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oliwary

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About oliwary

For inquiries regarding squareword, you can reach me at squareword.org@gmail.com

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    Comment #49235755

    Thank you for trying it! :)

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    Comment #49235752

    Thank you very much!

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    Comment #49234394

    A daily estimation game: https://estimatle.com Every day, players answer 5 questions that require estimating some quantity, such as distance, year, cost etc. Then you can compare a…

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    Comment #49097598

    Thank you very much! :) That's a good idea, just need to find a good source for the correct answer

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    Comment #49097182

    Hey! Today I launched a new daily game called estimatle. Every day, you guess/estimate 5 different numerical questions (such as "When did the Titanic sink?" or "How many keys are o…

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    Comment #49062153

    Can likewise mirror the support for quasar, always the first framework I reach for when starting a new project. The amount of stuff you get for free in terms of setup and content i…

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    Show HN: My word game inspired by Wordle, Sudoku and crosswords

    Hey everyone! Inspired by the recebt interest in word games here on HN I wanted to share my long-running word game squareword. It features a 5x5 grid of letters containing five wor…

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    Comment #48536153

    Wow thanks for the heads up, will have to look into that Firefox issue. Thank you, much appreciated! :) And great ideas as well! Whack a mole would fit perfectly

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    Comment #48515185

    https://motionparty.net/ - motion controlled web games, by analyzing the Webcam feed locally. In the vein of eye toys for ps2. Works quite well I think, but some elements need impr…

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    Comment #47960304

    The name is really clever given that the character in Suits is called Mike Ross. :)

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    Comment #47744740

    https://motionparty.net/ - A collection of games you control by waving in front of your camera, similar to playstation eyetoy back in the day. It supports 1-4 players. I think it w…

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    Comment #47556987

    Another game that I find has very impressive draw distance is Just Cause 2. You can see objects very far away when flying etc, but they look very detailed and do not change when mo…

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    Comment #47271479

    Impressive! Do you include puzzles released before the training data cutoff date?

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    Comment #47271462

    I think it's akin to self driving cars prioritizing nornal roads rather than implementing new infrastructure. Tricky, but if you get it right the whole world opens up, since you do…

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    Comment #47271446

    What's next? Claude Iliad?

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    Comment #47116057

    This is super cool! Ran into an issue though, the first time it boots perfectly, after the first refresh it loads for a bit (downloads the image again instead of from cache) and th…

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    Comment #47106830

    I have one of the TTGO T-watches: https://www.tinytronics.nl/en/development-boards/microcontro... For me it is mainly a decoration of my drawer, but maybe comes close to what you a…

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    Comment #47086660

    This is insane if true - could be super useful for data extraction tasks. Sounds like we could be talking in the cents per millions of tokens range.

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    Comment #47074838

    Cool, similar to helicopters which can also control direction indepentendent of thrust, which leads to RC helicopters being able to pull of crazy, physics-defying moves like here: …

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    Comment #47074500

    I have found them to work quite well for frontend (most recently on https://changeword.org ), although it sometimes gets stuff wrong. Overall, LLMs have definitely improved my fron…

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    Show HN: ChangeWord, transformative word game in 6 languages

    Hi! I just launched changeword, a daily word game where you have to transform one word into another by replacing or inserting one letter at a time. Each inbetween word has to be a …

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    Comment #46944203

    I am working on my first multilingual word game: https://changeword.org My previous games have all been exclusively in English, but this one also has Spanish, French, German, Dutch…

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    Comment #46853811

    In https://squareword.org (2D variant) I was also running into this problem. It's a bit different though, since I need to find valid 5x5 squares, with 5 words down and 5 across. Su…

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    Fun idea! I am glad there seems to be a community of people enjoying word games on HN, it tends to be the first place I post my games. https://squareword.org (wordle meets sudoku) …