Hacker News: ElbertF

New comment by ElbertF in "I Built a Pente App for iPhone"

ElbertF — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:45:53 +0000

Hi everyone, I’ve been working on an iOS app for Pente and wanted to share it here.

For anyone new to it, Pente is an abstract strategy game where you win by getting five stones in a row or by capturing five pairs of your opponent’s stones.

The app is called Pente Go. You can play:

  * Online against friends or other players
  * Local pass-and-play
  * Single-player against AI
  * Classic or tournament opening rules
  * Leaderboard and basic stats

I’d appreciate any feedback, especially from people who play Pente, Go, Gomoku, or other abstract strategy games.

I Built a Pente App for iPhone

ElbertF — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:45:53 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pente-go/id6449915046

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886979

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ElbertF in "Xiaomi’s humanoid drummer beats expectations?"

ElbertF — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 20:02:31 +0000

I was expecting this:

https://youtu.be/5UuFqQXWneM

New comment by ElbertF in "Brave browser now blocks cookie banners"

ElbertF — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:45:52 +0000

I created a browser extension for exactly this called Demodal:

https://github.com/AliasIO/demodal

New comment by ElbertF in "BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees"

ElbertF — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:04:46 +0000

https://github.com/wappalyzer/wappalyzer

You’re welcome to help out. :)

New comment by ElbertF in "I miss del.icio.us – the web’s discovery-engine and link classifier"

ElbertF — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:30:56 +0000

I think you meant https://pinboard.in.

New comment by ElbertF in "Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information"

ElbertF — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:17:11 +0000

I do this on my website with paywalled information. It respects upper/lowercasing and spacing but randomises each character. Anyone can disable the CSS blur but the data is still obfuscated.

https://imgur.com/a/NY6xKie

New comment by ElbertF in "Show HN: Demodal – A browser extension that blocks modals and overlays"

ElbertF — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:17:22 +0000

I created this browser extension to solve a personal annoyance. It automatically removes obnoxious prompts on websites that interrupt your reading, like prompts to sign up or enter your email address, overlays with discount offers, pointless GDPR and cookie consent banners, etc.

It's in early development and doesn't work on most websites, yet. The aim is to build up a comprehensive set of rules over time to block modals anywhere. Creating your definitions is easy and can be done from within the extension. The project is open-source and I'm looking for contributors!

Show HN: Demodal – A browser extension that blocks modals and overlays

ElbertF — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:13:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AliasIO/demodal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29973230

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ElbertF in "Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time"

ElbertF — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:49:35 +0000

Nice! Managed to shave off a couple of bytes:

  setInterval("l=loopTapApp;b=l.getBallAngle();[a,c]=l.arc;b+6>a&b-6



New comment by ElbertF in "AWS free tier data transfer expansion"
ElbertF — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 21:34:48 +0000

The CloudFront savings add up to about $100/mo. Still pretty negligible.



New comment by ElbertF in "Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle"
ElbertF — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 02:32:28 +0000

True. Not the same thing but an equally disastrous outcome.



New comment by ElbertF in "Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle"
ElbertF — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 22:35:00 +0000

Years ago I ran into this issue with MySQL, storing four billion rows with a unique ID.



New comment by ElbertF in "Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions?"
ElbertF — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:21:22 +0000

1.5K installs so far, versus 1.5M on Chrome and 90K on Firefox. Hard to say what the percentage will be.



New comment by ElbertF in "Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions?"
ElbertF — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:04:37 +0000

We finally ported Wappalyzer across to Safari. The process was fairly straight-forward but Safari doesn't implement every API that Chrome, Firefox and even Edge support, so we had to do a bunch of work to get a single version of the extension to work consistently in all four browsers. I'm glad it's finally here though.
https://apps.apple.com/app/wappalyzer/id1520333300



New comment by ElbertF in "How to convert existing web extensions for Safari"
ElbertF — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:03:55 +0000

This motivated me to finally port Wappalyzer to Safari. It was fairly straight-forward but Safari doesn't implement every API that Chrome, Firefox and even Edge support, so I had to do a bunch of work to get a single version of the extension to work consistently in all four browsers. I'm glad it's finally here though.
https://apps.apple.com/app/wappalyzer/id1520333300



New comment by ElbertF in "Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers"
ElbertF — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 02:19:58 +0000

Good question, I don't know. I could fail the verification if it doesn't match.



New comment by ElbertF in "Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers"
ElbertF — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 23:23:29 +0000

Thanks! Will do.



New comment by ElbertF in "Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers"
ElbertF — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:23:49 +0000

It's challenging to find a balance between security and not hindering legitimate customers. Telling them the order went through when they mistyped their card number isn't great. I don't expose the reason the payment was rejected however.
Stripe does warn me about the charge-backs.



New comment by ElbertF in "Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers"
ElbertF — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:37:48 +0000

Done!