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makepanic··on Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)
Read the Readme.

They've linked to https://s-macke.github.io/Test-Drive-3-Maps/

makepanic··on Eternal Struggle
You can press P to toggle the edge point visibility.
makepanic··on Apache ECharts 6
If imported, using a bundler, one can also partially import features and install them when needed:

https://apache.github.io/echarts-handbook/en/basics/import/#...

makepanic··on We started porting Lego Island to everything? [video]
the web port: https://isle.pizza/
makepanic··on Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability
> Next.js uses an internal header x-middleware-subrequest to prevent recursive requests from triggering infinite loops. The security report showed it was possible to skip running Middleware, which could allow requests to skip critical checks—such as authorization cookie validation—before reaching routes.
makepanic··on Tesla Releases Results of 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Didn't Musk join them ~2 yrs after it was incorporated and didn't start the company?
makepanic··on TIGForums Independent Gaming and Gamedev Discussions
There's also the minecraft thread: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6273.0

Sadly many linked images aren't available anymore and the oldest archive is pretty recent from 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130517160444/https://forums.ti...

makepanic··on JavaScript Bloat in 2024
Codesandbox is embedded for the code samples. If you not have cache disabled it will fetch from memory cache after the initial load and unload.
makepanic··on Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
It's working fine once it's archived tho, see e.g.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240114085417/https://posthog.c...

makepanic··on Show HN: Scaffolder, CLI tool to generate project structure, taken from YAML
Nice, reminds me of https://yeoman.io/ which was popular couple years ago
makepanic··on KeePassXC pull request to add basic support for WebAuthn
Yes I'm talking about the PR which sadly didn't really receive any recent review activity
makepanic··on KeePassXC pull request to add basic support for WebAuthn
(last commit from Dec 11, 2022)
makepanic··on Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session
Most recent issue that tracks this is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551723
makepanic··on People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
If I see a cookie banner on a website, I simply reopen it in an incognito window/tab and click whatever it wants.

After I'm done reading I just close the website again.

makepanic··on MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
There's also Iosevka[1] which is open source[2] and also similar to Pragmata.

It even has a Pragmata Pro Style.

[1] - https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

[2] - https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

makepanic··on MBO – Garmin Watch Apps for Mountain Bike Orienteering
Afaik if you have the watch locally available you can just connect it to your PC and deploy it there.

Even the SDK is available for "free": https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/overview/

makepanic··on How to programmatically find out if computer is on
weird how it's returning a constant https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/8f16317a5b6db5c672f33181...

Interesting it seems to come from BeOS:

https://github.com/haiku/haiku/commit/bcf475ec65f1060c0a8abf...

where the same function had a hn thread about it already a couple years ago :D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780606

makepanic··on Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died
See https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&th...
makepanic··on Open 3D Engine
So this seems to be amazon giving lumberyard to the linux foundation in hopes that a community builds around it?

edit:

> It's definitely not - it's a complete rewrite, with some useful parts of Lumberyard ported over.

https://twitter.com/derekreese/status/1412475974428463107

makepanic··on Pixar RenderMan 24 with XPU Hybrid Rendering
They have a separate release page with visual changes between the versions:

https://renderman.pixar.com/whats-new

makepanic··on Modernizing the DOM Tree in Microsoft Edge (2017)
This is an article from 2017 and seems to primarily target the "old" Edge.

Later Microsoft moved to using Edge based on Chromium.

(Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149647 )

makepanic··on ‘Bomb Threat' That Justified Belarus Hijacking Came 24 Minutes After
https://archive.is/843S6
makepanic··on Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app
The cwa app will support event registration in the next version too.

See https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma... for details on how they do it.

makepanic··on Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard
That's cool.

I've build a similar thing for my kindle.

https://github.com/makepanic/eink-weather

It is a simple website, which a headless chrome screenshots to use with the online screensaver app.

A browser might be overkill but I wanted to avoid manual layouting.

makepanic··on Firefox not planning on supporting PWA
Yes this seems to only affect the Site-Specific Browser (SSB) implementation.

This was previously implemented behind a feature flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser https://www.maketecheasier.com/enable-site-specific-browser-...

makepanic··on Why are video games graphics challenging? Productionizing rendering algorithms
If one is interested in the rate limited images, try the archive.org mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201228071137/https://bartwrons...

makepanic··on I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
Sadly it's bound to X11.

The alternative for me was to migrate to sway[1] to have a similar environment in wayland.

[1] - https://github.com/swaywm/sway/

makepanic··on Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
Before and after picture from the same account:

https://twitter.com/DeborahTiempo/status/1333747356605571072

makepanic··on Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
If any website implements this chromium headless bug [1] then one could potentially avoid detection in blacklight.

[1] - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109042...

makepanic··on Iosevka, Version 3.0.0
Version 3.0.0 was released yesterday:

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases/tag/v3.0.0

Sorry, I just noticed that the github release was already submitted to HN.

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