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Re:Grok Outage on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:02PM (#49552239)

Is it happening ... "it" meaning these tech companies have laid off too many experienced people, and their services are starting to degrade?

Show HN: Gridiculous, my homebrew Game Boy Advance logic puzzle collection

Posted by goache on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:19AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://oofinsprouts.itch.io/gridiculous

I'm a huge fan of logic puzzles and retro gaming, so I decided to merge those two and take a shot at building a Game Boy Advance game using Butano.My collection includes games inspired by four puzzle games: Picross, Slitherlink, Akari, and Binario. Every puzzle is procedurally generated, and I made sure to exclude any that aren't solvable through step-by-step forward logic. (guessing is never...

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Re:The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019) on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:55PM (#46874475)

I created my own multideck a few years ago: https://randomlyunique.com/random/2023/improved-multideck/in... (SVG in link)

I use this deck all the time too - it was well worth the $25 to print it out.

Re:Major disruption of the Atlantic overturning circulation (AOMC) is ... on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:08PM (#40599837)

I would append "from the Greenland Ice Sheet" to the title.

"However, because melting is causing the Greenland Ice Sheet to recede from the coasts of Greenland, where icebergs originate, its iceberg discharge should not persist long enough to cause major disruption of the Atlantic overturning circulation by itself"

Re:Unity Engine to Godot Engine Exporter on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:15PM (#37502432)

I switched from Unity to Godot a few years ago and it's been great. My new (2D) game - Cirrus Business - was an absolute joy to create. I'll still probably keep using Unreal for 3D games, but anything 2D will definitely use Godot.

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:47PM (#36590122)

Playful Data Visualizations, Physics/Math Web Comic Series and personal projects: https://randomlyunique.com/

Re:Why a Slide Rule Works on Monday April 11, 2022 @08:29PM (#30997074)

Oh wow - thanks for the compliment :-)

https://randomlyunique.com/feeds/all.atom.xml

Re:Why a Slide Rule Works on Monday April 11, 2022 @02:27PM (#30992706)

I recently created a web comic explaining slide rules! https://randomlyunique.com/plancky/2021/slide-rules/index.ht...

Re:The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box? on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:12AM (#27072425)

I cannot agree more - learning from mistakes is vital to preventing any further tragedies in the future

Re:First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:25AM (#27034320)

Humans have trouble dealing with three particle systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem), so "limited and ignorant" seems like an good description imo.

Re:We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @07:10PM (#26800671)

Where is a good place to find sustainability related tech jobs? Is indeed/governmental sites my best bet?

Re:Hockey goalies are too big now on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:34PM (#26439135)

Thanks for this comment - it made my day :-)

Re:Hockey goalies are too big now on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:01AM (#26432603)

I created a blog post a few years back showing goalies aren't big enough http://randomlyunique.com/data/2015/goal-goalie-girth/index.... :-D

Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:41AM (#22804212)

http://randomlyunique.com/category/plancky.html

It's a web comic series exploring physics and math in a non-introductory format.

Re:Show HN: A coloring book of data structures and algorithms on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:52AM (#15205610)

I recently started a web comic series on my personal site that covers all sorts of technical topics. I'm having a blast creating it and one my favorites so far is http://randomlyunique.com/plancky/2017/what-makes-a-clock-ti... I wished more content existed between "nova special" and "advanced textbook"

Re:What programming languages are used late at night? on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:07PM (#14151290)

I wrote a blog post awhile back comparing the differences between day and night commit messages :-D. http://randomlyunique.com/data/2016/late-night-coding/ (it's a fun looking wordcloud)