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by vunderba 6mo ago
The bucket on an NPC's head while you rob them blind is my favorite example of a shining success of the line-of-sight system while simultaneously being a spectacular failure of basic AI.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Speaking of physics, the giant striking you with a hammer and launching your body into orbit. And of course, can’t forget the classic Skyrim pathfinding jank. The number of enemies that would go aggro only to get stuck on a bush or a slight
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. I know Gameye is pretty popular for personal game inventory management, though it’s definitely a form over function website (to put it tactfully). Personally I think you’re artificially limiting yourself by not making this a web
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by vunderba 6mo ago
4. The author's submission/comment history shows that they're only really interested in promoting their own projects rather than actively participating in the HN community. I can't find a single comment where they ever l
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by vunderba 6mo ago
This is closer to a world model - kind of similar to how one might use a realistic or semi‑realistic simulation engine to model the environment like GTA in order to train a self-driving model.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
This is 100% true. There are entire nodes/pipelines in programs like ComfyUI that are designed to take a simple prompt and "enhance it" which usually involves making it more verbose, adding detail, etc depending on the target
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by vunderba 6mo ago
They’re actually quite good at it. I’ve had a number of situations where I’ve wanted to re-render some of my older comics. You can basically tell any SOTA multimodal model (NB, GPT-Image-X) to treat them as storyboards and prompt for a spec
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Yup, that’s exactly what this is. If you’ve been using generative models since the early Stable Diffusion days, it’s a pretty common (and useful!) technique: using a sketch (SVG, drawn, etc) as an ad-hoc "controlnet" to guide the
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I’ve always said that the more divergent the input is from the resulting output, then the less personal expression you have. For me, in order of moving away from meaningful control in generative models, it goes: “text → code,” “text → pictu
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by vunderba 6mo ago
So I use a VAD onnx (Silero [1]) to automatically detect when someone is talking, and then it sends the audio into one of the voice recognition libraries. I originally tried to get away with just Whisper Tiny in the chess game [2], but it p
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by vunderba 6mo ago
+1 for Rosetta Stone. This one is a little more succinct FWIW. https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text Rosetta Stone's code, by virtue of being a pretty popular community effort, is also very well-vette
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Same, I really like the ONNX format. I only wish that they weren't so frustratingly difficult to use on Apple iOS. Their browser engine, WebKit, has become annoyingly restrictive over the years in terms of the working memory cap. I ran
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Neat. As mentioned in the article, it kind of reminds me of Zombies, Run!, a mobile fitness game from 2012 that was very audio-immersive. It would make it sound like the zombies were getting closer to you, so you’d be motivated to run faste
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by vunderba 6mo ago
This feels icky, and it kind of goes against Show HN guidelines which is meant for things you actually created . It looks like you're taking the source code for various games made by other people and are hosting them. But this post gi
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by vunderba 6mo ago
You made me chuckle a bit with the whole “hand-made solver” thing with discrete puzzles like this, since 99% of the time to create a new puzzle, you just start with a solved problem (arithmetic equality) and introduce a sequence of random v
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I’m a doofus, I uploaded wrong final image because it took a few tries. It might take a little while for the cache to clear, but once it does, it should show the updated image. https://imgpb.com/OWKdy And totally agreed, th
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by vunderba 6mo ago
So I see pretty modest traffic to my site. Discounting bots/scrapers, it's about a thousand visits a month, so it's not a lot. I also don't have a newsletter, which definitely doesn't help. Honestly, you really shou
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I don’t, personally. I’ll sometimes attach articles I’ve written if they’re apropos to a specific discussion (usu. in the context of a longer reply), but I prefer to let that happen organically rather than force it.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. I'd seen similar things in the past but I had no idea this was an actual type of puzzle. Your game has a bug which is relatively common in drag-and-drop games. If the viewport is smaller and I drag a match off-screen by accid
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice article. Chess roguelike is an incredibly fun genre, and there are several good games in this space. It’s also pretty easy to come up with all kinds of fun variants for them, such as: - Kings are strong, charismatic leaders and can per
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Per HN Show Guidelines: > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be S
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Agreed! I’d love to see a new version of Chessmaster. Most of my nostalgia is for the 5000 and 6000 series, and they’re notoriously irritating to run on modern machines unless you go through the trouble of setting up a Win9x VM.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
TLDR: Be prepared to verify the information produced in infographs even when using Extended Thinking mode. Using Extended Thinking + web search does extend its knowledge beyond the training data cutoff point of Dec 2025 but (from my testi
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. Did you ever play the Chessmaster series back in the 90s? It was probably one of the earlier chess game examples where you could play against simulated historical opponents, including Nimzowitsch, Fischer, Lasker, etc. https:&#x2
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Haha fantastic. I'd love to see a comparison reel of that same image-loop for the entire image gen series ( gpt-image-1, gpt-image-1.5, gpt-image-2 ).
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by vunderba 6mo ago
It was always funny how easy it was to spot the people using a Studio Ghibli style generated avatar for their Discord or Slack profile, just from that yellow tinging. A simple LUT or tone-mapping adjustment in Krita/Photoshop/etc.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. A few years back I saw a Reddit post/game about using a mobile phone’s accelerometer to control a browser-based racing game on a separate monitor, we need more games in this space. https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I think I need to give Zed another look. A while back, it seemed like they’d shifted gears toward prioritizing AI, and I lost interest because I was looking for a more pure IDE with solid LSP support, good debugging tools, and so on.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. I noticed you had a question related to the Hundred Years’ War. One of my favorite gotchas is to ask someone, “How long did the Hundred Years’ War last?”
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Personal story, but depending on when you last fed your pet, a teacher punitively confiscating your Tamagotchi until the end of the school day could mean the difference between life and death for the poor creature.

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