Nice job, humans, can’t even keep a planet straight.
how do u keep a ball straight, and does it really matter?
Readit Newssim7c00 commented on Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut theregister.com/2025/11/1... · Posted by u/weinzierl
Welding rusty metal is possible but generally discouraged because it leads to weak, contaminated welds.
Its highly recommended to remove the rust....
sim7c00 commented on Show HN: Pegma, an open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire pegma.vercel.app... · Posted by u/GlebShalimov
The name Pegma is a play on words that combines: "peg" (peg, token) is the main element of the game and "theorema", which is associated with mathematical rigor and logic
cool, thanks a lot!
you survived a lot longer than I did. I feel like this for a long time now. I just use it now to do research, check HN feed for some news / procrastinating when I'm bored. Despite posting here n there I kind of assume its just talking into the wind or getting reviewed by bots.
I even like AI somewhat, some things it produces. pretty pictures i guess. scfi-fi. but still its not engaging anymore, you get saturated very quickly if things are always available.
The internet seems pretty much dead for a long long time already. a few bastions here n there of maybe-real-people talking. I had some minor hope AI/ML might actually improve things, get rid a bit of the bubbles caused by algos, but its gotten much much worse actually.
AI is not the cause of the decline or rot, but its definitely accelerating it.
A lot of things I cared about are taken over by the loud-n-stupid bunch who yells only in blanket statements and never seems to be able to produce any sound reasoning or evidence for their discourse. i call them bots despite them likely being confused humans...
The worse thing is, that it seems now more and more actual people in the real world are mimicking this behavior. Trying to say smart things about topics they know nothing about, because if chatGPT can give some smart sounding lines, why shouldnt I be able to? I am researcher of technology and the number of times people hand my vibe-coded or written totalgarbage to review or fix, (papers, experiments etc.). Their capacity to think and reason is diminishing fast. They will be fierce and toxic if you highlight this as a concern, or point at any of their hallucinations.
I've expeirenced already a few times that people, like a group of zombies, gang up on me (debate/argument) and all jump on arguments which are trivially proven to be incorrect. Even if you prove them incorrect infront of them, they will just try to eat your brain/prove you wrong by talking louder etc. - and these are 'highly educated individuals'.
Considering to leave my research job, after about 12 years of trying to work myself into such a position, and just go back where i started.. to drive a forklift. its more likely i'd be working with real humans there. and if it's a robot, atleast its a real fuckin robot, not one of these infiltrator units...
sim7c00 commented on Sam Altman and husband fund startup to edit babies' genes thetimes.com/us/news-toda... · Posted by u/salkahfi
maybe they can find and change the megalomaniac-gene into something more sustainable.
sim7c00 commented on Show HN: Pegma, an open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire pegma.vercel.app... · Posted by u/GlebShalimov
Thank you
curious
Tangential question: is this going to eventually ruin e-sports?
What happens when a team of humans are playing against a team of AI, which play in the same conditions, with network lag etc. from a client computer perspective...
And consistently beat the human counterparts for being faster at response time, never make mistakes and not ever getting tired?
Eventually it could kill all MMOs, fill them up with AI players, "farm" with AI that never sleeps, ruin counter strike type games online, etc. Another arms race?
there was a guy who did relatively simple ML with RL on a druid in world of warcraft and put it into 2v2 arenas. soon enough it was completely unbeatable regardless of what human it got paired with. a 1 man army lol XD. they guy did pick the right class for it, but still. AI players done right with RL become insanely difficult to beat.
games like CS its less useful because it will be blatantly aimbotting. as it gets better it will be more and more obvious. you might be able to train it to mimick human mistakes, but i think ultimately it will be easily spotted by other players. for games without the hand-eye-coordination like turn-based games or games with 'global cooldowns' , mmorpgs etc., it will be much harder to identify.
i think normal subtle cheats like ESP when 'done right' are much more killing esports than this would.
sim7c00 commented on Valve is about to win the console generation xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valv... · Posted by u/moonleay
i see a lot of complaints about certain games (windows / kernel-anti-cheat) not working. Consoles have always had exclusive titles. Windows also has them now via this anti-cheat stuff. This changes litterally nothing.
Also, you can even install windows on the box. it's one of its selling points actually... if you really want to...
kernel level anti-cheat is generally not even needed, so perhaps those companies will now consider rolling proper anti-cheat themselves rather than third-party rubbish that no one asked for.
What i also like about this console development is that it might open the door to other smaller players creating consoles in the form of mini-PC with linux and a gaming layer on there. maybe there will be (oem?)partner for valve that make more beefy machines, machines with alternate OSes (windows + skin) etc.
its a different angle that will open up many things hopefully. make it less exclusive market between essentially 3 parties.
sim7c00 commented on Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform gametje.com... · Posted by u/jmpavlec
I don't think it looks as AI generated as people say. It might not be the most flashy UI but it looks good enough to me. Good luck with the launch!
I have to say that as a Dutch person it always pains me to see products launch internationally with a Dutch name, for some reason it just feels super cringy. Do other people who's native language isn't English have that as well with their own language?
i have the same in dutch. same with music and tv shows tho. i guess its just a perception of our own language since most our media is in english?
This was discussed in some detail in the recently published Attacker Moves Second paper*. ML researchers like using Attack Success Rate (ASR) as a metric for model resistance to attack, while for infosec, any successful attack (ASR > 0) is considered significant. ML researchers generally use a static set of tests, while infosec researchers assume an adaptive, resourceful attacker.
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09023