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talloaktrees··on Goodbye from Salon
The one thing burned in my brain is that when Clinton was president he was interviewed about this "new internet thing" and asked what websites he and Hilary like to read, and his answer was salon.com
talloaktrees··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
People in the comments are misundertsanding the difference between a faithful remake and a "spritual successor" with completely different units, gameplay, and content.
talloaktrees··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Many of us have the exact same thought process. Related: I have heard indie game developers have stopped the traditional practice of updating a dev log as a form of marketing and community building because people will point their LLm at it and create your own game before you do
talloaktrees··on I wanna live an NPC life
Zhuangzi was fishing in the Pu River when the King of Chu sent two high officials to him. They said, “The king wishes to entrust you with the affairs of his realm.”

Zhuangzi kept hold of his fishing rod and did not turn around. He said, “I have heard that in Chu there is a sacred turtle that has been dead for three thousand years. The king keeps it wrapped in cloth, enclosed in a box, and stored in the ancestral temple.

“Now, would this turtle rather have died and left its bones behind to be honored, or would it rather be alive, dragging its tail through the mud?”

The two officials replied, “It would rather be alive, dragging its tail through the mud.”

Zhuangzi said, “Then go away. I too will drag my tail through the mud.”

talloaktrees··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
frontend design work, game development
talloaktrees··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
the thing is about some of these things, like sub-agents, is that any implementation of sub-agents is going to be extremely opinionated, so it would never make sense to be in pi out of the box.
talloaktrees··on Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
side scrolling video games were always moving from left to right
talloaktrees··on I love LLMs, I hate hype
Currently, because of the subsidies from the frontier models, demand is mostly for higher intelligence.

If subsidies do end, demand for price efficiency per unit of intelligence will go way up.And because there's many players in the market, this demand should be met by at least some of them.

talloaktrees··on Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
I found the blog post: https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-pr...
talloaktrees··on Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
Would be curious to learn more from you if you have any other guidance or details.
talloaktrees··on Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
hundreds.

likely my approach is often not optimal as I'm not experienced in this field

talloaktrees··on Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
I have been experimenting with dissassembly and rewrite of 90s dos games in Rust.

It's not something I have experience in so I rely heavily on the models setting the direction and automating the work.

It's something where the level of intelligence has a huge impact. I still haven't succeeded, it's mostly an experiment for me to test the edges of model capabilities and see how they tackle such a hard problem.

talloaktrees··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
I like using Odin with LLMs for this. it's a simple statically typed language with no GC and very fast compile
talloaktrees··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-major...
talloaktrees··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
Deepseek chat answers this question in detail no qualms
talloaktrees··on Google I/O
i went to Google Cloud Next last month, this comment is on point
talloaktrees··on Attention Residuals
except it's not true
talloaktrees··on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale
does that mean someone was paying into your social security, essentially boosting your benefit amount when the time comes?
talloaktrees··on US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year
honest question, because it's something I don't understand well. is it possible the quantity of job openings can mask the quality of jobs openings? if job openings at fast food restaurants goes up 1000% maybe this isn't positive
talloaktrees··on An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In
your mother used the latin word "brassica?"
talloaktrees··on The anatomy of a Godot API call
I think this is correct... you can even go with Rust instead of C++
talloaktrees··on Fewer university students are studying Mandarin
I'm not ethnically Chinese but I studied Mandarin in college in the early 2000s then moved to Taiwan for almost a decade. I don't regret doing it, but it didn't provide me any sort of business or career advantage like everyone thought it would in the early 2000s
talloaktrees··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
not a lawyer, but since your spouse is american you should be able to apply for a green card and have permanent residency and work rights
talloaktrees··on Going Rogue
at the time when Diablo came out it was clear it was a polished, graphical version of Nethack
talloaktrees··on Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary
I like this a lot, can you talk about what you are doing to protect user's private data? that's something I'd want to be convinced about before I use it.
talloaktrees··on Computer Programming with Nim
This is very exciting! I had no idea this book was being written.
talloaktrees··on The Ur-Quan Masters
also played on the Genesis and I definitely remember the framerate being low! compared to when I played Star Control 2 on PC a few years later
talloaktrees··on Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations
I don't think anyone with knowledge has ever seriously conisdered servers in China more private than US servers. Unless your goal was to keep information private only from the US government.
talloaktrees··on India bans e-cigarettes, citing youth health concerns
not to mention alcohol
talloaktrees··on Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags foreign ties
> Cancer center officials have not named any of the five researchers. MD Anderson President Peter Pisters says all are “Asian”;

I believe because that's the official statement.

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