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Re:Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game on Sunday August 16, 2026 @08:52AM (#49319591)

This reminded me something you might find fascinating. We grew up playing a similar game in India. It's Antakshari[0] and it means "The game of the ending letter". There was even a popular game show for over 10 years in the 2000s on Indian TV.

I'm gonna give an English example, but in a tonal language like Hindi, Mandarin, Thai, it would make "more" sense. Players have to sign a song that starts with the same tone as the previous song ended on.The game starts with a couplet to initiate the game and since the last word of the couplet ends with an m, the first song starts with that. And yeah, only Indian/Bollywood songs are allowed but I'm gonna break that rule to make an example. Taking tones don't really make sense in English so I'll use the last word.

Player one might sing "Mamma mia, here I go again. My my, how can I resist you", and the next goes with "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, You make me happy when skies are gray." and then the next starts with gray. The person who can't find a song is out of the game, and you can't repeat songs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antakshari

Re:Digital gardens people maintain outside the "Big Tech" walled gardens on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:47AM (#42585604)

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

How about a digital garden post about digital gardens:?

Re:Like Clippy but for the CLI on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @02:37PM (#38195786)

I was curious so I studied them briefly. Please take it with a grain of salt.

ShellGPT offers a lot of flexibility with outputs(comments, code snippets, and documentation besides shell commands), operating modes (chat mode or REPL), model choice (supports locally hosted models like LocalAI), and custom roles. Clipea, on the other hand, is a simple tool for generating shell commands and has zsh shell integration.

They essentially perform the same task, but the choice depends on your needs.

Re:Othello Is Solved on Sunday November 05, 2023 @01:10AM (#38148770)

Not sure how impressive a draw is, but I did a 32-32 for my first play through. Thanks for teaching me a new game!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023) on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:39PM (#35471738)

The Bring Your Own Role is a good option to try.

Re:Docked: Running Rails from Docker for easy start to development on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:41PM (#34059481)

Thanks for sharing. Very helpful!

Re:Ask HN: Figma just got bought by Adobe – is Sketch cool again? on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:57AM (#32940761)

As long as Figma and Figjam are priced as is, I'll be using it.

I also use Lunacy[0] and Penpot[1].

Lunacy is a cross-platform alternative and works natively with Sketch files. It's free and I love it!

Penpot is an open-source alternative and runs in the browser like Figma.

Re:Ask HN: Where can I find high-quality paid developer learning mater... on Sunday August 21, 2022 @10:43AM (#32540669)

frontendmasters[0] is really good for guided video tutorials and classes. They don't only focus on frontend but teach everything so the title is a little misleading.

[0] https://frontendmasters.com/

Re:How I went about learning Rust on Friday July 15, 2022 @03:10AM (#32105510)

An exclamation at the end would fix this, but yeah, I'm of the opinion that censoring the 'How' didn't distract from the article until I saw this thread.

Re:Ask HN: Good things about Windows 11 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:19PM (#31520963)

I've been using the new Terminal ever since it was first announced. It was fine before I upgraded to Windows 11 from 10.

Re:Ask HN: Good things about Windows 11 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:53AM (#31516861)

I’ve had a not so great experience and could use some advice. I opted to install WSL using the command line but there was a problem, so I removed it and reinstalled the app titled simply ‘Ubuntu’ from the Microsoft Store but the problem still persists.

The problem is whenever I run any command in WSL, the progress bar/status stalls or never updates itself. Installing a new language, non package, Ubuntu stuff, whatever, doesn’t seem to work on first try. Once I ‘Ctrl+C’ and re-enter the command, it works flawlessly.

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Besides that, I think Windows 11 has been great so far! I like it.

Re:Ask HN: How many computers you got? on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @09:03AM (#31339351)

Desktop - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 || GTX 1600 || Dual Boot Linux + Windows

Laptop - LG Gram 14

Phones - iPhone 13 Mini || Nokia 5.1

Tablets - iPad 10.2 || Kindle 7th Gen

VR - Oculus Quest 2

IoT - Raspberry Pi 4

Console - Nintendo Switch

3D Printer - Ender 3

These are computers I use regularly that are personal, so 10 in total. If you count devices that other family members own or those that are unusable, the total quickly doubles.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:56AM (#31235910)

Yes, I don't think we should upvote this as I'm quite positive this is OP simply attempting to increase their karma.

Re:What happened to Evernote? Where to go next? on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:23AM (#31081088)

I simply did `git init` inside my Obsidian vault(folder) and store it on my Github; which is a more familiar option for most HN users.

Re:Ask HN: Best SaaS Boilerplate? on Saturday March 26, 2022 @03:34AM (#30810012)

I've used Jumpstart Rails and I recommend it. It's made by Chris Oliver from GoRails. It has a ton of features built in like auth, payments, I18n, notifications, user impersonation, and more.

Disclaimer: It is a paid software, and I am not affiliated with Jumpstart or GoRails.

[0] https://jumpstartrails.com/

Re:Ask HN: How do you meet other remote developers? on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @01:54AM (#30775411)

I found this server called - Multiprocess Community[0] posted on Hacker News in January(?). A lot of HN users joined that server so the vibe is similar to HN, compared to a random tech server.

[0] https://discord.gg/pnyaD6mf

Re:Ask HN: How to explain that ML approach is not 100% perfect? on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @01:41AM (#30775345)

This is a very good visual introduction to Machine Learning created by the team at R2D3 and helps even non-tech people understand how ML works and that training a model is balancing bias and variance error rates. Part 1[0] goes over what decision trees are, and Part 2[1] goes over Bias-Variance Tradeoff.

[0] https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

[1] https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-2/