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xeonax··on Why scalpers can get tickets
Won't Stock Market kind of thing work here. Put the tickets up in IPO. Then when it goes public, let price discovery happen. Repository gets a % fee per transaction.
xeonax··on THX Deepnote
You can create some sick beats by clicking and releasing the mouse button in a rhythm
xeonax··on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
Ok it's a bit longer, only a little bit.

See for yourself https://www.reddit.com/r/WanderingInn/comments/wil9pi/word_c...

xeonax··on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
I no longer care for kingkiller's book 3, TWI has fixed my craving for it.
xeonax··on Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
https://studios.aeonax.com/racers/

Trackmania meets Elite Dangerous but in 2 Dimensions

This my attempt at making a serious game, learning stuff and finally publishing wherever possible.

And I love feedback.

xeonax··on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
The Wandering Inn [1], Stories of an alternate world somehow connected to a certain innkeeper of the said inn.

Features extensive world building, character building, Lots of fleshed out characters, contains humour as well as serious stuff, has dragons, fae, aliens, time travel, hiveminds, automatons, cute pets, cosmic horrors, history lessons, magic, alchemy and steampunk engineering.

It's a bit longish and not finished yet, 2/3 done as of this year.

[1]: https://wanderinginn.com/

xeonax··on Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?
The New Way Things Work, not a textbook per se. It's an encyclopaedia. But it taught so many things.
xeonax··on Telegram Web Apps for Bots
ANXRacers. It combines stuff from Elite Dangerous into Trackmania. I reduced one dimension, to keep the scope feasible in my skillset/effort available.
xeonax··on It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry
I have experienced it first hand, while I was attempting machine learning. I was trying to make a machine learn how to do flips in 4 wheeled vehicle. In my first attempt it learned to die as fast as possible. It learned that since doing that reduces its existence penalty.
xeonax··on Telegram Web Apps for Bots
Yes, I am making a game. Its game server, is integrated into discord as well as telegram.
xeonax··on Telegram Web Apps for Bots
I have been using Telegram as my game server administrator. It gives me realtime updates about important activities from my players, As well as I can change settings directly from my mobile. Or start a new event.
xeonax··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
Suggestion: SMORT TV/SMORT Appliances

a sarcastic nod to smart.

xeonax··on Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
Maybe you are right. I'm not an artistic kind of person. I'm more of the technical implementor kind. My goal with the current game, is to learn stuff and implement all the systems that go into making it great. And then finally publish it. I'm currently on track to achieving all my goals. I have certain ideas w.r.t. to the game that I won't deviate from.

But I don't know everything. I'm not even a pro player at my own game. This is where the player feedback comes into the picture. I'm not trying to make my game from a very unique idea. But it's a mish mash of ideas I got from other games. I take feedback to know that I'm not doing something offensive/player denigrating accidentally.

I got few good ideas from my players which I included. Many ideas I have straight away denied to be included, because it didn't fit into my vision for the game/or I lacked the skills/efforts to give it justice.

I'm making a game, to scratch my itch of building something. Something that makes me happy, when people play the game and really like it. People keep coming back to give it a try. Sometimes even after weeks. Its nice to hear their feedback. It's nice to discover that people have been talking about your game in your absence, where you are not the first one to introduce the game.

I don't get actual users appreciation/feedback at my day job. No one says there they liked the attention to detail that was given there. This is why I'm making the game.

xeonax··on Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
I'm developing a racing game as a hobby. But I generally don't discuss my game with other developers since they are not the target audience for my game. I prefer to talk with players and get 360° feedback. I don't get the benefit of sharing the game to fellow developers.
xeonax··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
It needs to reload regularly coz sometimes it gets stuck. Also might lock the clipboard of too much office document is copied.
xeonax··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
Autohotkey script starts from below line

  #Persistent
  SetTimer, rload, 3600000
  firstrun:=true
  return
  
  
  OnClipboardChange:
  if (firstrun=true)
   Goto, CONSECRUN
  Sleep,500
  curclip:=clipboard
  Sleep,500
  if oldclip<>%curclip%
   FIleAppend,  `r`n===============================  =======`r`n%A_DD%-%A_MMM%- %A_YYYY%: :%A_Hour%:%A_Min%:  %A_Sec%`r`n%Clipboard%,   %A_ComputerName%Tracker.clip
  oldclip:=clipboard
  CONSECRUN:
  firstrun:=false
  return
  
  
  rload:
  Reload
  Sleep 1000 ; If successful,  the  reload will close this  instance  during the Sleep, so the  line  below will never be  reached.
  MsgBox, 4,, The script could  not  be reloaded. Would you like  to  open it for editing?
  IfMsgBox, Yes, Edit
  return
xeonax··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
I was not saying complete truth. It records much more details. I use the my home made https://github.com/XEonAX/Kiilogger

At work I use autohotkey script that dumps clipboard to a text file with a timestamp.

I will see if i can get the code.

xeonax··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
I run a clipboard logger + Window Title Logger in the background. I am able to find stuff from 10 years back. Works across all apps. Want to remember something just copy it. It might not be secure practice. I regularly encrypt the rolled over logs using 7z.
xeonax··on Godot 4.0 Released
I am waiting for Godot 5 now
xeonax··on No Start Menu for You
Before Everything I used to remember my filesystem. Like wheres what to rapidly access stuff. This was 12-14 years ago. I now just remember the file name. Everything remembers everything else.
xeonax··on No Start Menu for You
I disabled windows search indexing. I just use voidtools Everything. It just works. You get access to any file on your system in milliseconds instead of 30+seconds of windows search.
xeonax··on Kerbal Space Program free on Epic
What are everyone's views on KSP or other games use of analytics software's like RedShell?
xeonax··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
I'm working on a 2D top-down time attack skill based spaceship racing game.

I plan to release it on Steam and Google Play Store this year.

I'm the solodev making the Game, Game Server, as well as various integrations to external systems

xeonax··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023
The Wandering Inn. https://wanderinginn.com/

It's a webnovel, litRPG, slice of life, rememeberable cast of characters, with most of the characters getting extensive character building. Has dragons, aliens, time travel, fae etc. Also has modern pop references. For e.g. "arrow to the knee"

Also it's massive. You can spend an year reading it to reach the current chapters.

I probably spent more time reading this then watching webseries.

xeonax··on Apk.sh is a Bash script that makes reverse engineering Android apps easier
It helps you inject a js runtime in your apps which have access to everything via reflection.

No need to recompile the app after making changes to smali (decompiled but modifiable language).

As you can just modify the js script and get the modified behavior.

xeonax··on Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?
I started the ANXCamera project. Where we ported Xiaomi's MiuiCamera to run on AOSP roms (non-Miui based).

It involved decompiling the app. Adding miui framework dependencies. Patching stuff, where adding dependencies was adding bloat. Removing analytics. Also unlocking device restricted functionalities. We were able to provide latest functionalities on older devices.

It started when I installed an AOSP rom on Xiaomi's OG Pocophone F1. And discovered that no Camera app was able to use the full hardware capabilities of the phone with AOSP rom.

At the projects peak we were able to support 15+ devices.

It also worked on non-xiaomi devices.

One weird thing was it wasn't organized on XDA but on telegram.

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