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rufname··on Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C
I made this, but have not tested it yet with this website:

https://github.com/rufname/metricPlease

rufname··on Advent of Code 2023 is nigh
Can you elaborate? I think I recognise your username :-)
rufname··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
I built a game called Angularis, which is similar to Tetris, but based on triangles instead of squares. The new part is that it also allows and encourages diagonal movements.

https://angularis.mondaybits.com

rufname··on Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink
Since it appears to be a statically generated site it might not matter, but do you use any caching in your NGINX config?
rufname··on Show HN: Angularis – like Tetris, but based on triangles
Thank you for your nice and constructive feedback so far. I plan to keep polishing the game and to implement some of the suggestions.

The approach for the project so far was to use only „VanillaJS“ (so no frameworks, except for CSS) and to keep it as lightweight as possible. I think I might deviate a bit from this strict approach in the future.

rufname··on Show HN: Angularis – like Tetris, but based on triangles
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
rufname··on Show HN: Angularis – like Tetris, but based on triangles
Thanks a lot for the pointer to Pyramid. The „bomb concept“ is indeed interesting.
rufname··on Show HN: Angularis – like Tetris, but based on triangles
Actually that was the original name I had in mind. But I found it to hard to pronounce.
rufname··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
Does anybody know if it can run Windows?
rufname··on Show HN: At Home Covid Tests
What type of test method is being used?
rufname··on Show HN: Comparison of IP Geolocation services and databases
Google AppEngine is scary accurate.
rufname··on Show HN: Squishy – in browser data transformer and visualizer
Very interesting concept. One question: the data that gets input (for example via file-input), does it stay local in the browser or is it (temporarily) uploaded somewhere?
rufname··on Show HN: Monitoring Reddit real-time to see what stocks people are discussing
I did something similar for Twitter few years ago, but then came to my personal conclusion that this type of information is not very useful , since people on Twitter (or Reddit) would not be the key factor to move the needle on a particular stock. So in the end it is just one datapoint of many.
rufname··on Noon is neither AM nor PM
I think I will try to add some functionality around this problem to the bookmarklet, which I created to deal with „yards, feets and inches...“ See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24821813
rufname··on Show HN: Dungeons and Directories a text adventure you play in your file browser
Sounds quite scary assuming it could „interact“ with your actual files on the hard drive. But that fits well to the idea of a Dungeon and makes it more exiting.
rufname··on Show HN: MetricPlease – Bookmarklet that turns 100 yards into 91.4 m
Those sites will be good test cases for the bookmarklet. And I see I have to add Fahrenheit for the next release.
rufname··on Show HN: MetricPlease – Bookmarklet that turns 100 yards into 91.4 m
This little bookmarklet helps with reading webpages that use "inches", "feet", "yards" and "miles" for people (like me) used to the metric system. (It can also handle in. ft. yd. mi.)