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Re:The Legend of von Neumann [pdf] on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:17AM (#49943629)
ctrl+f'd this to make sure, 2 hits of course. Highly recommended, there is a fun anecdote in there that resembles rowhammer but done on magnetic core memory iirc
Re:The Oracle of Bacon: Thirty Years Later on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:31AM (#47121479)
Ah, Akinator!

Show HN: Generative Art Shaders

https://fxy.art

I made a generative art system that generates random expressions made of functions (sin, exp, mod, etc.), variables x/y and p/q (polar coordinates), and constants you can set and animate. The outputs are highly variable.You can press P to animate all constants at the same time and N to quickly generate new programs.Presets don't work the same on all devices because GLSL is not deterministic and...

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Re:How do the pros get someone to leave a cult? on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:56AM (#45979545)
I don't really try with family Fidesz members (Hungarian MAGA). I know why my relative believes what he does and I can't change that. I'm there for him as a friend, will share my conflicting views carefully but avoid getting dragged into a full on argument with emotions.
Re:Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter on Monday November 17, 2025 @08:48AM (#45953510)
Wow! Looks great and very inspiring. Great idea to make separate components that can be connected - something like a drum machine, sequencer, maybe even a chord synthesizer? It can be constrained such that you are always diatonic, you could have a mode knob too.

Jamming with other people can be a life changing experience, and to do that as a child would be a great privilege to have.

Re:Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:50AM (#45745559)
I managed to wake up in my early 30s, by watching my parents' health slowly start failing starting in their 50s.
Re:EQ on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:02AM (#45633603)
I have watched 10+ hours of lessons on compressors and I still don't hear it. I understand most concepts but don't use much compression besides side-chaining and the built-in Ableton glue compression.
Re:Noise Cancelling a Fan on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:36PM (#45280446)
How would this work without headphones in a room? I'm guessing the noise would actually be amplified in some parts of the room.
Why is that a bad thing? Choosing to be bored instead of mindlessly scrolling is great. Boredom was an important part of growing up for me.
Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:44AM (#45195819)
A while back I made a small browser game using emoji for all graphics. I was delighted to see so many different sets of emoji in screenshots people posted.
But hearing and sound making both have many other uses. Jellyfish can "hear", crickets can make noises. I'm guessing we had both of these long before language.
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:41AM (#42724956)
Looks like the sliding controllers bit means that they will work like a computer mouse.

Show HN: Minimal deck builder slot machine using emoji for graphics

https://unicode.fun/

Hi HN,I made a small minimalist game that uses only emoji for graphics:http://unicode.funThis is heavily inspired by "Luck Be a Landlord", a really fun game. I've been interested in making a game only using emoji for a while, and this is the first one that I managed to turn into a real game. I hope the experience is not too clunky, I'm sure there are a ton of things that could be improved. The...

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There is a cost to breaking captcha.
Re:Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason on Friday June 28, 2024 @07:50AM (#40819696)
Love the use of light blue color for the blinking cells! Surprisingly smooth UX considering we have checkboxes for cells.
And you have a scam tweet immediately below this one.
2 days later, I just finished it. I'm finally free. Let this be a warning to future readers.
Re:British Placename Mapper on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:14AM (#39989370)
I wouldn't be surprised if that's also via Scandinavian influence (kyrke). Some other examples are bra, barn, hus.
Any overweight person. I gained 10% of my bodyweight in the last 6 months and I haven't felt better. (Mostly eating plants though.)
Quoting Brian Eno: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart"
Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story on Saturday October 07, 2023 @03:49PM (#37804956)
This happened to me yesterday, I don't remember the query but I remember I was quite surprised because it never happens. Turns out I misspelled a brand/product name by one letter - Funny enough, I would have wanted them to correct my query in this case.
Re:Unrelated Words Puzzle on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:50AM (#35915468)
also, bank and note are only 15% related
Not for me, personally. FB without ads still has no interesting content for me. YouTube premium is the best value for my money out of all my subscriptions due to content.

On Facebook the network effect that made it cool in the beginning has now died and it will keep it from ever coming back for the same reasons it was great in the beginning. I'm very confident people I really care about will not start posting there, and they probably have the same thought process. It's just uncool.

There are libraries (i.e. https://github.com/zenozeng/p5.js-svg) that give you a SVG runtime. I find it very useful!
Re:Programming on 34 Keys on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:02AM (#32659946)
jesusfreke has a 3d printed version of this on github: https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard
Re:Haribo Goldbears, the world’s first gummy bears on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:19AM (#31566914)
The halal haribo I had last week had beef based gelatin in it, instead of pork (I guess), so this one at least was not vegetarian.
Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:03AM (#31167598)
There have been 14 cases of (political) self-immolation in the 2020s so far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolat...

Re:Show HN: A new daily word puzzle on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:47AM (#30416435)
I got 261 points.

Spoiler: QkFCRUwgUEFETE9DSyBSSEVUT1JJQw==

Edit: 272 / QkxPQgpQQUNLRUQKUkhFVE9SSUNBTA==

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