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Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by orange_fritter »

deevus wrote: post #278
chaabani wrote: post #271

I made a programming puzzle game that got overwhelmingly positive reviews by the very few people who downloaded it: 42 five-star reviews over 45 total. I think that anyone who likes hard puzzles and spending many hours/days to solve some levels will enjoy it. Also, if one happens to be a programmer that struggles with recursion, I think the game might help with that regard, but being a programmer is not a requirement…

Your website could really do with some screenshots or a video of the gameplay, regardless of how simple the graphics might be. The AppStore listing is better in that regard, with screenshots for every device that is supported.

Yeah the graphics are a selling point, looks intriguing.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by Shish2k »

detrites wrote: post #105
Shish2k wrote: post #67

https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy The same gameboy emulator rewritten in C++, Go, Nim, PHP, Cython, Python, Rust, and Zig (and WIP typescript); mostly to teach myself the languages and to compare and contrast their idioms. Also, when taken with a very large grain of salt, usable as a language benchmark (As with all benchmarks, there are lots of caveats - but as far as I’m aware this is unique in being “the same cod…

Is the github language summary indicative of relative LoC between implementations, or are there other factors? C++ 24.9% Python 19.5% Rust 12.5% PHP 9.5% Zig 9.4% Nim 8.0% Other 16.2% And very interesting! Would love to read (a post?) on how you saw the language differences.

To speak entirely subjectively, nearly all of the languages felt like I was writing approximately the same amount of code - the only exceptions being C++ (where I needed to keep switching between .cpp and .h files and manually keeping them in sync, which felt like maybe 20% mental overhead), and Go (writing `if err != nil { return err }` after every line of code became very annoying very quickly, feeling like I was writing twice as many lines of code - and I still managed to forget to do error handling in a couple of places where it actually mattered, since it only forces you to handle `err` if you’re also handling some other return value...)

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by winrid »

Shish2k wrote: post #67

https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy The same gameboy emulator rewritten in C++, Go, Nim, PHP, Cython, Python, Rust, and Zig (and WIP typescript); mostly to teach myself the languages and to compare and contrast their idioms. Also, when taken with a very large grain of salt, usable as a language benchmark (As with all benchmarks, there are lots of caveats - but as far as I’m aware this is unique in being “the same cod…

What's your favorite, and what do you think about Nim?

EDIT nvm, found: https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy/tree/master/nim

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by deevus »

jorf wrote: post #273

https://store.steampowered.com/app/656280/Fractus/ Simple arcade-style game. I ran out of steam developing this. The gameplay and UI need work, but I thought the graphics were interesting. All the units are rendered as Mandelbrot and Julia sets on the GPU. Parameters are varied in real time to make the fractals look like they are moving and swimming. Another fun thing is the audio effects were made with an electric g…

You might get some more eyes on your game if you released it on Itch. It seems to me that it would fit better with the gamejam scene than general consumption.

With my amateur game design hat on (discard if you please):

I think that the game could be much improved with a drum track to make playing the game feel more zen. I get the vibe that it isn't a game that you "play" but more of a time killer.

It would be extra cool if the audio effects could play in time with the drum track, too. The player could be composing a song as they play.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by SlackingOff123 »

kbyatnal wrote: post #81

https://crowdview.ai - search engine for forums and discussion sites Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great…

This is awesome! Thank you!

Any chance for a Firefox extension?

You mention a Slack workspace. How do I find that? (I don't use Slack outside of work much)

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by deevus »

chaabani wrote: post #279
deevus wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your website could really do with some screenshots or a video of the gameplay, regardless of how simple the graphics might be. The AppStore listing is better in that regard, with screenshots for every device that is supported.

Thanks, I will try to improve the website. It rarely gets any traffic and almost all my downloads come from the App Store itself. But adding some screenshots doesn't hurt.

> It rarely gets any traffic and almost all my downloads come from the App Store itself.

This almost seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Perhaps a bit more love will get it some more traffic.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by gaetgu »

folli wrote: post #167
gaetgu wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is incredible! I have had an extremely similar idea in my head for the past two years, but I have never gotten around to actually building it. Awesome to see that I am not the only one who has had this idea! (Now I just need something else to think about when I am doing my daily runs…)

Thanks for giving it a spin.

Of course! I would love to help to make this product better in any way I can. If you are interested, please email me at gabriel dot ethan @ gmail

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by jjxw »

sinker wrote: post #221
hnrodey wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is rad. I'd love to see it updated with current data. I've tried to bet on MMA with mixed results, but ultimately tried to find a data driven approach to place wagers. My approach would net me tons of open browser tabs trying to track down stats about each fighter :( I really like what you've done.

Thanks I really appreciate that. MMA (UFC specifically) is still wide open to advantage betting because lines are often highly narrative-based. Data itself WRT to MMA is often misleading though for so many reasons (e.g., low quality of opponents presenting a skewed perception of fighter ability). However, looking at specific things is often quite useful. The submission charts section of the site was particularly usef…

I think an interesting observation here is that the very thing that makes it difficult to get adoption of this product/data is the thing that makes the product/data valuable. Without the naive/narrative/entertainment bettors it would be more difficult to find an edge.

Presumably there is a very small, niche population that would find this information very valuable. Funnily enough, those that do find it valuable are unlikely to share it - if they're acting in their own self interest they don't want other sophisticated bettors to enter the market and inadvertently help the bookies set the line more accurately.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by conjectureproof »

doersino wrote: post #109

A blog post on how to make your Bash history more useful: https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/history.html

Neat.

Simple way to track time spent on projects that is resilient to user forgetfulness. Much better than collecting timestamps from git commits. Could be interesting to merge with git history and measure how productivity (some combo of bash activity and git activity and lines-of-code/Kolmogorov-complexity) change with time-of-day, season, weather, etc.

# store timestamps

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

# append immediately (affects timestamps?)

PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND; history -a"

# do not limit .bash_history file size

export HISTFILESIZE=""

# append mode (collect from multiple shells)

shopt -s histappend

# multi-line commands as single record

shopt -s cmdhist

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