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scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

If you mean in-game, then yes. If you mean IRL, then no one can answer that question but yourself.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Thanks!

Yeah, even though most of the game takes place on your phone, I (ironically) couldn't think of great ways to port some of the mechanics to mobile in a satisfying way.

The microphone thing is just a small interaction when you try to talk to the intercom. It doesn't affect the game whether you accept or deny the permission

In any case, it sounds like you already know the ending, but I think it's worth sticking it out. Paying the ISP seems like it's the hardest/most frustrating part for a lot of people. Besides, some of my favorite parts are around the middle-end.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

I guess if they can't figure that out then they probably wouldn't have a very good time with the rest of the game.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Not saying you're wrong, but I don't really understand people's aversion to creating an account. It's like quitting an RPG once they reach the create a character screen.

Also, it seems like ~60% of people give up before creating an account.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Must've been all the heat from mining crypto

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

A Dark Room is great! I started playing it a lot mid way through developing this. That and Universal Paperclips are the gold standards of minimalist web-based games.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

It's fun, you should try it some time

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Try adding `?voice=` to the end of the url, and then the first name of the voice you want based on the /talk link. Example: `?voice=Samantha`

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Some folks are having issues with the SpeechSynthesis on their device. Try refreshing. If that doesn't work, then go to Settings and disable sound.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

You can always get up to Infinity on YieldFarmer2

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Oh well. Try playing with the sound disabled in Settings

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Ah, sorry about that. If you go to https://smarthome.steviep.xyz/talk do you see any en-US voices on your device?

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Try calling 1-800-666-0000. They might be able to help.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

ooo, good idea. I might build that in.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Because all the buttons are in the top right, and I thought it looked nicer if the new text was even with the buttons :)

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

That's a premium feature, which will run you 1 Credit.

scyclowon Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

Got it. Thanks!

scyclowon A16Z 2025 Big Ideas for Crypto

It really depends on how expensive/easy it is to off board in your Costa Rican account. But the fees for getting it there should be minimal, if not a bit convoluted. Ultimately, the cheapest way is to buy an ETH L2 or Solana stable coin. I think you can exchange USD<>USDC on coinbase. Then you can transfer it wherever for a couple cents.

scyclowon Countdown clock in NYC's Union Square ticks below 5 years

Maybe the better metaphor is some mafioso guy trying to extract information out of you by cutting off your pinky, then ring finger, etc.

scyclowon Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?

My own 404 page has served me well for years https://steviep.xyz/404

scyclowon Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

People love shitting on NFTs, but there's still a really good art scene based on NFTs and smart contracts. And once you have digital objects that you actually care about, all the web3 infrastructure is surprisingly useful.

scyclowon The importance of cash in a technological society

Yeah, but the article talks about barter in the sense of transacting with natural resources like gold and diamonds. Graeber's point is that these items (along with debt) were mainly used as tools of arranging social relationships. They weren't used for general purpose economic barter as we know it. That only came later, after states introduced coinage and fiat money.

scyclowon The importance of cash in a technological society

The actual currency and methods of payment changed over the years – if you go back long enough, you will notice we have used barter systems that exchanged goods and services for other goods and services.

OP needs to read some Graeber and stop perpetuating this myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

scyclowon SEC charges Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs

Maybe, but think of all the times that you hear about people getting locked out of their accounts with no recourse.

scyclowon SEC charges Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs

I guess there are a few concerns here. What if the game developer goes out of business, or dies, or accidentally drops their db? What happens if they decide they don't like one of their collectors and want to wipe their balance clean? (Of course, you could do this with NFTs as well, but you'd have to write it into the contract ahead of time).

On top of that, the developer would need to build and operate their own infrastructure for trading with the tokens. If they were NFTs, then they just slot into existing applications without any extra work.

scyclowon Let the internet be grimy

I'm all in on the grime, but I feel like this is one of the main reasons people are averse to the current crypto landscape: People generally prefer to live in shopping malls than the wild west.

scyclowon SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators

True, Bitcoin has been around for about 14 years, but we're only a couple years into the current wave of consumer hardware wallets. And from a smart contract standpoint we're still seeing innovative for different ways to control the flow of assets. I don't think that the future of blockchain transactions necessarily needs to involve consumers interacting with the technology on such a low level. It's seems like there's plenty of room to build abstractions on top of it... which I'm sure the purists wouldn't like. But ultimately, I'd give it a few years to see what happens before writing it off.

scyclowon SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators

You're building a straw man argument against the pro-crypto side though. Not everyone there is a crypto0libertarian anrarcho-capitalist.

There are a lot of people who are optimistic about the technology who also welcome regulation on the CEX side. I feel like most people in the pro-crypto camp also acknowledge that several of the ancillary components that make up the crypto ecosystem (such as wallet technology) are really problematic from a UX standpoint -- but also that they are fixable.

That said, the whole global-reserve currency thing might be les of a straw man, as it correctly describes the views of a lot of Bitcoin maxis (who are delusional IMO). But we're talking about a broad technology with other use cases, and isn't accurate for everyone.

scyclowon How to survive a car crash

I like how none of the commenters here actually read the article, and they're all talking about literally surviving a car crash -- not how to emotionally survive the aftermath of one.

scyclowon AWS and Blockchain

The big difference is that a smart contract is a running, stateful, immutable piece of software. Alternatively, I can run software with an MIT license by myself, but I can always modify the data or API without any approval of the users.