nmstoker

Any plans regarding JavaScript support in the browser?

There was an issue with a demo but it's missing now. I can't recall for sure but I think I got it working locally myself too but then found it broke unexpectedly and I didn't manage to find out why.

Claude is subconsciously a fan on Crystal Quest?! Loved that game on the Mac back in '95!

The article and video are great satire too.

Yes, I was surprised there would be enough to go on with the MAC addresses rotating and I had assumed the UUID would too, but it sounds like there's enough to go on to identify targets.

Impressive stuff but it would be polite to the potentially interested users if the line, "... this package is currently a proof of concept with limited direct use", had been put a little earlier. It's about nine or so dense paragraphs in.

It's fine that it is still in development but it just seems worth being upfront.

Indeed, I'd realised, but thank you for clarifying for others.

It's amazing! But sad to hear of the vandalism that caused significant damage:

https://www.gentles.info/link/Vandals/vandals.html

I didn't realise but by chance i bumped into this last night. I wanted to remove a few letters from the Star Wars logo and it refused... Thought it was a bit much, but it mentioned third party concerns.

Interesting idea.

It spreads the effort for maintaining the list of trusted people, which is helpful. However I still see a potential firehose of randoms requesting to be vouched for. Various ways one might manage that, perhaps even some modest effort preceding step that would demonstrate understanding of the project / willingness to help, such as A/B triaging of several pairs of issues, kind of like a directed, project relevant CAPTCHA?

Interestingly neither their GitHub nor the La Suite front page (translated) actually mention "office" - that's what the OP titled it.

Definitely catchier name!

Yes, noticed that too. Blocked me getting back to HN. Bad behaviour from the site.

Yes, that's a sensible approach. Thank you!

If you come up with a realistic language spec and wait maybe six months, by then it'll probably be approach being cheap enough that you could test the scenario yourself!

Surely they would have return home clauses in their contract, along with ongoing insurance etc till they get you back. Otherwise why would anyone risk going?! It'd be like high stakes musical chairs

With line of sight too?

The forum for this particular problem contains points that suggest it has been solved with a Gemini DeepThink based agent.

Preprint here has more detail: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.21442

Even with tooling isn't this kind of effort going to be enormously complicated, because, as I understand it, so many aspects of the behaviour of 8-bit and console games relied on all sorts of clever techniques, timing quirks and other side effects.

Won't it be very difficult for the recompilation process or the dev to recognise when these are being relied on and to match the key behaviour?

Or is the idea to pull out the basics of the game structure in a form that runs on modern hardware, then the dev fleshes out the missing parts.

Yes, it's brilliant, but it's a pity it kills Firefox on Android!

Side note: that site has well over three hundred vendors listed for cookies! I thought they were generating fake outs without end but I did eventually reach the end

Has anyone seen this implemented? Doesn't look like there is any code to try or links to a demo.

They mention a video but the paper didn't include details but a quick Google found this (which I vaguely recognise now as having been posted on HN before):

- https://jenson.org/text/

- https://youtu.be/_9YPm0EghvU?si=NU3SDrKxAK7_5FQW

Was posted a few times recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631720

Denial in the face of incontrovertible evidence undermines trust to an extent incompatible with working in any serious organisation.

I think it will depend on your route and the time of your commute. I see fairly distinct behaviour at different times on the tube & Elizabeth Line: come in or leave late and it's full of people who are much less considerate, go in with the majority and there's a bit more social pressure against being inconsiderate.

It's impressive but it's a shame that it's 2026 and despite remarkably lifelike speech, so many models fall on common issues like heteronyms ("the couple had a row because they couldn't agree where to row their boat"), realistic number handling and so on.

In popular areas with lots of overlapping photos, something akin to that was possible with PhotoSynth where it joined together matching photos projected into an inferred 3D space. Sadly the service was discontinued a while back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth

Curious to understand what drove that the most? Certainly for this article, Medium's annoying way it blocks zooming in/out on images when on mobile is limiting and frustrating! But I sense you'll have broader concerns...

This is great - the service and that you're extending it and considering a UI.

Personally I would go with option 2 as the colour from the covers beats the anaemic feel of 1 and it seems more original than the search with grid below of 3.

Gets stuck at 84% each time - seems wasteful to let it get that far!

Thanks! I confirm they're all working for me now!

Happy New Year!

Great work!

Side issue: anyone else seeing that none of the links in the article work? They're all 404s.