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Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
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My favorites were written back in th 50's. They didn't age well. Girls were told they could be the secretary in the detective agency, while the boys did the investigating. (Henry Reed Inc.) Stuff like that, made it so I didn't give them to the grandkids.
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Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter were my favorite children's series.
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I have always liked The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss and Yertle The Turtle by Dr. Seuss.
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Damn, it's like you were in my head and plagiarized my memories! Good list The only one I didn't have is Yertle The Turtle
A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't (housing.over.pizza)
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I play games like Civilization and we get these tech trees and policy trees and such. And I can never help but wonder what it would be like to play these when the people of the territory act like Americans. You try to incentivize future technology and they push back. You try and prioritize education and they push back. There is always division and infighting. Regardless, I don't think it would actually make the game more fun.
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I'm a unclear on what high "The Neighborhood" scores mean in the right panel before approving the project, is it good or bad?
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Showed up, saw Claude was there, didn't feel like sticking around. My guess is it's a game mocking the influence of techbro money in San Francisco and how it's changed the community there, made by a tool that the techbros are now massively pushing, much to the dislike of the global community (environmental cost, etc). If so, how ironic. "Trigger warning", old fart rant: As someone who downloaded, over 28.8K modem, a version of the Jargon File (1) as a plain text file (2) to read during a school vacation, in the "good old days" of my imagination Silicon Valley was a lot cooler for hackers. But people noticed it was a place to make money, and all the money-hungry MBAs showed up, and now the whole industry has a stench to it.. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File (2) https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.7.dos.txt
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Money destroys everything it touches eventually.
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Took me back to sim farm. The aesthetics are awesome
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I imagined something more like a sim city clone where every time you try to put down a building or zone, it’s refused with a pop up message saying why. Let me prompt that out brb
I mean, stopping housing construction hasn’t stopped the new money from pushing out the old soul. Given the US enshrines the free movement of people in the Constitution, it’s make room or have someone outbid you for yours.
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Yes, lets turn everywhere into the shitty place we grew up in.
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It is possible to grow in a pleasant way without mallification, seems like a lot of projecting. And it’s not like the current approach is preventing that; insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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It took me a moment to realize "insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results." is not the prospectus of a REIT named Insanity.
Line at the end of the in-game "rulebook": > Every rule, vote count and case in this game is drawn from the public record. Sources are in docs/research/ in the project folder. Neighborhood politics scores and the economics are simplified for play. Nice, I'm happy to hear that, Claude . This kind of silly game is supposed to help you understand a complex issue in a fun way. But this is missing the plot entirely. Why is this so overwhelmingly complex? Why would I spend time learning this ugly, convoluted and verbose UI? Who is this for?? EDIT: I'll link to an example of what I think this game should have been: https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html A game made with intent, that is easy to pick up, respects its player's time, and makes its point effectively.
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This runs into the reality that the game maker knows who his target audience is, but you don't. If he wants to make a spreadsheet simulator or something targeted at people who like complex interfaces he can do that. I point at ASCII-UI Dwarf Fortress, one of the great games of this century, as evidence that a game does not need to be accessible to be true art. It is frustrating to be excluded when a game developer builds a game that looks interesting but targets a niche you don't fit in. Also those https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html style games are a bit vapid. At any moment a person has more than a handful of choices and the simplification abstracts away the important ones, like ranking what ideas are important or changing strategies for idea generation in this one.
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"I didn't understand this, so I had an AI make this so that you couldn't understand it too"
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Eh, your example is a different kind of game. Not into linear choose-your-own-adventure games myself. I think the UI of this one accurately models the many moving parts and forces in the process it's simulating, and I didn't have a problem picking it up though I skipped the tutorial. It has a sense of humor (read the speaker comments at meetings, and the news articles), and hits you with the real world outcome each development is based on. Made an impact on me.
No, I do not think fighting the UI is part of the point this game is trying to make. I'll give a good example of what such a game should be: https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html There's no reason a "housing crisis" game couldn't have been done like that, with simple choices and immediate reactions. A game that respects the player's time, is easy to pick up and makes the point effectively.
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Any simplification hides real problems and takes away from the point. Even your desire for simple choices and immediate reactions elides the fact that not every policy decision has visible short term effects. Some are only visibly beneficial or harmful in the long run, and may not end up that way depending on other decisions.
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Do the simplifications in the PhD game ( https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html ) take away from the point that finishing a PhD is pretty freaking hard? I think not!
> Who is this for?? Like most vibe coded projects, it is for the person who created it. And usually only them.
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These people should, instead of posting the game, just post a video of them playing through the game, as most people have no interest in playing other’s slop but may just be curious to watch someone play and provide comedic value.
Takeshi's Castle (en.wikipedia.org)
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There's a related Famicom game that's quite (in)famous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Challenge
His movies are also worth a watch: Hana bi, Sonatine, Brother, Dolls, and Zatōichi are all amazing movies. Should do a rewatch again, it's been a while...
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I watched Hana bi and Sonatine recently. I thought "this sounds like Joe Hisaishi" - turns out it was, he scored basically all of Takeshi's films
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if you're into yakuza campyness try the outrage series. he's great in them.
The dubs for the Spanish version did it too. There were two dubs, one in 1990 and another one for a 2006 re-run. Both completely made up.
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It was localized with the name Humor Amarillo ("Yellow Comedy"). I know...
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Probably unscripted improv, and hilarious. Go chino cudeiro!
Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (ft.com)
They want LEVERAGE. They can't ride the hyperscaler gravy train forever; at some point between Google, AMD, and Apple NVIDIA is going to lose its monopoly on serving large customers. At that point, it would be useful if a few open models existed which were only a couple of months behind the frontier. But it's very important that the open models never be TOO good, because the AI companies are buying compute on the assumption that their software will add value. If it becomes a commodity business with frontier open models, NVIDIA won't be able to get away with such a crazy markup.
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> If it becomes a commodity business with frontier open models, NVIDIA won't be able to get away with such a crazy markup. Of course they would. You need hardware to run the model. nVidia sets the floor.
Subscriptions are almost never actually cheaper.
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It is cheaper to subscribe to AI for $500 a year for the rest of your life than to buy a machine capable of running the a current frontier model with no subagents.
boy do I wish US capitalism could chill on the consolidation...
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5 minutes ago this company didn’t exist. In 5 minutes, it won’t exist again. Say government intervenes and prevents this merger, what’s the most likely outcome? Company won’t exist in 6 minutes. In all likelihood this company was spun up with the intention it would be purchased by a ”competitor.”
How Protein Took over the World (ft.com)
Actually, I believe bugs have been tried and turn out less efficient than whatever we have now. I believe soy is cheapest.
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less efficient in what way? you could probably raise crickets in a smaller space and with less resources.
Henselmans‘ number is for total body mass, not lean.
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Oops, you're right. Messed that up in my OP.
Most folks (at least in North America) get no where near the recommended level. It's silly to have protein infused junk food, but a shake or protein powder make it a lot easier to get to the right level than remembering to have 3 hard boiled eggs.
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So true, and as a person ages it becomes even more important to keep getting good protein but most don't.
Is 30g of protein from a shake truly equivalent to 30g of protein from 100g of chicken breast? In 2026, you can't get a straight answer to this question, because anything protein related is SEO-optimized blogspam (thanks Google).
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I won't call it common sense, but humans with highly limited technology lived and reproduced to build sophisticated civilizations in almost every biome on the planet. Our biology is immensely adaptable, so anyone declaring you absolutely need some finely decided very specific thing in order to be "be healthy" should be treated skeptically. With regards to protein specifically: your body doesn't trade in proteins as inputs, it trades in amino acids which cracked off the protein chains you eat. Everything else is just trying to keep the crowd of gut bacteria from making you feel uncomfortable.
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Animal protein is considered to be better than plant protein for lean muscle mass. So it depends if the shake is say whey or soy. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7926405/#sec5-nutrients-13-00661
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I would hardly draw that conclusion from this paper. It's a meta analysis of a handful of studies with fairly low sample sizes, and it wasn't immediately clear that there was any controlling factor wrt amount consumed. There are also a lot of statements pointing out there was no statistically significant difference for various metrics...
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From what I've read, both are good sources of usable protein but animal protein is considered higher quality because it includes more essential micronutrients that are delivered more effectively through the digestion process. Basically it's what your body has evolved to process best. Protein drinks do give quick protein for recovery, etc.
What's "real" vs. "fake" sugar? Should we be adding sugar at all?
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There are lots of healthy sweeteners And fair the petulant need we have for sweetness is probably a result of the bad programming we had as kids consuming this junk. This is the majority of people, and it’s getting worse, society is noticeably getting fatter
Wild that people can't just cook and eat more vegetables.
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Is it? They’re pricier, they’re not available in food deserts, they go bad much more quickly, and they require more skill to cook into a delicious meal.
Fiber is indigestible and not required for human health. It's also a cause of bloating, constipation and gas... because it's indigestible. Fiber does have the benefit of slowing sugar digestion, but you can and should just eat less sugar. Some forms of fiber can be converted to fatty acids by bacteria in your colon, while also producing other byproducts. You can get those fatty acids by eating more meat without the added stress on your digestive system. Compare the human digestive system of a human being to a wolf (carnivore), a pig (omnivore) and a gorilla (herbivorous hindgut fermenter). The human gut by proportions sits somewhere between wolf and pig. Look up the actual studies on fiber rather than pop science articles, and examine them critically. They'll do things like assume that pooping more often and having a greater volume of poop is healthier, with no basis. Things like how easy it is to poop or feelings of being bloated are harder to quantify, so they're typically ignored. Or you get the extrapolating cancer risk based on some vaguely understood biomarker, which is one step below "in mice" as far as science goes.
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My theory is that the only reason we need indigestible carbohydrate is to push out the indigestible carbohydrate that is already stuck in the colon. Therefore we need it either all the time or not at all. Does this make sense?
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