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As a game developer, I'm really rooting for open source game engines.

Unity and Unreal are dinosaurs that target the shrinking console market. Godot is being built in their image. My hope is that something more versatile like Bevy becomes common so that we have something that could potentially compete with the next generation of Roblox.


Do you think the next generation of Roblox will be a dominating games engine?


Roblox is strung up in its own closed and exploited ecosystem, so hopefully no.


I really hope not, but I wouldn’t bet against it. The nature of products that take high capex to build and then have nearly zero marginal cost to reproduce is monopolies.


Worse than that, the main vehicle it compares everything to is the Model Y. There may have been one or two things related to Tesla this year, and not other EVs, that might have hurt resale values for some reason...


"That product saw little adoption due to privacy concerns about privacy, and pretty much languished."

- A professional writer


Getting rid of editors happened at the same time as shorter deadlines. I'm sympathetic.


Makes sense, lack of editors is why all my essays in high school weren’t any good either


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Hilarious! My son is taking Honors English in the 10th grade and I am constantly finding those kinds of mistakes in his writing assignments because he gets distracted by his phone a lot. He also adds a lot of extra sentences that say nothing of value, which I remove. I guess I'm his editor.


Typos and grammatical errors are common in journalism nowadays, even with formerly respected organizations like APNews.


It's crossed my mind that a couple of a certain class of typos in a document has become a signal of authenticity. It's only a matter of time* before we see prompting or even manual editing adapt to falsify that signal.

* before this comment gets a single upvote, somebody will have vibe-coded this


I think they're pointing out that the sentence is symmetric.

"That product saw little adoption" - "and pretty much languished."

"privacy concerns" - "about privacy"


Tautologically redundant is how I’ve heard other professional writers older and wiser than I am refer to this occurrence.


I really enjoy how that phrase is also an example of itself- such a great term!


Department of Redundancy Department


I think it boils down to you get what you pay for. If information is free, it will become same as noise.


And when it's offered for free once, it's then a race to the bottom. People in general don't understand the value of curation nor quality, especially when it comes to information. So it's hard for well-curated high quality information to remain because it costs money to make it.


The article also misspelled her last name.


Why can't "AI" be used to fix such errors

Unless this grammatical error is extremely common, LLMs should make this an easy one to detect (relatively low probability of next token)

Why not use "AI" to fix human error (like this one, presumably) instead of expecting people to fix "AI" output


Ironically, an AI would write a better sentence than this professional writer.


The AI would, hands down, write a better sentence if you compared the output quality of an author writing 10,000 words per day with an AI writing 10,000 words per day. Or make the AI write 100,000 words per day, it could write sentences better than that 24/7 without breaking a sweat, while the human would literally be incapable of achieving this goal.

But if you gave both a month to write the best 400 word article they could possibly generate on a particular subject, the human author would dominate. Give them time to make a few drafts, to research and think and talk to people, to edit and reorganize and restart and rehearse, and they'll produce something that's worth being read and re-read and considered thoughtfully by thousands of people.

The problem is that the journalism industry has become optimized to generate content to be skimmed by a few people and read by thousands of bots.


> But if you gave both a month to write the best 400 word article they could possibly generate on a particular subject, the human author would dominate.

What proof is there for this?


Poor style gives a sense of character and authenticity.


In a text from a friend maybe. This is a professional news publication.


The only use-case I've heard for cryptocurrencies that doesn't just sound like a get-rich-quick-speculative-betting-scam is providing financial services to the un-banked.


That's the wrong lens to use. Determine monopolies based on the view of a potential competitor.

Say I'm a new search engine startup that has some better tech than Google has, we invented a better wheel. How hard would it be to compete on merit?


That’s not how unfair monopolies are judged in the US. It’s based on harm to consumers.

As far as how hard is it to compete, it’s not the governments job to force people to use your alternate search engine. Choosing another search engine is literally just a click away.


Exactly. It has never been easy to search stuff using non-Google search engines.

You like traditional search engines? Use bing, ddg.

You like AI powered ones? ChatGPT, Perplexity

You want to pay for your search? Kagi

You want to plant trees each you search (!)? Ecosia

There are soooo many choices. But people choosing Google out of free will seems to be a bad thing for Google.


I'd guess VLC will get support for it soon now that ffmpeg supports it.


Possibly, but VLC maintains its own codec libraries and doesn't rely on FFMpeg.


"Turn Trends Into Content Instantly with AI"

This feels like infrastructure to help deliver AI slop.

What is the sales pitch for a company like this, "spammers will always exist, so fund us and we can take a cut of peoples' spamming activities?"


It will be impossible soon (already almost there) to determine what is real content by real humans and what is AI generated <slop>. Human-to-human experiences will become a priceless commodity.

IMHO


I understand the concern about AI slop. That's actually not what we're building toward.

Think of Trendly more like Google Trends or BuzzSumo - it's a research tool with content assistance features. Most of our users are doing market research, tracking brand mentions across languages, or understanding cultural conversations they wouldn't otherwise have visibility into.

The "instant content" angle was poor messaging on my part. The real value is in the discovery and insights, not automation.


If you have continuous sunlight, can't you get away with no battery?

Not arguing with your overall point - this company looks ridiculous.


For continuous you need to either go for a polar orbit or go very far in space. Most launch centers & providers are not well situation for polar orbits because its not a common use case, so you need to sacrifice launch mass. The same goes for far away orbits - you need to sacrifice launch mass to go further. Also if you are far then you get latency issues.

So it skews the economics pretty harshly. I think OP is right - you need good batteries somehow.


I think the proposal suggested an orbit where the solar panels are always in sun and always properly aligned and always clean due to space gophers.

But more seriously, GPU loads are super spiky. Ground-based power grids and generators and batteries have trouble keeping up with them. You can go from 1MW idle to 50MW full power in 10ms. Unbuffered solar cells are right out.


> "GPU loads are super spiky... You can go from 1MW idle to 50MW full power in 10ms."

That sounds like something that could be addressed in software, if necessary? Cap/throttle the GPUs according to the available power, and ramp power up/down gradually if spikiness is the issue.


I get the sense that these sorts of tools are more for power users than for software engineers with production AI experience.


Every manager I see now who gave up or was not a good coder is now chomping at the bit to use these tools


Not true. It’s impossible to find talent with experience in major agent frameworks like smolagents, autogen/ag2, crewAI.

I wish that there were tons of managers desperate to learn how to use these tools. I’m not seeing it!


The talent you speak of can be cultivated in house, but management never has the appetite for it.


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