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pkstnon If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

Easy. I don’t use any of the AI shit.

pkstnon Reasons to Dislike AI Coding

Amen!

pkstnon Elevators

https://elevators.ltd

pkstnon Show HN: Elevators.ltd

Click up/down to call an elevator. When doors open, click elevator to enter and select floor. Have fun! :D

pkstnon Show HN: Teletext-Style Portfolio Website

In case you don't know what Teletext is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

pkstnon My Teletext Website

Thanks! Here in Finland Teletext is still in use: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv :D

pkstnon My Teletext Website

In Finland Teletext is actually still in use: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv :D

pkstnon My Teletext Website

Source code here if someone interested: https://github.com/pakastin/pakastin/tree/main/public

pkstnon VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

Zed is much less AI-infected than VSCode. In fact, in Zed there’s a single button to disable all AI features.

pkstnon Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities

Luckily we have great European cloud companies like UpCloud https://upcloud.com

pkstnon Nomoji – replace emojis in text with SVG images

I just updated my Nomoji project to use Noto Emoji instead of Openmoji. Nomoji is like Twemoji but with the latest emoji support and simpler syntax.

pkstnon Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

Check out my talk about minimum viable view library (then frzr.js.org, now redom.js.org): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nh2EK1xveg

pkstnon CSS Minecraft

Same, maybe shouldn't go with the serverless hype.. It's a static website after all :D

pkstnon European Cloud Computing Platforms

UpCloud is really good!

pkstnon The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter

Nice! Also check out my multiplayer deck of cards on just pure web: https://deck.of.cards

Hope to finish the new version soon

pkstnon You probably don't need query builders

Definitely not, if you use modern db like MongoDB :D

pkstnon GenChess

"This tool is not available to users under the age of 18 or in certain countries or regions."

pkstnon Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes

Swarm Mode ftw!

pkstnon Rust needs a web framework

https://deno.com/

pkstnon Comic Mono

But why?!

pkstnon PHP is the new JavaScript?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

pkstnon Show HN: Defrag the Game

would be maybe good idea to add instructions :D

pkstnon Show HN: Defrag the Game

What should i do here?

pkstnon I made a free realtime multiplayer 2D cave gem quest game

Planning to write blog post(s) about how i made the game, but basically the techniques i used are the following:

- 2D ray tracing visibility algorithm (spolight): https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/

- Simplex noise procedural maps: https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/

- WebGL2 rendering

- Websockets with binary data

- Deno

- Hetzner dedicated servers

- Docker Swarm Mode

pkstnon Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

But why?

pkstnon PM2: Production Process Manager with a Built-In Load Balancer

PM2 was really nice until I moved to using Docker Swarm Mode which is even better in so many ways!

pkstnon Show nearest Hetzner/UpCloud data center based on Cloudflare cf-ray header

Source: https://github.com/pakastin/datacenter-test

data (locations): https://github.com/pakastin/datacenters

pkstnon SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

UpCloud has super fast MaxIOPS: https://upcloud.com/products/block-storage

Here's referral link with free credits: https://upcloud.com/signup/?promo=J3JYWZ

pkstnon Open source 2D space simulator

Play here: https://flanets.io

pkstnon Show HN: WebGPU Particles Simulation

I'm just seeing single frame of white noise (Chrome 120, macOS 14.2, MBP 14" M1 Pro)