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New ask Hacker News story: I hadn't coded in 30 years. Then I built a space game with Godot

I hadn't coded in 30 years. Then I built a space game with Godot 2 by CosmicGoldRush | 0 comments on Hacker News. Two years ago, I accidentally discovered the Godot Engine for making games. My coding experience was 30 years back. I was a radar designer and I spent years making software for simulating propagation of electromagnetic waves. I even got a scientific prize for it. I followed the tutorial on the Godot website and I was hooked. I did not have a plan for the game. It grew organically. However I had a vision: with Earth's resources getting scarcer, Humanity will have to go beyond Earth and even beyond our own solar system in order to mine for resources. It will face celestial dangers, probably aliens, and also bad humans, ie, Pirates. It started with a single astronaut collecting gold ore. Then of course I added mining robots. For fun, I added meteor storms, and a laser gun to shatter the meteors. Then I designed villains as pirates, so it made sense to develop autono...

New ask Hacker News story: He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut 12 by dtjb | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper

Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper 2 by wewewedxfgdf | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: I'm Done Using AI

I'm Done Using AI 5 by nyxtom | 0 comments on Hacker News. I think I'm done using LLMs altogether for coding. I've lost the ability to maintain any kind of flow state, the majority of the time I've spent thrashing on architectural changes that I could have done myself, tests that get manipulated into passing, and having to sift through the magic 8-ball of skills that are intended to get work done (all caps dont do this, please do that). LLMs appear to be fruitful as essentially a research search engine but I'm pretty much done with them for coding. This has been an enormously expensive waste of time and to add to it a general atrophy of skill.

New ask Hacker News story: Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?

Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware? 19 by Throwaway_sys | 6 comments on Hacker News. don't want to file a decom report with a gap so I figured I would ask here. On a contract job clearing out a data center doing routine stuff like taking inventory and audits before we decommission hardware. The issue is there is one node that keeps coming back that isn't in the documentation. ip is in the 46.28.x.x range Its not in the facilities registry though. Ran it through RIPE and ARIN to find nothing. The latency is what is getting me though. 0.4 round trip every time. Tested from multiple machines including a phone on LTE to get the same response time. That should theoretically mean I am right next to the machine which doesn't make sense across three different connections. Checked the physical hardware and it's nothing I've ever seen before. Not standard 1U or 2U ports maybe proprietary. serial format is: CC-[4 digits]-[2 digits]-[6 alphanumeric...

New ask Hacker News story: The AI tool discovery problem

The AI tool discovery problem 3 by meenabhagvat | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've spent the last few months researching and categorizing hundreds of AI tools. One thing that surprised me is that building AI products seems to be getting easier, while getting discovered is getting harder. Every week, new tools launch for writing, coding, design, research, video, and automation. Yet most users end up using the same handful of products because discovering alternatives is difficult. I've noticed that users often search for solutions to problems rather than specific products. They want to "transcribe meetings" or "generate presentations" rather than find a particular tool. For founders building AI products: How are you solving the discovery problem? What's driving the most meaningful users for you today—SEO, communities, social media, partnerships, directories, or something else?