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I certainly don't want to confuse anyone, so I added captions to every image (and alt-text, while I was at it). Thanks for the heads-up.

It's not an advertisement for Claude. It's a screenshot from the relevant part of Qontour's website that I was referring to in my post.

Oh hey, I wrote this. Thanks for the link.

This is definitely not something Neal would ever do. Can you share the URL you're talking about? There's no IQ test in his projects list at all. https://neal.fun/

They said they’re looking to “move out of China,” but that almost certainly doesn’t mean the U.S. Probably India or Vietnam, maybe Turkey or Malaysia.

The Web Monetization API was another recent effort to try to make this, the latest of many attempts. See previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274455

My guess is that 1. there’s virtually no demand from potential supporters for a more convenient way to pay creators than existing payment/subscription apps, and 2. relatively few creators have direct control over their own internet presence anymore, so any solution that requires modifying a web page is dead in the water.

Any new attempt to pay creators that doesn’t factor these two realities in will likely fail, because it just makes things harder than existing solutions.

I ordered one yesterday as I wrapping up the post, and it was already shipped early this morning.

A semantic search engine for Steam games sounds like my jam. You should put a link to it in your HN profile!

I mentioned it in my post: in Image Capture, select the “Virtual Scanner II” device if it exists, and in the Details, set the Media to “Document” and Media DPI to “72 DPI.” You should see the preview of the first page of the Bitcoin paper. But that's only possible if the virtual device exists, and it's still unclear why it's hidden for some people but not others.

Others have confirmed to me that it wasn't in High Sierra (10.13) and shipped with Mojave in 10.14.0.

Hi, I wrote the post. This is patently false. There are plenty of articles about the clip, but none of the videos are still online and there’s no alternate angles, period. Please feel free to post links to prove otherwise.

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Knotwords is a delight, highly recommend checking it out if anyone likes this concept. https://noodlecake.com/games/knotwords/

Hi! I work on Skittish. There's a minimap (and spatial audio, chat, emotes, and a bunch of other settings/features) in the full Skittish app that didn't make it into the demo. Create a new event and try it out!

The Brothers Chaps will probably end up switching from Flash to Ruffle on their own site eventually, but until then, the Internet Archive has almost all the Strong Bad Emails archived here playable with Ruffle. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_strongbad

Have you played Contra? The weapons are about as realistic as Mega Man's.

It looks more like using bubbles to pop an endless stream of bad guys, Bubble Bobble-style.

https://media.giphy.com/media/DpXqHdILXRRDi/giphy.gif

So, no, I never worried about anything in an NES game having a negative effect on him.

Hi, I wrote the article! Thanks for your commentary, snidely passing judgement on me and my family. Much appreciated.

The article was intended to be a little provocative, more than a little tongue-in-cheek, but suffice it to say, I never would've continued playing videogames with him if he didn't show interest.

He was nothing less than absurdly enthusiastic about it, and it was a way for us to kill time together, but I never pushed games on him for a moment. Eliot, like many of his friends, loves the creativity and collaboration that comes with the medium of games, and the social aspects of playing them with his friends and family.

He's turning 13 this week, and has taken classes on making games himself in GameMaker, and is now modding the games that he loves. I'm happy he's found a hobby he loves, and I'm proud of him.

Hi, I wrote the article! We played a bunch of PC stuff along the way, including a good chunk of the Lucasarts catalog. We skipped the text adventure genre entirely when he was little, but we're making up for that now that he loves reading for fun.

https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/868668282953318400

We just beat Wishbringer last week. Thinking Planetfall or Zork next.

Developer commentary, too.

Hi! I wrote the article. First off, I find it disingenuous that you don't mention you work for Google. But, hey! I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it was a simple oversight.

Addressing your comments:

1. Google News Archive is, without question, a dead project. No new material is being added, no new development is being made, and it's unsupported. They removed the News Archive and homepage and redirected it to News.

The method Google suggests for web search isn't limited to news articles, making it effectively useless for research. (It shows everything indexed in Google.)

You can search for some newspapers in Google Search, but it's impossible to find any date before January 1970, order by date, or filter by publication. You're stuck with post-1970 date filtering for all papers, ordered by relevance. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle.com%2Fnewspape...

For reference, these were the options that were available in News Archive Search: http://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/images/newspapers/gna_a...

2. I didn't say Groups was dead. I said it was effectively dead for research purposes, which is true. For example, you can't search or filter by date across groups anymore: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/linux

In your example, how would you propose (for example) finding the first mention of Linux on Usenet? You can't, at least in part because the option to order by date is completely broken: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Agroups.google.com+a...

Not to mention, only a fraction of the total posts are indexed and available in Google Search. For example, changing your query to limit to 1995 only results in 70 posts. There were many more than that being posted monthly in 1995 in comp.os.linux.advocacy alone.

3. It's entirely plausible that Google's library partners are running low on books, though that doesn't explain why the project appears to be completely dormant. As I mentioned, the official blog stopped updating in 2012 and the Twitter account's been dormant since February 2013. It doesn't seem like any book's been added in the last year -- no new books from January 2014 to today: https://www.google.com/search?q=a&biw=1146&bih=933&source=ln...

4. The 20% time thing is interesting. As a Google engineer, I imagine you'd have a better perspective on that than I would.

Former employees have explicitly said that 20% time no longer exists in the way it used to, and current employees, including here on Hacker News, say that it exists but only on top of your existing workload (effectively making it 120% time). I tend to trust them over a PR person, but really, that was a brief aside in my overall article.

The fact that a tiny fraction of the former functionality of a service is possible, albeit with an obscure and user-unfriendly method, does not detract from the overall point:

Google's current priorities don't appear to be in archiving the past.

Hey, I made this. I built it for myself, have been using it privately for the last six months, and opened it up publicly for friends this morning. (Which is why it has no credits/about page/nav/etc.)

It's an automated aggregator streaming tweets from around 1,000 Twitter accounts, extracting and normalizing the links, and then ordering them with a dead-simple ranking algorithm favoring URLs that resemble new projects/sites over articles/blog posts.

That's pretty much it, no idea how it ended up here.

Solid question, and I don't blame you for being skeptical. I went through the normal submission process, and was reviewed by a moderator I don't know and have never met. I very explicitly didn't want any special treatment. I was told it met their guidelines.

My understanding, looking at the recent projects in the Technology and Web categories, is that they've loosened their enforcement of that guideline over the last year. Take a look at a search for "Social" in Technology, and you'll see a bunch of sites/apps that push that guideline: https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?term=social&ca...

I think the fact that Upcoming is, first and foremost, an arts/technology event calendar weighed in its favor over, say, a social network for cats.

This works shockingly well on iOS.

I can't be the only one that finds Reddit AMAs hard to parse. This is a huge improvement.

I found the actor that plays the lead engineer in the video. http://nelsoncheng.com/acting

Super weird, I didn't get any sound in the slideshow at all, except when playing the Veronica Mars trailer and Werner Herzog video, which required user action to play. I went through the entire thing, not sure what I'm missing. What browser/OS are you using?

Sometimes, it seems like most of the people declaring the Ouya a disaster have never touched one. My son and I play it more than Xbox 360 and Wii U combined. It's a perfect little party console for quirky indie titles.

I OCRed the Inform 7 code and added it to Playfic: http://playfic.com/games/waxpancake/sacred-clowns-by-why-the...

Author here. Except for a moment where they shut off invites entirely, it's stayed consistent at a linear 800/hour for the last two weeks. At some point, presumably, they'll increase that but they haven't yet. The prediction on caniusemailboxyet.com ended up being accurate to the day. In my post, I disclaimed this by saying that the figures were at the current rate.

And I'm not "whining," thank you. I already have access to the app. I just thought it was a fun way to visualize the line.

A unique database of facts absolutely can be copyrighted. The Billboard charts and SoundScan are a great example, upheld in court. More here: http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html