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twitter.com 1mo ago

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a social media ban for under-16s

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What feature could make you switch your VPN provider?

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medium.com 6y ago

How I failed to replicate an $86M project in 1 line of code

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: My ISP is injecting code to pages. What measures can I take?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Remote workers of HN, what is your experience?

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whatifbitcoin.com 8y ago

What if you invested Bitcoin?

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osmc.tv 9y ago

OSMC Gets Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless Support

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natureofcode.com 9y ago

Nature of Code

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weex-project.io 9y ago

Weex: A framework for building mobile cross-platform UI by Alibaba

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

What different sorting algorithms sound like

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certification.unity.com 10y ago

Unity Certification Program

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www.5minutestorage.com 10y ago

Show HN: Temporary File Sharing Service

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5minutestorage.com 10y ago

Share a file that can live only 5 minutes

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en.wikipedia.org 10y ago

Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell

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en.wikipedia.org 10y ago

The Turk

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www.kickstarter.com 10y ago

Moonspike: Join the World's First Crowdfunded Moon Rocket

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en.wikipedia.org 10y ago

John Titor

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github.com 11y ago

Google Deep Dream

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www.unlimitedtomorrow.com 11y ago

Open source robotic prosthetic arm

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www.oculus.com 11y ago

Samsung Gear VR

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medium.com 11y ago

How much revenue can you make from a 20K downloaded iOS Game?

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itunes.apple.com 11y ago

Show HN: My small iOS game done during stay in hospital

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www.kickstarter.com 11y ago

MegaBots: Live-Action Giant Robot Combat

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en.m.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Milgram Experiment

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Where can I download popular mailing list archives?

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itunes.apple.com 11y ago

Show HN: My second attempt on iOS game programming

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Frane Selak – The World's Luckiest Man

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Free is a lie

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indietech.org 12y ago

Independent Technology

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itunes.apple.com 12y ago

Show HN: I started with zero knowledge and now my iOS game is in App Store

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Goodbye to Sora 4 months ago

This was inevitable since Antropic made a fortune by releasing single app with only text generation business. They did best code generator and targeted developers and enterprise users. OpenAI did only 1.5 million dollars from Sora which is obviously far from profitable. So it is logical to assign GPU time to more profitable business.

KiCad 7.0 3 years ago

I want to learn PCB design, mostly with ARM and ESP based designs. How would I learn basics? I know theory part but I really couldn't figure out why they determine which component and which value they have to use. I mean there are resistors, capacitors all over the place but I really want to learn reason behind it. Also I guess there are some basics related power, battery, UART, USB etc. Is there any source that covers all of these concepts?

I think starting a side project with a goal of revenue is not practical. For me, doing side project is doing something that you can't normally do in day to day job. So, it has to something that I love to spend time for. On the other hand, I always think about making many part when I start something new. My side projects are generally about making games and mobile applications, search engine optimization, writing programs that transform data from one form to another. When I finish a side project, I don't hesitate to putting some ads and make passive income. It is lovely to make money while you are sleeping from something that you have enjoyed creating it.

Flash Player itself has a lot of security vulnerabilities but Adobe Flash as IDE still has no competitor even today IMHO. There is no such tool that combines code and graphics with ease like Adobe Flash. You can use it as an animator, you can use it as graphic designer, you can use it as developer. All these features just came together perfectly and it made sense. I am still missing this usability.

Actually speaking yes. I spent a lot of time to think about it. Here is my little thought process to keep my motivation;

Why am I working? Why am I spending my 1/3 of my time with my daily job. Is career real thing or other words is it really necessary to make money? Does it really matter to have high work satisfaction even though you earn little? I am working because of money. Money doesn't bring happiness but it brings freedom. At the end of the day what I need is freedom. It doesn't matter if I have shinny career if I can earn same money with something else. I have limited time and more money to become free. So I need to use my time wisely to get more money to become free eventually. It doesn't matter if I am using shiny programming language, technology or IDE. At the end of the day nobody will give a shit about what I am using. Quickest is the best because I have counted days in my life. I don't have time to learn new things every time I start a new projects. I already know everything I need to make money. Learning is not a goal but it is a reward when I become free.

After several years of struggling with side projects I found one thing that motivates me: money. I don't even start a project if there is no possibility of some revenue. %99 of ideas got eliminated immediately. Every people have their own motivation though but having side income from a side project even you are sleeping is different thing. I have limited time for side projects. I always think I have one bullet so trying to use it wisely.

Tesla Cybertruck 7 years ago

Yes. I suspect that production line will be designed to be built on Mars. Design of the car also looks like it is built for high dust environments (non-flat rooftop). Solar charging, shell with same material with Starship also supports this thesis.

Tesla Cybertruck 7 years ago

I understand what Tesla is doing here. Outer shell manufacturing cost is very low. No paint, minimal bending process. Just laser cut the material and it is ready to be mounted. If you want to manufacture something in a low resource environment ( like Mars ) it might be the clever move.

Usually, I cannot finish what I have started because of debating over which shiny new framework/stack I need to use. I overoptimize things and always try to code for worst case. I cannot resist to think about hundreds of users, peak performance, hn traffic of death etc. Eventually it never finishes or I loose interest.

Best thing you can do is to make something that just works in fastest way possible. Anything that can print out text will work. You will always have a chance to make it better once it starts to get some traction.

Adobe Air could produce executables iOS and many other operating systems and environments. I have seen many successful mobile games done with Air. Flash Player is a virtual machine and swf is compiled bytecode. It could be ported to any hardware and OS. Death of Flash is not technical, it is political. SWF format and Flash Player is proprietary. They chose to kill it instead of supporting someone else's technology.

I wasn't aware that outage and had small heartattack when I saw huge drop of visitors. I think other metrics are also affected.

Yeah I spent same effort with reveal.js but I found it not very convenient. Assuming you have used phantomjs for capturing frames. I preferred screen capture since my requirement is to use sound and synchronize slide timings to length of sounds. I skipped extra step of capturing frame-by-frame and merging sound and pictures with separate process. Screen capture part made my pipeline semi-automated. I was searching good approach since then but cannot find any solution elegant than Flash. It is dead tech but even today I cannot find real alternative to Flash in terms of asset management, scripting, exporting, IDE and motion graphics. It won't took more than an hour to create an simple application with Flash that consumes data dynamically and create video out of it.

Certification process is generic enough to apply it to different types of aircrafts. There is no specific requirements for different subsystems introduced by manufacturer. Simulation fidelity is tested against real world data but it is not possible to collect data for every condition that might occur during flight. You may refer to FAA FSS Level-D QTG document for further reference. [1]

[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/nsp/media/14CFR60_Sear...