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by vidarh | 2025-07-04 09:05:06+00:00
It's not that we forget "inconvenient" genres, but that at the peak of the Amiga popularity, while high end PC's could compete, the vast majority of people did not have those high-end PC's with the requisite graphics and sound cards. We continued to laugh at people with PC's pretty much until Doom, because most of the PC's our friends had were still low end, and lacked expensive graphics- and sound cards, while at the same time, certainly there was a mounting concern over what was trickling down for PC's from the high-end.

With respect to Silpheed, the original version is a graphically primitive 8-bit game and the 1989 version was ported to Apple II-GS - it was hardly performance that was the reason it didn't get an Amiga release. Even the 1993 Sega CD version doesn't contain much that'd be difficult to do on an Amiga (you'd "cheat" and pre-render more version of the ships and rely on the blitter to compensate for the expense of polygons, and possibly use dual playfields and copper lists to allow for the updating background).

Wing Commander, I agree with. The AGA version is nice, but too late.
by sokoloff | 2025-07-04 09:05:20+00:00
I don’t believe I misunderstood these words of yours, and provided you a ready reference to check for yourself whether YC had a code of ethics and whether that code contained the elements you were hand-wringing about.

> If YC has no ethics code, that's your answer right there. If they do but it fails to mention basic things like lying, cheating, deceiving especially when done intentionally, bingo again.

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> YC had means to check for this prefunding

How would YC check in December 2024 for a copyright violation that was discovered in July 2025 and probably happened in 2025 during the batch (after funding)?

This is indeed a problem that Pickle/YC have to deal with, but I'm not nearly convinced that this was findable in 15 seconds pre-funding.

YC's funded over 4000 companies. How many have had ethics scandals of any size? Less than 5%? Less than 2%? They're betting on founders, probably rejecting some on ethics grounds, and trying to nudge those funded to stay ethical while being aggressively fast. If they're hitting over 95% "no scandals", that's pretty good from a 2 page application and 15 minute interview process.
by trhway | 2025-07-04 09:05:26+00:00
Herding skills, sheepdogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAjc502ALOM

Also reminded - we had neighbors with 2 cats, an experienced and cynical large red one and a naive curious tabby. They spent a lot of time outdoor wandering around, and the tabby was always trying to get everywhere, very friendly, and the red one was always very suspicious about everything and very worried and watchful over the tabby. Unfortunately the tabby got killed by a car. The neighbors after some time took another cat. The red one never let the new cat to leave their patio. Getting to sit on the patio fence was the maximum she would let him, and on any attempt to get down outside of the fence she would firmly herd him back.
by williamdclt | 2025-07-04 09:06:04+00:00
None of the incentive structures of our societies are set up to go on this direction. None of the people in power (politically or privately) are trying to make this happen. As you’d expect, we see in practice that this isn’t the direction in which we’re going.

I see no reason to expect this technology to save us. We don’t even need AI to save ourselves from dystopia, it’s not been about lack of technology for decades, we need to change our societies structurally _somehow_
by neilalexander | 2025-07-04 09:06:25+00:00
> WiFi is obsolete tech. Even 5Ghz WiFi often barely works, let alone 6GHz (which no Apple device supports)

Sorry, _what_? This is an absurdly ludicrous take. Wi-Fi is one of the most successful and ubiquitous wireless technologies of all time. 5GHz has been working fine for people (especially in locations where 2.4GHz is crowded) for I don't know how many years—at least over a decade, or even two if you count 802.11a. Most Apple devices from the last 2 years support 6GHz too.
by oc1 | 2025-07-04 09:06:49+00:00
all our perception of time seems messed up. claude code came out like 4 months ago and it feels like we had been using this thing for the past years. it feels like every week there is a new breakthrough in ai. it has never been more soul draining than now to be in tech just to keep up to be employable. is this what internet revolution felt like in the early 90s?
by manx | 2025-07-04 09:06:52+00:00
Project Frottage: An automated constant stream of high quality AI wallpapers for mobile and desktop. We manually curate a list of ~150 prompts. Every 6h a random prompt is selected, a picture generated and uploaded to static hosting, free to use:

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-mobile-latest.jpg

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-desktop-latest.jpg

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-desktop-light-latest.j...

We just finished an android app, to set the wallpaper automatically on mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frottage
by asim | 2025-07-04 09:08:13+00:00
The frustrating thing about this is the limitation of using a browser. Agents should be long-running processes that exist external to a browser. The idea of using wasm is clever, but it feels like the entire browser environment needs to evolve because we're no longer dealing with just web pages. I think we are looking at a true evolution of the web now if this is the way it's going to go
by fliederman | 2025-07-04 09:08:20+00:00
1. To state there is no technical solution is assuming you have all of the knowledge there ever will be in the world to make that assessment. A more proper way to state that is that you don’t know a technical solution, and there may or may not be one. There’s no reason not to do everything we can and research all options.

2. Having the ability to control the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth would help prevent overwarming, which is one possible outcome, and neither thermonuclear war nor any culling of humanity would be a solution, as in fact we’re responsible for this, so we must fix it. You’re basically suggesting killing all the life that could help.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-07-04 09:09:29+00:00
When I rented I had a standard ceramic hob and still didn't see the point... sure, you gain some time, but it's maybe 5 minutes of unattended time where you can often be doing something else, vs. much worse taste. But I understand that with slow cookers it can make sense for other people. With induction I think it's outright pointless.

As an anecdote, in my country there is a very popular brand of supermarket pizzas, Casa Tarradellas. I never buy them but a friend of mine used to eat them really frequently. So once he shows up at my house with one, and I say OK, I'm going to heat it. I serve it, he tries a bite and is totally blown away. He says "What did you do? I've been eating these pizzas for years and they never taste like this, this is amazing, the best Casa Tarradellas pizza I've ever had".

The answer was that he used the microwave and I had heated it in the regular oven...
by metalman | 2025-07-04 09:09:34+00:00
killer whales also share food, carrying various food items in the mouths, aaaaaand they are trying to share, with us.....like , in the open ocean, wild whales, not some marine land stunt, nope, they are throwing food at US!, to see what WE do....awsome freeky

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals...

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/wild-orcas-offer-h...
by blacksharkAI | 2025-07-04 09:10:25+00:00
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by corimaith | 2025-07-04 09:11:24+00:00
Those evil bastards are also most central bankers around the world that agree that the incredibly unbalanced balance of trade today needs to be rebalanced. America is consuming too much, and the world is saving too much. So yes, your living standards do need to go down for the sake of the greater global macroeconomic stability.

Contrary to what xkcd or NYT might tell you, actual economic institutions like the IMF and the World Bank are coigzant of the issues caused by the status quo and largely view the Trumpian diagnosis, if not the horrid execution, as correct.
by anenefan | 2025-07-04 09:11:35+00:00
I had wondered if the whole no social media for under 16s, which as a guide line would be easily implemented by the very powerful tracking that social media already uses, was actually a front to impose a verified identity on all Australian netizens and would actually be reaching right back to when a certain ex PM proposed that we as Aussie netizens would have to provide ID to gain access to the web - same person working for him then to devise ways to implement it iirc, is now running this BS show.

This really does sound the think of the children is just a ruse to remove any one who's anonymous who'd like to comment - not good for progressive society since as far as I'm concerned I've been where certain questions needed to be raised (to sink really stupid ideas) only to find how it all works - govt and other quite distant interests arrive sideways to dish out any punishment they think they might be able to inflict - if anything to waste a lot of my time.
by Kon5ole | 2025-07-04 09:11:42+00:00
>How is it ever wrong, though?

Whenever you edit something existing that already has the ), ] or } further down and you end up with a ()), []] or {}}. Or when you select some text that you want to replace and start with a quote only to end up with "the text you wanted to replace" instead of the expected ".

I never notice when it works but get annoyed every time it doesn't, so I feel like it never works and always sucks.

I guess it's muscle memory and some people are used to it, but it feels fundamentally wrong to me to have the editor do different basic editing things based on which character is being pressed.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-04 09:13:39+00:00
Also, if you don't have a table saw, just cutting a straight line efficiently and accurately is a fairly important baseline skill for doing carpentry, something which becomes a lot less of an issue with a table saw, and that makes some of the skillset of carpentry less important for getting good results (especially if you then make things that only consist of straight lines and so you also don't need to be able to do more complex shapes well). I think it's a pretty decent analogy.
by bruce511 | 2025-07-04 09:14:39+00:00
You have equated a basic income with equality. That's a misunderstanding.

I'm not suggesting equality or communism. I'm suggesting a bottom threshold where you get enough even if you don't work.

Actually Norway gets most of that from investments, not oil. They did sell oil, but invested that income into other things. The sovereign wealth fund now pays out to all citizens in a sustainable way.

Equally your understanding of dole living in Europe is incomplete. A person on the dole in the UK is perfectly able yo live in a house with running water etc. I know people who are.

Creating a base does not mean "no one works". Lots of people in Europe have a job despite unemployment money. And yes most-all jobs pay better than unemployment. And yes lifestyles are not equal. It's not really communism (as you understand it.)

This is not about equal power or equal wealth. It's about the idea that a job should not be linked to survival.

Why is 60 the retirement age? Why not 25? That sounds like a daft question, but understanding it can help understand how dome things that seem cast in stone, really aren't.
by eesmith | 2025-07-04 09:15:17+00:00
Pardon? I said I use GPS.

I'm also aware of the failure modes with GPS complacency, including its incomplete knowledge of the variables that I find important.

And that's with something that makes mistakes far less often than LLMs and related technology.

Which is why I don't think that your mention of GPS use is a strong counter-example to bryanrasmussen's comment against using hallucinating devices.
Show HN: Refinery – stop hardcoding test cases
by atultw | 2025-07-04 09:16:38+00:00
Every indie hacker knows the feeling: re-entering the same test data on every build, or spending hours writing integration tests. With Refinery, all you have to do is add a few lines of code, and the SDK will record how you naturally test your app. You can then replay all your test cases with just one click from the dashboard.

The common approach to testing is to write test files, but it's difficult to hardcode values for your test data when you are dealing with Swift NSObjects (think images, audio, video) or complex classes in Python. Refinery makes it easy to sample entered test data directly from your app, and to automatically plug in that same data on subsequent builds. It's like when you step into your program using a debugger and edit variable values. Refinery automates that process and repeats it for each test case, so you can keep your testing process consistent across builds with ease. All you have to do is add one line of code for each variable that you want to "sync".

For example, for an image filter, you might record the input image, filter name (or the entire filter object - Refinery is compatible with NSKeyedArchiver), and output image. When you rerun the test suite, you can pick which variables to fix and which ones to keep free (for example, if you are trying out a new filter, you would keep the input image fixed, but keep the filter and output variables free so you can compare the differences). For numerical and text variables, you can manually set the value in the Refinery dashboard to easily test small tweaks.

Refinery is already fully functional, I'm just creating user accounts manually at first to prevent abuse and to provide more personal support to early adopters. Sign up and let me know what you think! Feedback is appreciated.
by SethMurphy | 2025-07-04 09:16:38+00:00
It always fascinated me that particular behaviors, like herding, can be so ingrained to a particular breed of dog. The dog is no longer in a setting where this is crucial to their survival, yet the urge exists. I do wonder for how many generations the behaviors would last, assuming the dominant genes were not surpressed. That is of course assuming genes are the factor that drives it. It's almost as if environment has little to do with the behavior in this case, other than having opportunity to exhibit the behavior.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-04 09:16:44+00:00
It's pretty difficult to have a useful back and forth with an LLM, because they're really heavily finetuned to be agreeable (and also they're not particularly smart, just knowledgeable, so their 'system 1' is a lot better than their 'system 2', to analogize with 'thinking fast and slow'). Generally speaking if they don't get a useful answer in one shot or with relatively simple, objective feedback, they're just going to flop around and agree with whatever you last suggested.
by wickedsight | 2025-07-04 09:16:45+00:00
> NOAAs graphs don't show that

Good one...

Luckily, there's more in the world than NOAA. If you just search 'global warming accelerating' on Google, there are plenty of sources. I can't seem to find the 'more in the next 10 than the previous 40' stat and 'dramatically' is obviously subjective, but it doesn't look great.

If you look at some predictions from people specializing in permafrost methane ejections, it looks pretty bad even.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-04 09:17:01+00:00
The app is cool, but the argument there was either written by AI or there is a lost in translation moment because it doesn’t really make any sense.

In your argument you’re basically saying “it’s impossible to know what affects your choice of where to eat. Some think looks matter even pay for it; ergo, we must consider it too”

What about music type? Worker’s uniform color? Thinking “I wanna eat where the hot people are” is… I don’t know.. Odd?
by roncesvalles | 2025-07-04 09:18:39+00:00
>It feels like the same attitude that happened with Bitcoin, the same smug nose-wrinkling contempt. [...] But the Bitcoin people make more money if they can shame everyone else into buying more Bitcoin, so of course they’re gonna try to do it. What do programmers get out of this? Unless you work at Microsoft and have a lot of stock options, you aren’t getting rich off of how many people use Copilot.

The reason for this is as follows: A good number of software engineers make a fuckton of money, but not all of them (it's bimodal/trimodal/whatever). SWEs are also one of the highest paid people within tech companies, often earning more than the MBAs, the CPAs, and the JDs (who tend to come with massive chips on account of actually having actual credentials, and tech companies being prestigious destinations within these profession).

It seems that over time, this phenomenon has caused the emergence of a large coterie of people whom I would kindly describe as being "bearish" of these high-end software engineering salaries and double-down on any narrative that undermines the livelihood of the software engineer, basically just to make themselves feel better.

tl;dr people desperately want AI to succeed because they're envious of software engineers
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-04 09:18:57+00:00
You look at the version, the milestones https://github.com/ziglang/zig/milestones, and it makes sense. The YouTube video is just more proof. Picking up a 0.14 software without looking the most basic thing about it like “oh, what kind of 0.14 is this” then complaining that “it’s not ready for prime time” is odd behavior
by diggan | 2025-07-04 09:19:28+00:00
That seems one-sided. I'm guessing most users bought a product because they found it useful, or at least thought it was useful. Probably the ones who only bought it to support the company could be counted on one hand.

So they still got something for the money they paid, otherwise they wouldn't have paid.

If people were donating money to for-profit companies, then you'd have a point in your argument, but that isn't reality as far as I know.
by al_borland | 2025-07-04 09:20:06+00:00
> 1. Interview candidates with cameras on.

It could be worth reviewing Ogletree v. Cleveland State University before doing this. A court ruled that a room scan violated a person’s 4th amendment rights.

There is also the risk that the person could have something on their wall which could indicate they are in a protected class, and if they don’t get the job, they could claim you used this information against them.

While I’m sure cameras for interviews are likely commonplace, it does open up some risk. Some may see it as an acceptable amount of risk, others may not.
by gkbrk | 2025-07-04 09:20:37+00:00
If you draw a mustache on a drawing in an art gallery, you ruin the original for everyone else. If you take the drawing home, no one else has the original any more.

If I download, copy, or edit images sent to my computer, the original is still there.

The artist puts their art on the gallery with the intent that people will enter that gallery and look at it without touching. The image uploaders uploads the image with the intent that a copy (not the original) gets sent to our computers when we look at Google Reviews.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-04 09:20:46+00:00
>Not wanting to disagree

I understand what you mean but I think the "supply" is not the bottleneck that institutions can be.

Institutions that require generations to get up to momentum, before even the most qualified & experienced operators can actually make the best progress.

So I disagree quite a bit because I remember what happened with Reagan's cuts which have not yet been well recovered from, plus Trump is less cognitively sound than Reagan was back then, and Trump surrounds himself with less-honest associates to a degree that Reagan would not have tolerated either.

Looks like more than one generation to me.

Again.
by steeve | 2025-07-04 09:20:56+00:00
It absolutely is and we (ZML) are using it with great success. That said, Andrew said he would absolutely would break compat if it meant things go in the right direction. Yes, it can be painful sometimes, yes I do not always agree with his choices, but it has never been a blocker nor a significant time sink.

And in the end, things do improve significantly.

In this case, I think the new IO stuff is incredible.
by atmanactive | 2025-07-04 09:21:06+00:00
What I find myself doing over and over again is customizing Android notification tones for various apps. I really find it beneficial when I can tell from the sound from my pocket which app would like to notify me at that point in time. I really wish there was an app that could manage all that, including exporting/importing everything configured, so I could reuse that and not be forced to rebuild it from scratch on each and every new Android.

Can this library change notification sounds for individual apps and their channels?
by miroljub | 2025-07-04 09:21:39+00:00
That's the main reason I avoid using any products from startups. I just know that in a few years, the company will die out or exit, and in both cases product I would rely on will be discontinued, or shittified by the new owner.

The only exceptions are open source products with a healthy community, where I can evaluate their possibility of survival after vendor shutdown, or commodity services, where I can count that I could replace them with something similar with a minimal effort.
by rob_c | 2025-07-04 09:22:40+00:00
Learning to use LLM effectively is like learning how to use scripting in office. Useless to a lot of people. Dangerous if you get it wrong. Full of many bad things from the internet. But still the most powerful thing to happen to computing in a generation. And probably soon about to be turned off by default for security reasons to follow the analogy.

Just because you failed to use an LLM effectively the first time, or it doesn't live up to your version of the hype doesn't mean you have a magic window into how sh1t they are. Many people who use them regularly know just how bad they are and what it's like to move beyond the original context window length. But having auto complete on steroids is still the best thing with regards to making computing "fun" again in a generation. No more boiler plate, no more beating your head against a desk looking for that minor coding bug that could have been fixed by a awesome regex if only you had the time to learn it. No more having to break your stride and go through about 20 websites with popups to find that someone else solved the problem got you, just getting on with stuff and having fun whilst doing it.

Edit: no retort, just flagging and down-voting... lovely