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I don't think I have ever known about this website

I'm reading some takes in the comments that I'm not so sure about. We seem to be taking for granted that we can fix all the bugs and security problems of our software, and then everything will be fine. But is that really the case? Do we know if it is even possible for a non trivial software to be fully secure? Or will there always exist a way to break it, no matter how much we fix it?

The article hits the nail in the head. This is also the reason why making games for classic consoles/computers was so enticing. You could not just use any image: it had to be pixel art with tile and palette restrictions, and there was joy in getting more juice out of the same machine. And the same happened with music, RAM, CPU, etc.

And that same joy is the reason why today people (myself included) have created fantasy consoles to make games enforcing similar restrictions.

Same here. What is special in this simple clock, and why does it deserve to be in the front page of HN?

Very interesting. Looking at the images I'm not sure if this is based on Autodesk Inventor (plausible since they already imitated AutoCAD), or in Solid Edge (given the name).

I don't think the slop analogy is that valid here. Sloppy pictures may be of little value, but a "sloppy" proof of a conjecture does still prove it.

I like it, thanks for sharing!

> simply dumping proofs on the math community and expecting others to do the grunt work of verifying, refining, and expanding on them is hardly a productive way to advance the field.

I tend to agree with this, but what is the alternative? Should OpenAI and Anthropic employ hundreds of mathematicians to do this work? Should they just not solve math problems within their reach?

It would help to have a title that tells us what this is about...

I mean, if people start living forever, they better stop having kids... at least until we colonize other planets.

I was sure this article would be about how we tell computers to do things now (writing prompts to an AI in plain English). I was wrong. Interesting nonetheless.

Now you can try out Vircon32 without downloading anything! Note that you will need a keyboard to play (there are no tactile controls), so games will not be playable on a phone.

Absolutely. My point was not to agree with the new name, but to say that USA should not call themselves America (which is not just arrogant, but plainly incorrect)

This is a good moment to remind everyone that the USA is not "America". Not even North America. Just a part of it.

Are there no versions between MacOS 15 and 26???

Yes, but are self promotion posts not required to use "Show HN"/"Tell HN"? Or at least a disclosure on the comments...

While this is certainly impressive, I believe it is not a good answer from a user's perspective. Instead of having Claude automatically spend tokens in an unrelated task, I would have preferred it to first tell me: "I can't view the drawing. Would you like me to build a computer vision pipeline to do it"?

I would take it as just rounding 2,435 -> 2,400. No big deal.

Several comments here talk about "nearly" having a heart attack. But I wonder: since it's happened to so many people, chances are someone had a heart attack for real. Can they legally be made responsible for that?

> Some ppl don't like to hear it. But I would assume that token costs when using an inference provider are cheaper than electricity of using locally.

Maybe, but for how long? Prices keep going up, and every new model eats more and more tokens...

> Premium gaming and premium content of any kind seems unsustainable.

That's one of the main problems of current gaming. Games have become just "content". And as such they are disposable. Why replay (and appreciate) something you liked? Just play something else.

Quite the cryptic tytle. Were they trying to save tokens?

Yes, reading those in the same sentence I also thought about a spin on 2048, the game.

People have got too used to Steam doing things well, but don't forget that: 1) that's not the norm, and 2) there's no telling when it will change. Gabe Newell will retire not too long from now. Will the next one in charge be so lenient? Don't forget what happened with Unity, for instance.

> The tension is that digital goods are somewhere between.

That's the thing. If they are truly goods, they cannot be in between! Otherwise they are being handled as services and as such they will be terminated at some point. So unless we redefine the word, a true "purchase" can never depend on future actions from the provider (like renewing some DRM).

If they have no DRM, I would say it does!

This article is quite right, but there's even more to it than that. Why should we need to hold ANY kind of relationship with the seller/provider of an article we bought? You certainly don't need a bookstore account to buy a paperback book. Nor do they get to keep your contact information. You get your article and a ticket. They get your money. End of story.

So now we need a framework for unit tastes

Careful! Some of the scenes you would think as CGI are actually using practical effects. Even a couple of scenes with liquid metal on screen were using models.

And would that really be a bad thing?...