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Curious to hear what is your preference on this. Do you use a solid color background on your desktop, or a vibrant background/picture? Do you think a certain solid color without di…

Some of you have probably seen the recently released whisper model from openai. Having this go two ways would open up for some neat conversational ai ideas, as in having two AIs di…

True, but couldn't the same be said about the real world to some degree? Everything "new" is based on something existing, right? Even in sci-fi/fantasy movies which are completely …

I agree about lack of a "higher goal" in most games, same old basic recipes. I always think of a MMO-type game where you have really well made AI that can attack cities, little vil…

Don't just live for the future. Life happens now, not at retirement. In my experience talking to people who has retired, many are bored and are struggling with purpose. Sure, there…

Maybe the probblem is that they have too many people working on xcode, too many chefs in the kitchen usually produces mediocre results.

You should dabble in gamedevelopment, lots of room for innovation. Often you'll end up implementing some custom algorithm or solution where there were no previous library X that so…

Canvas and webgl is lovely in the way it quickly lets you get something on the screen... Pixel pushing on canvas is, easy and accessible. It makes me wonder if anyone has created s…

I would kill for a fresh version of Escape Velocity (MMORPG style) :)

Now we just need a way to connect sublime text 2 or 3 directly to the chrome-console, so that when you edit files in sublime, they are magically used instantly without page refresh…

Curious if there is a known brand or some specific chairs for home/office use tailored for us hackers who desire a bit of extra comfort? I am talking about something like dentist c…

As the title reads, what platform/language would you pick for the backend, and why? Taking into consideration development time, costs and maintainability. Given you/your team were/…

Yes as the title says. I am looking for books about algorithms that explain the algorithms with code instead of math. The reason being, I understand code better than sometimes fore…

How many lines of code do you write per day on average? Whats your record? Please specify in what language, im curious

Great name, uhm...

Hi HN, Since there is a bunch of web developers here I thought i'd ask this here.. What do you or your company use for a type of security solution for your internal web apps? What …

Yeah, I mean I certainly hope so, I am kind of tired of facebook, Google+ feels right. It's sort of like when everyone had hotmail, then everyone switched to gmail. What was gmail …

I think this may be partly true, I mean see Google+ as being way more professional than Facebook. If Facebook is the party of Saturday night with lots of cursing and drunk people, …

I don't have a g+ acc yet, but I was curious if for example I have a couple of friends on G+, can other friends viewing my profile see all the friends I have?

Phoboslab maker of Biolab disaster recently released the javascriptcore project files for xcode/ios , for free. Many thanks to Phoboslab =)

If it's online, it's not safe, period. Not combination of encryption, or BSD*, or any operating system will make it safe. Why? Human error. Brain surgeons makes mistakes, people di…

If no one gets before me ill verify today if Nitro is running in WebView / Fullscreen webapps, I would also like to check if webgl is working now but can't check right now, at work…

.NET bleh. HTML5 is the future, cross platform. JavaScript will be made into a robust language in the coming years, with classes, etc. The crappy DOM will probably change for the b…

This, this is so true. It's a pity, it's like we have come this far with HTML5 and all, but we just can't get the last 100 miles, where.. a webapp can do at the same speed what a n…