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Malcxon The backend that ran every game we made, ten years and counting

With game dev, especially live ones with an active player base you do _not_ want to break things if you're a small studio.

But moving fast and shipping features quickly is a killer trait those small teams can use to be better than the big studios. (who ironically seem to ship slow and still break things)

Malcxon Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Malcxon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

Really difficult puzzle books that will only be available in dead tree format. Extreme killer sudoku, very hard wordsearches etc.

Was hoping to have these ready for Christmas season, but life as always gets in the way!

Malcxon Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option

Magic links are so useful in specific circumstances. We have a client with hundreds of users that infrequently need access to a bespoke tool. Setting up and managing user accounts for them is out of the question, but a magic link letting them sign in using an email of their corporate domain solves the issue easily.

Malcxon Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

That brings back memories. I entered a 2d duckhunt game in JavaScript, lots of nice comments, but no judges recognition.

Malcxon Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

No this nitpicking is people wanting to know the specs of something they might buy. What most people on HN probably think of as e-paper is not the same as and LCD tech.

Malcxon Janet for Mortals

You forgot the /s right? Most of the world doesn't have that kind of connection.

Malcxon Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU

Gdpr means data out of my control is someone else's liability. If they want to play fast and loose, that's their look out.

Malcxon Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU

I know you're /s but it's not even about privacy, it's the cost of mitigation after $cloud_service_x has a data breach and we then have to assign resources to account for _our_ clients data etc.

Malcxon Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU

I can assure you 99% of my data/files never see the cloud other than as encrypted containers for backup. That's good practice for most business is it not?

Malcxon Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools

Looks very nice - I see there is the ability to edit metadata, but I often have a need to strip/delete _all_ meta data from a document. Having that as a single option would be very useful...

Malcxon Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator

I posted my experience in another thread a few weeks ago.

No, it's not ready to wholesale replace human illustrators, but it's certainly nipping at their heels.

https://malcx.com/blog/I-too-made-a-logo-using-AI-generated-...

Malcxon All New Cars Sold in EU to Be Fitted with Data Recording 'Black Box'

The author, Paul Joseph Watson, is not the most honest reporter/personality out there and usually has a pretty obvious bias.

Without additional, reliable, sources I'll keep this in my skeptical folder.

Malcxon An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone

That sill is Google's fault as far as I'm concerned as an end user.

Malcxon Show HN: Escape Team

> It super, super bugs me that black has two light square bishops in the chess puzzle

Clearly one of them is a promoted pawn.

Malcxon Show HN: Makeai.art – Create Art from a Description

$1 per image? That's going to be a really tough sell based on the quality of the sample images. Without a free trial I'll never get to see if this is any good for my own stuff.

("free" means no account creation needed even if the output is watermarked)

Malcxon Free for Developers

There are plenty of us, not sure why we'd be an interesting group though?

Malcxon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Have you got a site/email list/github/twitter I can follow for a release announcement?

Malcxon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

A happy user here, thanks for building it. It enforces discipline on future me.

Malcxon Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case over iPhone Slowdowns

> Batteries are consumable parts like tires and ink cartridges

Then let users replace them like other consumables.

Malcxon Assange Hearing Day 16

>> I mean if the jews feel attacked because their families get gassed so much, maybe they should take a closer look at themselves.

Yeah I'm being facetiously inflammatory there, but c'mon you can make a better argument than that?

Malcxon Bullfrog After Populous

Loved that as a kid on the spectrum, a great sequel to chaos. Iirc you could actually hot seat 4 players on some maps?

Check out chaos reborn on steam for a reasonable modern update.

Malcxon A Surprise AWS Bill

The marketplace has some really good deals on it! Thanks for sharing.

Malcxon A Surprise AWS Bill

Out of interest who are your servers with? That seems a good price and might be something I'm interested in...

Malcxon Apple is developing a feature for using apps without requiring full downloads

Hmm it might be worth you checking out capacitor, I've shipped a couple of full featured fairly complex apps under 5mb that use the same codebase for iOS and android.

I steered clear of ionic and angular developing my own framework and the apps had less than 1mb of assets bundled with them.

Malcxon Strict new curbs on life in UK announced by PM

How many of those experts were epidemiologists or virologists? Iirc there was 1 microbiologist there but mostly people from math and physics departments. 20% or so were still PhD students...

Malcxon Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

> the community already exists, you just create a communication platform for it

That gave me a minor epiphany, it flipped my understanding of communities and their relation to tech. Thanks

Malcxon Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

Using it to run an order scheduling system in store of an automated coffee chain startup we're developing.

Malcxon Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

>people keep threatening to kill psychiatrists

No they don't. Several psychologists have made claims of harassment, all of which have been shown to be specious at best. In the UK at least the link between psychology and The Science Media Center has massively helped push the, dare I say it "fake news" of threats.