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by vunderba 8mo ago
Even if you don't want to go through the trouble of setting up dockerized containers/VM, I'm always shocked when I see people using Codex/CC on their primary user account which usu. has admin privileges . At least take
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Gotta get that number #1 lucky dime first - I've heard it helps to pass the CPA exam!
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by vunderba 8mo ago
I've worked in both education / tech fields, education is more personally rewarding but if you're used to working as a salaried software engineer you will no longer be able to take a proverbial "bath in a bundle of bill
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by vunderba 8mo ago
If you're willing to do a bit more legwork, PixiJS is also great at handling graphics (WebGL). It's what I used to build my animated jigsaw puzzle game. [1] - https://pixijs.com [2] - https://animated-puzzle
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by vunderba 8mo ago
SVG is an under-rated use case for LLMs because it gives you the scalability of vector graphics along with CSS-style interactivity (hover effects, animations, transitions, etc.).
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Awesome! Was looking forward to the next issue. Paged Out reminds me a lot of the old-school 2600 Hacker Quarterly periodical back in the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice job! I corresponded with Hutchens back in the day about MegaHAL. What made it stand out compared to other Loebner chatbots was that it didn’t just zoom in on a couple of keywords in the user’s input and then run a forward-only chain -
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Why would you use an LLM to build a game that already exists? DosBox-X works perfectly for old retro games (Commander Keen, Dangerous Dave, etc) and runs on Macs. https://dosbox-x.com
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by vunderba 8mo ago
I wouldn't try to focus too much on the alchemy that makes some posts turn into gold while others remain lead. I will say that I often click on the submitter's profile and if I see very low karma, or karma only related to their ow
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by vunderba 8mo ago
From the README.md > A high-fidelity, dual-perspective checkers game for the terminal. Features vibrant "disco" visuals, a "One-Touch" hotkey input system, and an immutable state-machine core. Some feedback: Pointin
911.
by vunderba 8mo ago
I was thinking the same thing. The number of vibe-coded language learning apps I've seen where the developer wasn't fluent in the target languages just makes me shake my head in disbelief.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
From the article: > Duolingo is used as a tool to help people learn different languages. My knowledge of the Duolingo app is probably over a decade out-of-date at this point so take this critique with a grain of salt. I’ve always thoug
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by vunderba 8mo ago
I use Gemma3 27b [1] daily for document analysis and image classification. While I wouldn't call it a threat it's a very useful multimodal model that'll run even on modest machines. [1] - https://huggingface.co&#
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by vunderba 8mo ago
> Codex quite often refuses to do "unsafe/unethical" things that Anthropic models will happily do without question. I can't really take this very seriously without seeing the list of these ostensible "unethical
915.
by vunderba 8mo ago
I think this already happens but the threshold might be pretty low - there's a separate shownew page and if it gets sufficient upvotes it appears in the regular "Show HN".
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by vunderba 8mo ago
I've never used tonal but it looks really nice! I updated my original comment BTW - I'm so used to seeing inversions being expressed as slash chords C7/B♭ that I originally thought 7ths weren't working!
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Good job. Couple things - it seems to struggle with 7th chord inversions, and doesn't appear to handle 9ths at all. There's an old online tool called ChordDisplay that handles these a bit better and also uses web midi as well. I t
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Yeah, I think you're right. Asking people to give feedback and contribute instead of just self-promoting is like expecting everyone to maintain a 1:1 torrent ratio - it's just not gonna happen.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
I’m not particularly interested in building physical collections, but I have a great appreciation for physical media that’s aesthetically pleasing like the old big box PC games from the ’80s and ’90s. https://bigboxcollection.com
920.
by vunderba 8mo ago
This is an UNBELIEVABLY bad idea and a great way to get yourself on some kind of list. Passport guidelines (for the U.S. at least) prohibit photo manipulation even going so far as to explicitly call out AI: https://travel.state
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by vunderba 8mo ago
There are places like r/sideprojects but as with all non-niche boards it can get crowded pretty fast. I’ve often thought about standing up a subreddit specifically for side projects but with the proviso of: - No sign up - No ads - No
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by vunderba 9mo ago
Yeah character walking (and honestly any animation) is still a real pain. I've seen some people try to use video models almost like a rotoscoping tool but it always looks kind of sus honestly. Maintaining consistency across a set of lo
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by vunderba 9mo ago
Zoos (and similar places that house animals) are generally pretty large. You could probably just use openstreet data to check where the player is.
924.
by vunderba 9mo ago
From the article: > It's almost as if, once you get to a certain level of power, you no longer need to try. It’s relative to the power level difference between the two parties. We’re talking about someone (your boss) who doesn’t r
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by vunderba 9mo ago
Nice job. Any idea how TripoSR, which is a couple years old at this point, compares to something newer like Trellis 2? https://huggingface.co/spaces/microsoft/TRELLIS.2
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by vunderba 9mo ago
Nice. I’ve seen a couple of these - Instagen [1] is probably one of the more recent ones - but I’d love to see Diffuji stand out by potentially adding some kind of BYOK or proxy requests to a home machine with a powerful enough GPU. [1] -
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by vunderba 9mo ago
Nice job. As far as graphics go, I've actually done some experimentation with attempting to build sprites aligned to a well defined grid using Gen AI. You can get surprisingly far by setting up an image of a cartesian grid where each c
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by vunderba 9mo ago
Nice job! The only thing I might suggest is possibly using (or having an option) to use more visually identifiable notation for the pieces themselves. You don't even need to create dedicated sprites for this - unicode has depictions of
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by vunderba 9mo ago
I haven't but I'd love to get more first-hand account details on the rise and fall of Ion Storm!
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by vunderba 9mo ago
Somebody a while back on HN compared sharing AI chat transcripts as the equivalent of telling everyone all about that “amazing dream you had last night” .

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