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Where did we get these games as kids? I was around 6-7 when I played this on our PC. I don't think my dad was installing them, and we didn't have internet obviously.

The only game I actually remember us buying prior to around the windows 98 era was "Cool World" which my dad let me choose at Woolworths (UK)*

But aside from that I remember sooo many DOS games. Some random ones: Wacky wheels, Paperboy, OMF, Pushover, Doom, Heretic, Contraption Zack, Warcraft, Might and Magic, D generation. One called abyss.exe? What was that?

How did I get all these games (and so many more??) some of them were demos, but not all I don't think.

*Probably not suitable for a ~5 year old in hindsight

Yeah I had to paste it first to check it was safe

That "copy instructions got agents" thing is a really great idea. I just used it :)

I've been saying this exact thing about food for years. It applies equally as well to software though

Incredibly advanced technology but I bet it still won't let me integrate with more than one Gmail account at the same time..

As someone who is also into <thing> but maybe not other <thing>, it's really great to sometimes delve into the deep world of <thing> for an hour or so to broaden ones perspective and get a general feel for what other people choose to spend their consciousness budget on.

Definitely one of the better sides of the information age is how easy this is now.

I don't completely disagree with your hypotheses but it feels like the hard part of his TIN stuff isn't BM25 (which has been around for donkeys years) it's all the hardcore storage engine work around it. And is an LLM particularly good at e.g. segment merging under a thousand updates a second? I've had a few situations where I've been told "we've hit the perf floor" by Claude only to have persisted myself and shaved substantial amounts off still.

More damning for the theory might be that I think paradedb's pg_search predates the agentic coding by a few years?

The second skill has this before/after example:

> BEFORE: "There's a problem when a lesson inside a section of a course is made 'real' (i.e. given a spot in the file system)"

> AFTER: "There's a problem with the materialization cascade"

It claims the second is easier reading. Is it just me, or does anyone else prefer the first?

I don't want want you reported (or even to follow the rules for their own sake) I suggested you go read/consider the guidelines as they are a good write-up on internet etiquette in general.

Engaging in a positive way on the internet requires more from us than blindly posting every arbitrary thing that pops into our heads and I think it's right to hold each-other to account. Sorry if that seems sanctimonious

Yeah bit dearer but it's only ~£55 a month and feels like money well spent. They're an awesome company

What does this comment actually contribute? Please go read the guidelines [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Your ISP proactively shares your web history with the state.

How so? I'm with AAISP and I'd be very surprised if they were doing this. What are you referring to here?

Really enjoyed this

You're about 12 years older than me so the post was simultaneously nostalgic and a great insight into what work in our industry was like in the decade before I really got properly started professionally

Thanks for sharing and happy 50th for his year

I think about this a lot as someone living in the north of England (in a nice town and quite well off) maybe ignorance is bliss but I just don't know how life could get much better, but then I guess some Japanese person living a prosperous life in a nice community might feel the same about where they live (and might not rate the type of life I lead) so I guess it's subjective..

As I said I think idly about this a lot because when you feel like you've found a sort of eudaimonia you want to share it. But whilst personally, I feel like I won life's lottery being in the place and time I am, but that doesn't mean it's the one true way.

Wherever people are, I hope it's the right place for them personally

This is so great and such a great example of the sociolinguistic prestige given to certain types of words in English.

It's so funny how all this is doing is naming things in almost exactly the same manner we did name them but using germanic words instead of latin or french words and yet words like "stuff" feel so plain whilst "matter" feels much more erudite.

It's 2026 and we still have this incredibly strong bias which probably originally arose when the roman empire carved europe into civilised and uncivilised parts. A bias which has been reinforced by medieval scholars, the normans and various others until it's part of the bones of english. Latin = clever, Germanic = plain/direct.

Justice for Anglish!

I won second try with hares on medium, I think the trick is to:

A) make sure you get at least one hare to one of the central two spots (will always be possible) and camp it there. Keep your other hare moving around on your side.

B) the opponent will have to bring two hounds over to catch your other hare. To do this they will have to create a gap between the first and second hound in the middle spot above/below your camped hare. As soon as this happens, move your camped hare upwards.

It's pretty easy after that TBH. The AI has usual burnt a load of moves by that point and you have so many options from that position

I've been using kmonad[1] on my laptop for years which looks similar. Highly recommend it, it's brilliant.

[1] https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad

What's the key to fire? I've tried everything

Yeah it's included

Utterly vapid comment. I'm not even going to bother "defending"the UK but if you like you can ask an LLM: "What do you think is the most important/relevant international city in the world?"

Anyway, on the actual material of your comment, It's got nothing to do with the BBC choosing to abandon longwave, it's because the technology is completely out of date and obsolete.

There just aren't people making the equipment/infrastructure anymore. The BBC already bought up literally the entire global supply of the valves they need back in 2011, and that was only 10 valves[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/09/bbc-radio4-lon...

A little startup I'm part of is on the AWS startup program giving us £10k in AWA credits so the more we can "proxy" through AWS the better.

We already heavily rely on anthropic models via Bedrock but I'll be interested to see if the tok/s throughout is better on this new service (or worse).

To be honest though after a quick skim, I'm unclear what other advantages this might offer over Bedrock where we can already access the models including vision etc. Will it be worth refactoring our services, all our terraform etc? Unclear at this stage, especially since Bedrock allows us to use more than just the anthropic models if needed

Is having massive sessions which sit idle for hours (or days) at a time considered unusual? That's a really, really common scenario for me.

Two questions if you see this:

1) if this isn't best practice, what is the best way to preserve highly specific contexts?

2) does this issue just affect idle sessions or would the cache miss also apply to /resume ?

100% agree I just had exactly the same reaction. I love the idea and would definitely like to do the first part e.g. documenting key people (family members and other important relations etc), key events like weddings etc.

What a lovely resource, especially if it reflects stories and recollections given by the subjects themselves.

The idea of having AI do it all is really off-putting IMO. For a number of reasons:

1) You lose the curation. You'll inevitably see a bias towards documenting based on the quality and availability of the sources as opposed to the significance of the event. E.g. you might not have much info about some really special childhood event you or someone else remembers, but does that mean it shouldn't be documented? Conversely, I don't want a 10,000 word essay on (to quote one of the titles from the post) "The 3D printing saga" -- just because I happen to have hundreds of WhatsApp messages on the subject.

2) I don't want to fact check every detail. Personally, I think if grandad (RIP) would have told me he one surfed a 20ft wave of the coast of Filey, Yorkshire. I don't need a correction that it was unlikely to be that high. If these things are partly being done "in memoriam" then I think it's really important to preserve the experiences, stories and recollections if the people we're trying to remember. Dates etc are fine to validate and correct. But there's an element of subjectivity to memories that is really special IMO. What even is reality at the end of the day? We're all just one big collective story we tell ourselves.

3) It feels soulless. Enough said on this one, I think people know what I mean

Thank you for brightening my morning with a brief moment of romantic idealism in a black ocean of cynicism

Surely this is sophistry?

It's obvious isn't it? An award has an element of consensus, we choose to make the Nobel prizes mean something by agreeing they mean something.

I don't think it's controversial to say that they are considered a highly prestigious award.

I also don't think it's controversial to say that treating them as transferable undermines the whole point of the award (that they are exclusive, that they are awarded based on merit and careful judgement and not just some free-market commodity that can be bought and sold). If they were, they would be completely worthless.

This is like.. the whole point of awards, trophies etc.

I vehemently have no horse in this race, I'm just trying to live my life, but I refuse to believe that someone who browses HN and articulates themselves well doesn't grok the generally well-understood social contract which underpins things like the Nobel prize and how some might see giving one away as undermining not just to the prize but to the many others who have been deemed worth enough to earn said prize.

Integrity is exactly the right word IMO because awards rely on the integrity of the participants to not do exactly what has been done in this instance at the risk of basically throwing the honor they were given back in the faces of the ones who bestowed it.

Honestly I don't care and I wish I hadn't said anything, but surely you're not sat genuinely scratching your head at why some groups find it objectionable

Come on, you know exactly why: integrity.

I really don't care about any of this but I don't see the need to play ignorant as to why many people might understandably find what she did distasteful.

It was really poorly written in hindsight. I didn't mean for it to come across as bitter/accusatory as it does and you don't deserve to read people talking random jabs at you when browsing HN comments, I'm sorry

> Americans don’t really have much of a concept of what European identity is, and we don’t really care

Cool. Look, I made that comment with a lot of fondness, but if this is the case, maybe leave the European analysis to someone else..

As a Brit, I struggled to get much interesting out of this considering how many times he mentions "Europe" (in that condescendingly general way that only US folks seem to manage).

He talks about "European" prospects and his trip to Denmark but then cites London as a representative example?

This almost broke my brain it felt so incoherent.

Never mind that (despite my personal wishes) we're not even part of the EU (which I assume is what he means by "Europe"). Surely he knows what an anomaly London is? It's not representative of anything except itself.

Referencing the extreme wage dispersion and severe housing pressure of London in a rant about Europe in general is a completely pointless endeavour.

He did say one thing I agree with. If you like good food, rich culture and great surroundings, "Europe" is indeed a lovely place to be for the most part.

Maybe I'll just keep that as my takeaway. It's too early in the year for doom and gloom anyway

Yeah I set out to build something with WebRTC rather than to build a planning poker app if that makes sense. Just wanted to test out the tech.

Having said that, I do still use this off and on and personally the limitations don't bug me too much. Would be a nightmare for more mission-critical software though