It puzzles me to see people on HN that don't run ad blockers.
The ad even appears on my Firefox Mobile, which has uBlock Origin installed and goes through a PiHole running on the network.
Readit Newsnanoxide commented on Beloved 27-Year-Old Gaming Site Wipes Forums, Relaunches as Gambling Cash-Grab kotaku.com/adventure-game... · Posted by u/jankydev
nanoxide commented on Show HN: I made an online Unicode Cuneiform digital clock oisinmoran.com/sumertime... · Posted by u/OisinMoran
If you like weird clocks, I've got a collection of them here [0] which includes two others I've made—the QR Code Clock (probably my stupidest design of anything to date), and the vague clock (which is always correct and accurate but as it is just a single rotating "6" is only really legible at 6 and 9 o'clock)
Currently working on my first physical one!
Nice to see the Mengenlehre clock in Berlin. Coincidentally, directly in the adjacent Europa-Center is also the clock of flowing time, which I found fascinating as a kid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_Flowing_Time
nanoxide commented on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better domenic.me/fsrs/... · Posted by u/domenicd
Language vocab seems a good use case. What other things are people here using spaced repition for?
Used to use it in university (CS) for cramming before tests, mostly when there were lots of definitions to memorize. Also summarizing stuff and writing your own cards for it helps already with learning itself.
Best part for me that it's a single file executable. I chose to do a thing in Pascal last year just because of this one killer feature. I made some initial attempts to achieve this with something else but I didn't find any modern tool that could do that without some weird, sometimes involved, sometimes straight up experimental steps.
.NET can create self-contained executables pretty easily (via _dotnet publish_), both including the required framework assemblies and without them. But they'll still be comparatively large.
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nanoxide commented on Chibi: PNG-tuber application made in Rust github.com/megabytesofrem... · Posted by u/megabytesofrem
It looks cool but I don't really know what it is/does.
What is a PNG tuber?
A video would help.
It's for streaming on platforms like YouTube or Twitch, usually when streaming games or doing art. Instead of using a webcam to show yourself (mostly in a small overlay in a corner), you show a PNG image of yourself or an avatar. To give these static images for variety, you can change them based on voice input (i.e. as if the PNG was talking), or emotions like laughing. Related: V-Tubers which use 3D models or more intricate methods like motion capturing to animate a virtual version of themselves.
nanoxide commented on Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021) peeifyouwanttogofaster.co... · Posted by u/mooreds
I know nothing about diving. Why can't you pee in a dry suit (except that one might find it gross)? I assumed that you could just rinse the suit afterwards. Or is being underwater a factor, because it gets too cold or the pressure does something with it or...?
nanoxide commented on F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025 f-droid.org/2025/01/21/a-... · Posted by u/mappu
I'm the other way arround, 2-3 things from playstore and the rest from f-droid. Here is my list:
Acode (text editor)
Aegist (2FA)
AntennaPod (podcast)
Aurora Store (playstore)
FairEmail (E-Mail)
Feeder (RSS reader)
Fennec (firefox with extension support)
KeePassDX (password manager)
KOReader (ebook reader)
LocalSend (send data between devices in local network)
Mastodon mobile client
MuPDF viewer (PDF viewer)
Oddysey (music player)
NewPipe (youtube frontend)
Offi (public transport)
OsmAnd (map)
QR Scanner (PFA)
Red Moon (lower screen brightness lower than minimum for reading before bed)
ScreenStream (stream screen to website in local network)
Stealth (reddit client)
Termux (linux shell eviroment)
VLCIt's super annoying though, that installing an app from F-Droid sometimes appears as installed from Play Store as well. For example, I have VLC installed from F-Droid, but it also appears in the Play Store update list and _can't_ be updated from there.
nanoxide commented on Microsoft GW-Basic User's Guide and Reference (1989) [pdf] bitsavers.computerhistory... · Posted by u/susam
The most I miss about those times is the simplicity and availability. Each computer had BASIC. Did not matter what computer. Now Windows comes default with Powershell and .NET (?) but no IDE. Linux comes default with Python and vi but that is hardly for beginners. As I am a Java developer I follow the developments of Java and recently stuff has been added to make Java easy to start with. So you can start with only "void main() { System.out.println("Hello world"); }" and it would run. Nice that people can get into coding easier but you still need to find an IDE and download an SDK...
Pretty sure Windows comes by default with the Powershell ISE, although it's not developed further anymore. It also only comes with the .NET runtime, not the SDK.
Installing VSCode and some extensions would get you pretty far though.
nanoxide commented on Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history lichess.org/@/Lichess/blo... · Posted by u/alexmolas
That was a absolutely horrible finish to a really exciting championship if you ask me.
For anyone who doesn't know, there was a lot of drama because Gukesh was playing amazingly coming into this (eg winning the gold medal on board 1 at the olympiad in crushing style) and Ding had been playing terribly. Then there were 13 games of back and forth with stalwart defending and imaginative computer preparation by both sides, playing a lot of fresh chess and both of them going for the most critical and challenging moves in each position. Ding was playing a lot better than a lot of people had expected and the previous game had been one of the best games in a world championship for a long time. Everything was tied going into the last game of the classical portion and the "bar room consensus" was that since Gukesh was so young and doesn't focus at all on the faster forms of chess (rapid and blitz) and is therefore much lower rated than Ding in those formats, that if this game was a draw then Ding would be a substantial favourite in the ensuing tiebreaks.
The final game was a complex struggle, with Ding keeping everything in lockdown with the white pieces so as not to give Gukesh a ghost of a chance. Most of the pieces had been traded and it was the most drawish of drawn endgames. Gukesh was up a pawn, but they both had a rook and bishop and all Ding had to do was hang on to his pieces and keep them well away from the enemy king. On the stream I was watching IM David Pruess had just been asked by someone in chat whether Gukesh could win and he said "1% chance".
Then all of a sudden Ding made 3 bad moves in a row. The first two were just poor endgame technique, putting his rook and bishop both on bad squares too close to the enemy king, then the real blunder. Completely inexplicably he traded off the pieces. Now he was in an endgame that was just dead lost. After 14 games of 4+ hours each It had gone from being a dead draw with him a big favourite in tie breaks to all over in a few seconds.
I have little interest in chess and no real knowledge in its current events beyond mainstream media coverage, but always enjoy lively writeups of the matches like this one.