I've been listening to this album since it came out, so I guess that makes two decades now. They so beautifully captured the soul of the game's soundtrack and amplified it in all the right ways. Can't recommend enough giving it a listen
Readit Newsholyjaw commented on Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/mikesabbagh
I wonder how many potential views he loses due to his gurning? I've never watched any of his videos despite YT constantly recommending them to me because I've got a personal rule about never clicking on a thumbnail that has a picture of someone pulling a face or which has a clickbait title.
You're getting a lot of flak for this, but I agree with you and stand by this principle. I have certainly missed out on good content – in the case of LTT, I had some friends convince me it was worth it and they were, of course, right.
But on the other hand, I've saved myself many hours of having clicked through a stupid face thumbnail to some bland algorithmic HeyGuysWhatsUpThisIs-type crap.
holyjaw commented on How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries longreads.com/2020/08/20/... · Posted by u/lxm
Compare to https://masterwiki.how
> MasterClass is an exclusive online education platform that costs $180 annually to learn (relatively ordinary skills) from A-list celebrities. masterWiki is the direct adaptation of MasterClass' video courses translated into wikiHow-style how-to guides, made available at no cost to you.
The posted article is a fun and interesting read about the author's relationship to themself and their family as impacted by their viewing of various classes.
I struggle to find a relevant comparison here, other than that both the article and your link (of a parody / theft of another company's intellectual property) are related to MasterClass.
holyjaw commented on You can pay $750 an hour and walk on rides at Disney World insidethemagic.net/2020/0... · Posted by u/hhs
This reads like really weird blogspam.
I also wonder why they misspell the number "10":
> "With Disney’s VIP Tour Services, you and your loved ones (up to 1o guests)"
The only time I see a typo like this is when a shady website is trying to get around some sort of content detection mechanism, but I can't figure out if that's the case here – or why.
holyjaw commented on Break another CTF by taking over its machine github.com/seadog007/noxC... · Posted by u/seadog007
I'm a bit confused by this:
> The challenge has kubernetes logo on the bottom of the page like the screenshot below, and the IP is 35.241.245.36.
> I immediately realized that is a GCP machine, so I tested the backend server by sending HTTP request to my server to see if it is also on GCP, and it is.
What about the IP address or k8s logo made you realize it was a GCP machine?
holyjaw commented on My Life Isn't Your Porn: Why South Korean Women Protest koreaexpose.com/south-kor... · Posted by u/dsr12
I find fourth-wave feminist articles like this to be a complete sham, because they completely stop short of asking a far more constructive question:
'Why is this happening?'
Is there something unique about South Korea that motivates the use of spycams and sexually explicit non-consensual recordings? Imo that would be a far more useful place to start.
Lax laws/enforcement do not motivate people to do things. That is, unless we start from the assumption that all men are basically barbaric (Which I have to reject on face value alone), then there's no way to blame this on the legal system or the police.
Not far off from South Korea is a phenomenon in Japan called "grass-eating men": Men who give up on pursuing women and careers, and instead live online in subpar apartments and out of internet cafes to live out their lives. Perhaps there's something in common between what motivates that, and what we're seeing here?
How happy are men (as a class) in South Korea? How beneficial are their 'good' alternatives here?
> I find fourth-wave feminist articles like this to be a complete sham, because they completely stop short of asking a far more constructive question:
> 'Why is this happening?'
> How happy are men (as a class) in South Korea? How beneficial are their 'good' alternatives here?
Who the fuck cares if these men are happy?! This isn't a peer reviewed journal, this is an article highlighting the fact that thousands of South Korean women are so sick and tired of being mistreated by the police and by their fellow human beings that they had to stage a protest just get some attention on the situation.
If you want some deep philosophical understanding of the scenario, then you do it. "Sham"? Get off your pedestal.
holyjaw commented on Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each week eclecticlight.co/2017/09/... · Posted by u/mbgaxyz
How do I check this? (I’ll go ahead and discard my HN dumbass card with this move.)
`uptime`
holyjaw commented on Elon Musk plans to build a Hyperloop himself bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/Someone
Is there anyway to disable autoplay videos on bloomberg's website? They're one of the few sites I routinely click through from HN, but the disruption of the autoplay is quite disrespectful, and frankly boils my blood.
It's not too obvious, but this is a Github "Story" (not just the profile of an OSS contributor). Pretty interesting content in the article. I know of her from Twitter (guess I randomly followed some time ago) - definitely worth a follow.
I spent last week in a deep-dive experiment to see how far I could push modern agentic workflows on a greenfield project. I wanted to move past simple code generation and see if I could build a system where I was orchestrating a team of agents to build a full application.
The results were pretty wild (~800 commits, 100+ PRs, and a functioning app we use internally at my company), but the most interesting part was the playbook of rules I had to develop to make it work. The post covers the 8 rules I learned, from managing the AI's context window with sub-agents and manual checkpoints, to creating autonomous test loops, to why I had to become ruthless about restarting failed runs.
A few quick notes to preempt questions:
Tech Stack: The core of this was Claude Code, a custom parallelization script, and open-source MCPs like Serena.
Cost: The token cost was significant (~$6k). This was an experiment to push the limits, not to optimize for cost efficiency... yet.
Effort: This was not a standard 40-hour week. It was an intense, "in the hole" sprint with a very high cognitive load.
I’m convinced the role of an engineer is shifting from a hands-on coder to an architect of these intelligent systems. I’m curious to hear how others are approaching this. What workflows or tools for managing agents have you found to be effective?