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Re:Requests, Please on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:38AM (#50290799)
That would be pretty cool actually :-D
Re:Requests, Please on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:12AM (#50288443)
Papers Please isn't really about the act of checking things. It's about the stories and moral choices. A lot of copycat games miss that point too.
Re:TLP Is Not a Suggestion on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:53AM (#50287067)
Doesn't matter. They video signaled to attackers that it was discoverable so they all pointed their clankers at the PHP source to go and find it.
Re:AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:16AM (#49738653)
Yeah it is. If they stop preaching AI doomerism then they're out of the cult and won't get invited to orgies anymore.
There is nothing as permanent as a temporary fix that works.
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:25AM (#49643350)
Yep, there's regular flying for dogfighting, mining, landing, etc. Then there's supercruise for getting around a star system, and FSD jump (basically a loading screen) for going between systems.
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:03AM (#49641641)
> minecraft has like what 40 biomes, no man's sky has practically infinite biomes

Does it? I put about 80-ish hours into NMS last year. According to the wiki NMS has 13 biomes. In practice it has even fewer because the actual biome has little to no effect on gameplay. It's just a "look".

I had my first "scan this code with your phone" last week. Nope. Close tab and never go there again.
Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:48AM (#49521985)
Oh I fully agree. I hope Tarn an Zach make millions more and can keep working of their life's work for many years to come.
Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:42AM (#49520623)
So that's 360K/year over 20 years?
Re:Restroom Archive on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:56AM (#49519266)
I've been all over Europe and I have never seen this....
Re:Resetting Xbox on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:18AM (#48815379)
I loved Pentiment, but it was soooo much reading.
Perhaps add "Tectonic" as a puzzle type? It's the same as Ripple Effect but it disallows diagonal repeats.
The problem with history is that you need to know when to look. If you're looking for some old code that you know existed but you don't know exactly what it was, you can't just browse to go and find it.
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Saturday May 09, 2026 @06:52PM (#48079040)
There is no reason you can return that "no items matched your selection" with a 404 HTTP response code instead of a 200.
For all intents an purposes it is, especially face ID. Also, courts in most countries can compel you to provide biometrics. But many cannot compel you to reveal passwords.
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Thursday April 30, 2026 @03:03AM (#47959166)
I'm just using Bitwarden instead. My work still uses 1password for now, but we're in the process of moving to Bitwarden.
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:12AM (#47945478)
145XXX and I am on the other side of the world, no connection to SV at all
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:29AM (#47945180)
I can't globally disable that "autofill" also hits "submit". I want to review what it autofills before I submit. I consider this a security risk. I can disable submit only on a login-by-login basis, and my coworkers are able to reenable it again. I can't globally disable it for myself.
I have been telling people for years that biometrics (face, fingerprint, voice) is your username, not your password. But people are easily swayed by convenience.
Same. Sometimes I will play a givewayway game on EGS and like it enough to e.g. buy the DLC. In that case I'll buy the game on Steam, just to buy the DLC there too.
Re:'Your Frustration Is the Product' on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:22AM (#47438981)
> It's like buy a $2000 TV and discovering ads on the homescreen, ContentID to sell your viewing habits, etc.

Have you bought a TV recently? This is exactly what is happening already. I had to pi-hole my entire network to get rid of the ads in my "switch source" menu on my Samsung TV that did not have ads when I bought it and for the first 3 years after that.

I second Debian. All the good bits of Ubuntu have long since been ported back to Debian, and it has much more timely releases now.
Re:I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @04:56AM (#47135077)
What's the software stack? Did you write an app for it? Jailbreak it?
The difference is that with financing you're stuck with it (and your credit rating drops, at least in the EU here). You're not stuck with a subscription. If your income changes and you can't afford it anymore then you can cancel your subscription.
The MRSP for those GPUs is already inflated. There's a reason Nvidia is going to start making more RTX 3060 GPUs. Because people (and system builders) can't afford 40XX and 50XX GPUs.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:00AM (#46310033)
Even idiot investors eventually want their money back. And they will ruin you in the process with their idiotic ideas.
Re:O'saasy License Agreement on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:12AM (#46286023)
> Even though it may seem harsh to apache 2.0 the code, no one will steal it since you are maintaing it

But that's evidently not true. Amazon has co-opted plenty of open source projects and put the squeeze on the original maintainer's SaaS offering.

Re:Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:59AM (#46276175)
I love Projectivity Launcher on my Google Streamer, but I can't figure out how to really replace the built-in launcher. Sometimes the device falls back to the default launcher until I press the "home" button on my remote.
Re:What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @04:41AM (#46044118)
It also exist for e.g. radio. It's called compulsory licensing and people have been doing it for decades.

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