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starshadowx2on Show HN: A game about fake news and memes

Why did this immediately ask me for permission to show notifications? What notifications could come from this?

starshadowx2on Designing emoji for the way we communicate today

You have the order of which are the old ones and which are replacements backwards. The "three coloured circles on a stick" are dango, that before/after is actually a mistake as the before one is the oden emoji, not the dango emoji. The smirking cat one is also a different emoji than the normal cat one, so there will be new versions of both.

starshadowx2on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

I think this new one made with Seedance 2.5 is actually not too bad.

https://x.com/BytePlusGlobal/status/2077321849806234080

starshadowx2on Count Binface

Vote Bin, not rubbish!

starshadowx2on Running local models is good now

Earlier I was thinking it's maybe comparable to paying for Netflix vs torrenting and running Plex or something. For the majority of normal, mainstream users I feel like most would just pay for the thing that is already setup and ready for them. There'll still be all the more techy or determined types who will do it themselves, I just wonder what the percentages of both groups will be.

starshadowx2on What it feels like to work with Mythos

It sounds like you either didn't play enough or you are missing the new mechanics that get added over time. There's definitely more to it than just regular snake.

starshadowx2on Claude Fable 5

That is not a true statement.

Here's a good break down and explanation of what that number actually means - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3WVygAM8I

starshadowx2on Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

This reminds me of the 2021 Secret Sky online music festival put on by Porter Robinson. The 2020 one was similar but the 2021 version had little human-like avatars. Some other people and me were messing around with the browser console to do things like change our accent colours or change the location text above our heads to whatever else we wanted.

https://www.webbyawards.com/crafted-with-code/secret-sky-202...

starshadowx2on Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake

FYI this website sets off a bunch of Bitdefender alerts as being a suspicious web page. I assume probably false positives or something but still something you might want to look into.

"The page https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/ has been detected with suspicious activity. It is not recommended to continue browsing this website."

Same for:

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/version.js

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/dist/sizes.js

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/dist/size_6/manifest.j

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/dist/size_6/weights.safetens

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/dist/sokol/demo.wa

starshadowx2on Where the goblins came from

This comic is from 2011 but Only Connect made the change in 2010.

starshadowx2on Where the goblins came from

This is sortof like how Only Connect switched from using Greek letters to Egyptian hieroglyphs. I'm not sure if it was a joke or not but it was said that viewers complained that the Greek letters were "too pretentious" and obviously the hieroglyphs weren't.

starshadowx2on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

They're talking about the movie Vice from 2018, not Vice the magazine.

starshadowx2on Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

BANGBANG BLOCKS Bowarrow BOXWORLD Bricks CHIPS CODEBRAK DOTS HANGMAN JACKS JEZZBALL JWLTHIEF KOLUMZ PEGGED PIPE rodent SLAM TETRIS HOVER LEMMINGS

These two .exe versions I have didn't work, but the ones already in the demo seemed to work: SKI WINMINE

starshadowx2on Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

I tried 22 old game EXEs I have and none of them worked. They would import and show the icon and some would open, but nothing would work and most wouldn't even close. They would either show various error messages when trying to open or just open in a broken/unusable state.

starshadowx2on OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

Something like this is used in some Discord servers. You can make a honeypot channel that bans anyone who posts in it, so if you do happen to get a spam bot that posts in every channel it effectively bans itself.

starshadowx2on A Dictionary of the Language of Myst's D'ni

I'm getting a 404 from this.

starshadowx2on 'Minecraft Movie' Leaks Online: Full Unfinished Version Shared

That was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I was also thinking about that when I heard about this leak. This was the infamous Deadpool scene from it without the finished special effects, it's actually pretty interesting to see it this way.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5ffysgVvA

starshadowx2on Stimulation Clicker

You can inspect element on the achievements to see what their unlock text is.

starshadowx2on Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction

This tumblr was posting these from 2011 to 2018 - moviebarcode.tumblr.com

starshadowx2on Sora is here

The face of the girl on the left at the start in the first second should have been a giveaway.

starshadowx2on Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel

> You shoud see a flat background with one large copy of the letter π floating a little above the background (closer to you).

To me these all look like they're reversed from what this says, like they're further away from me behind the flat part.

starshadowx2on Hertz Charged Member $277 for Not Filling Gas Tank on a Tesla, Won't Remove Fees

The linked original article has an update saying they will refund the charge.

"Update May 9, 12:45 p.m. ET: After this story was published, Hertz informed The Drive that its Customer Care team would be "reaching out to Mr. Lee to apologize and will refund this erroneous charge.""

https://www.thedrive.com/news/hertz-is-charging-tesla-model-...

starshadowx2on Jack Dorsey says that he's not on the Bluesky board anymore

https://whispy.org/

Whispy seems promising, it's by the same dev as OldTwitter - https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTwitter

starshadowx2on Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

I tried some old phone photos from my grandparent's rural Canadian farm and it either got the province wrong or it guessed Montana or North Dakota.

starshadowx2on Arc Browser for Windows, now generally available

If you go to the actual arc.net site it does, this post is just linking to their documentation site with the release notes.

starshadowx2on Recreating the Flying Toasters screen saver for the Vision Pro

I'm not sure if you can change the textures but there is Screensavers VR - https://store.steampowered.com/app/881670/Screensavers_VR/

starshadowx2on Fig is sunsetting

This is at least the second thing call Fig that is shutting down. There was also a video game crowdfunding website called Fig - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fig_(company)

starshadowx2on Sora: Creating video from text

Sora means sky in Japanese, their reasoning is akin to "the sky's the limit".

> The team behind the technology, including the researchers Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles, chose the name because it “evokes the idea of limitless creative potential.”

starshadowx2on Infinite Craft

This is really cool, thanks. I was just using ctrl+f to find things. I've got like 1200+ words right now so I totally understand the unwieldy-ness.

starshadowx2on Show HN: Pong Wars

Sometimes a ball gets stuck behind the paddle in your version.