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Re:TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @02:50PM (#40989063)
It was called the TikTok: https://ujeezy-blog.tumblr.com/post/2869125971/unboxing-the-...
Re:Show HN: Tangram – Train a model from a CSV file on the command line on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:13PM (#28239454)
I love the simplicity - this tickles my brain in the same way that Firebase did when I first saw it :) Well done! Looking forward to playing with it.
Re:Slackware 15.0 release candidate one on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:38PM (#28201943)
I love that the website is the same design as when I first discovered Slackware in 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/19991117022152/http://slackware....
Re:Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013) on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:09PM (#23044209)
I got into POV-Ray in the late 90s when I wanted 3D graphics for my Geocities page. I was in over my head in every dimension (scripting, math, artistic ability), but it was incredibly rewarding, and the newsgroup gave me a very positive early impression of what a community can feel like on the internet.
Re:Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:52AM (#20312908)
Thanks for sharing! I remember enjoying the undersea cable plot in Cryptonomicon.

Inspired by another recent HN post about subsea cables, I'm currently reading The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage which walks through the history of the telegraph. It blows my mind that North America and Europe were connected by undersea cable before the start of the Civil War.

Show HN: KittyRace – race CryptoKitties, win ETH

Posted by ujeezy on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:08PM
from the show-hn dept.

We launched KittyRace today, and would love to know what HN thinks!KittyRace is a dApp that lets CryptoKitty owners combine skill and chance, and race their kitties for a winner-take-all pot of Ether.The outcome of each race is decided by the logic defined in our Ethereum smart contract, and is based on each kitty's DNA (stored in the CryptoKitties smart contract), and a random roll.Check it...

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Re:Why Toys? on Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:35PM (#16334390)
One of my favorite pg ideas: "When something is described as a toy, that means it has everything an idea needs except being important. It's cool; users love it; it just doesn't matter. But if you're living in the future and you build something cool that users love, it may matter more than outsiders think."

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

Re:Show HN: WikiRoulette – Randomly browse Wikipedia on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:55PM (#12567491)
Roughly the same: https://github.com/minouye/wikiroulette/blob/master/src/over...

If you didn't see the Chrome extension, it's worth a try - I really like the feeling of serendipity every time I create a new tab. It's a little distracting, but I think in a good way.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015) on Sunday March 01, 2015 @03:25PM (#9128733)
Shift Payments (YC S14), based in San Francisco's Financial District

We are building a Visa card that can be attached to any store of value, including Bitcoin wallets, gold holdings, fiat, and soon, loyalty points, airline miles, and more. Our mission is to improve access to financial tools.

We're hiring a strong generalist/fullstack engineer. Experience with Ruby, Java, Sinatra, and AngularJS is a plus, but definitely not a requirement. Experience shipping and operating a live product is a strong plus.

If this sounds interesting to you, we'd love to chat! Please shoot me an email with links to some stuff you've built: [email protected]

Re:The $5 Million Violin and the Telltale Taser on Sunday May 11, 2014 @05:44PM (#7730126)
This incident was mentioned in NPR's latest Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/09/310447054/episode-...

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