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hfuaiobfa··on Agent Higgs 2: Escape from the Standard Model
A game I would never understand even if it came out eventually. It is not finished yet, but daily challenges are available.

I do recommend the Velocity Raptor as it imposes on me visually on Relativity's time and space magic.

hfuaiobfa··on Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 1)
I'm wondering why the 'Which GNU/Linux distribution do you use Guix on?' question has answers that sum to less than 40%. I mean, even if most users try guix on the Guix OS and that is trivial, the option should also be visible in the result.
hfuaiobfa··on The International Obfuscated C Code Contest, under refactoring
Kudos to the folks contributing thousands of commits for the new IOCCC website and system!
hfuaiobfa··on Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite
The author is considering streaming the electrical measurement experiments in a day, according to the Zhihu answers.

Since this thread is down from the top, I'm also considering posting another one as soon as the stream link comes out. I'm not sure if this violates the "duplicate" rule of HN, but I think broadcasting such a major physics breakthrough is worth a try.

hfuaiobfa··on Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite
Thanks, but I simply quote "hint of near-room-temperature superconductivity" from the article. AFAIK the original title still contains too much details (the composition) for general audience on HN. Of course, the way I change the title will result in more clicks, so it could be "clickbait" in a way.

So how do I know that which title serves better? I'll appreciate the comments in this special case if it is hard to say in general.

hfuaiobfa··on Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite
For those eager to view the authors' opinions, you can probably bookmark the question [0] on Zhihu, with an account (as the site updated a login wall weeks ago) and a Chinese translator.

Update: One of the authors have left official comments there. If you have a real-name authenticated account, you can ask the authors about the thing.

[0] https://www.zhihu.com/question/659946224

hfuaiobfa··on Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite
Probably. Science is fascinating as people could do a lot with simple equipments.
hfuaiobfa··on Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite
Hello, when perusing through the posts last year about LK99 event, I notice the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691268) used a title other than original one.

Now that I am really new to HN mechanics, I am wondering how to decide which examples to follow. For example, despite the guideline statements, many threads around blog posts on HN actually use new titles.

hfuaiobfa··on Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite
One line explainer for non-experts like me: the paper presents a material with strange electric behavior at around 260K (approx. -10 celcius or 10 fahrenheit) that seems to be superconductivity, i.e. near-room-temperature superconductivity.
hfuaiobfa··on Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite
Related thread: a previous paper by the authors was (barely) discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753397.
hfuaiobfa··on Indications of superconductivities in blend of variant apatite and covellite
Sorry, didn't realize that.
hfuaiobfa··on Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
I haven't tried that, but I've been looking for a voice AI for some time. In my opinion, the AI chatbots in texts that emit some spurious opinions simply compete with search engines (those writing codes have strong advantages though), but a voice AI, which explains to me how anything works while I'm walking outside, has no competitors for now.
hfuaiobfa··on Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show
They seem to be re-organizing the website structure [1] as well as updating the submitting system [2], and lately they were making some progress [3], but still need a lot of formatting work.

[1] https://github.com/ioccc-src/temp-test-ioccc [2] https://github.com/ioccc-src/mkiocccentry [3] https://fosstodon.org/@ioccc/112023138011006567

There are currently only two active maintainers. I guess any help is welcome.

hfuaiobfa··on Day 20: My favourite problem from Advent of Code 2023
I had a difficult time with both part 1&2 of Day 20. At first I just mentally modeled the circuit as "clock-based" where the Flip-Flops flip only when all previous pulses are processed and a synchronizing clock signal is given,

e.g. a flip-flop (default to low) with 2 input ports, on first clock signal (time 1) both ports receives a low pulse; second clock signal (time 2) the flip-flop inspects 2 inputs and decides to give a low (two flips) at the end.

Frustratingly, this model passes the 2 examples flawlessly but fails for the real input.

hfuaiobfa··on I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate
Congratulations again for the top story, Daniel! I was hacking on MTGA since you posted this article and spoke a little about that with you on GitHub [0].

For anyone interested, I'm _inactively_ working on an unofficial client of MTGA which does hardly anything meaningful for now. The vision is to provide some automation for playing ranked games and stronger bot opponents. Sadly I was distracted lately away from the project and am still puzzled how to make a good UI to see things clearly. I can't even estimate when it will be barely useful.

Beside that, I'm still very interested in any game hacking story of Daniel and anyone else! Please tell me more about how to spot such bugs, how not to worry being banned after such hacking, how to `disclosing the bug to them` like @aethros commented, how to structure an unofficial card game client, and other stories. Thank you!

[0] https://github.com/MayerDaniel/mayerdaniel.github.io/issues/...

hfuaiobfa··on Show HN: Halloween game to show off my new Terminal
Sadly that is exactly my case where it stopped responding. I thought it was your design goal! And I don't want to walk through the adventure again, especially after I jumped off the platforms twice.
hfuaiobfa··on Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
What if I send some secret key using such a 'secure' app, and invoke some corporated app to sent large encrypted data? Thus the speed and security will both be granted.