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Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:52PM (#50025085)
I wonder how this will affect Bunny's competitor to Cloudflare Workers, Edge Scripting [1] -- which runs on Deno.

[1] https://bunny.net/docs/scripting/

Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:36PM (#49833156)
Counterpoint: I use NewPipe pretty much daily for watching YouTube. One day, YT introduced an API change that broke NewPipe, and so I patiently waited for an update.

A few days passed, and I eventually get a notification from NewPipe prompting for an update. But I can't install it just yet, because of mismatching signatures between the F-Droid and GitHub versions (yes, that's the point, I know...). The F-Droid build took so long to release, that in the meantime, another version of NewPipe came out...

Answer in Progress on YouTube has a cool video on memory tricks and memorizing Pi [1], worth a watch.

[1] i memorized 3,141 digits of pi to prove a point (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAjkicwrD4I)

Edit: I had only skimmed through the OP when I posted this comment, turns out both the video and this article talk about the memory palace method! They diverge in the way it's applied though, with the AiP video associating digits with real life locations

Re:I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:54AM (#49399245)
Are you maybe thinking of Google Voice[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Voice

Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @05:43AM (#48758851)
I feel you about the frontends being buggy. Right now I've settled with Droid-ify[1] for doing my F-Droid browsing.

[1] https://droidify.app/

Re:San Francisco Graffiti on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:12AM (#46764715)
Having a bit of a cultural shock at how English doesn't have a separate name for the "cruder" graffiti (such as tags) vs the more socially accepted street art. The former is typically called "pichação" [1] in Portuguese, and I was taught this distinction when learning about modern art movements back in elementary school.

[1] https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picha%C3%A7%C3%A3o - I recommend looking into a machine translated version of the Portuguese Wikipedia article, as the English Wikipedia article reads far more biased

Re:Super Mario 64 for the PS1 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @07:58AM (#46230823)
There was actually an unauthorized third-party CD-ROM drive for it, the Bung Doctor V64[1]. It didn't actually expand the available ROM space beyond what was possible with cartidges, but its still interesting in that it was allegedly used by licensed Nintendo devs as a lower-cost alternative to the devkits officially provided to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_V64

Re:The Sega Master System on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:26AM (#45876337)
Sadly, not anymore - TecToy lost the Sega license a few years ago. In the later years, they were simply rebranding AtGames plug-and-plays with the Atari and Sega licenses; and more recently, they did a half-assed attempt at launching a rebranded Ayn Loki in response to the handheld PC boom[0]. They don't do much in the gaming business anymore, instead focusing in the smart appliances and credit card readers for businesses.

[0] https://www.loja.tectoy.com.br/produto/zeenix-pro-16gb-de-ra...

Re:Animalese.js Demo on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:27AM (#45593139)
From the Github README:

  animalese.js is a JavaScript library that synthesizes an approximation of the villager speech sounds from Animal Crossing.
Re:Animalese.js Demo on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:25AM (#45593090)
Japanese and Spanish happen to have very similar pronounciation. It's a neat detail in the Animal Crossing games that seems to have gotten mostly lost in translation for the English version.
Re:16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive on Sunday July 27, 2025 @08:26AM (#44700836)
Obligatory Bad Apple conversion https://16colo.rs/pack/badapple/BADAPPLE.ANS
Re:Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii on Monday April 21, 2025 @04:04PM (#43755876)
> Rebooting NetBSD reboots the whole console, and not just the NetBSD ‘app’, so you’ll find yourself back at the Wii Menu after any kernel patch or system upgrade.

This can be mitigated by installing Priiloader, and having it autoboot into either the Homebrew Channel or the NetBSD .dol file

I wonder if the Android port of Advance 3 came in hand here. That version was ported to Java — and being unobfuscated, would've been a great reference point.
Anna's Archive encourages (and monetizes!!) the use of their shadow library for LLM training. They have a page dedicated to it on their site. You pay them, and they give you high download speeds to entire datasets.
Re:Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @07:22PM (#42562928)
Should mention love.js isn't officially supported, and isn't 100% compatible with the LÖVE API. It will work just fine for a lot of games out of the box, though
If you press tab, then Ctrl+A then backspace, you can delete the help icon.

Very cute website, I really like how every glyph looks, some more abstract than others.

Re:Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games? on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @07:03AM (#41645989)
All versions of RPG Maker frequently go on sale on Steam, the older ones you can get for pennies. XP, VX and VX Ace support Ruby as a scripting language, meanwhile MV and MZ supports web export and JS scripting. Can't recommend these programs enough.
Re:Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games? on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:52AM (#41645926)
SmileBASIC is another coding environment on Switch. The DSi and 3DS versions were quite popular, I'm surprised the Switch version didn't catch on as much as they did
Face tracking has existed for years now. I frankly don't see what's different between what you described and FaceRig.
That was my first thought too. If I understood correctly, the developer claims that the API requires a signed binary in this issue: https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender/issues/1
Re:Show HN: Insteadofvery.com on Sunday May 12, 2024 @06:01PM (#40337902)
I like the concept a lot. Was hoping there would be a crowdsourced element to it — a way to suggest our own synomys rather than just relying on the LLM.

Oh, and heads up, right now looking up anything with a forward slash (/) fails with an Internal Server Error and no output to the end user.

Re:Nintendo Network shutdown – The beginning of the end on Monday December 25, 2023 @08:52PM (#38768244)
It's trivial to bypass that check using a Steam "emulator"
Re:Nintendo Network shutdown – The beginning of the end on Monday December 25, 2023 @08:49PM (#38768232)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was an unfortunate exception to this rule. Seeing them drip-feed features already present in the previous games doesn't bode well for the future of the franchise.
Re:Is Tetr.io Legal? on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:53AM (#38743554)
The irony of this article being hosted on a github.io page...
Same here on my Android phone running Bromite. As a workaround, you can switch to the eraser tool and then back everytime you lift your pen/finger — although its not really ideal ^^'

Edit: Pressing the "Redo" button also works

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