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dankwizard··on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email
Is this US only? Nothing is working for me in Australia
dankwizard··on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
"Everyone dies one day. Everyone. Even wolves. But not books. Not words. Words don't die"

-- My son, 3.

dankwizard··on Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)
I'm not very cultured so I had to google what fois gras is.

Enlarged duck liver, typically liver 10x larger than normal, usually through force feeding. Banned in some countries.

I'm surprised in the current age of being socially aware that this seems to be a trending food?

dankwizard··on Tell HN: Why Fastmail is the best email service
Wish adblock could have detected this post.
dankwizard··on Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?
As long as you can afford to keep up with their releases, their usability is miles ahead of the competition.
dankwizard··on Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
You're misreading. This wouldn't get the $1 fee. "We're giving you 20 TB (TWENTY) but don't you dare use more than 2 TB (TWO)"

It's a classic web host reseller technique of overselling and having it backfire.

dankwizard··on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
And the new market, selling API key for access to legacy Spotify APIs! Enquire within
dankwizard··on Show HN: I created a lightweight JavaScript library to visualize JSON as a graph
Really clean design. I generated a bunch of complex deeply strucutred dummy JSON data and the resulting visual wasn't bad!

I like the name too! A small suggestion is don't force yourself to call it Jsontr.ee because of the cool domain. Getting to the line "Render the Tree Diagram: Use the jsontr.ee function to visualize the JSON data." -- Just use jsontree :-)

dankwizard··on Show HN: A People Search Engine with Face Recognition
Oh man if this gets popular - you're gone. Open and shut case.
dankwizard··on Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator
I've got some bad news for you...
dankwizard··on Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator
Best news I've heard all day!
dankwizard··on An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)
But he did?

Or didn't he?

dankwizard··on Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator
Have had this bookmarked for a very long time and go back to it semi regularly.

Any chance you can load a bunch of stock photos into the various categories? I think there's only ~8 or so in each.

dankwizard··on Show HN: Automatically tweet (X) the music you're enjoying on Spotify
Maybe I'm getting old (and cynical?) but if somebody started tweeting what they're listening to each day I'm probably unfollowing that person.

LastFM do the solution a lot better where you can have friends on a music specific network and see what everybody is listening to at your own leisure.

dankwizard··on I Don't Have Spotify
It is tiny - It's US only.
dankwizard··on Pi Chess Board
I wish they added some LLM-assisted CSS & Div tags because this layout is atrocious.
dankwizard··on Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin
But OP did Brute Force?
dankwizard··on Show HN: Tinder, but to decide what to eat
If you're creating an app to help, then you don't get about acquiring new users. Who would care?

If you're creating an app to make money, then don't put all your eggs in a Tinder-for-dinner basket.

dankwizard··on Show HN: A blog I built with Django and Svelte
Okay cool
dankwizard··on Show HN: Tinder, but to decide what to eat
Putting this behind a subscription is crazy.
dankwizard··on Why anti-cheat software utilizes kernel drivers (2020)
Not proud of this part of my history but in Counter-Strike: Source, you could replace the game textures yourself and re-skin the entire game! This was done mostly so people could rock their own client-side gun skins (Before actual implemented skins were a thing!)

Anyway, people realised you could make ANY texture custom. Who's to say those walls wouldn't look better transparent? I created a _ton_ of transparent textures with different colours and what not and packaged them into a .zip with a $ attached. Didn't expect much because all of this was available for free by many other provides but I pulled in about $15k for an afternoon's job.

Valve eventually released the sv_pure server command which would force Valve textures on their servers, fixing the issue. Because this was a custom texture hack, it was rightly undetectable by VAC and therefore no bans were issued.

Anyways the point of this is there's a lot of money in it for the cheat devs. They aren't going to stop. I really hope a new innovative solution comes along that puts an end to it.

dankwizard··on M4 MacBook Pro
Ok [1]

"Since then, technologies like Grayshift’s GrayKey—a device capable of breaking into modern iPhones—have become staples in forensic investigations across federal, state, and local levels."

"In other cases where the FBI demanded access to data stored in a locked phone, like the San Bernardino and Pensacola shootings, the FBI unlocked devices without Apple’s help, often by purchasing hacking tools from foreign entities like Cellebrite."

1 - https://www.firstpost.com/tech/the-fbi-was-able-to-hack-into...

dankwizard··on M4 MacBook Pro
Yes they do.
dankwizard··on How I write code using Cursor
If you're going to employ large empty space, at least make it dark themed.
dankwizard··on How I write code using Cursor
Why is 60 - 70% of my screen whitespace on this website (Or maybe more accurately... light pink space?)

If cursor made those margins, humans 1 cursor 0

dankwizard··on Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell
I'm hoping this is satire because if not it is legitimately one of the worst ideas I have seen.
dankwizard··on Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator
It's wild you're ending all your comments with /shrug - You made a bad take, double downed, and continue to dig.

/shrug

dankwizard··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
A word can have multiple meanings.
dankwizard··on Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
Sell it to someone inexperienced who wants to pick up a high traffic website. Show the stats of visitors, monthly hits, etc. DO NOT MENTION BOTS.

Easiest money you'll ever make.

(Speaking from experience ;) )

dankwizard··on What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?
People love mentioning that they donate to LiChess.

It's a weird trend. Altruism truly does not exist

(I donated btw) (Probably more than you) (But who's counting)

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