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Re:Stealing Is a Skill on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:11AM (#48661193)
Isn't this essentially what LLMs do?

Others have said it, but I'm not a fan of the cookie cutter approach. Build on UX patterns that work, but try new things too. It'll be hard to let your brand infuse the design when you're doing a line for line reproduction.

Re:Pre-Record Your Demos on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:08PM (#45458089)
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this tool just types the commands. So it avoids typos and you can just focus on what you're saying as you type nonsense. Sounds like it actually does run your pre-written commands. From the readme:

> What's more, It's a Live is actually running the commands you're typing, so you have full interoperability with other programs.

Re:CDC File Transfer on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @08:23AM (#45436836)
The readme very nicely contrasts the approach with rsync.
Re:Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others on Friday August 01, 2025 @11:51AM (#44758608)
This happened for me, yellow/gold flashy lines around my fish. Maybe you missed it?
Thank you for posting this. DC-X was ground-breaking. Masten also had Xombie in 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FcUEjwDkk
Can't speak to the technical details, but if you're looking for feedback- some of the wording on this page feels off.

The specific "8 hrs" is strange, why not just say hours/days saved? It'll be different depending on level of experience anyway.

I'd also change "I have done it for you" to something like "FlutterFlash sets up all of these features, so you can focus on what matters..."

Re:4-Track Tape Recorder Made Me Fall in Love with Music Again on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:48PM (#37853307)
"No computer needed" really does a lot for the creative process, imo. It's a big reason why Teenage Engineering's OP-1 is so successful, despite its very high price.
Re:The web’s most important decision on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:23AM (#35774105)
Look at the current internet landscape- most users interact, find, and share content through the walled gardens of social networks. I don't think "decentralized open and free" networks are at all inevitable. To me those characteristics are shrinking, not growing.
Re:SpaceX's rocket Starship explodes 4 minutes after liftoff on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:18AM (#35641459)
This isn't what the commentators are referring to when they talk about "the flip".

Rockets traditionally have some type of separation mechanism to separate stage 1 and stage 2. This is usually some type of pyro charge or an actual pneumatic pusher. SpaceX wants to avoid this complexity with Starship and instead "throw" off stage 2 (Starship) by doing a flip with the booster. I don't believe it's been done before for stage separation, but this is also how they deploy Starlink satellites. [0]

Obviously, something went wrong in stage separation today so Booster+Starship just continually flipped. We don't know exactly what the true flip will look like.

[0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630394434847227909?lang...

Re:DigitalOcean Is Doing Layoffs Right Now on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:18AM (#34804923)
Any word on compensation offered?
> preparing for a full orbital test

Rocket delays are inevitable. But since you mentioned New Glenn's perpetual delays, let's also be fair and note that Starship's orbital test has been teased by Elon for quite awhile now [0]. I happen to think an April/May launch is possible, but we'll see. And also good to note that this is still very much a "pathfinder" vehicle, in SpaceX's style of iterative design & test. So not at all the same as whenever New Glenn's first launch will be.

[0] https://twitter.com/ESGhound/status/1622680306342891536

Re:Show HN: A version control system based on rsync on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:26AM (#34441283)
"no dev I've worked with ever kicked up a fuss when they switched"

Wow. I don't think your experience is the common one. I've been on teams switching to git, and there was always much fussing. Even if the benefits of switching were clear and it was worth it, doesn't mean there won't be pain along the way.

I used TherapyDen to find the only therapist I saw (so I'm no expert). But lots of therapists there have videos so you get a sense of who they are and what they focus on. I did enjoy the therapist I ended up seeing for a year.

https://www.therapyden.com/

Re:The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:57PM (#32074878)
There is a decent amateur community for receiving satellite transmissions. I'm not super knowledgable on it, but 2 resources that may interest you:

Scott Tilley, who gained a lot of recognition in the past year in analyzing radio signals to see how Russia was using satellites in Ukraine: https://twitter.com/coastal8049

An amateur group revived 2-way communications on an abandoned satellite: https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/isee-3-reboot-project/#:~:t....

I hear this argument a lot and people use examples like BET and black churches. But take a step back and look at what led to black-specific things. MTV hardly played black artists. White churches excluded and actively attacked black Christians.

White has been the default in America for a long time. Seems like that's slowly starting to change but until it does, there's going to be a need for things specifically targeted at minority groups.

Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:30PM (#26598251)
I built my site with Vuepress, and it auto-deploys to Netlify once merged to master. PRs also have preview builds, and their builds are fast. Very easy setup, and free.

Details here: https://fotijr.com/blog/2020/how-its-made/

SNC's Dream Chaser is the only active vehicle I can think of that can fly on any rocket. But Dream Chaser is more like a 3rd stage than a 2nd stage, so it's not a direct comp.
I applied to a catch-all job opening on their site when they first came out of stealth mode. Somehow I got an interview with Andy. I read some of his research papers before the interview [0] in case there was something I could reference in the interview. It was pretty clear that wasn't feasible (I'm still laughing at my hubris for even thinking this was a possibility), but it was still fun trying to understand such technical concepts!

I didn't know they are YC-backed! I saw them getting some strong recommendations from former Blue Origin colleagues. Clearly they are building a very talented team; I'm eager to see what they are working on. I have tons of questions (first stage choice, fuel, secret sauce, etc) but seems like they are keeping things under wraps pretty tightly. But if they can somehow deliver on 2nd stage reuse at a smaller scale than Starship, then I can't wait to see the advanced technology & techniques they use to get there.

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Andrew...

Re:The Pretty JSON Revolution on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:09PM (#26240552)
I was interested in this link just for its take on comments, bummed to see that skipped over.
I would have loved to buy something more capable, but instead I settled for this cheap LCD writing display as a mini-whiteboard. I don't even know how to describe this technology but it gets the job done at $20.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QL11LWF

Re:Vuejs rejects close to 75% of outside contributions on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:02PM (#25719775)
Vue 3 included a re-write in Typescript. The Vue team was very vocal in the benefits TS would bring, including making it easier for outsiders to contribute.
Re:Kate is 20 years old on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:08PM (#25432246)
As a non-vim user, I need a cheat sheet to help me understand this cheat sheet.
Congrats, it looks great! How did you get the testimonials? Reach out to "power users" (based on usages numbers)? Or did you specifically recruit artists to your platform?
Re:The biology of dads on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:09PM (#25128188)
If you enjoy this, I'd recommend The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell and John Gray. A lot of really interesting material on being a dad and specifically parenting boys (but a lot of the benefit also extends to women obviously). At first the material felt a little too "men's rights!" to me, but there really are a significant amount of culture deficiencies in raising men to be fathers.
Re:I no longer build software on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:32PM (#24545372)
Seconded! Can you give a ballpark for how much you'd charge for a piece like this? Seems like an insane amount of work at incredible quality. I want to own it.
Re:Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:19AM (#24421250)
This is what you'd expect, but he is very hands-on trying out technical ideas. I would look through his tweets to see the things he gets involved with.

Recently he built Vite to see if it'd be possible to have a dev setup with no bundling (just using ES modules). It's evolved since then, but he picks up work a lot on new ideas and seeing how it can drive the direction of Vue.

https://github.com/vitejs/vite#how-and-why

A battery breakthrough is always 3-5 years away from coming to market.
Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:55PM (#23171078)
> no potential for gaming

I'm very confused by this. This demo gameplay is pretty representative of a few genres of games like Tomb Raider. It also translates well to different types of gameplay, so I don't get your dismissal.

Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:41AM (#23166785)
.NET Core's cross-platform tools and ecosystem is wonderful. I'm working on a small team and the devs are using Windows, Mac, and Linux. CI builds are a mix of Windows and Linux, deploying to Linux.

I think their biggest weakness now is branding (.NET vs .NET Core). This will be fixed with .NET 5, which merges the two and will make all flavors of .NET cross-platform.

Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:31PM (#22648676)
Finally polished off my personal site (basically a dev portfolio) and now working on a site comparing orbital rockets with back of the napkin math.

https://fotijr.com/

https://rockets.fotijr.com

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