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Easy. I don’t use any of the AI shit.
Re:Reasons to Dislike AI Coding on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:54AM (#49990494)
Amen!
Re:Elevators on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:20PM (#49129181)
Re:Show HN: Elevators.ltd on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:19AM (#47349127)
Click up/down to call an elevator. When doors open, click elevator to enter and select floor. Have fun! :D
Re:Show HN: Teletext-Style Portfolio Website on Sunday March 01, 2026 @06:54AM (#47205913)
In case you don't know what Teletext is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext
Re:My Teletext Website on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:22PM (#46875891)
Thanks! Here in Finland Teletext is still in use: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv :D
Re:My Teletext Website on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:22PM (#46875885)
In Finland Teletext is actually still in use: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv :D
Re:My Teletext Website on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:10PM (#46874737)
Source code here if someone interested: https://github.com/pakastin/pakastin/tree/main/public
Re:VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:04AM (#46288600)
Zed is much less AI-infected than VSCode. In fact, in Zed there’s a single button to disable all AI features.
Re:Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:26PM (#45825442)
Luckily we have great European cloud companies like UpCloud https://upcloud.com
Re:Nomoji – replace emojis in text with SVG images on Monday October 27, 2025 @11:22AM (#45722004)
I just updated my Nomoji project to use Noto Emoji instead of Openmoji. Nomoji is like Twemoji but with the latest emoji support and simpler syntax.
Check out my talk about minimum viable view library (then frzr.js.org, now redom.js.org): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nh2EK1xveg
Re:CSS Minecraft on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @08:50AM (#44106455)
Same, maybe shouldn't go with the serverless hype.. It's a static website after all :D
Re:European Cloud Computing Platforms on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:11AM (#43319157)
UpCloud is really good!
Nice! Also check out my multiplayer deck of cards on just pure web: https://deck.of.cards

Hope to finish the new version soon

Re:You Probably Don't Need Query Builders on Sunday January 26, 2025 @09:11AM (#42830194)
Definitely not, if you use modern db like MongoDB :D
Re:GenChess on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:04PM (#42249457)
"This tool is not available to users under the age of 18 or in certain countries or regions."
Re:Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes on Monday November 25, 2024 @04:08AM (#42234520)
Swarm Mode ftw!
Re:Comic Mono on Saturday September 21, 2024 @06:25PM (#41613093)
But why?!
Re:Show HN: Defrag the Game on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:33AM (#41424512)
would be maybe good idea to add instructions :D
Re:Show HN: Defrag the Game on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:27AM (#41424461)
What should i do here?
Re:I made a free realtime multiplayer 2D cave gem quest game on Saturday August 31, 2024 @02:56PM (#41410990)
Planning to write blog post(s) about how i made the game, but basically the techniques i used are the following:

- 2D ray tracing visibility algorithm (spolight): https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/

- Simplex noise procedural maps: https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/

- WebGL2 rendering

- Websockets with binary data

- Deno

- Hetzner dedicated servers

- Docker Swarm Mode

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