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Re:Show HN: PhreshOS – OS for Web Apps on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:00PM (#49937221)
Reminds me quite a bit of puter.js

Looks interesting though

https://developer.puter.com/

Re:Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:12PM (#48969379)
I ran geyser with paper for years.. now I pay for 2 realms, and it's so much easier for them and their friends
Any suggestions?
Re:Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:13AM (#47164525)
On mobile (Firefox android) you can't see the video overview - so I have absolutely no information to go on as to what this is, other than it wants a lot of permissions, and to sign in with my GitHub account.
Re:I designed my own fast game streaming video codec on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:54AM (#44719950)
That's exactly what https://polystream.com/ do
Re:Drafting Software Recommendation on Monday July 28, 2025 @06:31AM (#44709339)
Try LibreCAD, FreeCAD, or OpenSCAD - I've had success doing what I understand you're doing, with all 3
Re:I Solved a 7-Day Calculation Problem in a Weekend on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @01:55AM (#44363204)
Unless I'm misunderstanding, seems like the approach taken here (normal distribution and Monte Carlo simulation) might achieve similar?

https://filiph.github.io/unsure/

Re:Show HN: Resizer2 – i3/KDE window movement on Windows on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:04AM (#42538238)
I used to use AltSnap (https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap) which works extremely well, and supports template snap zones.

Recently I wrote my own and now use that daily instead, which supports similar functionality (alt+drag) but also "zooming" in/out and panning around the desktop

https://github.com/sebmaynard/DPaZ

Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:03AM (#42006502)
I'm one of those people. Absolutely can't stand it

Show HN: DPaZ – Desktop Pan and Zoom

https://github.com/sebmaynard/DPaZ

Hi HN!I really like Miro and similar tools for whiteboarding - and one particularly nice feature of those is that you can pan and zoom around the whiteboard. Zoom into something to work on it, zoom out, pan a bit and find something else on a giant whiteboard.This tool aims to replicate that experience for the Windows Desktop - it gives you the feeling of unlimited desktop real-estate,...

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Re:I'm Terrified of Old People on Saturday June 29, 2024 @05:09AM (#40828873)
Kudos to you gaining the self awareness to realise you don't know shit; I'm 40 now and it's taken me until relatively recently for that to dawn on me.

Enjoyed the article, keep writing!

Also available on Google Play Store [1], and it successfully derailed my sleep plans last night. Really breaks your expectations of "I move the character around" within minutes.

It reminds me a bit of the card game Fluxx [2], where every card you play changes the rules.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.hempuli.ba...

[2] https://www.looneylabs.com/games/fluxx

Sounds like you could try a Samsung S phone with Dex and a lapdock?
Re:How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit on Saturday January 27, 2024 @02:25AM (#39153431)
Long live Tony the Pony.
Re:I used AI to make an app to help me with my ADHD on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:37AM (#38300637)
The one that set off the light bulb for me was a book called The ADHD Effect on Marriage. 2 years ago I got a formal diagnosis having completed the DIVA (and got full marks )
Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:13PM (#37562142)
Lightshot is a great app for exactly this. And lines, boxes etc
Re:deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @02:06AM (#37401790)
I've been a happy UserLAnd user for a long time and it's a wonderful project, thank you!

I've have recently started using vmConsole too (which is based on qemu instead) as I needed docker. Also great.

Re:Jitsi Meet Abandons Anonimity Promise on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:14PM (#37383888)
I have 4 boys, 2 of which under under 5 months; I dearly miss my 1 hour drive to and from work, with podcasts, tech talks and thinking space.
Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:18PM (#25062505)
"so that you have something pretty to show your non-technically inclined significant other as the output of your hard work"

Gosh, that resonates... :)

Also very excited to read part 2!

Re:SVG Path Editor on Thursday November 05, 2020 @04:13PM (#25002041)
Just fell down quite a rabbit hole exploring their site, some really lovely tools, and some fascinating writing
Re:Alpine-term: x86_64 under QEMU with termux on Android on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:06PM (#24667509)
This project runs a full-blown qemu-based VM on Android running alpine Linux. Written by one of the maintainers of termux, and genuinely useful having "real" (not proot) Linux on my phone

Performance is surprisingly ok too - I'm using it on a OnePlus 8 Pro, and happily running my erlang development environment in it. Docker works too, albeit with a slight performance penalty

Re:Beeware – Android and iOS Apps in Python on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:55AM (#24489944)
Here's a project the Beware team built, there's an iOS version built from the same source too

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keith_mage...

Also a note re their platform compatibility, it's not just Android and iOS: iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, and tvOS

Looks very interesting, going to give it a go adding guis to some existing cli python toys I've built