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The longest possible chess game
The evolution of my todo list system over 5 years
Why do students leave exams early?
You only have to get rich once
Bag of words, have mercy on us
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
on Monday November 10, 2025 @11:53AM (#45877876)
Fun game! Shared with some friends :)
Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away
Slow Down
The workflow behind my 637-day journaling streak
The workflow behind my 637-day journaling streak
Re:Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube
on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @01:48PM (#45363685)
Cool! Have done a similar thing in the past with AP Psychology and Anki. ChatGPT is really helpful for turning Quizlet-esque flashcards into good-quality copy+pasteable Cloze cards in Anki.
Re:macOS Tahoe
on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:38PM (#45257787)
I really dislike how everything MUST become rounded to be "more user-friendly and fluid". The UI looks awful and I will probably never be upgrading.
The Power of Ten: Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code [pdf]
Re:What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @05:07PM (#45216115)
That's a good point. When I wrote the article, I was thinking of the younger phone-addicted generation as my 'audience' and trying to convince them to spend time on doing meaningful things instead of just doom-scrolling on their phone. That's who I was writing for. My apologies if it came across as cliche.
Re:What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @05:00PM (#45216064)
Very, very true. I'm now in college and am trying my best to savor the days when I have such little responsibility.
Re:What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @04:55PM (#45216016)
Admittedly no. This was written back when I was a young teenager innocent to the complexities of the world :)
Re:Seedship [Text-Based Game]
on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:06AM (#45182944)
I love A Dark Room. Spent way too much time speedrunning that game, lol.
Re:What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?
on Monday September 08, 2025 @12:05AM (#45164540)
That's fair. It's helpful for me to break time into discrete 'blocks' because in my mind, it sets off more alarm bells to say "I wasted 4 blocks" rather than "I wasted 40 minutes". But otherwise, yeah. It's pretty standard "don't waste your time" advice when it comes down to it.
What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?
How We Got the Internet All Wrong
Seedship [Text-Based Game]
Do conversations end when people want them to?
Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles
Journaling with Terminal and Plaintext Files
Re:I organized a 10-day game of tag with 10 of my college friends
on Sunday March 23, 2025 @04:58PM (#43455868)
Yeah, it is unfortunately quite a bit harder to put on these types of games in a suburban area. Hence why I'm trying to do this type of stuff in college, while it's easy ;)
I organized a 10-day game of tag with 10 of my college friends
The Oregon Ducks' Secret Army of Nerds
Re:Meta HN: Prevent new HN accounts from posting for n days?
on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @11:27AM (#42566997)
Well, what's your suggestion for n? 3? 5?