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New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

FranchuFranchu — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:30:16 +0000

There's a 2014 game that is just that. Lim Rocket: slingshot around planets while also avoiding crashing.

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows"

FranchuFranchu — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:00:38 +0000

You should probably say somewhere that the questions are US-centric. For example, "the death penalty should remain legal" doesn't make sense in places where it isn't.

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

FranchuFranchu — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:47:02 +0000

The President of Colombia https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8xg1jve73o

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

FranchuFranchu — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:58:34 +0000

You can't realistically target anyone outside the US with this.

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "The self-castrated hatmaker who killed John Wilkes Booth (2015)"

FranchuFranchu — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:06:36 +0000

Hi! This is part of Jewish religious purity law and not usually taken as part of the rules that govern most Christian denominations. For example, women who are menstruating are usually not banned from participating in Christian services, and any other people would be unsuited to partake in Temple service according to Jewish religious law are usually allowed to participate in worship in Christianity.

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns"

FranchuFranchu — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:43:57 +0000

Hi! Great work! Could you add support for other amounts of measures such as 3/4?

South Korean Air Force apologizes for accidental bombing, blames pilot error

FranchuFranchu — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:59:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250310_16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43327111

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji"

FranchuFranchu — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:24:41 +0000

You could store UTF-8 encoded data inside the hidden bytestring. If some of the UTF-8 encoded smuggled characters are variation selector characters, you can smuggle text inside the smuggled text. Smuggled data can be nested arbitrarily deep.

Infinite Apply – Lambda Calculus

FranchuFranchu — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://infinite-apply.marvinborner.de/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42882664

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit"

FranchuFranchu — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:33:00 +0000

> Obviously, nobody steals things while the train is in motion.

Something interesting: I live near a train line where the doors are not automatic (they have to be opened manually on each stop), and there have been incidents where people get pickpocketed while the train is still in motion, and the thief jumps out right before the station, when the train has slowed down significantly but is still in motion. Many people have been hurt doing this.

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History"

FranchuFranchu — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:49:34 +0000

It would be interesting to see the opposite of this; which papers are really interesting and look useful, but did not end up having a significant impact?

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Happy New Year 2025"

FranchuFranchu — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 06:04:52 +0000

Happy new 2025 = (20 + 25)^2 = (2 + 0!)^2*5 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2 = 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 + 9^3

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Tree Calculus"

FranchuFranchu — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:30:39 +0000

I'm not Barry Jay, but I found it here: https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/typed_tree_calculus/bl...

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "The English Esoteric Programming Language"

FranchuFranchu — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:45:39 +0000

Legalese is just obfuscated English

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "A mental model for Linux file, hard and soft links"

FranchuFranchu — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:53:07 +0000

This is correct, for ext2 at least. See [0], bytes 26 and 27

[0] https://wiki.osdev.org/Ext2#Inode_Data_Structure

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "The Null Pointer"

FranchuFranchu — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 12:03:15 +0000

I used to use this frequently, but unfortunately at some point my /8 IP range was blocked from uploading files. Most likely because bot traffic outweighs legitimate traffic, since I live in a third-world non-english-speaking country.

Tree Sitting

FranchuFranchu — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:12:51 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40941438

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders (2022)"

FranchuFranchu — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:16:09 +0000

Note: This just says that any GoL pattern that can be constructed by a universal constructor can be constructed from 15 gliders. A universal constructor is a GoL pattern that can construct a very diverse set of patterns, but not any pattern. For example, Garden of Eden patterns are excluded from this category.

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

FranchuFranchu — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:56:39 +0000

Unfortunately, robots that kill people already exist. See: semi-autonomous war drones

New comment by FranchuFranchu in "Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)"

FranchuFranchu — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 01:29:19 +0000

I asked ChatGPT to craft a story to maximize the amount of bullshits. This is the result: https://pastebin.com/raw/zM9h6Cau , with 9 BSs, 36 bullshits, and 20 bullfuckingshits