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These are all genre fiction books from the 1960s-80s and I imagine they are very stylistically different from the majority of AI-generated text today, in an easily distinguishable …

Combining this article and discovery of an unwinnable seed in the original Slay the Spire [0] — I've always pondered the existence of some kind of "RNG hell", where a game uses the…

Maybe turn-based roguelike deckbuilders aren't the best for this, but I actually like some correlated randomness in some games, as it adds a new hidden mechanic to explore. In Hade…

To be very clear — I was specifically responding to "social engineering won't work on a human security expert". It can, and has. People are not infallible, and a "that would never …

> Social engineering won't work on a human security expert who knows and understands the implications of the information they are giving away Social engineering, like prompt inject…

Someone responded to a previous comment of mine [0] positing a Peter principle [1] of slopcoding — it will always be easier to tack on a new feature than to understand a whole syst…

I wish cultural norms around documentation would shift to "pull" rather than "push" — generating "views" of organized knowledge on the fly instead of making endless rearrangements …

There is definitely going to be some Wirth's law-like [0] effect about the asymmetry of software complexity outpacing LLMs' abilities to untangle said software. Claude 9.2 Optimus …

> This would be like an NFL team drafting a quarterback based on how many instagram followers they have rather than a relevant metric like pass completion, or god forbid, doing som…

If you like space toilets you may be interested in this [0] HN submission where you can track how full the ISS urine tank is from the comfort of your menu bar. [0] https://news.yco…

Quite good, per Bellingcat [0] — Google Lens and ChatGPT could localize the majority of their test photos pretty specifically. [0] https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/08/14/l…

Computers Don't Argue [0] by Gordon R. Dickson! A horrifying read in how a simple misunderstanding can spiral out of control. [0] https://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/classes/ecs153-2019-04/…

Reminds me of turquoise cockpits [0], another workspace where visual fatigue considerations are important. [0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16434/why-are-r...

I would have thought so too but Naval Gazing has a short series [0] on why it's not as dire as one might think. An aircraft carrier's location being "secret" in this case is just o…

> Cortex, by default, can set a flag to trigger unsandboxed command execution Easy fix: extend the proposal in RFC 3514 [0] to cover prompt injection, and then disallow command exe…

I didn't want to nitpick terminology, but yes, the tile-placement algorithm here is just a way of solving constraint satisfaction problems with DFS using a "minimum remaining value…

Reminds me of Jasper Flick's Unity tutorial on hex terrain [0] which is similarly wonderfully detailed. Interesting contrast: this project uses premade tiles and constraint solving…

You can see an archived list of industrial security clearance decisions here [0] which is interesting, and occasionally entertaining, reading. "Drug involvement security concerns" …

Also see A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry's series of fortifications [0] regarding castles and their strategic importance, especially on how they were essential to local contro…

> Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisc…

For reference: the base model 2025 Toyota Camry does 0-60 in 7.0s and the quarter mile in 15.4s [0]. [0] https://www.zeroto60times.com/vehicle-make/toyota-0-60-mph-t...

Not exactly the same aesthetic, but the Factorio blog has examples of early concept art in a minimal line-art style (like [0]) and I actually like it! [0] https://cdn.factorio.com/…