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Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:00AM (#45964156)
That page has special if/endif HTML comments to handle if your browser is IE 6, IE 7, IE 8...
Re:Randomness Testing Guide
on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:54AM (#45914926)
There was originally a bug in the GAlib random number generator... if I remember correctly, the guy who identified it told me this was found (or demonstrated) by making a scatter plot of generated numbers an observing there was a pattern to the data.
Re:Creating a Gridogram: Hiding a Sentence in a Compact Grid of Letters
on Thursday November 06, 2025 @11:15AM (#45836785)
Gridogram is a word game where the goal is to trace words in a letter grid to find a hidden quote. Behind the scenes, creating the letter grids for quotes is not obvious: the linked page describes the approach taken.
There's a bit of logic involved, a bit of maths with undirected graphs... hopefully it's of interest! Oh, and there's an interactive bit where you can try creating a grid for a quote, which in itself is kind of a fun challenge.
Creating a Gridogram: Hiding a Sentence in a Compact Grid of Letters
Creating a Gridogram
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Re:NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:53AM (#45169833)
Could happen to anyone, many thanks for addressing this quickly.
Show HN: Gridogram
Find the famous quote in the grid of letters [1]: S A S I C T D E H Gridogram is a new word game, with a new quote to find each day hiding sometimes in an easy 3x3 grid, sometimes in a larger and much more challenging grid, up to 5x5.In the game itself finding any valid word helps narrow down the search space: there is an alphabetised list of all words available, with highlighted...
Show HN: Gridogram – Find the quote of the day, hidden in optimised letter grid
I had a lot of fun playing an Android game where you find words in a random grid of letters (like Boggle). Challenge for me was to find the longest word... and seeing which I missed was a way to learn new words.I've iterated on the concept, and made a game you can play in the browser, Gridogram: instead of being random, for each day a grid of letters is created from a quote that relates to the...
Re:Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009)
on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @10:38AM (#44299819)
I was a big fan of Wave. One aspect I really liked that I haven't seen in other apps is other people would see the letters/words you typed as you typed them, making for very active discussions... But then some people also hated that others could see their typed-out thought process and typos before they finished editing and hit send.
Re:Show HN: Gridogram – A quote for each day, hidden in a compact grid
on Sunday June 15, 2025 @05:46AM (#44281440)
Really appreciate the feedback, and glad you like the quotations. I haven't settled on whether to add links, but the text not being selectable wasn't intentional - have pushed a change to allow selecting the text, I hope that improves things.
Re:Show HN: Gridogram – A quote for each day, hidden in a compact grid
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @06:36AM (#44256018)
Thank you! Would never expect anyone to find all the words, but the full alphabetised list is useful to help box in the yellow words that are in the quote. Some of the words in the list are indeed pretty arcane, but I hope it can be interesting for players to see new words, and that those don't really interfere with the fun of the game. By the way, you can tap a word to see its definition.
Re:Show HN: Gridogram – A quote for each day, hidden in a compact grid
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @05:25AM (#44255617)
Thank you! Yes it is tricky... what kind of shortcuts do you mean? One optimisation I've done to narrow the search space is account for symmetry, that's a shortcut in a sense.
Show HN: Gridogram – A quote for each day, hidden in a compact grid
I had a lot of fun playing an Android app where you have to find words in a random grid of letters (like Boggle). Challenge for me was to find the longest word... and seeing which I missed was a way to learn new words.I've iterated on the concept, and made a game you can play in the browser, Gridogram: instead of being random, for each day a grid of letters is created from a quote or phrase of...
Re:Explain what a Linux command with given options does
on Saturday September 14, 2024 @07:08AM (#41538976)
And create a link to explain that command to others
Explain what a Linux command with given options does
Re:TIL: man {gittutorial,giteveryday,gitglossary,gitworkflows}
on Friday November 03, 2023 @02:43AM (#38125311)
If you don't have a terminal at hand:
https://www.mankier.com/7/gittutorial
https://www.mankier.com/7/giteveryday
https://www.mankier.com/7/gitglossary
https://www.mankier.com/7/gitworkflows
Re:Explain Shell: match command-line arguments to their help text
on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:02PM (#24536420)
Different data source, but a while ago I made a command to help explain other commands: https://www.mankier.com/blog/explaining-shell-commands-in-th...
Re:Kids’ Apps Are Crammed With Ads
on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:48AM (#18335982)
I've spent a lot of time finding apps I trust enough to leave my kids mostly unsupervised with. For me it's mostly boiled down to finding trustworthy app publishers, I listed some here a while ago: https://medium.com/@jacksonpauls/apps-for-preschool-kids-304...
Re:Simplified and community-driven man pages
on Sunday November 26, 2017 @02:42AM (#15779877)
I've integrated TLDR content into online man pages if you'd like to see both in one place. For example: https://www.mankier.com/1/grep
Re:FE-Schrift: forgery-impeding typeface
on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:01AM (#15160063)
Sure, but that's much more work than adding a piece of black tape, which you can also simply remove to revert to the legit number.
JQuery Mobile 1.5.0-alpha.1 Released
Re:Scunthorpe Problem
on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:53PM (#14045521)
Came across an instance of this recently, I think on the FT's website... It took me a while to figure out what was going on with "smar * * * * ches".
Evolve polygon pictures in your browser
Show HN: Dirty Triangles
Re:The Problem with Linux Kernel Documentation, and How We're Fixing It
on Thursday September 29, 2016 @01:25AM (#12603440)
Not exhaustive, but I've written code that processes 50,000 or so man pages and haven't hit one.
Re:An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:23PM (#12559483)
I wonder if "500M" is a silly way of saying all user account details were stolen.
Re:Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags
on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:57AM (#12521019)
I've been omitting optional tags for a while.
One thing I've noticed is that bing webmaster tools will report "The title is missing in the head section of the page" when there is a title, but no <head>. Maybe bing can't properly crawl pages without a <head>. Another service I've used had the same problem, but can't remember which.
So it might be worth being careful with omitting <head> - and maybe other tags, I'm reconsidering whether it's a good idea.