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makerofthings commented on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games quanticfoundry.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/jaredcwhite

PeterStuer · 15 hours ago

No. I'd say they are polling mostly completely uninformed people on the interwebs that haven't given this more than 3 seconds of thought before they clicked an option and have almost 0% expertise in actually detecting AI assisted work when it is done well, but since there is 0 cost proposed just prefered 'human' over 'machine'. Basically the equivalent of the beauty contestant's "peace on earth".

makerofthings · 15 hours ago

Anecdote from me. I’m in a video games slack channel with ~350 of my coworkers who know well what ai looks like and like video games. Everyone hates it. I’d love a permanent steam selection to hide generative ai.

makerofthings commented on Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000

georgehotz · 20 days ago

I support the no global leaderboard. I was in 7th place last year but quickly got bored maintaining the aggressive AI pipeline required to achieve that. If I wanted to maintain pipelines I'd just do work, and there will never be a good way to prevent people from using AI like this. Advent of Code should be fun, thank you for continuing to do it. I'm looking forward to casually playing this year!

makerofthings · 20 days ago

The FAQ was pretty clear about not using AI to get on the leaderboard last year.

makerofthings commented on Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000

fainpul · 20 days ago

Opinion poll:

Python is extremely suitable for these kind of problems. C++ is also often used, especially by competitive programmers.

Which "non-mainstream" or even obscure languages are also well suited for AoC? Please list your weapon of choice and a short statement why it's well suited (not why you like it, why it's good for AoC).

makerofthings · 20 days ago

Another vote for Haskell. It’s fun and the parsing bit is easy. I do struggle with some of the 2d map style questions which are simpler in a mutable 2d array in c++. It’s sometimes hard to write throwaway code in Haskell!

makerofthings commented on Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines susam.net/fizz-buzz-with-... · Posted by u/hprotagonist

makerofthings · a month ago

There are a surprising number of ways to generate the fizzbuzz sequence. I always liked this one:

  fizzbuzz n = case (n^4 `mod` 15) of
    1  -> show n
    6  -> "fizz"
    10 -> "buzz"
    0  -> "fizzbuzz"

  fb :: IO ()
  fb = print $ map fizzbuzz [1..30]

makerofthings commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

makerofthings · 2 months ago

I've always been a big fan of apple and have defended them in the past, but iOS 26 is a dumpster fire. There are visual corruptions and glitches all over the place and transparent text floating over transparent text. It's not even whether I like the style or not, it's just broken. Who signed off on this? No product in this state would ever leave one of my teams, I'd resign first.

makerofthings commented on Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act theregister.com/2025/10/1... · Posted by u/klez

makerofthings · 2 months ago

The UK government want to get on with blocking websites and VPNs as soon as possible. 4chan was obviously not going to comply and was picked to allow ofcom to quickly move onto the next step.

makerofthings commented on Show HN: Autism Simulator autism-simulator.vercel.a... · Posted by u/joshcsimmons

makerofthings · 3 months ago

I wanted to like this but it doesn’t reflect my experience in the uk or that of close family members. It seems to be some sort of burnout simulator?

makerofthings commented on Our efforts, in part, define us weakty.com/posts/efforts/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

andrewstuart · 3 months ago

I became a computer programmer because I want the computer to do things.

I’m not a programmer because I wanted to program.

Thus AI is incredibly exciting to me because it makes it easier to make computers do things.

makerofthings · 3 months ago

I became a programmer because I like to write code. Having an llm write code for me is like building a robot that eats cake.

makerofthings commented on Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations wikimediafoundation.org/n... · Posted by u/Nurw

makerofthings · 5 months ago

A lot of people in this thread seem to enjoy the taste of boot and are spending a lot of words trying to say the OSA isn't a big deal. A bit of a sad attitude for a forum called HackerNews. This is massive overreach by the government, we shouldn't have to ID ourselves to message friends on bluesky, read homebrew forums or, soon, use xbox voice chat. The government won't give up this power, it's clearly the thin end of the wedge.

makerofthings commented on Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters thepinknews.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/mediumdeviation

pacifika · 5 months ago

Several articles say that Ofcom has said platforms must not host, share, or permit content encouraging the use of VPNs to bypass age checks, adding that parents should be aware of how VPNs can be used to bypass the Act.

makerofthings · 5 months ago

All those parents that couldn’t use parental controls to limit what their children see in a browser are not suddenly going to start policing VPNs. This is terrible legislation wrapped in terrible advice.

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