nfriend
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:37PM (#49571867)
Reminds me of the main plot line in The Dark Forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest
Re:Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @02:35PM (#49290148)
Brings back memories of GORILLA.BAS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:43PM (#46620558)
Re:Orbit Spirograph (2019)
on Thursday January 23, 2025 @11:53AM (#42805634)
Love it! I'm fascinated by all things Spirograph and built my own digital version of the more traditional toy here: https://nathanfriend.com/inspiral-web
Re:Useful things I've 3D printed
on Thursday November 28, 2024 @09:12AM (#42265390)
I use FreeCAD! https://www.freecad.org/ It's a bit rough around the edges but now that I know its quirks I'm pretty productive with it.
Re:In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
on Friday November 15, 2024 @02:13PM (#42149901)
QBasic was my first language! I recently stumbled across all my old QBasic programs from my childhood and resurrected them with DOSBox: https://origins.nathanfriend.com/
Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro
on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @06:39PM (#41240597)
I had this exact issue on my Pixel 6 Pro! I thought it was done for but it seems to have recovered over the last few months and I don't see it anymore.
Re:A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem's novel
on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @05:56PM (#40921659)
> And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible.
Unfortunately it seems like the audiobook has been pulled from Audible! (Unless I'm just searching for it incorrectly?) I saw this book recommended in another thread and have been checking over the last several months in hopes that it has been restored, but no luck yet. Tempted to just buy it from another platform.
A light that glows when on a Zoom call
Re:Death Metal English (2013)
on Monday July 24, 2023 @03:55PM (#36853380)
ChatGPT makes a great regular-English-to-Death-Metal-English translator when prompted with the examples from this article: https://chat.openai.com/share/261034ff-f5d5-404c-b354-c9d58e...
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:23PM (#36605738)
https://nathanfriend.io/
Very infrequent updates on my latest side projects.
I Built a Weird Keyboard
Re:Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]
on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @11:23AM (#36228007)
Anecdotally, I gave Dvorak a try and became somewhat proficient, but ultimately reverted back to QWERTY for one reason: keyboard shortcuts! Control-C|V|Z are all transformed into either two-handed shortcuts or right-handed shortcuts. In either case, I can't copy/paste while selecting text with the mouse (since I'm right-handed).
I now use Colemak (https://colemak.com/) which doesn't have this issue and I'm quite happy with!
Re:Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game
on Sunday March 05, 2023 @07:31PM (#35035950)
Think I found a bug! Left the tab (on Firefox mobile on Android) and then revisited it, and now it says: "Perfect landing, incredible, you can't get better than this" with a score of 102.3 (I'm assuming 100 is supposed to be the max score?).
Re:Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game
on Sunday March 05, 2023 @03:19PM (#35033536)
Love it! It's like a cross between Flappy Bird and Asteroids. Nice tutorial at the beginning, too.
Just managed to get a 98.5, which I think was mostly luck.
Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:03AM (#34276243)
True, that's the ideal scenario! We've tried room temperature milk in the past, but our baby refuses it :(
Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:32AM (#34275779)
As silly as it sounds, this water warmer for baby bottles: https://a.co/d/hhJzLBn
Nothing's worse than trying to mix the perfect water temperature at 3 AM while the baby is screaming, waking up the rest of the family. (We use pre-boiled water for the baby's bottles, so it's not as easy as adjusting a tap.) We bought this after we had our second baby and it's made feeding the baby slightly less stressful.
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:32PM (#33565595)
Done - upgraded to a t3.xlarge. Now it can process 4 images in parallel. Still not enough to keep up with HN demand, but it should chew through the queue a _bit_ faster.
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:26PM (#33564648)
Moving it to a larger AWS instance - will be down for a few minutes!
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:01PM (#33564278)
Fixed! Now abandoning the tab will remove the image from the queue.
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:56PM (#33564194)
Not a bad idea!
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:36PM (#33563871)
Unfortunately nothing at the moment! Currently working on removing images from the queue if the user has left the page (which I'm guessing is the case for about 99% of the current queue).
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:35PM (#33563854)
Currently running on a t3.medium AWS EC2 instance! (My max budget is currently $50/month since I get that much in AWS credits each month for building an Alexa skill a few years back.)
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:33PM (#33563820)
Very interesting, I will look into this! Thanks!
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:07AM (#33561710)
Sorry all for the long wait times! Was not expecting much interest. At the very least, I need to look into removing photos from the queue when people exit the page.
Re:Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:00AM (#33561606)
Thought it was some fun context, but I can see why it might come off as a strange detail to include. Edited to remove the distraction.
Show HN: My paternity leave side project, a watercolor art generator
https://brushify.art/?couponCode=HACKER-NEWS
Hi HN - this is a little side project I threw together while on paternity leave (primarily developed with one arm while holding a sleeping baby in the other).Some implementation details: image processing is all done with headless GIMP (running inside a Docker container) through its built-in Python API. It's _very_ slow (about 50 seconds/image), and currently it processes exactly one image at a...
Re:Online Spirograph Tool
on Sunday May 29, 2022 @08:24AM (#31548571)
Not C, but I did build a mobile app version that works offline: https://inspiral.nathanfriend.io/
Re:Online Spirograph Tool
on Sunday May 29, 2022 @08:23AM (#31548569)
Weird, what browser/OS are you using?