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Re:A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:39AM (#45288402)
Yes! According to this post, someone tried to find the max rooms in Inform 7 and stopped at tens of thousands. Took long to compile (not run) and used a lot of memory, but not an issue. https://intfiction.org/t/i7-realistic-max-number-of-rooms/99...
Re:Harvey Mudd Miniature Machine on Friday September 12, 2025 @05:48PM (#45227160)
Excited at first ... until he sold you the hMMM machine, took your credits and flew away, only for you to discover that this machine only programs in little endian brainf*ck!
Re:Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay on Monday September 08, 2025 @08:09AM (#45167310)
Quick warning to not play the video in the room with an Echo. Now I have Alexa telling everyone in the house that green hippo is hungry!!

Which begs the question, how do they broadcast "Alexa, ..." on TV shows so that it doesn't set my Echo off?

Re:Ozzy Osbourne has died on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @03:41PM (#44652071)
Legend has it that he was handed a live bat at a concert and thought it was a prop -- was almost more surprised than the bat.

Also - animal rights were still gaining traction re: the arts. It was only in 1972 that the first "No animals were harmed in this film" was aired.

Re:Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:49PM (#44575675)
SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) is awful; we tend to just have blocks of a few years of memories.

The only benefit is you can't be gas-lit intentionally because you are always gas-lit, so you believe nothing. :-)

Re:HN Slop: AI Startup Ideas from Hacker News on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:25AM (#44442900)
Very cute but wish there was a filter for the flavor of the week ... I feel 60% of them will have LLM because of this bias. Last month would've been "powered by rust."
A wonderful atlas -- my favorite are her trail maps where she depicts a character's daily journey in the book.

The article (almost) footnotes her other work which was equally impressive:

* She also created atlases for the worlds of fantasy authors Anne McCaffrey, creator of the “Dragonriders of Pern” series, and Stephen R. Donaldson, who wrote “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant” series.

Congratulations! What was the stack/language you used to make this [ didn't see it in your original post ]?
Are there any other copies of this video out there? Since it's a bogus claim, the video should be able to be posted elsewhere --- YouTube can't be the only source of record.
*Fair warning -- I LOVE Obsidian.md ; not an evangelist, per se, but it's a great tool.

Free and practically future-proof ( all markdown; some extra flavor markdown but that's optional, extensions anyone can build in javascript )

Macros that help me do redundant things with a keystroke, a calendar that automatically populates with my custom template when I click on the date ( could set it to do it when I log in every day but not always in My-Day mode.)

I pay for replication because it supports the devs -- you can customize replication yourself with existent tools --- dropbox, syncthing, etc.

If you're an author, there are tools that make it more Scrivener-like. If you're a TTRPG player, there's tutorials on importing rules, rolling dice and autogenerating from tables, etc.

Anyway, I thoroughly recommend

Re:Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org? on Saturday December 07, 2024 @04:46PM (#42353090)
I have a similar one -- site just sent down a few days ago. A special library....
Re:Nurdle Patrol on Friday October 11, 2024 @09:24AM (#41809284)
I think they meant "not unlike" as - we didn't think asbestos was bad, then we thought it could be bad, then yes, after studies, this is really awful. Similarly, we might find that ingested plastics cause more damage than we realize now.
Re:Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:25AM (#40534199)
Yes! We have it in Call of Duty : Black Ops https://youtu.be/QOgK0sV6RLU?si=5YdNNwbigBEvm9f6
Great work!

Noone's asked yet? What was your dev stack?

I wonder if it would be easy to figure out, given a set of coordinates, if there would be a totality in the next 100 years there and when. I cant figure it from the examples but that would be a neat website.
In Connecticut - rattled the windows and shook books off the bookcase.
Re:Poor Charlie's Almanack on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:49PM (#38873392)
What are your opinions on the book? I started it, expecting a modern day Poor Richards, and couldn't shake the feeling it was a wealthy person giving advice from a vaulted position --- like "life tips from Bill Gates." CMO.
Re:Chosic.com – Discover New Music on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:44PM (#38479634)
With Spotify Wrapped, it identified genres for me that I'd never heard of. A quick search found this site which will analyze your Spotify lists more deeply and make recommendations and new playlists.
Re:Bodybuilder Charles Atlas' classic website on Sunday October 15, 2023 @02:52PM (#37892315)
It's in What the--? Vol 1, Issue 3 -- last page (36) edit: Here's a partial image : https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sandman_(Earth-9047)
I can only select 1 story attribute ( but multiple genres.) Is this intended?
At the bottom, it says the book belonged to an amateur historian who went around collecting all the autographs. Cant imagine how easy/hard it would've been to get all if them.
Re:Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments on Saturday September 16, 2023 @11:39AM (#37535734)
I thought this was neat and went to his repo - he's the lazygit/lazy docker person! Nice to see the prolificacy!
What commercial classes did you take to level up? Were they Coursera, Udacity or university classes?
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:03AM (#33680944)
Missing "I can't view the site on my mobile phone."
Re:Metal Archives 20th Anniversary on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:26PM (#32511720)
Argh! No Pirate Metal category? They categorize them generically as Folk Metal but have a separate Viking Metal category.
Re:Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:58PM (#31196725)
Waited a while for this -- exciting! Uses Artistic License 2.0 license

The GUI isn't available until 3rd party developers release it in May --- currently it's command line only.

Re:Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:00PM (#31021839)
Is the site down? I had a streak for a while but now I just have a blank screen ( on mobile and desktop).
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Up To? (April 2022) on Friday April 01, 2022 @08:32PM (#30884772)
I am here for your z-machine on Pico-8! I'm doing a z-machine in python 3.x this week (month? year?) as well.
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (2012) on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:50PM (#30834773)
Nor Connecticut

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