tholman
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Comment · 7 days ago
One of the most beautiful improvised Jazz pieces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert) was largely produced due to having to play within the limitations of the piano, which was mistakenly set up and was too late to replace.
Comment · 7 days ago
It's fun reading about the differences they've made regarding the AI computer players, giving them a more modern/better tactics vs the also interesting way it was implemented before (computer players being always able to see the full map and have extra creature growth)
Comment · 1 month ago
I know it's anecdotal and irrelevant to the real science, but whenever neuroscience comes up, I think about the Exhalation short story Ted Chian, about a civilization with brains that rely on air pressure, and a deep explanation of these alien brains and at the same time made me appreciate that we also still know so little about our own, they may as well be the same.
Comment · 1 month ago
Fun story, a good... (checks calendar, oh lord) 8+ years ago, I made a mis-kerned version of helvetica (smelvetica i called it [1]) as a joke, and eventually had the lawyers push on me
> we ask that you stop promoting ‘Smelvetica’ and making the font software available to everybody. Next time, just let us know if you have more ideas on how to modernize our classics, we are always open for creative input.
Comment · 6 months ago
Tried to visit the first domain, baydailymedia, but doesn't seem to exist... I know its unsurprising and not against the rules or even spirit of showing off your new toy, but some humor in the aria tag "Video of user creating a protein maxing Skill" and then within the video, a fat "Video for illustrative purposes" "Results may vary" "check response for accuracy"
Second video seem's more real. And yeah, again not against the rules, but dropping onto website, no ads, prompting data out of it is very in the ethos of our current "lets just do an ai" to be relavent era.
Comment · 9 months ago
For those out of the know, Nova Launcher is an Android home screen replacement... so hits home when the root of your phone existence gets shook piece by piece.
Comment · 1 year ago
Crashes like a Windows ME screensaver. Jokes aside, it's very fun to see open firehose access like this. I seem to recall that Dorsey had said that twitter limiting their api access was a mistake, hope we can keep this going.
Comment · 2 years ago
Fun hypothetical, or can someone solve? How long, would this regex prime check [1] (via hn 2009) take to run on this on todays average machine?
Hitchhiker's Guide's Deep Thought "42" was 7.5 million years, just for a guide-post.
Comment · 2 years ago
I love a good useless program, I may have written more useless ones than useful.
Here's a few of my faves from the last 10 years!
- A password strength page that insults you based on strength https://trypap.com/
- Minesweeper with 1 square https://onesquareminesweeper.com/
- Adding elevator music to "go to top" buttons https://tholman.com/elevator.js/
- CSS Animation library of obnoxious over the top animations https://tholman.com/obnoxious/
- A fake mosquito with the web audio api https://tholman.com/mosquito-js/
Comment · 2 years ago
Here's the HN conversation from 2020 [1], a little closer to when this came out.
Comment · 2 years ago
We've come a long way from console.frog [2016]
Comment · 3 years ago
I've got maybe 4 extensions that are manifest V2 that just purely don't seem worth upgrading/fixing up (my largest with 5-10k installs) due to the time/5+ year old code that has been working fine on the old apis... Has chrome done some outreach to the popular extensions, or maybe just gone past a point where they're happy to kill off the old and move onto the new? Or is this purely about ublock etc?
Comment · 3 years ago
As someone that works in media/advertising, the first thing I check when I see something like this is their ads.txt [1] -- It looks like they're managed by ezoic whom you forward your entire dns and they inject ads in the middle (AI is mentioned, naturally). Definitely ruining this whole site's experience.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ahh, this is super nice!
One thing I'd love to know or see is common mistakes I make or the type of mistake/trap I fall into in the pivotal moments of games (some kind of fork/pin combo for me I suspect) ... and/or repeated mistakes I've made in the same position.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'd noticed some strange changes at our veterinary office, where they'd usually give my dog a full round of shots once a year, suddenly they decided to break it up into multiple different rounds, meaning I'd pay 3 times instead of the one. After a little research I'd found that they'd been bought by a private equity firm, and on further inspection had found a lot (NYC) of practices had changed hands the last few years.
There's been some antitrust cases, but the FTC clearly can't block many. The changes are clearly costing everyone more money for no reason, but can anyone really block this?
- [1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/06/...