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4926394057on Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?

I haven’t seen or thought of this game in at least a decade and I can still hear this perfectly in my head. Shows what a lasting effect it had.

4926394057on Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI

They’re clearly missing an opportunity here. My TV probably spends a whopping 20 hours a day turned off. Why settle for pumping out ads for the few moments it spends paused when there’s all that available screen time going wasted? How long before turning the TV “off” switches it to Billboard Mode?

4926394057on The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)

1. Hey Duggee 2. Bluey

Generally I’ve found anything selected by CBeebies (the BBC channel for young children) to be pretty good.

4926394057on On keeping sketchbooks

The date format and imperial/metric examples seem to me to be objectively better. Is driving on the right objectively better, or is it just a case of "more people do it that way"? Otherwise, why shouldn't everyone drive on the left?

4926394057on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://ides.dev/notes/

There aren’t many articles on there at the moment, as I tend to get imposter syndrome part way through writing and never finish, but I have a couple in the works that I’d like to post soon.

4926394057on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://bigfishquiz.com/

This one was released around a year and half ago. To begin with I was advertising on Google Ads, but stopped about half a year ago when it didn't seem to be getting anywhere. The money I spent on ads up until this point, combined with the low number of sales, means this one is still solidly in the red.

https://easyfleet.app/

This one only went live a few weeks ago and is _very_ much still a work in progress. However; I find it easier to keep my motivation to work on someting when it's in the wild. I haven't done any advertising on this one so far, as it isn't really ready for that yet, I want to add more features first, but I'll probably advertise it at some point. I also don't love the domain name, so I'm hoping to find something better (preferrably a .com) before I start advertising.

4926394057on This is the year of the RSS reader?

Ah, it's hard to see those 15 unread items from Aaron Swartz. What an optimistic time that was for the internet.

4926394057on Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages

I seem to recall it being an incentive to upgrade to the paid plan. If you were a free user you couldn't choose which song on an album to listen to, you could only kick off shuffling and hope the song you wanted to hear came up. If you had a paid account you could play the album through in order or any particular song of your choosing. I've been paying long enough now though that I could very well be mis-remembering it...

4926394057on Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident

On a similar note there's also the wonderfully named Westward Ho! [1], exclamation mark included.

On looking up the link for the above I learned it also shares an exclamation mark with the incredible Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! [2] in Quebec.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho! [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!

4926394057on I Still Use RSS

Here's what I use to do exactly that; https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

4926394057on Good Books for a Lousy Year

The fact it was banned for a while is also a fairly good indicator that there's something in there worth reading.

4926394057on Good Books for a Lousy Year

I think a couple of Macintyre's other works even top The Spy and the Traitor in terms of "craziness". Particularly Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat (out of those I've read). They're both thoroughly worth a read if you enjoyed this one.

4926394057on Digital Tools I Wish Existed

If you remove the duplicate jon.bo/ then it seems to work; https://jon.bo/posts/index.xml

4926394057on Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’

Sounds like Telegram needs to implement a "message canary" where every message has a note attached saying something to the effect of; "Apple hasn't asked us to remove this message".

4926394057on Stuck at Fucking Home. I got bored and started compiling lists

Thanks for this! The "Chill EDM" playlist on Spotify page links to the same playlist as "Synthwave Sounds".

4926394057on Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)

I’m so fed up of going to settings for exactly this reason, can you explain how you created these widgets please?