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New comment by 0xdada in "The Oracle of Bacon: Thirty Years Later"

0xdada — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:31:54 +0000

Ah, Akinator!

Show HN: Generative Art Shaders

0xdada — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:38:16 +0000

I made a generative art system that generates random expressions made of functions (sin, exp, mod, etc.), variables x/y and p/q (polar coordinates), and constants you can set and animate. The outputs are highly variable.

You can press P to animate all constants at the same time and N to quickly generate new programs.

Presets don't work the same on all devices because GLSL is not deterministic and depends on the GPU.

One interesting thought is that if intelligent alien life exists out there and their vision works similar to ours they might have looked at outputs just like these at some point.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085318

Points: 1

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Arvid Noe

0xdada — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:16:36 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvid_Noe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017425

Points: 3

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New comment by 0xdada in "How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?"

0xdada — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:56:38 +0000

I don't really try with family Fidesz members (Hungarian MAGA). I know why my relative believes what he does and I can't change that. I'm there for him as a friend, will share my conflicting views carefully but avoid getting dragged into a full on argument with emotions.

New comment by 0xdada in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

0xdada — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:48:06 +0000

Wow! Looks great and very inspiring. Great idea to make separate components that can be connected - something like a drum machine, sequencer, maybe even a chord synthesizer? It can be constrained such that you are always diatonic, you could have a mode knob too.

Jamming with other people can be a life changing experience, and to do that as a child would be a great privilege to have.

New comment by 0xdada in "Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers"

0xdada — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:50:46 +0000

I managed to wake up in my early 30s, by watching my parents' health slowly start failing starting in their 50s.

New comment by 0xdada in "EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers"

0xdada — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:02:06 +0000

I have watched 10+ hours of lessons on compressors and I still don't hear it. I understand most concepts but don't use much compression besides side-chaining and the built-in Ableton glue compression.

New comment by 0xdada in "Noise cancelling a fan"

0xdada — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:36:51 +0000

How would this work without headphones in a room? I'm guessing the noise would actually be amplified in some parts of the room.

New comment by 0xdada in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

0xdada — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:28:00 +0000

Why is that a bad thing? Choosing to be bored instead of mindlessly scrolling is great. Boredom was an important part of growing up for me.

New comment by 0xdada in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

0xdada — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:44:15 +0000

A while back I made a small browser game using emoji for all graphics. I was delighted to see so many different sets of emoji in screenshots people posted.

New comment by 0xdada in "Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago"

0xdada — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:18:32 +0000

But hearing and sound making both have many other uses. Jellyfish can "hear", crickets can make noises. I'm guessing we had both of these long before language.

Pratte's Reef

0xdada — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:13:05 +0000

Article URL: https://raisedwaterresearch.com/spot/artificial-reef/us/california/prattes-reef/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036653

Points: 1

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New comment by 0xdada in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

0xdada — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:41:19 +0000

Looks like the sliding controllers bit means that they will work like a computer mouse.

Show HN: Minimal deck builder slot machine using emoji for graphics

0xdada — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:58:37 +0000

Hi HN,

I made a small minimalist game that uses only emoji for graphics:

http://unicode.fun

This is heavily inspired by "Luck Be a Landlord", a really fun game. I've been interested in making a game only using emoji for a while, and this is the first one that I managed to turn into a real game. I hope the experience is not too clunky, I'm sure there are a ton of things that could be improved. The game looks very different across different OS-es, I personally like Windows emoji the most.

I appreciate all kinds of feedback, suggestions and input.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41593212

Points: 1

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New comment by 0xdada in "Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M"

0xdada — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:44:44 +0000

There is a cost to breaking captcha.

New comment by 0xdada in "Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason"

0xdada — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:50:09 +0000

Love the use of light blue color for the blinking cells! Surprisingly smooth UX considering we have checkboxes for cells.

New comment by 0xdada in "Kraken claims it is being 'extorted' as hacker demands reward after $3M theft"

0xdada — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:10:57 +0000

And you have a scam tweet immediately below this one.

New comment by 0xdada in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

0xdada — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:19:02 +0000

2 days later, I just finished it. I'm finally free. Let this be a warning to future readers.

New comment by 0xdada in "British Placename Mapper"

0xdada — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:14:00 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if that's also via Scandinavian influence (kyrke). Some other examples are bra, barn, hus.

New comment by 0xdada in "Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves mental illness"

0xdada — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:01:14 +0000

Any overweight person. I gained 10% of my bodyweight in the last 6 months and I haven't felt better. (Mostly eating plants though.)