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wilg··on The European Social Stack
America has world-class wines, cheeses, and olive oils.
wilg··on Epic Games announces Lore version control system
I've tried very hard to use Git (with LFS) in both Unity and Unreal and its just been a total disaster of problems for me and the team. Hopefully this can help.
wilg··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Working on making my first video game (unannounced, https://gamedepartment.com). We're also spinning out some of our internal playtesting tools into a playtesting service that I think is going to be really cool.
wilg··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
I think "brain" is a shorthand here so your point isn't really illuminating much.
wilg··on Siri AI
More or less stuck AI in all the obvious spots, which will probably be fine I guess. Not super exciting!
wilg··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
Good luck finding pure and true land that never changed hands from war or conquest.
wilg··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Where else?
wilg··on Stop Killing Games
Is there evidence this is actually true? When I’ve looked I’ve found the historical reliability is overstated and also ignores cost, availability, and environmental impact of manufacturing and using newer appliances and devices. Lots of older things were heavy, resource intensive, and overbuilt. Quality items are still available today for all of this stuff, probably cheaper than in the past in most cases.
wilg··on Stop Killing Games
It should be legal to make and sell proprietary software with whatever server entanglements you want as long as they are clearly disclosed.

If customers and care about open source and free software games, they will support them. There is no need to dictate the funding model people want to use for art or software products. This is an industry with an unbelievable amount of competition.

wilg··on Stop Killing Games
WIW: nothing
wilg··on AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
You're suspicious that the person doing academic research on how AI applies to law has a job related to research on law and AI?
wilg··on AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
Who's gonna determine that? A bunch of law professors?
wilg··on AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
What criteria would you use for judging legal arguments?
wilg··on AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
> In a blind evaluation of nearly 3,000 anonymized comparisons, professors rated AI responses significantly higher than answers written by other professors, with AI winning 75% of head-to-head matchups.

75% win rate seems pretty good!

Paper link: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/salinas_...

wilg··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
Because I think it's good for software developers and consumers for people to have the flexibility to sell something that depends on online services which may become unavailable at some point in the future. This is more valuable than requiring indefinite support, public pluggable backends, or required open sourcing or backend redistribution, which imposes onerous technical or business limitations for an extremely minor consumer benefit all things considered.
wilg··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
This would be a much preferable law to the one actually proposed.
wilg··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
I think it should be legal to sell something with a pointless online verification component.
wilg··on GitHub and the crime against software
I remain happy with GitHub!
wilg··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
This is fair for some reasonable time window after purchase. But I think it's okay for things to have a lifespan even if they cost money.
wilg··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
Yes you should!
wilg··on The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'
Well, they're not selling you the game. They're licensing you the ability to play their game.

And yes, I think it should be legal for a hardware product (like Spotify's "Car Thing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Thing) to stop working because they don't want to support the online component. It's fine to get mad at the company, but I think it should be legal to do.

wilg··on The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'
Why would you be entitled to infinite support? For a game with an online component? Why does the game's purchase price extend to infinity instead of "for as long as the developer supports the game"?
wilg··on The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'
Except shutting down a game is not fraud.
wilg··on The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'
This is such a terrible solution to a literal non-problem.

You should be able to make software that has a limited lifespan if you want. I just think that's fine. Games should not be special.

wilg··on The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'
No it will make everything a live service game
wilg··on Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue
"Auto" in Claude and "Auto-review" in Codex are the only way to do agentic coding.
wilg··on Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
Can you please fix the issue where like 99.99999% of the time Claude tries to launch a subagent on its own accord it gets "Prompt is too long" and tries several more times, then gives up and does it without the subagent. Big waste of time and tokens and not getting almost any subagent advantages. Not kidding that this happens about 100 times a day.
wilg··on Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
Still seeing it in new threads with Claude 1.9659.1 (193bcb) 2026-05-28T16:22:15.000Z
wilg··on Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
I tried creating a workflow in Claude 1.9255.2 (1dc8f7) 2026-05-27T01:57:20.000Z

and got

API Error: 400 messages.3.content.11: `thinking` or `redacted_thinking` blocks in the latest assistant message cannot be modified. These blocks must remain as they were in the original response.

Tried again in

Claude 1.9659.1 (193bcb) 2026-05-28T16:22:15.000Z also but may need a new chat

wilg··on Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
You're misunderstanding your own argument.
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