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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, N...
on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:01AM (#45669324)
A browser extension or addon that automatically sets the user's preferences and hides the site's popup. Does it exist?
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5
on Monday September 29, 2025 @01:23PM (#45416377)
For unity gamedev code reviews, I much preferred the gpt5 code. Claude gave me a bunch of bad recommendations for code changes, and also an incorrect formula for completion percentage.
Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints
on Sunday September 28, 2025 @02:02AM (#45402101)
With duck typing, you don’t need type hints. You’re just supposed to use the variable however you “feel” it should be used when you’re using it, and it automagically just works!!! Try it! /s
Re:An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:40AM (#45211541)
Podcast/narrated version would be cool.
Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
on Monday June 09, 2025 @02:31PM (#44227613)
Would be cool if they started using displays with multiple layers, kinda like the looking glass 3D display, to get actual 3d layering of UI. Would look amazing with this new UI design.
Re:Discord Can Make Money
on Friday June 06, 2025 @10:57AM (#44201567)
I feel like ads are the least clever/most damaging way to make money for a platform. Maybe better would be to charge large servers a hosting fee. The server owners could figure out how to make money to pay for the fees, through donations to the channel, externally, etc.
Re:Did "Big Oil" Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?
on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @03:22PM (#44173632)
I feel bad for all the sorters that have to sift through trash, who know most of the stuff will just get thrown in the landfill. Some people treat the recycle bin as a second trash can.
Re:The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @12:46PM (#44145452)
I’m surprised these never took off in Mexico. Water is cheaper than toilet paper, and you don’t have a basket of used toilet paper in the bathroom.
Re:Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
on Thursday April 10, 2025 @09:56PM (#43649737)
I think they look more like eyes or portals. I guess you see what's on your mind.
Re:Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games
on Thursday April 10, 2025 @01:32PM (#43646206)
Lotta people playing on the deck. Hoping to port to switch one day. Local multiplayer would be awesome.
Re:Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games
on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:29AM (#43632584)
The rules make it so every new tetris release is just a boring clone. TGM has to fight for innovation, really sad. When I made my four player variant, https://duo.itch.io/reaktor I made sure to follow NONE of the guideline rules, and it ended up being a breath of fresh air for a lot of people. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1fdzcsc/how_i_publ...
Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:03PM (#43015961)
It's a meme at this point. People who don't know anything about programming (lex fridman): "It's revolutionary. People with no programming skills can create entire apps." People who program for a living: "It can reproduce variants of code that have been implemented already 1000s of times, and... nothing else".
Re:Government planned it 7 years,beavers built the dam in 2 days and s...
on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:01AM (#42945430)
I love beavers!! They don’t just build the dams, but the also change the rivers into special types of ponds that their favorite food grows in (green leafy shoots). So they don’t just build a house but also a farm! So cool!!!
Sicko game developers keep reinventing Tetris
Re:Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets
on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:35AM (#42673426)
Are there any good sites like this for game music?
Re:A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)
on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @10:21AM (#42126786)
https://youtu.be/ky1nGQhHTso?si=XN5Hny_Yd6Svx5M_
Asianometry has a good one on this. They’ve become dependent on US software (and hardware), and programming is considered a low prestige job.
Re:Mitochondria Are Alive
on Saturday November 09, 2024 @08:30AM (#42094304)
Today I learned that mitochondria are the only organelles that replicate “on their own” inside a cell, while the other organelles just bud off the preexisting ones. I wonder how they are signaled to do so though.
Reminds me of sea slugs that eat plants and then integrate their chloroplasts to produce energy, or my dad who kept swapping the same Honda motor through all our go karts because it was too good to get rid of.
Re:Passport Photos
on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:23AM (#42077432)
Would be great to tape the whole picture inside the passport. I’m sure the passport officials could use a good chuckle. … or you’ll go to jail.
Re:The almost lost art of rosin potatoes
on Friday November 01, 2024 @07:41PM (#42022686)
Yeah, like why would anyone want to revive toxic potatoes.
Re:34x34x34 Rubik's Cube
on Friday November 01, 2024 @10:52AM (#42017486)
This is strange, probably not fun to play. I think an exploded view (t shape) on the computer would be cool.
Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:28PM (#41715488)
Does anybody know where they are mirrors for the source and builds?
Re:Show HN: My attempt at injecting creativity into a stale genre [video]
on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @11:32AM (#41501805)
This is the video series for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/ZbaptQh2AM4?si=tcnu-Vs7X88f9N4a
Show HN: My attempt at injecting creativity into a stale genre [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IdFkNaK-bE
I got the idea for this watching a lot of Chernobyl Family. Typing "soviet control room" into google gives a lot of cool pictures, usually with a giant depiction of the core in the center of the room.The Soviets had to smuggle in Intel and IBM tech during the cold war, so no one had access to good computers, except at work. I imagined a bored engineer at Chernobyl Nuclear power plant with the...
Re:Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring prices despite ...
on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:47PM (#41369664)
Japan is an island, which can be blockaded, so they’ve always tried to help their farmers. Usually they pay the farmers to grow less, not pay them to grow nothing. Also this policy was phased out in 2018; now they’re just subsidizing farmers and encouraging crop diversity. I think they’re doing a good job. Being a farmer is always hard. In Japan at least they’re making it easier. Encouraging crop diversity and organic farming is nice (especially compared to the us corn/soy situation).
Re:Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization
on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @09:13PM (#41115647)
It’s not memorizing, it’s actually knowing and understanding the utility of different concepts. When you learn of a problem in a new field, you go through your bucket of tools and modify one to fit the new problem.
Re:Google's shortened links will stop working next year
on Saturday July 20, 2024 @02:58AM (#41014666)
They could charge for custom video urls.
https://youtu.be/bestVideo1 for $1. I bet a lot of people would pay
Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that
on Monday July 15, 2024 @05:01AM (#40966276)
I had no idea. This sounds amazing. Do you know of any companies using this?
Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that
on Monday July 15, 2024 @04:58AM (#40966257)
Excel could do this so much better though (and I think excel is the best candidate for visual scripting overhaul). The cell could have two parts; top parts is the function signature (other cells could reference by signature, or by cell number), bottom part is the code. Each cell is a function.
People put huge unreadable basic functions in that tiny box. It's such an obvious pain point, surprised it's never been addressed. Replace vba with c#, have a visual line linking cells to other cell references, bam million dollar product.
Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that
on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:09AM (#40965831)
I always thought excel could do this, and everyone already knows excel. Toss out the vba, replace with python, every cell is a function, have a regular view, a relationship view that shows which cells connect to the current selected cell, have a run, stop pause, step/break button. Everyone would use this.