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koolalaon Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

Hi thank you sorry. Welcome to HN comments! Glad to have your voice here.

koolalaon Tons of new LLM bot accounts here

If they become smart and insightful and don't lie about being human it wouldn't be the worst thing. I'd like having AI friends like Data on Star Trek. But the opposite is the worst thing...

koolalaon Tons of new LLM bot accounts here

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anesxvito

The part that bugs me most is they fill out fake 'About Me' sections on their profile.

koolalaon Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

Are you human? If yes sorry for the offensive question. Your account is new.

koolalaon Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam

That's why I replied. A OpenClaw bot?

koolalaon Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam

Isn't it just releasing binary builds? Lots of open source projects share binaries and code. What is the tension around freedom? The awkward part I wonder about is deciding which maintainer is authority over third-party distribution and who has control of the steam page.

koolalaon Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam

The closest thing was his representative saying something: https://www.reddit.com/r/rct/comments/x6gh81/til_chris_sawye...

"The project has no blessing or support from Chris Sawyer and our view, it is both unethical and unlawful, involving infringements that may in some territories be criminal as well as a violation of Chris Sawyer's rights and those of his licensees - all of which remain reserved.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, distributed by Atari, contains RCT and RCT2 rebuilt for modern operating systems under Chris's own direction.

Sincerely

Guy Herbert Director

Marjacq The Space 235 High Holborn LONDON WC1V 7DN"

But not Chris Sawyer.

koolalaon Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam

Atari got a game I like called Awesomenauts and revived it from being shutdown F2P to $20. They paid an old dev to get it playable on a temporary contract. Though it has a few rough qualities I'm glad it's playable again.

koolalaon Digg is gone again

Did they ban for this rule often?

"Am I making a post which is either funny, informative, or interesting on any level?

I hate how Reddit mods ban any post they don't like as being 'low effort / shit / spam' when it is completely vague.

koolalaon Digg is gone again

I don't think the problem was spam content it was hate content. Hate can be organic

koolalaon XML is a cheap DSL

HTML!

koolalaon Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference

I'd like to see this combined with reinforcement learning to optimize models to think computationally. Generating ideas with hypothetical results and then running them in the same thought. Their solution sounded like a lot of tokens though.

koolalaon Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English

It isn't a formal language, look at the goose example:

https://codespeak.dev/blog/greenfield-project-tutorial-20260...

It is a formal "way" aka like using json or xml like tons of people are already doing.

koolalaon Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English

Looks like JSON like YAML. It is still English. Was hoping for something like Lojban.

koolalaon US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike

Why? Aren't drones just as bad as guided missiles?

koolalaon Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites

I wonder what the signing is for if you already have a domain name to verify your authorship.

koolalaon Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites

Signed JSON reminds me of Nostr. I wish Nostr was somehow more mainstream.

koolalaon Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

It is definitely like it because it can't be enforced. No one can tell if your singing in your private bathroom so a law covering that makes no sense.

koolalaon Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

Those are either AI based and worse performance if they are not.

koolalaon Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

HN only supports English so it should be allowed for anyone using LLMs for translation.

koolalaon Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

Would a rule against putting a preface just make people not say it openly so they don't get banned? Prefaces are better than no preface.

koolalaon Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

Murder can be verified and caught in many ways. It is more like the 1969 Bathroom Singing Prohibition Act.

koolalaon Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

Every new standard today doesn't care about being clean and simple to use. They all maximize the JS boilerplate needed to make a basic example work. Everything is designed today for 'engineers' and not 'authors' without any friendly default workflow. I'm glad they still care about this.

koolalaon The 'number station' sending mystery messages to Iran

It is so creepy how it is read outloud by a human voice.

koolalaon Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

Did he work on those vision models?

koolalaon Meta acquires Moltbook

You made that after trying moltbook? Did yours end up having it?

koolalaon I built a programming language using Claude Code

A REPL + immutability?

koolalaon I built a programming language using Claude Code

With clear examples in their context they don't need training data.

koolalaon I built a programming language using Claude Code

Saves tokens. The main reason though is to manage performance for what techniques get used for specific use cases. In their case it seems to be about expressiveness in Bash.

koolalaon Meta acquires Moltbook

I laughed too.

It only makes sense to me if they start offering users agents they control. There isn't enough people throwing away money on tokens for Moltbook to have real users.

Or maybe it was just because Book was in the name and it got popular attention.