pwnmonkey
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:36PM (#44417634)
Sounds cool, what game?
Re:Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf]
on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @09:13PM (#41991052)
Alpha-beta pruning I believe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%E2%80%93beta_pruning
Re:Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it
on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:08PM (#36050163)
I created https://staticnews.pages.dev for myself to solve this exact problem. It only shows the top 30 stories from the previous day with a pruned comment tree. I liked the idea of a sibling comment here about filtering to stories by score, so I might tweak it to do something like that.
Re:Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication
on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:00AM (#36009940)
Shaka, when the walls fell?
Re:Show HN: The Shark Programming Language Realease 1.0.0
on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:38PM (#35296633)
Baby Shark song
Re:SVB CEO Greg Becker cashed out $2M just before the collapse
on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:48AM (#35106643)
I think they meant cunning.
Re:New federal food label law has unintended effect: Sesame now in mor...
on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:42PM (#34120379)
Do you happen to have a link to the new study?
Re:You Have Too Many Metrics
on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:59PM (#34034333)
Performance comes to mind. If you get reports that your app is “slow” it’s useful to know exactly what the culprit is.
If you set monitors on E2E perf metrics, you don’t even have to rely on your customers telling you either.
Re:C++23 Will Be Really Awesome
on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:23AM (#30875669)
This kept reloading on mobile for me so I wasn’t able to scroll. Not sure if that was part of the April Fool’s joke.
Re:Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality?
on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @12:52PM (#29243783)
“quantitative easing” for those who are curious.
Re:Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?
on Saturday November 13, 2021 @09:02AM (#29209762)
What games do you play? I think that will be the biggest factor in any decision you might make.
Re:Raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogame progr...
on Sunday November 07, 2021 @08:18PM (#29145263)
I ported Doom to Raylib, it was very nice to use.
Re:Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture
on Sunday July 18, 2021 @04:30PM (#27876409)
I like the movie but it’s also the ultimate nap movie.
Re:Chernobyl Dice: A quantum random number generator with a Nixie tube...
on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @10:13PM (#21881830)
Does this mean determinism is moot?