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Clearly reciprocity is a good part of social interaction. So it’s not necessarily a dark pattern. But it can be if games use it as a mechanism to get you hooked. Maybe by punishmen…

It’s meant to look like an old NES game controller.

It’s always shocking to see one of my sites pop up on HN. For context around my motivation to make the site. I was really addicted to a certain mobile game to the point that it was…

The thing I don't understand is how unethical stuff like this comes to be built. Take the example where nurses with debt get lower wages because they are desperate. Some manager ha…

I became interested in complicated watches several years ago and knew I could never afford one, so I made a website with simulated watch dials. Just for fun and education. It was a…

I tried adding deep zoom to mine, https://www.zazow.com but it became way too slow. Arbitrary precision math is just orders of magnitude slower, at least in the way that I understa…

Is there a way to turn Apple special photos into cross view images?

It would be cool if Apple made something like this for public events with a way to browse local events. I acknowledge that moderation of spam would be an issue.

I would love to see a lava lamp simulator with this type of quality. I’ve tried before to make one but alas I don’t have the math.

I am rebuilding the website for my hobby club (currently wordpress). I would like to add some new features for members, but I also want be mindful about future maintainers who may …

If I lose access to my Apple account (via hacking, being banned or otherwise), do I also lose access to all my saved password? Thats what I want to know.

I wonder what the annual maintenance, utilities, taxes and other upkeep would be on that.

This is surprising to me too because I saw 3 different Cybertrucks on the road yesterday. I guess I live in a hot zone.

Here is a migraine headache therapy that works on the same principle. https://www.gammacore.com/ It’s really difficult to get prescription and insurance to line up and then they ma…

Why is sales tax being applied now? Is there some new tax law or is Kagi offering a new benefit that requires taxation?

My brother laser worked great for years. Then I decided to save money and get generic toner. A week later my brother printer bricked itself. It won’t even turn on. Probably a coinc…

If HN suddenly dies there will be 1000 former HN users who will create a clone in a weekend.

I did this exercise last year called “8760 Hours” which is a series of prompts to help refine your values and goals for the year. I then reviewed my answers at the beginning of eac…

I was recently at a museum and I had two choices to buy a ticket. Buy a paper ticket from a real person or use a self-service kiosk which emails me a ticket for a $5 electronic del…

This is exactly what I thought. Or maybe 1 farm will split itself into two separate corporate entities and employees will work 35h for each one and nothing changes.

https://www.darkpattern.games/ My site to track games with dark patterns and those without.

I was just about to invest considerable time and effort into learning Flutter and building a cross platform app. I’m well aware of Google’s propensity to cancel products, but the G…

I am preparing to launch a side project in the saas space. As with all saas projects, I will be storing customer data and I want to protect myself from data loss or data leaks eith…

I recently joined forces with some web dev/designer friends to start a team for hire. Collectively we have a ton of experience building and shipping websites of all kinds. We are l…