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Show HN: OrangeWalrus, an aggregator for trivia nights (and other events) in SF

Posted by gjtrowbridge on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:17PM
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https://www.orangewalrus.com/

Two problems I encountered personally:1) Some buddies and I went to a trivia night late last year, only to arrive to find it cancelled (with signs still on the walls saying it happened every Tuesday, etc)2) Sourcing ideas for fun things to do in the city on a given night, in a given neighborhood. Some sites help a ton (e.g. funcheapsf), but often don't have everything I'd want to see, so we...

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Show HN: Simple Node Wiki, a Markdown-based note-taking tool with easy-2-use API

Posted by gjtrowbridge on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:05AM
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https://simple-node-wiki-demo.herokuapp.com/

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Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:45AM (#8426579)

Thanks for the heads up--it looks like we have an infrequent but recurring bug that's causing this issue. We're working on a more permanent fix for the very near future, but for now it should all be working again.

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:42AM (#8426568)

Yep, it is "luck of the draw", and the default hero brain, while very good at gathering diamonds, does tend to be vulnerable to the "assassin" roles.

Eventually we'd like to add a slightly smarter matchmaking system (assign users to games based on some sort of performance ranking perhaps?), but for now it's very possible to end up on a less-than-stellar team.

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:38AM (#8426555)

At the moment, the battles run a bit after midnight (PST) each day. Thanks for the feedback--we can make this a bit more obvious on the site.

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:37AM (#8426543)

Strange. It seems to all be working at the moment, but we'll try to squash more of the bugs today--please feel free to email [email protected] if you're continuing to see problems.

Thanks for bearing with us!

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @07:04PM (#8424488)

Thanks!

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @05:59PM (#8424266)

Vindinium, gameplay-wise, is definitely the most similar. (vindinium.org)

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @03:53PM (#8423586)

Yep! The gameplay is very similar, but the tech stack, signup process, method for participating, stats, etc are all different from Vindinium. But they were definitely our inspiration (as Forrest mentioned, we actually have an "Inspired by Vindinium" link in our footer).

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @03:16PM (#8423326)

It should be up again--let me know if you're still having trouble viewing it.

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @03:13PM (#8423307)

Thanks for the heads up--working on it now, should be back up in a couple minutes. I'll follow up when it is.

Re:Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @01:28PM (#8422520)

Thanks! ClojureScript (or Coffeescript, or anything other than JS) will not work "right off the bat", but you could compile to JavaScript on your end, then upload that compiled hero.js file to your github repository, and then THAT should work.

Hope that helps.