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brunton Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust

A previous HN post with some comments from core developers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037461

brunton TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page?

I didn't know either but I like the 3-hour relaxing music video that was recommended to them. After a few minutes of that I thought, "How bad could they be?"

brunton Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency

I'm assuming this is unrelated to the Kong API Gateway https://konghq.com/kong/

brunton Async-await on stable Rust

Looks like someone needs to update https://areweasyncyet.rs/

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

1. Telegram chat bot from this rust crate: https://crates.io/crates/telegram-bot 2. Some web microservices that the chatbot communicates with 3. Pi hole adblocking.

This is all on one 3b+ with plenty of resources to spare.

brunton Glow: Better Reversible Generative Models

Manipulating Neil deGrasse Tyson's face in the demo yields some hilariously bad-looking results.

brunton iPhone 8

>All battery claims depend on network configuration and many other factors; actual results will vary.

They may not be the only offenders but it bugs me that the tech specs don't tell you the battery capacity in mAH. Instead they give a relative number of hours and compare to previous phones. Those aren't tech specs, they're claims-- which they can say in fine print are unreliable.

brunton Man Unveils Interactive Toothpick Sculpture of SF That Took 35 Years to Create

I couldn't help but think of how fragile it is, and how I could never spend so much time making something if I knew it could (physically) break so easily.

brunton How do people in different countries spend their time?

What exactly is "Other", and why does Germany do it so much more than other countries?

brunton Our new website Animation

It goes horribly wrong in Opera. Clicking for the next happy thought reveals a huge block of raw HTML, and God help you if you click more than twice.

brunton What a programmer does for a living

This article just now taught me how to make coffee.

brunton Ramen May Lead to Chronic Illness Study Says

Ramen Noodles (when eaten all the time instead of a variety of fruits and vegetables) may lead to chronic illness.

The title is slightly misleading in that regard. It should be common knowledge now that too much of any one thing will kill you.

brunton The race to buy up the world's water

I prefer to read about it from Maddox.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=quantum_of_p...

brunton [Firefox] Jägermonkey: it’s in ur browser

It's ahead in the Peacekeeper benchmark, but falls just short on the Sunspider and JS tests.

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/opera-10-6-tops-performanc...

brunton Chrome 6: Early peek under the hood

http://img.deepgamers.com/1278097072.png A friend of mine has benchmarked the beta of Chrome along with several other browsers on his own PC. It's pretty impressive except for that weird box that gets cut out from the acid3 test.