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ForgotIdAgain

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ForgotIdAgain··on Doomception: Doom inside Doom inside Doom, and round again
Still quite buggy, but a fun project, massive kudos to kgws for the original work
ForgotIdAgain··on Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
Those long standing math problems solution may serve as building block for solving the experimental science ones.
ForgotIdAgain··on Show HN: 3D printer simulator with in browser firmware execution
Full disclaimer: Claude Code was used heavily, but I experimented with fun stuff in addition to the cpu emulation, like a fully procedural asset production with aesthetic checker script.
ForgotIdAgain··on What to learn to be a graphics programmer
Being into computers is now such a stereotypical way to be nerd, I would be way more interested to talk to a plumbing nerd right now.
ForgotIdAgain··on I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)
Looks like he succesfully pivoted: https://waves.black/ and he is building an OTA update framework apparently now : https://www.nanoforgeflow.com/

The guy is scrappy.

ForgotIdAgain··on Midjourney Medical
The massive data gathering part should only be part of the learning phase of the system imo, once it get a good model of reality it should infer useful knowledge information from few data, like an expert.
ForgotIdAgain··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
I guess the point of view is that if a department is well running, it means it is overressourced. So you reduce the ressources until it's breaking point, just enough for it to not fail. A jaded service manager told me it was part of its official training: if the clients was too satisfied that meant that human ressources were wasted on them, so he had to spin plates between clients. I guess it was economically optimal.
ForgotIdAgain··on How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math
I come from a developping country, and this whole schtick about "being concerned by tech addiction is a western luxury" is tiring.
ForgotIdAgain··on Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
I think that engineering progress made while building those machines are maybe more relevant for practical technical development than the discovery they make.
ForgotIdAgain··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
Moreover, till to this day at an advanced level knowing how to drop at the assembly level or knowing computer architecture is a valuable skill
ForgotIdAgain··on A New Kind of Computer (April 2025)
It's always cited as an example, and it's highly impressive yes, but it's also highly focused, with a very partial feature set, I'm not sure that type of coding is applicable to mass scale software.
ForgotIdAgain··on Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level
I have not tried it yet, but seems nice : https://leetgpu.com/
ForgotIdAgain··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
Isn't the role of a concept artist mainly to do worldbuilding and drawing second? AI does not seem to have a good world model, they make pretty pictures but they lack thought behind them.
ForgotIdAgain··on Tragedy of return to hostile offices
I don't think the fact that remote work is not possible for other professionals is relevant. If it is about fairness, you could say it is even an advantage for other workers since it means less traffic congestion, better access to restaurant and less land use.
ForgotIdAgain··on Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot
That's the issue with a lot of educational ressource, they don't tell about the problems that are to be solved. For OOP for example, I would an iteratively built ressource that present a problem then a first solution, and the new problems that it introduces, and so on.
ForgotIdAgain··on I don't like making the best things
Damn, I tried really hard to be good at computers and only achieved mediocrity. It was lonely, made me miss lots of other stuff in life and now I can only try to just be barely competent. I am really happy for you, but it just reminded that I have almost surely missed my shot at life and at getting those kind of memories. Hey at least I get to live in interesting times.
ForgotIdAgain··on Choose your fighter (Advent of Code)
It just lack the GPT powered "prompt engineer".
ForgotIdAgain··on Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
In my experience, the more someone has deep understanding in tech, the more they are critical of it. Especially true in my field of infosec.
ForgotIdAgain··on Competent Elites (2008)
Following John carmack on twitter? ;)
ForgotIdAgain··on FORCEDENTRY: Sandbox Escape
In the introduction "In this post we'll take a look at that sandbox escape. It's notable for using only logic bugs". My understanding was that Rust only cover memory corruption type of bug.
ForgotIdAgain··on France ends gas heaters subsidies
Long term energy independence from russia is good, but what about the timescale? I'm no oil/gas engineer but it all seems big industrial investment, but people are talking about cold cutting russia (is it feasible technically?), since it seems to be the road that will be taken, let's hope that europe will wither the shock.
ForgotIdAgain··on France ends gas heaters subsidies
Algeria cannot readily provides ressources https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insigh... and it seems it will be hit hard as all of north africa by the end of ukraine and russia grain export and drought affecting agriculture.

Norway looks to be a more stable source https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Beginning-Of-...

But there was another source that I can't seem to find anymore that indicates that norway gas reserves are not that great.

edit: https://www.reuters.com/article/france-fertilizers-yara-intl... Fertilizer production was already hit by big gas prices, I think that cutting of russian gas won't help the situation.

ForgotIdAgain··on France ends gas heaters subsidies
Russia has food and energy, sure QoL will be greatly reduced but it will go through, what will happen in developed country if it can't get gas to produce fertilizer? At least America will get to sell gas and food to europe I guess.
ForgotIdAgain··on Ask HN: What are the signs that someone is intelligent?
What happens if everyone do that?
ForgotIdAgain··on Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
You are not alone : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought