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by vunderba 17d ago
The whole spec-driven development movement has always been a bit odd to me, because it feels more like a traditional grounded approach towards regular software engineering. I can share my personal approach which has worked fairly well at le
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by vunderba 18d ago
That’s surprising even gpt-image-1 was able to handle the equestrian astronaut prompt pretty trivially, albeit yellow-tinged as all hell. For the heck of it, I ratcheted up the difficulty of the prompt (two-headed horse, astronaut with the
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by vunderba 18d ago
I know the API (assuming you're using it) lets you set the output size of the edited images - I haven't done a huge amount of testing with > 1mp, so I'd be curious if this might mitigate some of that. https://de
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by vunderba 18d ago
Yeah, I think you’re right. I think the hardest part would honestly be maintaining some level of consistency as your project grows its number of assets - otherwise there's no sense of a common stylistic theme. The agentic tooling in so
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by vunderba 18d ago
You can get semi-decent sprite work out of GenAI models, but you still have to put in some manual work (scale normalization, palette reduction, grid alignments, etc). It's definitely not "out-of-the-box" yet. https:/&#x
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by vunderba 18d ago
The OpenAI PR/doc team seem to have a history of this kind of attention lapse - their 4-panel comic strip using gpt-image-2 was an absolute mess too. https://mordenstar.com/blog/gen-failures
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by vunderba 19d ago
Nice job. Your tagline should be Twice the Fun of Atari's Quadrapong! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP3idyROGes
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by vunderba 19d ago
Learning Company software has been pretty well archived at this point. To me, the easiest approach would be to hold onto the original box/packaging for sentimental purposes, and just find a copy of it on a site like the Internet Archiv
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by vunderba 22d ago
As somebody already mentioned, they already had a big product named after their CEO. IBM Watson was the next big thing after Deep Blue, and it went pretty viral after defeating Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy back in ~2011. It was
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by vunderba 22d ago
On my experiments on GenAI Image Showdown, Nano Banana Pro slightly edges out NB2, though I'm not sure the cost difference makes it worth it. And in pure qualitative terms, I'd agree that NB2/NB Pro are still on par with gpt-
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by vunderba 24d ago
The more generic your prompt, the more generic the response. It's a regression to the "mean" of the training data aka GIGO for AI. It's like when you ask your average person off the street to draw a house - it'll al
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by vunderba 24d ago
Back when I was still on Windows(XP days), I made heavy use of Paint.net. Given Microsoft’s penchant for gobbling up smaller companies, I was always a bit surprised that they never bought the company and integrated paint.net as the built-in
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by vunderba 24d ago
I can see that. I wish Pixelmator (before it got bought up by Apple) had been ported over to Linux. That's been the closest lightweight super-intuitive alternative to Paint.net I've ever messed around with.
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by vunderba 24d ago
I guess more digital art options on Linux are always good, but that aside, is there even a good reason to use it when something like Krita exists? It's always worked flawlessly on my linux machine (Mint). https://github.com&
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by vunderba 24d ago
I wouldn't say you have to "advertise" per se (well outside of a more traditional SaaS offering)... in fact I think most people particularly on HN are pretty sales-adverse. I think you just have to demonstrate you are willing
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by vunderba 24d ago
I've had remarkably decent success here on HN, but I also release all of my stuff completely free (no sign-in stuff, no ads, etc) so there's very little user friction. One thing I can say from my experience is that you get out of
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by vunderba 25d ago
Sometimes Opus 5 (high/xhigh) feels like I'm dealing with the programmer equivalent of Zeno of Elea. Every time, without fail, it would get me 90% of the way there and then leave a small note, exception, or deferral. When instruct
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by vunderba 25d ago
> I had never bid in a Heritage Auction before and admit with shame that I "slowl bid" the price up until I won. I got the game for a steal (in my mind). I won with a hammer price of $2,000. Heritage added 20% for buyer’s prem
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by vunderba 25d ago
A lot of my younger friends saw their parents spend countless number of hours trying to time the market with specific stock investments, only to get burned in a similar way. Most of them have now committed to simple dollar-cost averaging ag
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by vunderba 25d ago
Nice job - it kind of reminds me of the rocket barrel levels in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Feedback: Consider playing with the physics of the plane depending on your pitch, so that some parts of some levels might require you to d
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by vunderba 25d ago
+1 for Bitwig - written by a bunch of former Ableton devs and its external plugin/module sandbox means that a badly behaving VST won't take down the entire DAW.
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by vunderba 27d ago
Well no, it argues that the SKILLS for playing blindfold chess are similar to people who use LLMs to develop code - not that blindfold chess = vibe coding. And then earlier in the article defines said skills as having a sense of high-leve
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by vunderba 27d ago
IMHO the thrust of the article feels a bit forced, but LLM = Blindfold chess is not what the author is saying: > Thus in many ways programming with AI is the opposite of blindfold chess: you don't have to pay attention every turn,
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by vunderba 27d ago
When I was younger, my friends and I joked about making a "Disk Fragmenter" which would enumerate through every file on the disk and split them into non-contiguous clusters to make sure that the actuator arm on your platter-driv
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by vunderba 27d ago
I'm a stickler for accuracy too. The defragged blocks in the original Win9x program weren't solid blue - they had a hatch pattern texture to them. I remember it way too vividly. Source: Watching a disk defrag was every millenial
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by vunderba 29d ago
I’ve never personally used it, but isn’t that what LM Studio is positioned as? From what I can gather, it seems extremely beginner-friendly.
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by vunderba 29d ago
> site is filled with claudeisms Even the screenshot of the UI itself. Claude is enamored with wrapping labels in a ton of almost gaudy, decadent glow effects in the form of offset text shadows to the point where the text is practical
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by vunderba 29d ago
Not op, but where are you getting that number from? Even the full 16-bit precision model is only about 66GB. Most people are running the stock release of Minimax H3 using the INT8 quant and it's about ~20GB. https://huggingf
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by vunderba 29d ago
Oh yeah, I completely agree even though DOSBox (or DosBox-X) is fantastic, it’s really nice to be able to potentially run a game natively. I only mentioned GOG because it’s probably the easiest legal way to obtain the original assets necess
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by vunderba 29d ago
Very nice. Looking forward to irritating the Empire again as a new recruit [1]. On a more serious note, there's also a really great conversion that ports the original TIE Fighter over to the later X-Wing Alliance engine [2]. And of cou

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