I'm wondering, what language do youb love nowadays?
C
Readit Newsnikolayasdf123 commented on Python: The Documentary [video] youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4Q... · Posted by u/chmaynard
nikolayasdf123 commented on Python: The Documentary [video] youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4Q... · Posted by u/chmaynard
I'm wondering, what language do youb love nowadays?
Go
nikolayasdf123 commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
I watch the movie and it's over in an hour. I use this app and I can improve my workflow for a year. Which one is worth it?
say I start charging you 40 USD for clothes you have bought from someone else, you are washing yourself, reparing, and other people made, using their own tools and materials. I did close to nothing, and yet "you will be wearing it for a year". great, but that does not mean there is no ripoff from my part. I have close to nothing to do with your clothes, even if they are obviously useful to you for next year.
same story here. marginal contribution is too low compared to price
nikolayasdf123 commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
I watch the movie and it's over in an hour. I use this app and I can improve my workflow for a year. Which one is worth it?
you can pay for it 1000 USD too, nobody stops you
but that does not mean it is "worth it". as in, marginal contribution and work people did to make it happen. banana duck-taped to a wall, same story.
10 USD?
how does this compare to asciiflow.com which is free and open-source?
nikolayasdf123 commented on Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header ietf.org/archive/id/draft... · Posted by u/exprez135
It says in the first paragraph it’s for crawlers and bots. How many humans are inspecting the headers of every page they casually browse? An immediate problem that could potentially be addressed by this is the “AI training on AI content” loop.
I believe this is why Google did SynthID https://deepmind.google/science/synthid/
nikolayasdf123 commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
And yet people pay $5 to watch a movie that cost $100 million to shoot. Surely the AAA game is overpriced?
you are missing the point. (proving yourself wrong?)
that movie has tons of AAA-grade creatives, AAA-grade actors, tens of thousands of people work, brand new music, licenced music, photos, drawings, videos, animations and motion graphics, 3D assets, pictures, photos, whole buildings and set built for this, that borderline tiny real towns. LotR had to develop brand new state-of-the-art VFX rendering tech, which is often the case with such projects.
VFX for say "fake" UI Iron Man suit, had to write tons of code to make it work. amount of work those movies and games take in creatives (very often it is just code) is unbelievable.
now, with this utility app. what did it produce? not even close.
nikolayasdf123 commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
40 USD is way too expensive for this
nikolayasdf123 commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
It's crazy how expensive these small utilities are.
And worse, because they're paid you don't even get the source code to fix issues yourself :/
40 USD, this is ridiculous
this is on par with AAA games that have tons of creative assets, art, music, thousands of people work on them for years.. and here is a utility that did not even invent SQLite itself, not a dollar goes to SQLite creators either. rather a light wrapper over standard UI build by Apple - SwiftUI. what is the marginal contribution from creator here for this price? what a ripoff
nikolayasdf123 commented on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs marianogappa.github.io/so... · Posted by u/maloga
What I like about this post is that it highlights something a lot of devs gloss over: the coding part of game development was never really the bottleneck. A solo developer can crank out mechanics pretty quickly, with or without AI. The real grind is in all the invisible layers on top; balancing the loop, tuning difficulty, creating assets that don’t look uncanny, and building enough polish to hold someone’s attention for more than 5 minutes.
That’s why we’re not suddenly drowning in brilliant Steam releases post-LLMs. The tech has lowered one wall, but the taller walls remain. It’s like the rise of Unity in the 2010s: the engine democratized making games, but we didn’t see a proportional explosion of good game, just more attempts. LLMs are doing the same thing for code, and image models are starting to do it for art, but neither can tell you if your game is actually fun.
The interesting question to me is: what happens when AI can not only implement but also playtest -- running thousands of iterations of your loop, surfacing which mechanics keep simulated players engaged? That’s when we start moving beyond "AI as productivity hack" into "AI as collaborator in design." We’re not there yet, but this article feels like an early data point along that trajectory.
> hold someone’s attention for more than 5 minutes.
more like, more than 5 seconds.