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by vunderba 2mo ago
BFL is in a rough spot here too. It’s pretty much looking like a repeat of the exact same situation they had when they released Flux2 at the same time Z Image Turbo came out and completely overshadowed their launch. Minimax H3 can run excep
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Yeah, this was actually a huge controversy a few years ago and actually happened with digital ebooks. Some older Roald Dahl books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , had their language updated by the copyright holders, and the cha
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Nice job. But wouldn't accept tnetennba [1]. :) Seriously though reminds me of the game "Countdown" in the series IT Crowd where they compete to find the longest word in a random assortment of vowels and consonants. [1] - ht
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Agreed. IRC was for trading shell accounts.... uhhh.... I mean it was strictly to be used for sharing information that was both legal and educational. Yeah that's it.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
For me, I still tend to use the older definition of “hacker” (not necessarily someone exploiting systems which feels more like a “cracker” to me), but someone who has an innate curiosity about the world around them, and finds interesting w
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by vunderba 2mo ago
From the article > Then: Phrack was the Rosetta Stone. 2600 was gospel. IRC was sacred ground. Zines were copied, not monetized. We earned respect by contributing tools, ideas, or code, never by chasing clout. 2600: The Hacker Quarterl
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by vunderba 2mo ago
I'm still working on Hackerman recorder. As a programmer, I really enjoy having live coding videos playing in the background while I work. But it's surprisingly difficult to find hour+ long videos of coding without commentary on Y
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Haha - well hopefully coming from a FAANG you've got some financial runway at least :) Some more feedback I'm a fairly fast typist (~120 wpm) so I didn't dig too deep into your tool, but I did see that you seem to have a metr
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Very cool. I've been using "Loopy" / "Loopy HD" for years as my primary looper on my iPad - makes it really easy to use with AudioBus to route synths over to it as well.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Typing applications has been an extremely crowded space since all the way back in the Mavis Beacon days - good luck! Small bit of feedback that might help it stand out more from the crowd and appeal to HN users: Add in training for Colemak,
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by vunderba 2mo ago
From the landing page: > 66,183 lines of hand-written real-mode assembly Goes to the github - contributers jggonz and CLAUDE. The README.md doubles down on this at the bottom with the license. > Everything here is hand-written; no
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Exactly. Since 2001, the amount of money we’ve spent on foreign aid is a DROP in the bucket between 0.7% and 1.4% of the federal budget; not much for us - but had an outsized impact on people in the greatest need. It’s helped alleviate po
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Thanks for the rec - I'll check it ou! What I really want (I know I'll never get it) - is a sequel with the charming pixel art graphics of HOMM2 and the game mechanics of HOMM3.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Story time! I was a kid when the original Quake came out in ’96. I don’t remember if I saw it in someone’s .diz file, a FAQ, or somewhere else, but I learned you could change the actual game physics through the console and most importantly
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Nice job. I personally wouldn't switch over from my current sprite editor. I'm sure for a lot of people it's more about the workflow they're comfortable with, and I've been a pretty happy Aseprite user for years - p
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by vunderba 2mo ago
> My secret sauce is to use LLAMAcpp's reasoning-budget and reasoning-message that trigger cut off to overthinking with a message that says to either us subagents or compress the context Thanks for the tip - I like this a lot. I rem
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Oh I do. Headless 128GB RAM machine serving llama.cpp with a number of local models that I use on a daily basis. • Qwen3-VL picks up new images in a NAS, auto captions and adds the text descriptions as a hidden EXIF layer into the image, wh
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by vunderba 2mo ago
What really enrages me is the amount of effort it puts into justifying weaseling out of work. (THAT'S MY JOB!) It will do everything it can to defer or push it off, to the point where I’ve had to add multiple imperative directives to t
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by vunderba 2mo ago
You're probably thinking of Zombies, Run!, which was an incredibly popular game that went viral over a decade ago. IIRC it did use GPS, but more for tracking your speed, distance, and overall movement. I don’t think it used your precis
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by vunderba 2mo ago
This is true also. My husky pyrenees is an 80 pounds photogenic stack of floof and attracts a lot of attention when we're going for walks downtown.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
I absolutely do use AI tools like Consensus.app, which aggregates and summarizes peer-reviewed publications so I can ask things like "Is berberine beneficial for lowering cholesterol?" or "Is RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression,
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by vunderba 2mo ago
If you’re responsible and you like animals, there’s no easier way to connect with people from all walks of life than by owning a dog. Assuming you live in a fairly dog‑friendly area, it becomes much easier to break the ice and spend time in
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Oh yeah, that’s a good point I’ll generate some images of a theoretical earth with a solar system bathed in the light of a K-type orange dwarf star instead. :) I have some other examples of it as well that aren't going to be potentiall
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by vunderba 2mo ago
I agree but it feels like a bit of a losing battle at this point, and I can't help but be reminded of the history of the Sanskrit swastika.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Yeah, the images [1] used here are clearly the result of someone prompting a generative AI model to make "pixel art". You can tell because they suffer from the same issues all AI-generated pixel art has: no consistent square-pixel
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by vunderba 2mo ago
True but it’s at least addressable with some basic tone-mapping changes. It’s easier to correct an issue like this than to deal with an image that simply doesn’t follow your prompt. Here's a quick trend of the "piss filter" i
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by vunderba 2mo ago
As I’ve said before, I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in Arena’s scoring system. They have MAI Image 2.5 ranked above Gemini Nano Banana Pro, and maybe that’s true on paper but good luck using it. Microsoft’s censorship makes Google feel like
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Given that Qwen Image 2 didn’t even get an open-weight release, I really doubt we’re going to see any kind of open release for it. They seem to have completely shifted over to proprietary models sadly.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Yeah, Ubisoft... one of the most depressing game-related events for me was when they took over one of my all-time favorite franchises, the Heroes of Might and Magic series, when 3DO sadly went bankrupt.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Well at least as far as gaming companies go, Blizzard always seems willing to throw its hat in the ring.

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