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> I remember a story about people who stutter not stuttering while singing. “Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters But doesn't ever stutter when he sings But what you don't …

If it was really an “HN themed puzzle”, all the letters would be A or I and the minimum word length would be 2. I’m kidding of course - great game!

> bring gaming back to the couch in a way that the Steam Link didn't succeed at. Also in the way that the Ouya didn’t succeed at - their kickstarter tagline was “Cracking open the …

Lazygit for a standalone program, or magit for an emacs package (some people use a different editor and just treat emacs+magit as a dedicated git frontend).

There is a setting (at Settings > Playback > Autoplay) that you can disable those songs after your playlist ends.

I used to go hiking in New Mexico and I actually liked when I came across little signs that someone was there: a small stack of rocks, sticks arranged in a crop-circley pattern, a …

I was in a similar place ~6 years ago, so not AI-based but still depressed. I tried therapy for 2-3 years and personally didn’t find it helpful. My problem is overthinking and dwel…

That was my reaction at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly. Some of the other bizarre syntax bothered me for much longer, like using semicolons for list separators, eg [1;2…

I don’t know if it satisfies “already convenient to use”, but IMO ocaml fits “adds great features reliably and safely”. They merged their multicore compiler ~4 years ago, which was…

> I read some AI generated tests and while it looks visually impressive, ultimately it wasn’t doing anything valuable I just saw this comment yesterday about one of the tests from …

I’ve never really had good luck with the artist radio, but I’ve found a lot of music I like by starting at a band I like and going through the Related Artists. It’s a little strang…

Reminds me of this page with an example for understanding how many permutations there are for a shuffled deck of cards: https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html > So, just how large is…

I had a very similar experience releasing a video game. Barely anybody downloaded it because I didn’t put any effort into marketing/promoting, but “I couldn’t be happier with my jo…

> Who are we to believe - the repliers, or our own lying eyes? Believe the repliers: I created an account in May 2024 and I have not added a phone number. Here's a screenshot from …

The youtube channel Summoning Salt made a great video that covers the history of Tetris world records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJlg8g8_yw

> I'm curious how this can be applied with the inevitable combinatorial exhaustion that will happen with musical aspects such as melody, chord progression, and rhythm. https://www.…

> still being as faithful to the original as it could be Wow, you weren't kidding - it's basically a note-for-note cover of the whole album. Thanks for sharing the link!

> Although it has been on my mind for a long time, I haven’t been able to read a comprehensive book based on these studies Deep Work by Cal Newport focuses on these ideas pretty he…

I released a game using OCaml bindings to the Raylib library. I had never written OCaml before and I didn't spend very much time refactoring, so the code is pretty messy and maybe …

In 2008/2009, I bought a DVD of this movie called "The Fall": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(2006_film) . I'm a sucker for visually-appealing films so I loved it, but I ev…

> Does anybody smarter have a good point of re-assurance? I'm not very smart, but I don't think you need to worry about drones using the linked flamethrower attachment: in order to…

Thorsten Ball streams development of Zed on Twitch sometimes, and it's pretty entertaining to watch: https://www.twitch.tv/thorstenball (EDIT: if his name sounds vaguely familiar, …

In the 49x49x49 video, he goes over previous world records of "Highest Order nxnxn Twisty Puzzle", and I thought it was weird he didn't mention the 34x34x34. But in the youtube des…

I've noticed that I get very distracted by motion in my peripheral vision, but not by static images. So I can use a second monitor for things like documentation, but not something …

Oh, it's not obvious at all from the UI, but the left-most column is a link to the video of the run: https://www.speedrun.com/2048/runs/zxwdol8m