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Re:Searching for Humanity in Fortnite [video] on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:16AM (#38099372)
Can you win Fortnite's Battle Royale as a pacifist? Can you make friends with opponents during a death match? Come with me on a journey as I try to break Fortnite by acting like a Care Bear on a battlefield.
Re:WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:22AM (#15601347)
It was, you can get a history of submissions for a domain by clicking the domain name to the right of a HN article title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=myfonts.com

Re:Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @05:24AM (#15346114)
There is always https://photo.stackexchange.com/ too :-)
Re:Optimizing latency of an Arduino MIDI controller on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @06:31AM (#15123335)
When I read the title of the article I wondered "did they just discover ASIO4ALL?"

Yes. Yes, they did.

- http://asio4all.com/

Also, the EFF has an article warning that this court decision might set a dangerous precedent for Internet Censorship in the future:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/top-canadian-court-per...

Re:The future of MDN: a focus on web docs on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @10:03AM (#14506504)
That HTML RFC page is one of the few pages I've ever tested with PageSpeed (by Google) that gets 100/100 marks for Mobile and Desktop versions!

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

Re:MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia on Saturday June 03, 2017 @06:56PM (#14478934)
Not quite, you can install Rockbox on pretty much any portable player. It supports Opus and FLAC among many other formats.

https://www.rockbox.org/

Re:Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:13AM (#14375811)
This is the document (and page) you're looking for... <waves hand>

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto20...

Re:Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:04AM (#14375725)
Just a clarification: while it's page 82 of the paper document, it is actually page 84 of the PDF file. The chapter titled "A FRAMEWORK FOR DATA AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY".

Here is a link that should take you straight to page 84 of the PDF (tested on Firefox and Chrome only):

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto20...

I wonder why Nomx don't have a Comments section at the bottom of their rebuttal... >:-D
Re:Spellfucker on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:23AM (#14218014)
I could also read it OK, with concentration (not Slavic). Ai theenke thet eefe ay red laikh theiss four ey uayl eye wood gette phassterh kueekh-Lee.

Edit: όλσο, ουάν κούντ υιούζ σούπερ γουίερντ Γκρήκ κάρακτερς. (also, one could use super weird Greek characters)

Re:The History of Computer RPGs on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:46AM (#14155542)
Could I mention the legendary artist Mark Ferrari for your consideration?

http://markferrari.com/art/digital-concepts/

(I know there are hundreds of others, I'm hoping people might reply and compile a favourites list for you ^_^)

Plenty of explanation videos about this 4-spacial-dimensions puzzle game!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=marc%20ten%20bo...

Re:Opus Audio Codec 1.2-alpha is out on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:01AM (#12966857)
"Opus supports all bitrates from 6 kbit/s to 510 kbit/s." https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716#section-2.1.1

Here's a public listening test conducted between Opus, AAC and Vorbis at ~105 kbit/s: http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm

Re:Open Cola on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @07:25AM (#12547143)
I was thinking the exact same thing, so it's not tenuous.

+1 to OpenCola On GitHub idea :-)

Although:

https://github.com/search?q=open%20cola

https://github.com/NeuralSandwich/OpenCola

Re:Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:53AM (#12180568)
+10! I have been hating this exact thing about AVG for months.
Re:Opus Interactive Audio Codec v1.1.3 released on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:50AM (#12157751)
Yeah, Opus is known to compress noisy rock/metal-like audio pretty well, even at low bitrates. The stuff it finds harder to do is tonal content, though it assigns more bitrate to help itself out. See the Tonality Estimation section here: https://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/opus/demo3.shtml
Re:Opus Interactive Audio Codec v1.1.3 released on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:25PM (#12144541)
Touché, the comparison tests are at http://opus-codec.com/comparison/
Re:Show HN: Hacking airplane headphones on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @10:31AM (#12121981)
Hehe, ironic response about missing the obvious, since the first thing the hacker did was check it wasn't the headphones that were faulty :-)

Asking a co-passenger for a spare set of phones would have left him with the same problem: the plane socket was only feeding audio from one hole, not both.

Re:Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014) on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:48AM (#11994199)
Wow. Indeed. 44.2 MB for the whole page!

The morphing-letters demo is kinda cool though :-)

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