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Show HN: 2048-Inspired Game Created with GPT-4

https://shuffle.nuudeli.com/

Hey HN folks,Check this out: I've tweaked the classic 2048 game we all know – now, it's got a fresh twist with some handy power-ups. I’m impressed by how much GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 can help with projects like these. The basic gameplay was done with a single prompt. I even created the sounds with GPT-4 after asking it to use Tone.js.If you want to implement something similar, I recommend giving...

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Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?

I have been feeling disappointed that I haven't been able to use my computer science degree to it's full potential. Most of my work seems to be boring CRUD work where the challenge is gluing libraries together or figuring out business requirements. Actual interesting technical problems seems to be mostly wrapped in ready-made libraries / SaaS services.Anyone in the same boat?

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Re:Bobby Tables on Sunday December 03, 2017 @04:20PM (#15839658)
Now that we are on the topic of prepared statements, does anyone know how to do "SELECT * FROM WHERE x IN (list of values...)" properly? As far as I know, you cannot do it with prepared statements (as they can only be single values) and you are forced to roll your own escaping mechanism.
Considering how much time I already spend on Hacker News, I certainly wouldn't want any notifications popping up.
Re:6.0 Northern California earthquake on Sunday August 24, 2014 @11:07AM (#8218731)
I believe it's your phone. The emojis are unicode after all. 😁
Re:Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL on Friday August 22, 2014 @05:47PM (#8214115)
Interesting, I'll have to take a look.
Re:Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL on Friday August 22, 2014 @02:57PM (#8213441)
While doing single restore is fast enough, you will have problems doing multiple restores in a row as the background process needs to finish before another restore is possible (which may take several seconds when you are dealing with big databases).
Re:Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL on Friday August 22, 2014 @02:25PM (#8213294)
Yes, Stellar will probably trip over this. Similarly, if the attacker can edit stellar.yaml, they probably can edit your .bashrc as well.

Im adding this to my TODO list.

Re:Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL on Friday August 22, 2014 @02:22PM (#8213278)
MySQL support was definitely an afterthought and could probably be improved (maybe tracking the binary files directly?).
Re:Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL on Friday August 22, 2014 @09:02AM (#8211892)
I have regularly used this with database that's nearing 1000 megabytes. I don't particularly mind slow snapshotting because my workflow is more about restoring database back to baseline than taking copies.

Please don't use this for production. It is not stable enough and you only end up with lost data.

Re:Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL on Friday August 22, 2014 @08:23AM (#8211753)
Transaction is only reverted if the migration fails. Stellar helps you if your migration succeeds but does the wrong thing (deleting wrong column, missing WHERE in UPDATE statement).
I have heard lots of good about interval training. I remember Freakonomics podcast mentioning it being the most effective exercise versus time spent.
Re:Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @11:38AM (#8037044)
Wow, this is really neat!
Re:Security Hole in Sendgrid on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:32PM (#7477462)
I think these services could use timed release. If you have locked yourself out, the timer starts running. If after 30 days no one has denied the request, access is granted. I'm pretty sure this approach would foil most if not all social engineering.
Re:New message from Mt. Gox on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:51AM (#7298261)
Even if you were a shady drug dealer, revenge doesn't get your money back.
Re:Redesigned Conversations on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:04PM (#7140772)
This is a good redesign but I wish they put more focus on developing Github Issues. The back button doesn't work (old issues randomly show) and filtering needs work (for example, how can I show issues from two milestones? how about showing issues with no comments? etc.).
Where can I donate?
Re:The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday on Saturday November 30, 2013 @02:02PM (#6824111)
This is so horrifying to read. Is there anything we can do to help?
Re:Tell HN: jQuery is way slower than plain Javascript on Thursday November 28, 2013 @06:22AM (#6814091)
I really hate these kinds of benchmarks. No-one will ever have jQuery as a bottleneck on their application.
Yeah. I really would like to see a version of HN where there are no arbitrary penalties applied.
Re:120,000 Apps in BlackBerry World, 47,000 by one developer on Saturday October 26, 2013 @08:12PM (#6620052)
Does anyone know a way to contact BlackBerry World? Somebody copied my html5 game and is making money from it. It's been two years and my DMCA requests have been ignored. I have both tried email and Twitter.

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/41515/?count... (The same author has several other ripoffs as well)

What do need my full name for?
Re:Postgresql 9.3 Released on Monday September 09, 2013 @11:52AM (#6354180)
Have you used pgAdmin? It certainly does everything but it's user interface is too horrific for any simple tasks (like viewing rows or filtering by column etc.)
Re:Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:45PM (#5747541)
It worked for Instagram.
I wonder if the move to create Google Chrome was a due to a concern that Firefox would disturb Google's ad-serving business some day.
Re:Finale for Now on Google's Self-Inflicted Trust Problem on Saturday March 23, 2013 @08:33PM (#5430497)
Google has killed APIs before. Examples include Google Translate and private weather API.
Re:GitHub is getting DDoSed again on Sunday March 10, 2013 @05:14PM (#5353493)
Github has 99.9585% uptime past month. That's like 22 minutes of downtime per month.

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