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Re:Show HN: Perspective on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:53PM (#30592529)
Re:Show HN: Perspective on Sunday March 06, 2022 @12:53PM (#30579400)
Perspective Daily is the latest in a series of games where players solve 3D puzzles.

A new puzzle is released everyday, getting more difficult throughout the week, can you solve it in the shortest time?

> And that means Amdahl's Law is more important than Moore's Law these days.

100%, we can no longer rely on faster processors to make our code faster, and must instead write code that can take advantage of the hardware's parallelism.

For those interested in learning more about Why Amdahl's Law is Important, my friend wrote an interesting article on this very topic - https://convey.earth/conversation?id=41

Re:Show HN: Duet – A Two-Player Gaming System on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @12:52PM (#30431011)
> Add a Z-Machine interpreter (up to v8) with Palm/Graffiti like input and I'm sold.

Handwriting recognition would be a nice feature and could even enable direct messages between the two players!

> No programming fun, then :(.

I disagree - there was plenty of programming fun! My C/C++ was a little rusty and I enjoyed getting the hang of it again. Working so close to the hardware is such a different mindset from my other recent projects, there was so much to learn and I found it very rewarding!

I also just found out that tinygo supports this SoC and even has a driver for the ILI9341!

> I'd love to play some IF with "real life" like input, as if I was writting in cursive.

No idea what IF is in this context :/ Interactive Fiction? Input File? International Fleet? Intermittent Fasting?

> With an e-ink display those games would last months without a power charge...

True, but e-ink would not be suitable for the collaborative drawing (or 'synchronized chalkboard' as you called it)

Re:Show HN: Convey – Quality Public Dialogue on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:15AM (#28157370)
Clickable link: https://convey.earth

Show HN: Convey – Quality Public Dialogue

Hey all,A project I've been working on for the past few months just entered the beta testing phase and, since HN with its insightful and helpful comment section is one of the inspirations, I wanted to share it with you!https://convey.earthConvey is a Communication Platform that Incentivizes Quality Content, Collaboration, and Discussion.The two aspects that set Convey apart from the status quo...

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Re:Ask HN: Cross Platform Development on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:32PM (#26009548)
golang.org + fyne.io
Thanks @stsewd, Fyne is hosted on GitHub[0] and has been using Actions for more and more checks.

[0]https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

Thanks @detaro, CircleCI has come up a few times, definitely worth looking into.
This change has dramatically increased the backlog for Linux builds (currently hovering around 9600 jobs) and has severely impacted the upcoming release of Fyne v1.4 as the wait time is now multiple hours.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative?

Ask HN: Why the Href Inconsistency?

At the top of the HN front page the 'Y' logo links to 'https://news.ycombinator.com', but the 'Hacker News' title links to 'news' (expanded to https://news.ycombinator.com/news). Why is that?From the page source:* 'Y' logo - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com"><img src="y18.gif" width="18" height="18" style="border:1px white solid;"></a>* 'Hacker News' title - <a...

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Congrats on becoming a dad!

S P A C E maybe the solution you're looking for to store all your photos and videos.

- End-to-End Encrypted - your private key stays on your device(s) so only you can read your files.

- Blockchain-Backed - your files are immutable and indelible.

- Open Sourced - all source code is available from Github under Apache 2.0.

- Decentralized - you choose which providers store your files, and can setup your own computers as providers.

- Shareable - you can share a file with any other S P A C E user.

- Currently in Open Beta with an Android app and command line clients for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Your private key can be shared with your other devices so you can access your files from any of your (supported) devices.

There is still some manual work as you need to add the files to S P A C E, but I will look into supporting automatically adding files.

Aletheia Ware currently has two providers, one in San Francisco and the other in New York, but unfortunately neither offer offline tape backups. However, if someone else wants to setup this type of provider I would be happy to help.

The other comments had an interesting point;

- mceachen "Use something that's been designed to continue even if the company doesn't."

- devm0de "I wouldn’t trust any single cloud storage provider from screwing you at some point."

I designed S P A C E to continue even if my company, Aletheia Ware LLC, doesn't by open sourcing all the code, and enabling anyone to be their own providers. By having multiple parties able to provide these services independently you avoid the risk of having all your eggs in one basket - just like you shouldn't store all your data on one harddrive, you shouldn't store all your data with one cloud storage provider.

I would greatly appreciate any feedback you, or other HNers, have.

https://space.aletheiaware.com

https://github.com/AletheiaWareLLC

Re:Show HN: Enter your URL to see CVEs matching your stack on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:57PM (#20879736)
Seconded!

Show HN: S P A C E – End-to-end encrypted, blockchain-backed, digital storage

How do you protect your digital assets?Do you store your personal notes, dog pictures, cat videos, music playlists, health records, bank statements, and government documents in the cloud, on your phone, a usb, hard-disk, solid-state, or network drive?Is your data available to you, when and where you need it?Can your data be viewed by anyone else?Is your data stored in multiple locations or are...

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Hated in the Nation - Black Mirror season 3, episode 6 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
Re:Ask HN: What else in the world should be Open Sourced? on Monday November 09, 2015 @01:55PM (#10534965)
Law & Government
Re:Ask HN: Does your work support your side projects? on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @07:16PM (#9266714)
Google has not pulled its 20% support policy[1]

[1]: I work at Google