemini 2.5
Generated 1000 lines of turn based combat with shop, skills, stats, elements, enemy types, etc. with this one
mclau156··on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
Would still benefit from eventually moving the initial meetup group to a green space, especially if there can be a community garden to work on (yes I realize we are re-inventing the wheel of a village)
mclau156··on 4o Image Generation
I would love to see advancement in the pixel art space, specifying 64x64 pixels and attempting to make game-ready pixel art and even animations, or even taking a reference image and creating a 64x64 version
mclau156··on OpenAI Audio Models
It seems to start out strong, but then starts loudly talking by the end, do you know why it loses focus?

edit: I actually got it to stay whispering by also putting (soft whispering voice) before the second paragraph

mclau156··on OpenAI Audio Models
Does whispering work? I could not get it to work when I tried it
mclau156··on Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090
I have never seen knowledge to be the limiting factor in success in the 3D world, its usually lots of dedicated time to model, rig, and animate
mclau156··on Gemini Robotics
there is a security risk for having to pay for a service to wash my clothes, I would prefer no human interaction
mclau156··on Building and deploying a custom site using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages
https://codename-recon.github.io/Gridlock/
mclau156··on Nvidia released Isaac GR00T N1 under Apache 2 license
Google Gemini never open sourced their robotics model from a couple days ago, hopefully this will push them
mclau156··on The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
Reading Wikipedia can easily become research
mclau156··on The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
Putting so much emphasis on cars, and being in cars is a national embarrassment
mclau156··on Gemini Robotics
I dont see why a Gemini robot couldn't grab 20 dark clothing items from a hamper, put them in the laundry machine, wait an hour, take them out and put them in the dryer while I was at work (thanks return to office)
mclau156··on Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
The same approach could be used in life
mclau156··on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
The company Intuitive Machines first and second moon-landers both tipped over, hopefully the third does not tip over
mclau156··on Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters
Ok sorry I thought maybe there was a chance that the decomp project could edited in a way that would create a ROM that allowed RL to be done easier, but it seems like it just came in handy for looking up values along with the GB ASM tutorial, the alternative of my thought process is re-creating pokemon red in a modern language which you also mentioned
mclau156··on Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters
Could you have used the decompilations of pokemon on github? https://github.com/pret/pokered
mclau156··on Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters
Claude 3.7 recently failed to finish Pokemon after getting stuck in a corner and deciding it was impossible to get out
mclau156··on Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control
Why the focus on speech-to-text and not purely on radar and predicting 3D movement or at least shutting down in 3D space a runway that is occupied?
mclau156··on Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
need a sense of scale in that video
mclau156··on Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
Games like Mario, Pokemon, etc. succeed because they have large teams of people making a large world, most individual game devs try to re-make these games and are very overwhelmed trying to create large worlds that hundreds of people worked on together
mclau156··on Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
Godot game engine has been good to me, I have not made any original games but I have copied some games with a high skill ceiling, it is very important to have a high skill ceiling because otherwise it feels aimless, games like Advance Wars or Mega Man Battle Network have high skill ceilings but are not too difficult to create in 2D tile systems, as soon as you get into scaling the game with more units, more power ups, etc. then it starts to really feel like it has an aim to become stronger not just a cool thing to look at for 5 minutes
mclau156··on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
We had to wait for a team of github users to reverse engineer Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time before Nintendo would do anything about it
mclau156··on Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)
Honestly Claude 3.7 can make a pokemon game in pygame fairly easily, at that point it would have a lot more control over it
mclau156··on Launch HN: Maritime Fusion (YC W25) – Fusion Reactors for Ships
why do we continue to discount solar and batteries for home use?
mclau156··on DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs
Was really hoping we could get flash games back with AI
mclau156··on I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
I have had an idea like this but instead it is a few minutes of breathing exercises with a calm nature background, then it unlocks your other apps
mclau156··on Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control
do you need a robot to work in your house 24/7?
mclau156··on AI killed the tech interview. Now what?
github and issues page
mclau156··on An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf]
Is Github becoming the best place to host pdfs nowadays?
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