Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
519 by jonahss | 176 comments on Hacker News.
I made a thing! In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself: "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves" I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays. Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10. In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the cards using stable-diffusion. HN always seems to appreciate new uses for e-ink. Thought I'd share :)
519 by jonahss | 176 comments on Hacker News.
I made a thing! In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself: "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves" I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays. Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10. In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the cards using stable-diffusion. HN always seems to appreciate new uses for e-ink. Thought I'd share :)
Monday, November 28, 2022
Sunday, November 27, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
633 by costco | 508 comments on Hacker News.
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham: https://ift.tt/xKgfoFR Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
633 by costco | 508 comments on Hacker News.
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham: https://ift.tt/xKgfoFR Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Friday, November 25, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
552 by janober | 306 comments on Hacker News.
Last week we at n8n ran into problems getting a new database from Azure. After contacting support, it turns out that we can’t add instances to our k8s cluster either. Azure has told they'll have more capacity in April 2023(!) — but we’ll have to stop accepting new users in ~35 days if we don't get any more. These problems seem only in the German region, but setting up in a new region would be complicated for us. We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft, or that they wouldn’t proactively inform us about this. Is anyone else experiencing these problems?
552 by janober | 306 comments on Hacker News.
Last week we at n8n ran into problems getting a new database from Azure. After contacting support, it turns out that we can’t add instances to our k8s cluster either. Azure has told they'll have more capacity in April 2023(!) — but we’ll have to stop accepting new users in ~35 days if we don't get any more. These problems seem only in the German region, but setting up in a new region would be complicated for us. We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft, or that they wouldn’t proactively inform us about this. Is anyone else experiencing these problems?
Thursday, November 24, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
571 by mr_o47 | 102 comments on Hacker News.
I’m really thankful for this anazing platform and the knowledge i have gained through HN.
571 by mr_o47 | 102 comments on Hacker News.
I’m really thankful for this anazing platform and the knowledge i have gained through HN.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
546 by TangerineDream | 245 comments on Hacker News.
546 by TangerineDream | 245 comments on Hacker News.
New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game
Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game
518 by trizoza | 149 comments on Hacker News.
I had the concept in my head for some time and firstly just prototyped it using only HTML & CSS. Sent it to a few friends and they liked it so I made it into its own website and added few 'competitive' features like click counter and share button.
518 by trizoza | 149 comments on Hacker News.
I had the concept in my head for some time and firstly just prototyped it using only HTML & CSS. Sent it to a few friends and they liked it so I made it into its own website and added few 'competitive' features like click counter and share button.
