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namuol

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namuol··on Everybody's Lost Their Minds
Are any of the projects you mentioned team-maintained and deployed live to users other than yourself?
namuol··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
What headsets work on M1? The hoops I tried to jump through for a Quest 2 made me give up about a year ago.
namuol··on iPhone Duo
$2000.

$2000.

namuol··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> this is ambiguous even to OpenAI

I took their words as “can neither confirm nor deny”, in the that they are _presenting_ it as ambiguous, but I suspect it’s… less ambiguous to OpenAI.

namuol··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
He did some work for The Witness and wrote some nice technical blog posts about it [1].

I don’t know the extent to which he contributed beyond that, but he is therefore by some reasonable definition _a_ game developer.

[1] the-witness.net/news/author/casey/

namuol··on Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Neat!

Not sure if this is meant to be practical, but I think this would work better if the upcoming turn was centered in the view once it’s within a certain range, as a kind of anticipation. This helps prepare for the jarring shift in perspective and, in case there’s multiple turns in short succession (as there might be when exiting a highway, for instance), gives you a visual heads-up about what’s next.

namuol··on "Solving a largely imaginary user goal"
There’s no better way to ruin usability than to hide how the system actually works in an effort to make it “easier”.

Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler. Anything else is deceptive.

namuol··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
With or without AI, if I had to talk about EBITDAs for my job, I too would have to take up knitting to feel like I’m doing something real. I’m sure Charlie Munger would agree.
namuol··on xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout
On the scale of injustice, these are cosmically distant crimes.
namuol··on Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
> Drone and defense teams get boards back in 7 days

Oh

namuol··on Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
What’s the speculation about what leaked? Are we talking about next-gen on-device neural accelerators or something along those lines?
namuol··on qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
So just an accelerated version of the standard UI design trends cycle (which is bad).
namuol··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
I will continue to ignore the benchmarks.
namuol··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Can someone please explain how these models aren’t just fine tuned for benchmarks? I’m not plugged in to this space much but it seems like such an obvious problem…
namuol··on The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings
If they made glasses that did this I might buy them. I don’t need to look at my phone to get motion sickness, but if I do it’s almost guaranteed. It really depends on the driver, though.
namuol··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
I don’t think the comparison is fair. Deep Blue was an opponent in a highly bounded game. Mathematics has no bounds, and modern agents are specifically designed and trained NOT to be opponents.
namuol··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Would Terrance Tao still be a renowned mathematician if he grew up with ChatGPT?
namuol··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
> No one actually pays attention to the details of music videos any more. It’s visual chewing gum at best.

Hilarious to hear someone in industry blame their audience for the commodification of the medium. Is every industry like this? Surely nobody goes into creative fields thinking “I can’t wait to feed the masses slop!” Who’s killing our spirit?

namuol··on 'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'
I suspect many HN commenters would be surprised to learn just how much the general public are on the side of these activists, condoning if not outright applauding their actions.
namuol··on We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes
Your generalizations are less creative than the output of an LLM from 4 years ago.
namuol··on I'm a USB-C Maximalist
Ugh, that’s infuriating to read, if not at all surprising. This sounds at once totally over-engineered (in the modern day, negative sense of the word) while being simultaneously under-engineered (in the traditional sense).
namuol··on I'm a USB-C Maximalist
I share your theory about micro usb, yeah. I know it’s not cost savings, it’s just lazy/ignorant. If they’re changing the footprint on the board for a type-c port, they can add some smd resistors.
namuol··on I'm a USB-C Maximalist
If switching to a type-A charger fixes it, it’s probably the device manufacturer’s fault, not the cable. Many manufacturers that need the 5v standard you’d normally get from an old type-A charger screw this up.

For universal USB-C power support that works with modern power bricks, you need to tie 5k resistors to two pins of the port on the device. This tells the charger to use 5v. I can’t tell you how much cheap stuff out there omits these. They cost almost nothing but they still screw this up over and over, and people blame the standard or the cable…

namuol··on Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites
That big zoom-out of Earth in the opening sequence of WALL•E comes to mind.
namuol··on Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads
> Around these parts, it's all about taking something and using for something it was never intended to be used

Is this satire? I literally was hoping the article would be about how decommissioned _data center_ GPUs were repurposed for home PC gaming, the exact thing hacker news is ostensibly supposed to be about? It opens making a point about how the only cheap GPUs with lots of ram are e.g. K80s, which are hardly meant for gaming.

namuol··on Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads
I’m obviously not the intended audience for this, and I understand this hardware is not useful for it, but I can’t help but feel an extra twinge of disappointment that there’s no mention of PC gaming anywhere in a post about GPUs in the comments here on HN. It says a lot.
namuol··on Better Models: Worse Tools
We’re entering the era of AI trained by previous generations’ slop. It’s not surprising that it’s sloppy.
namuol··on Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
> Built on EA's GPL v3 source release via fbraz3/GeneralsX (which did the heavy lifting of the macOS/Linux port — this fork adds the iOS/iPadOS port and a set of engine fixes).
namuol··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Didn’t say it would, it’s just a better way to illustrate how each model fares in comparison.
namuol··on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
Over-hiring during the bygone era of free money is now seeing an overcorrection. AI is a true if small part of it, but mainly it’s an excuse that doubles as posturing to the investor hive-mind.
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