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foobuzzHNon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

My own movie-rating platform, where you get your public dashboard at {username}.ratesmovies.net

foobuzzHNon Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

10 years ago I made a POC for smuggling arbitrary data through _no visible text at all_: https://github.com/foobuzz/ium

> A particularly interesting example I remember is the guy who asked what were the digits that made up the number ∞. It's a number, so it must have digits, right?

I don't think there are many areas of math where ∞ is a number. In my experience people have a whole other problem with ∞, thinking that it is some sort of huge concept defined globally in math, where it is just a notation shared by various non-mystical definitions across subjects (e.g. bijection-based definition of infinite set, epsilon-based definition of convergence, etc)

foobuzzHNon The Relative Weirdness of Birds

> We suggest that planets in the Really Habitable Zone be early targets for the JWST, because by the time that thing finally launches we're all going to need a drink.

LOL.