News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

vicnicius

Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:42AM (#38626516)
The answers to this question will be a great source of (n=1) validated ideas.

Ask HN: What are your favorite photography blogs?

I want to get into photography, and I'm looking for some good blogs to follow. Google searches are fool of the more overwhelming websites, full of tutorials, equipment reviews and whatnot. But I'd like to read more personal takes on photography, more on the inspirational, philosophical and artistic aspects. Do you have any tips?

( Read More... | 1 comment | on HN )
In Brazilian Portuguese advertising is still most commonly called “propaganda”.

But it also has the bad connotation when it’s used in the context of politics.

Ask HN: Good examples of Turing-complete to Turing-incomplete transpilation?

I’m doing some research on the topic. I’m specially interested in understanding how to deal with removing the set of features the incomplete programming language wouldn’t have. Say I want to use typescript to write agda code. What would be some strategies to make this work? Books and other references are also welcome.

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )
Re:People Are Sick and Tired of All Their Subscriptions on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:31PM (#35547255)
Coil proposes something on these lines: https://interledger.org/case-studies/coil/
Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information on Friday January 06, 2023 @08:04AM (#34274174)
I’m finishing https://sendmyreads.com to help me tackle just that. I figured if I get all the information I gather pulled at me at a convenient time I’d be more likely to actually consume it. It’s been working well, but I’m afraid I’m now biased towards reading it (because I built the thing) so I want to give it more time to see how it goes.

If OP or anyone else is interested let me know and I’ll let you know once it’s ready.

Ask HN: What would be the best strategy to read game data from a video stream?

I want to extract game data from CSGO recorded matches programmatically. More specifically, I’d like to get each player’s position on the map during the game at any given time with perfect precision (0, 1s). I’m wondering what would be the most efficient way of pursuing this. I thought of learning and applying AI-powered image classification to achieve this, but given that the UI doesn’t change...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )
Re:OptiFi Program Incident Report on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:23AM (#32673552)
A simple confirmation step with a relevant warning could possibly make developers think twice before proceeding.
Re:Is Publishing About Art or Commerce? on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:13AM (#32575513)
Commerce of art.
Re:Agile's counter-movement on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:33AM (#24588422)
It can be seen as an addition, true. In my first reads of it, I couldn't think of it as an addition to contemporary Agile practice. Maybe the emotional burden caused by years of (bad) Agile practices got in the way. But even so, in multiple senses, following Software Craftsmanship principles will mean going against currently well-established agile practices.
Re:Total number of Brave Browser Publishers on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:34AM (#24564103)
Yeah. They use Creators on Brave's website: https://creators.brave.com/
Re:Total number of Brave Browser Publishers on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:33AM (#24564092)
Although I do not believe in Brave's model, it is interesting to see their publishers' growth. It is impossible to judge it objectively, but if such change would happen to be organic, I'd start questioning my belief a bit more.
Re:Show HN: Open-Source CSS Contest on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:41PM (#24435788)
The basic idea is as follows: each week, you have an HTML file with some content, and your goal is to create the CSS file that makes this a beautiful piece of (web) art. The contest runs on Github on top of some automation. Contributions, entries, and content suggestions are all handled there. At the end of each week, the project bot selects a winning entry (you vote by reacting to the entry PR), which is then deployed to https://csscontest.com and stays there for the whole week. A more detailed explanation is here: https://github.com/bitsofart/contest/#welcome. This project is the result of a lot of my interests put together. I wanted to be a designer at the beginning of my career. Back in those days, https://www.awwwards.com/ was a fantastic source of inspiration, and I dreamed of one day having that website of the day ribbon on my website. This day never came, and my interests shifted towards programming and code. But I still love seeing amazing visuals on the web, and I've always thought how nice it would be to have an award, like the Awwwards' site of the day, but more open, both in terms of content and selection.

Along with that, I'm also fascinated by evolution and the idea of things organically progressing in ways no one can anticipate. And I've been long thinking of this idea of a "crowdsourced" code project, and where a community of coders would take it.

So I merged the two ideas in this project: An open space for the community to participate in a contest to make beautiful things on the web. All the few contest's rules and their application are open-source (there are links for them in the repo), and everything is automated so we can have as few single-person interferences as possible. In an ideal world, everyone interested can participate, and I, as the owner of the repo, don't even have to look at it.

Reminded me of this article on rain water effects: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...
Re:Show HN: An autonomous open-source weekly CSS Contest on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:41PM (#24357896)
The basic idea: each week, you have an HTML file with some content, and your goal is to create the CSS file that makes this a beautiful piece of (web) art. The contest runs on Github on top of some automation. Contributions, entries, and content suggestions are all handled there. At the end of each week, the project bot selects a winning entry (you vote by reacting to the entry PR), which is then deployed to https://csscontest.com and stays there for the whole week. A more detailed explanation is here: https://github.com/bitsofart/contest/#welcome. This project is the result of a lot of my interests put together. I wanted to be a designer at the beginning of my career. Back in those days, https://www.awwwards.com/ was a fantastic source of inspiration, and I dreamed of one day having that website of the day ribbon on my website. This day never came, and my interests shifted towards programming and code. But I still love seeing amazing visuals on the web, and I've always thought how nice it would be to have an award, like the Awwwards' site of the day, but more open, both in terms of content and selection.

Along with that, I'm also fascinated by evolution and the idea of things organically progressing in ways no one can anticipate. And I've been long thinking of this idea of a "crowdsourced" code project, and where a community of coders would take it.

So I merged the two ideas in this project: An open space for the community to participate in a contest to make beautiful things on the web. All the few contest's rules and their application are open-source (there are links for them in the repo), and everything is automated so we can have as few single-person interferences as possible. In an ideal world, everyone interested can participate, and I, as the owner of the repo, don't even have to look at it.

Older »