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Anti-cheat systems in multiplayer video games. It seems like every multiplayer game out there eventually gets overrun with cheaters and that cheat developers win every time.

Initially I was alarmed but then I've noticed that this sentiment is being repeated only in some weird places on the internet and seems to be non-existent in the job offers, so there was no real reason to give it any attention.

I mainly work with .NET and I did a search for the term "prompt engineering" on one of the biggest website for job adverts in my country. Out of almost 800 offers only 9 mention the term "prompt engineer". Changing that to "AI" produces around 200 results, but many of these are typical throwaway lines like "our company uses the newest AI tools" that doesn't mean anything.

Maybe it's different in other regions or tech stacks, but so far I am not seeing anything that makes me feel I need to take any of this seriously.

This is probably the first time I see the term "prompt engineer" mentioned this year. I though that this joke has ran its' course back in 2023 and is largely forgotten nowadays.

"Friciton" in this case is just plain old laziness and I don't think that it should be encouraged.

I think that the whole point of the discussion forum is to talk to other people, so I am in favor of banning AI replies. There's zero value in these posts because anyone can type chatgpt.com in the browser and then ask whatever question they want at any time while getting input from an another human being is not always guaranteed.

I think I don't understand the point of this site anymore when this is what makes it to the front page.

They could publish Episode 3 and then publish Half-Life 3 afterwards. I never understood why people keep insisting they can release only one game. It's not like they don't have average or mediocre titles in the series anyway (Blue Shift and Episode 1 are examples of this).

These rumors come from Tyler McVicker who regularly gets things wrong and makes stuff up in order to get clicks on youtube. I have no idea why anyone still takes him seriously in 2025.

>The HL3 memes don't even seem fair to use anymore.

It's absolutely fair to mock them for not releasing these games and keeping radio silence all these years. They managed to dethrone Duke Nukem Forever.

There were multiple times in which the internet was hyped for Episode 3 and where it would make sense to release even a basic game like they've did with Episodes 1&2 just to wrap things up. I'm sure plenty of people that make up various explanations to why that happened but the end result is that Valve has chosen to disappoint the fans who have been waiting for the conclusion to the story. It's not like doing that would prevent them from releasing an another new entry in the series that uses revolutionary new technology or whatever.

$14 and I still have to run several plugins just to make the site actually usable. No thanks.

Except there's nothing to discuss because the book is not released. Is HN about "awareness" now? Why not come back in 2026 when the book is actually released and people can actually talk about the contents of the book?

I don't know what happened to this website but stuff like this keeps hitting the front page more and more often despite having close to zero value. It feels like SEO spam to me.

Why would their response be appropriate when even the creators of the LLM doesn't clearly state the purpose of their software, yet alone instruct users how to use it? The person I replied to said that this software should be used yo "help you build and run experiments, and help you discuss your findings, and in the end helps you write your discoveries" - I dare anyone to find any mention of this workflow being the "correct" way of using any LLM in the LLM's official documentation.

Like clockwork. Each time someone criticizes any aspect of any LLM there's always someone to tell that person they're using the LLM wrong. Perhaps it's time to stop blaming the user?

I've never experienced the original Amiga and I probably never will. I would however be open to emulating the machine. Are there any good resources for people like who would like to try out the whole ecosystem as a complete newbie in 2025? My knowledge about Amiga is close to zero.

No wonder that OSS is not taken seriously when the end user is considered a leech and an afterthought.

A lot of of OSS is subpar or even terrible and end users have low tolerance for this kind of stuff.

GIMP is a great example. For decades anyone asking about "open-source Photoshop" would be redirected to GIMP even though GIMP is nowhere near as good as Photoshop. Years pass and some simple things that are a no-brainer in Photoshop are still a nightmare to do in GIMP. Text stroke is one of such examples, there's no easy way to do it with GIMP and the method you can see online looks bad and can't be easily changed afterwards. Why? Or something as simple as picking a size of a brush - why is selecting small sizes such a pain while selecting gigantic brushes that hardly anyone uses is not? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Desktop Linux is an another example. It's always presented as an alternative to Windows (or even better than Windows) and when someone tries it out and it doesn't work for them the end user gets blamed for using the wrong distribution, having wrong hardware, not being able to solve issues right away despite being a beginner or even hit with the legendary "works on my machine". It's always the user who is in the wrong and never the software.

All of this gives OSS a bad name. There are always a bunch of small, annoying problems that affects end users and which often go unfixed for years. Whenever one of these end users brings up these problems they either get told to use a bizarre workaround or get a snarky response about submitting a PR or something. This kind of contempt towards the end user seems to be surprisingly common in OSS circles.

I don't think this is fixable. It would require the OSS community as a whole to change and this will never happen.

That's not an argument in favor of PS5.

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There's simply no point in buying that console when it has like what, 7 exclusive titles that aren't shovelware? 7 titles after 5 years? And this number keeps going down because games are constantly being ported to other systems.

Their suffering is their own choice.

The cost of blocking ads has been equal to zero for nearly two decades now. I see no reason to suddenly start paying for this kind of stuff.

That just makes it seem like there's no point in using this language in the first place.

I refuse to read anything that seems to be obviously AI generated. If they can't be bothered to write down what they think then I don't have any reason to bother with reading what they've posted either.

>In fact, this paper found that more than that, it thinks American.

I think that's because it seems to be primarily trained on reddit and therefore mirrors everything reddit stands for. Not a good thing considering just how overrun the site is with bots and political activists of all kinds.

>"Slowing innovation across the frontend ecosystem" sounds like a really good idea to me.

I agree, part of why I detest frontend and its' ecosystem is because these things seem to be always in motion and there never seems to be a solution that is just "good enough". This seems insane to me on a conceptual level because in the end it's just putting things on display on the internet which is something we've been doing for decades. And it's not like things have got better for the end user anyway seeing how so many websites written in these frontend frameworks are abysmally slow.

I wouldn't have much issue with the state of things if I was just a hobbyist making my own website for fun but I do mind when the job market constantly demands something different. I'm glad that React is the de-facto winner because this is what I need to know to get a job but I still see positions that require Angular or Vue.js and I don't even bother with sending my resume because I know I will be rejected. From my experience most companies do not care that you have worked with a different framework in the past, they expect the exact one they've listed.

>Why does the idea of identifying seams not apply to Visual Basic Script?

Because the script is embedded and requires the runtime of that proprietary legacy application and there's no way to make it run outside that runtime. Think of it as trying to add unit tests to Excel macros.

This book is extremely overrated because the whole thing can be summed up in two bullet points:

* write your new code somewhere outside the main solution and call it from the old solution

* automated tests are pretty cool and you should write these whenever possible

I found the book to be close to useless when I was working with actual legacy code. How do I write an unit test for an application that has an embedded Visual Basic script support with dozens of scripts that are thousands of lines long? The book does not answer this question at all because the author assumed I have the luxury of working with Java or an another language that supports the object-oriented paradigm and can be endlessly extended with no limitations whatsoever.

How can you say there's some sort of a social contract here when the ads side has no problem with psychologically manipulating me, outright lying to me and putting me in danger just so they can extract a tiny bit of profit from me? In any other context such a party would be classified as sociopathic. Why should the ad industry get a pass?