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Re:OBS Studio 33 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:56AM (#50220071)
It's very heartening to read testimonials from users who aren't jaded. I hate negativity around OSS online
Re:Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:39AM (#50167147)
I thought maybe chessbook.com would allow me to just play a normal game against this bot, but I guess not?
I have a seedbox for Linux ISOs and then sync to my home NAS with Syncthing. That way I can use private trackers and get a healthy ratio.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:44PM (#49936321)
Had no idea FUTO made Immich, kudos to your great work. Wish I could join the team but my Flutter xp is very much hobbyist only... Best of luck though!
Re:The little holes in your bread are telling you something on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:21AM (#49654214)
Indeed, what an arduous read.
Re:Stockfish 19 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:24AM (#49641295)
Wouldn't be that hard in my case
Can't wait for the UK government to start convicting dissidents for precrime
Re:Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:47PM (#49503190)
Wanting to incorporate an http server into a C project of mine, the only battle-tested or feature-complete options either allocated dynamic memory UTH without an option to override the allocators, or are too opinionated with the core API, like mandating callbacks for everything. Suprisingly there's no decent (single header) C library that don't have these 2 issues, at least that I could find.
Re:Omakase Computing on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:14AM (#49418640)
This kind of trite partisan comment does not belong on HN imo.
Re:A Friendly Introduction to Racket on Sunday August 23, 2026 @06:30AM (#49407662)
Naughty Dog uses Racket for all their scripting...
Re:"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:43PM (#49174839)
This is the author's gripe, though. You're sacrificing end user experience for developer ergonomics.
Hmm, Osaka has plenty of trash cans... Did you mean Tokyo?
Re:Scrcpy v4.0 on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @05:05PM (#48127554)
Serious question, what are people using this for?
Re:Cartoon Network Flash Games on Saturday May 09, 2026 @06:04AM (#48073649)
I enjoyed the Dexter's one which was a point and click adventure where you had to solve puzzles.
Re:Three Constraints Before I Build Anything on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:26AM (#47931028)
I actually love typos these days because it usually lets me know Im talking to a fellow human :)
Having made multiple (dare I say) fairly successful games on the Playdate, I can attest to how fantastic the developer experience has been and how easy it was for my non dev collaborators to get going. Pulp was a great in road for them to get started with game dev, and it's been a blast (despite how limiting Pulpscript is for a professional dev)
It's very low volume, sadly this was unavoidable I think, given the extremely custom nature of the input
Re:The Physics of GPS on Monday April 13, 2026 @02:02AM (#47748170)
GPS (using TOA or absolute time of a arrival) is cool and everything, but I'm a much bigger fan of TDOA, when you trilaterate using time _difference_ of arrival, relative to each station. This involves finding the intersection of 3 hyperbolae... Which is where my user name comes from!
I'm a brit who was born in and lives in Watford. I was mugged at knifepoint on oxford street in 2019, and have personally witnessed multiple phone thefts. Non-fatal knife crime is very high, the statistics don't lie in that regard. I hope you don't have the right to vote, because your denial of reality is doing irreparable harm to my country.
Not to state the obvious but, isn't literacy an entry requirement for a college course?
Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:15AM (#47451485)
In my experience I have found the xdg-desktop-portal for whatever reason to be completely non functional on Arch/Hyprland. It must be an issue with my config but on x11 I never had to think about this
Re:Moving from Python to Mojo on Saturday March 07, 2026 @07:20AM (#47287004)
I want to love Mojo, but honestly, I think changing the semantics of the language is a massive footgun that will stunt adoption. Being a strict syntatic superset is not enough imo, and I'm not sure it can even make that claim?
At the most basic level, even just not letting Claude run terraform apply would've solved this issue. Review the god damn plan first! This is like engineering 101
Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:09AM (#47229146)
I don't understand how a trillion dollar company can't at this point say "you know what, I think we're good on the profit front, let's convert some of that into improving UX"
Re:Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:28AM (#47166585)
I guess that makes Usain Bolt a physicist?
Re:Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:27AM (#47166573)
A factoid is a fact commonly thought to be true, but is actually false.
My statement was a fact, and in my opinion not politically loaded, yet respectful to Justine. I chose my words carefully.
Justine identifies as a woman.
AFAIK, RAD was acquired by Epic before Ryan began working on the Linux port
Re:Building a Real-Time HN Display for $15 on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:21AM (#46762766)
This is awesome. I've been meaning to check out WireGuard for some time, and this project has been inspiring for me. Thanks!

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