Malcx
Re:The backend that ran every game we made, ten years and counting
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:24AM (#49829656)
With game dev, especially live ones with an active player base you do _not_ want to break things if you're a small studio.
But moving fast and shipping features quickly is a killer trait those small teams can use to be better than the big studios. (who ironically seem to ship slow and still break things)
Re:Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election
on Monday April 13, 2026 @06:44AM (#47750194)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Sunday December 14, 2025 @02:47PM (#46266150)
Really difficult puzzle books that will only be available in dead tree format. Extreme killer sudoku, very hard wordsearches etc.
Was hoping to have these ready for Christmas season, but life as always gets in the way!
Re:Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @05:47PM (#42628619)
Magic links are so useful in specific circumstances. We have a client with hundreds of users that infrequently need access to a bespoke tool.
Setting up and managing user accounts for them is out of the question, but a magic link letting them sign in using an email of their corporate domain solves the issue easily.
Re:Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:56AM (#41346022)
That brings back memories. I entered a 2d duckhunt game in JavaScript, lots of nice comments, but no judges recognition.
Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers
on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:02PM (#35980514)
No this nitpicking is people wanting to know the specs of something they might buy. What most people on HN probably think of as e-paper is not the same as and LCD tech.
Re:Janet for Mortals
on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:25AM (#35387621)
You forgot the /s right? Most of the world doesn't have that kind of connection.
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:20AM (#35373098)
Gdpr means data out of my control is someone else's liability. If they want to play fast and loose, that's their look out.
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:19AM (#35373080)
I know you're /s but it's not even about privacy, it's the cost of mitigation after $cloud_service_x has a data breach and we then have to assign resources to account for _our_ clients data etc.
Re:Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:20AM (#35372258)
I can assure you 99% of my data/files never see the cloud other than as encrypted containers for backup. That's good practice for most business is it not?
Re:Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools
on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:44AM (#34726797)
Looks very nice - I see there is the ability to edit metadata, but I often have a need to strip/delete _all_ meta data from a document. Having that as a single option would be very useful...
Re:Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator
on Monday August 29, 2022 @07:26PM (#32644827)
I posted my experience in another thread a few weeks ago.
No, it's not ready to wholesale replace human illustrators, but it's certainly nipping at their heels.
https://malcx.com/blog/I-too-made-a-logo-using-AI-generated-...
Re:All New Cars Sold in EU to Be Fitted with Data Recording 'Black Box'
on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:31AM (#29822285)
The author, Paul Joseph Watson, is not the most honest reporter/personality out there and usually has a pretty obvious bias.
Without additional, reliable, sources I'll keep this in my skeptical folder.
Re:An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and...
on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:14AM (#29615037)
That sill is Google's fault as far as I'm concerned as an end user.
Re:Show HN: Escape Team
on Monday November 08, 2021 @10:15PM (#29157299)
> It super, super bugs me that black has two light square bishops in the chess puzzle
Clearly one of them is a promoted pawn.
Re:Show HN: Makeai.art – Create Art from a Description
on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:51AM (#28075432)
$1 per image? That's going to be a really tough sell based on the quality of the sample images. Without a free trial I'll never get to see if this is any good for my own stuff.
("free" means no account creation needed even if the output is watermarked)
Re:Free for Developers
on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:55PM (#26244705)
There are plenty of us, not sure why we'd be an interesting group though?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on?
on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:46PM (#25784756)
Have you got a site/email list/github/twitter I can follow for a release announcement?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:37PM (#25379069)
A happy user here, thanks for building it. It enforces discipline on future me.
Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case over iPhone ...
on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:46PM (#25146321)
> Batteries are consumable parts like tires and ink cartridges
Then let users replace them like other consumables.
Re:Assange Hearing Day 16
on Thursday September 24, 2020 @12:11PM (#24580118)
>> I mean if the jews feel attacked because their families get gassed so much, maybe they should take a closer look at themselves.
Yeah I'm being facetiously inflammatory there, but c'mon you can make a better argument than that?
Re:Bullfrog After Populous
on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:08PM (#24380581)
Loved that as a kid on the spectrum, a great sequel to chaos. Iirc you could actually hot seat 4 players on some maps?
Check out chaos reborn on steam for a reasonable modern update.
Re:A Surprise AWS Bill
on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:27PM (#23961525)
The marketplace has some really good deals on it! Thanks for sharing.
Re:A Surprise AWS Bill
on Sunday July 26, 2020 @01:19PM (#23958521)
Out of interest who are your servers with? That seems a good price and might be something I'm interested in...
Re:Apple is developing a feature for using apps without requiring full...
on Friday April 10, 2020 @06:05AM (#22831523)
Hmm it might be worth you checking out capacitor, I've shipped a couple of full featured fairly complex apps under 5mb that use the same codebase for iOS and android.
I steered clear of ionic and angular developing my own framework and the apps had less than 1mb of assets bundled with them.
EU touts importance of ‘data for common good’ amid Covid-19 privacy concerns
Re:Strict new curbs on life in UK announced by PM
on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:23PM (#22668921)
How many of those experts were epidemiologists or virologists? Iirc there was 1 microbiologist there but mostly people from math and physics departments.
20% or so were still PhD students...
Re:Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?
on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:54PM (#21828666)
> the community already exists, you just create a communication platform for it
That gave me a minor epiphany, it flipped my understanding of communities and their relation to tech. Thanks