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Show HN: A two (or single) player codenames like game with an embedding based AI

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2 points·by maxwg·3 месяца назад·1 comments

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maxwg
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I added a basic roguelike loop to codenames and made it a 2 player co-op game.

The "AI" (if you can call it that... I don't think it qualifies for the "I" part) is based on word embeddings. All logic runs on the frontend, with backend acting as a proxy between two players.

I had a theory that sense2vec (contextual embeddings) may perform better than standard embeddings, but like prior basic codenames AI approaches, it does very well played against itself, but provides incomprehensible clues for humans.
maxwg
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Link to the slides (almost missed it when i was reading): https://farzon.org/files/presentations/Thotcon_talk_may_2025...

Which provides way more information than the article
maxwg
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I honestly thought this was one of the weaker points of the article.

The OpenAI deal almost certainly related purely to GPU capacity, which had little to do with the article. The layoffs would have happened regardless.

IMO - churn, and generalization is the root cause. Engineers are thrown on projects for a year with little prior experience, leave others to pickup the pieces, etc. There's no longer a sense of ownership, and I'm sure the recent wave of layoffs isn't helping with this.
maxwg
·3 месяца назад·discuss
JS was never really obfuscated - it wasn't the goal of minification. Minifiers especially struggle with ES6 classes/etc, outputting code that is almost human readable.

Proper obfuscation libraries exist, typically at the cost of a pretty notable amount of performance that I'd wager most are not willing to sacrifice

And like even the best of client-side DRM, everything can be reverse engineered. All the code has been downloaded to the user's machine. It's one of the (IMO terrible) excuses for the SaaSification of all software
maxwg
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I can see cases like the recently mentioned pg_textsearch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589856) being perfect cases for this kind of development style succeeding - where you have the clear test cases, benchmarks, etc you can meet.

Though for greenfield development, writing the test cases (like the spec) is equally as hard, if not harder than writing the code.

I also observe that LLMs tend to find themselves trapped in local minima. Once the codebase architecture has been solidified, very rarely will it consider larger refactors. In some ways - very similar to overfitting in ML
maxwg
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Impressive. The planes should probably scale up a bit as you zoom though, they become impossible to spot.

I'm surprised all the flights in the world can be represented in a <500KB api call
maxwg
·4 месяца назад·discuss
> Holding Cox liable merely for failing to terminate Internet service to infringing accounts

Imagine giving the power to rightsholders to terminate anyone's internet service with e.g, a DMCA takedown. I'm sure that won't be abused at all, and is a very necessary step to protecting "artists"
maxwg
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Pretty great demo! It'd be great to see a 128/192 comparison.

I had Tidal many years back, and from the Lossless v Regular I only ever noticed a difference when it came to breathy sounds/etc. I did see that Tidal would burn through like 50GB of data monthly though.

Also - you may want to test some more modern recordings, the microphone/mastering quality of things nowadays is far better than what it was 2 decades ago (despite what some audiophiles may claim)
maxwg
·4 месяца назад·discuss
> Bombadil itself decides what is an interesting event and when to capture state.

It would be very nice to have a little more details on how this works. Though I guess we can figure it out via code/trialing it out.

I'll give it a go later today!
maxwg
·4 месяца назад·discuss
The training methods are largely published in their open research papers - though arguably some open weight companies are less open with the exact details.

Realistically a model will never be "compiled" 1:1. Copyrighted data is almost certainly used and even _if_ one could somehow download the petabytes of training data - it's quite likely the model would come out differently.

The article seems to be talking more about the difficulties of fine tuning models though - a setup problem that likely exists in all research, and many larger OSS projects that get more complicated.
maxwg
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Ah yeah I just found it too! I'm a couple days OOTL!

For this one - it's tough. It definitely started a conversation. The 'cc' part of the name is sus, but on the internet, its impossible to verify the truth of any post. But the counterpoint is - if for some reason Anthropic wanted to fund a large scale astroturfing op -- why make is so obvious with cc postfixes?
maxwg
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Do you have links to examples? I normally lurk HN, but I can't say I've seen much of this popup to the front page at least.

I'd say the bigger problem would be AI posters/commentors, though I've not seen as much of them versus certain subreddits which are just probably more bots than human...
maxwg
·4 месяца назад·discuss
It's such a great video that I am surprised its government produced.

Unfortunately this is the way the world seems to be going... Every SaaS, startup is subscription based, filled with ads, etc... But at the same time with the cost of marketing/outreach, traditional distribution just doesn't exist.