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throw_m239339··on My Students Can't Read
It's not so much that they can't read, it's just that they have a short attention spam, which is an even bigger issue. And yes, I blame Tiktok and co. Your students couldn't sit through Ben-Hur.
throw_m239339··on Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
Fantastic game, and the only PS game I actually finished! Unfortunately Rieko Kodama passed away not too long ago, fantastic game director and artist she was...

I really like the Manga style cut scenes in the game, it really added to the production value, and the plot is once again, full of twists and turns.

This is a JRPG that did age well and it's still engaging to play today, so it's a classic... like Breath of Fire III, Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger,... they have well crafted stories & characters and they are not too hard to play or too grindy... and they all have a certain care for presentation.

throw_m239339··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
> A major chord is like a blend of two base colors that give rise to a pleasant composite color. Mix the wrong bases and the result is sensibly wrong.

why does a major chord sounds pleasant? and why does a minor chord sounds "sad"? Why does the locrian mode sound so unsettling? is it due to our anatomy or purely cultural?

throw_m239339··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
"You can't seperate the body from the mind", Tool told me.
throw_m239339··on When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
I love these posts because they are missing the elephant in the room. The company learns nothing, it develops no knowledge, however, OpenAI, Anthropic and co services are absolutely learning from the people that use these tools. You are training your own replacement.
throw_m239339··on Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
Tried with the Yamaha Seqtrak on Windows 10, didn't work.
throw_m239339··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Blender isn't really made for CAD at all, although there are few CAD plugins. It's more for artistic modelling like MAYA or Cinema3D.

There already are LLM plugins for Blenders and prompt integration for model generation, rigging and co.

throw_m239339··on If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you
IMHO, What is likely to happen is that eventually businesses will just "hire" agents from a handful of AI providers directly, trained by... guess who..., each time you prompt Codex, Claude or whatever, you are also training these services while paying for them... If Seniors think that their jobs are safe, lmao...
throw_m239339··on Why Musicians Are Manufacturing Sold-Out Shows
> thinks it's the same reason that a half empty club will keep a line waiting outside

Yeah, one of the most famous club in Berlin used to pull that trick, now it is about to close because the owners are not making enough money. People aren't fooled by these tactics anymore.

throw_m239339··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
Learn an instrument (guitar,keys,drums...) if you haven't already and go jam with friends and do concerts instead. That's the best part of making music.

The age of music production is almost over, the age of the music industry already is.

I wouldn't want to be in the DAW/VST business today though, because a lot of potential customers are thinking exactly as you do...

throw_m239339··on Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Foreign residents cannot criticize UAE or its government and monarchy in any way, under threat of prison and/or torture.

How is that complicated to understand? It's a brutal regime with a fake Monaco to attract rich tourists, influencers, investors and prostitutes, but the moment you fall in disgrace in the eyes of the authorities, you're done.

> ‘I was beaten and tortured’: how a British father and son made a fortune in Dubai then became wanted men

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/british-father...

You're all acting here like UAE is some sort of reasonable country with fair laws, when it's a dictatorship.

throw_m239339··on Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
Check out "The Last Answer" from the same author.
throw_m239339··on Codex for almost everything
All of you are ironically completely oblivious to the fact that you're training your own replacement by using these tools, you're even paying for it. Eventually, the companies you work for will just "hire" Anthropic or OpenAI agents in your place and you'll be out of job, no matter your seniority. Mark my words.
throw_m239339··on YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes
Now make it easy to block a channel like you used to too. Before you could just go to the channel, click on some menu to block one entirely, now the hoops one has to go through to hide a channel are insane, I do not understand these companies, it's like they want to force me to watch some crap I have no interest in...

Glad, these companies are starting to get held legally responsible for the content they serve in civil courts...

throw_m239339··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
Every single one of these AI services are running at loss, they are subsidized. Anybody who is surprised that these services are going to get degraded and their cost go up substantially learned nothing from the last 20 years of SAAS. It never gets cheaper.
throw_m239339··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
Hardware synthesizers, audio engineering, DSP programming, a whole lot of problems to solve in that domain as big manufacturers sell half baked devices for a quick buck that can barely stay in sync, or gear that is inferior to the same kind of gear from 20 years ago... it's not niche though, synth popularity is exploding, it's just that manufacturers aren't making the synthesizers as powerful as they could be, despite the increase in CPU power...
throw_m239339··on Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire
Oh, that's why Bitcoin is going up suddenly now hey???
throw_m239339··on Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
As long I doesn't shove "shorts" or "other people watched" in the result list, it's an improvement. Sometimes the results are so egregious and completely unrelated to the search terms that I feel like youtube wants to piss me off on purpose. I don't want to be searching some quantum physics video and get videos of some barely clothed women in Miami, I fail to see how it is related...
throw_m239339··on A case study in testing with 100+ Claude agents in parallel
strange downvotes, not only these services allow anyone with money to copy their competitors if they use the same services, but on the long run, Anthropic could very well be the competition, trained on corporations that use Claude. Why would this startup be any different from Google or Microsoft on the long run? People can't seem to learn their lesson.
throw_m239339··on A case study in testing with 100+ Claude agents in parallel
And you believe them?
throw_m239339··on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
> Everybody. Do you have some statistics ?

This is false, overwhelmingly MALES. For a time, males couldn't leave Ukraine, while females could. Those who go to die on the front in all wars are mostly males. Doesn't mean that females aren't casualties as well, they are.

throw_m239339··on How I'm Productive with Claude Code
I don't even need to read that article, I just can ask Claude how could I be more productive with Claude.
throw_m239339··on The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
Fantastic write-up, that's exactly why I came to HN many years ago, to find such articles about mundane things or products, but the technical aspect is just fascinating.
throw_m239339··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
I simply disagree, you know what topics I flagged, I'm not trying to bait you or any other moderator, and will discuss the matter no further.
throw_m239339··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

That ship has sailed a long time ago, with the approval of the moderation itself.

throw_m239339··on Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition
> they don't know how to use than the tools themselves.

No, the tools work perfectly as they were design to work. The problem is that the tools are flawed.

Ultimately, every single of these decisions should be approved by a human, which should be responsible for the fuck up no matter what the consequences are.

> _Some_ of the blame lies on the UX here. It must.

No, the blame lies with the person or the group who approve the usage of these tools, without understanding their shortcomings.

throw_m239339··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Juniors don't set up these policies or even chose the tools they have to use professionally. If the higher ups are panicking it's fully of their own doing.
throw_m239339··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Aren't these companies mandating the use of these tools at first place? Juniors aren't the problem.
throw_m239339··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Yet another example of vibe coding at scale. You'll have to hire a lot of seniors out of retirement to fix that mess of gigantic proportions... and don't blame "the juniors" for that, they didn't make the decision to allow those tools at first place.
throw_m239339··on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
The difference is diversity of opinions. There is none on Bluesky. Anybody can voice their opinion on Twitter/X. On Bluesky you'll be quickly shun by the entire community or straight out banned for not agreeing with specific partisan talking points, no need to list them, it's similar to reddit editorial policies. If you deem Twitter an extremist social media, then Bluesky is even worse,as it just only allows one sort of extremism, one kind of ideology.
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