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So that's why Muse (the mind map tool) recently changed its name to Allume [0]. [0]: https://allume.com/allume-faq/

There was research on this published by Activision [1]. Spawning fake enemies behind the users back, inside walls, etc. The players who react to fake enemies self-identify as cheat…

For a very simple API, warp [1]. [1]: https://github.com/seanmonstar/warp

If you're into horror comedy movies, be sure to check out Rare Exports [1]. It combines some of the folklore with the commercial father christmas. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w…

Really fun! I have been experimenting with similar idea myself. I was curious on how you handle instantiating the terminal state for new clients. Seems like you're storing a buffer…

https://web.archive.org/web/https://rework.withgoogle.com/bl... Seems the source is overloaded or down.

Hi HN. ScaleSocket is a command line tool that lets you to wrap any STDIO capable script or binary, and serve it over websockets. Clients then connect to rooms (channels) which hav…

It's similar to running netcat in server mode, wrapping a script. It's even closer to doing that using websocat [1], whereby one does not have to do the websocket header juggling. …

I've been developing a websocket server that lets multiple users connect to the same command-line app. I wrote a short example [1] that exposes a TUI game on the web. In theory, ho…

We've used dbmate[1] outside of the Django/alembic ecosystem. [1] https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate

I was eager to try this. The screenshots had me convinced the workflow would resemble Alfred/Spotlight. Be careful of guessing your users workflows - there are a lot of ways using …

Another useful Google search trick not mentioned in the article is numeric range queries. You can use two numbers separated by two dots to represent all numbers in the range. For e…

Consider a sentence like "We will finish project x next week with 75% probability". I'm not sure it is any more clear than "It is probable that we will finish project x next week".…

Shameless plug for Doctave [0], which offers a solid way to combine markdown and OpenAPI specs into a documentation site. It's a hosted SaaS, so it's technically not a static-site …

Facebook's ad platform famously uses the Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction [0]. In theory it rewards advertisers for bidding for ads using their true valuation, or rather, the lifetime…

Combining Swagger (OpenAPI) with Markdown prose was what prompted us to build Doctave [0]. Jekyll does a good job, but breaks down once you need more bells and whistles, such as se…

Now this is the "headphones for my eyes" I have been waiting for. I wonder if combining an ebook with a contextual audio track (does this exist?), would work as well as combining a…

They should have branded it as "headphones for your eyes". To me, this seems like the closest analogy of what the value of the product is.

There's Dokku [0] which supports buildpacks (and containers). Would love to hear more from anyone runnkng a business on it. [0] https://dokku.com/

See also Weyl sequences for generating samples from a discrete uniform distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl_sequence

So first, alter server state before transmission by spawning hallucinations (human-like bots) in places not visible to human players (inside walls, unusual angles, far in the horiz…