Hacker News: GNOMES

New comment by GNOMES in "Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends"

GNOMES — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:18:34 +0000

This sounds amazing. Hard to wrangle friends together to play a game, so giving a full day is great.

Ignoring Civ 2 vs Civ 5 differences, any experiancing hosting Unciv vs Freeciv?

New comment by GNOMES in "Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife"

GNOMES — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:05:33 +0000

Thinking back to 2016 when Pogo launched there were news stories about trespassing, people getting hurt etc for virtual creatures...

I could easily see someone be foolish enough to go up to predators

New comment by GNOMES in "The Unix Pipe Card Game"

GNOMES — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:48:53 +0000

This gets shared a ton, but the old Bell Labs video from 4:56 to 10:52 is still the best way I have seen pipes explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

New comment by GNOMES in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

GNOMES — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:48:31 +0000

This article is making me laugh.

Guy I used to play Diablo + Destiny with mentioned once that he had just sold a knife in CS for 4k, and was going to buy his first (used) car with it.

We thought he was joking.

New comment by GNOMES in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

GNOMES — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:54:01 +0000

I use my "dc" command to reverse "cd" frequently https://gist.github.com/GNOMES/6bf65926648e260d8023aebb9ede9...

Ex:

    > echo $PWD
    /foo/bar/batz/abc/123

    > dc bar && echo $PWD
    /foo/bar

Useful for times when I don't want to type a long train of dot slashes(ex. cd ../../..).

Also useful when using Zoxide, and I tab complete into a directory tree path where parent directories are not in Zoxide history.

Added tab complete for speed.

New comment by GNOMES in "Zoxide: A Better CD Command"

GNOMES — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:41:08 +0000

I have been testing this as a daily driver since the last big mention on HN to simplify my .bashrc file.

I use it with `eval "$(zoxide init bash --cmd cd)"` so I can continue to use CD due to muscle memory.

    - I like that if there are multiple /foo directories known by Zoxide, say /foo/ and /abc/foo/, that you can do `cd abc foo` to go the path containing both.

    - I am not a fan of having to do `cd foo**` for tab completion to folders outside CWD. I feel it slows me down as a tab complete fanatic.

    - Also don't enjoy if I `cd foo/bar/batz` directly, then try `cd bar`, Zoxide has no reference. You would need to CD into each directory individually to build the database. I have seen scripts kicking around online to put a complete directory structure into Zoxide database by CD'ing to each subdirectory for you.

Not sure if I am officially sold, or I'll go back to aliases and simple tab completes forwards, and backwards (logic I use for tab complete backwards to exact directory name backwards from CWD instead of `cd ../../../etc` https://gist.github.com/GNOMES/6bf65926648e260d8023aebb9ede9...)

New comment by GNOMES in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

GNOMES — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:55:25 +0000

Never realized you can do that. Can you share that tmux binding? Right now I use `bind -r Space next-layout` for resizing (spam repeatedly).

New comment by GNOMES in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

GNOMES — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:08:49 +0000

I have been tempted to drop tmux locally for native Ghostty panes/tabs, but I prefer the single height tmux status bar with window list only (set -g status-left '' + set -g status-right '') vs the thicker window decorations using macos-titlebar-style = tabs.

I did come up with Ghostty bindings to replicate my tmux settings if it helps anyone (my tmux leader is ctrl + space):

    # clear default bindings + add paste back
    keybind=clear
    keybind=super+v=paste_from_clipboard

    # navigate panes
    keybind=ctrl+h=goto_split:left
    keybind=ctrl+j=goto_split:bottom
    keybind=ctrl+k=goto_split:top
    keybind=ctrl+l=goto_split:right
    keybind=ctrl+space>shift+apostrophe=new_split:down
    keybind=ctrl+space>shift+five=new_split:right
    keybind=ctrl+space>space=equalize_splits
    keybind=ctrl+space>z=toggle_split_zoom

    # navigate tabs
    keybind=ctrl+space>c=new_tab
    keybind=ctrl+space>one=goto_tab:1
    ...
    keybind=ctrl+space>zero=goto_tab:10

New comment by GNOMES in "TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale"

GNOMES — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:56:12 +0000

The fact that Family Link app on Android doesn't have this feature drives me crazy.

Youtube kids exists, but far too many channels are not available without manual intervention.

New comment by GNOMES in "Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers"

GNOMES — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:03:02 +0000

I had to do something like this with Ansible's get_url module once.

Was having issues getting module to download an installer from a vendors site.

Played with Curl/WGET, but was running into the same, while it worked from a browser.

I ended up getting both Curl + get_url to work by passing the same headers my browser sent such as User-Agent, encoding, etc

New comment by GNOMES in "An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox"

GNOMES — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:26:49 +0000

I thought the initial wording/hype was around poorly phrased lawyer speak for "you give FF permission to interact (post/get requests) with a web page as a browser. Don't sue us".

The whole some may consider it "legally selling your data" proves this is not just a Terms of Use change in good faith.

New comment by GNOMES in "A CLI to quickly launch VSCode/cursor devcontainers"

GNOMES — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:37:09 +0000

Tooling looks useful, but still trying to understand Dev containers themselves.

Why use one of these premade container images vs using a base image, adding extra packages/layers as needed?

New comment by GNOMES in "Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster"

GNOMES — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:24:10 +0000

I use an Array + Sed to go backwards in path to an exact directory without having to spam cd ..:

https://gist.github.com/GNOMES/6bf65926648e260d8023aebb9ede9...

New comment by GNOMES in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

GNOMES — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:31:16 +0000

I've been back on Firefox for 2-3 years now since the Manifest v3 stuff was initially brewing. Still eagerly waiting for Fission/tab isolation to land on Android.

Every morning I open a bookmarks folder with my dailies (news/blogs/Wordle/XKCD etc) that includes https://mrotherguy.github.io/fx-nightly-changelog/, and CTRL+F hoping for Fission on Fenix :(

New comment by GNOMES in "Stimulation Clicker"

GNOMES — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:27:26 +0000

the whispering/eating guy is so tilting lol

New comment by GNOMES in "IMG_0001"

GNOMES — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:12:55 +0000

Seems that views through this site don't seem to reflect?

Found a video that had zero views, watched to completion, then hit back on next video to return to it. Video still had 0 views.

New comment by GNOMES in "Command Line Tools I Like (2022)"

GNOMES — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:54:00 +0000

I was previously really excited about this in the past, but uninstalled it due to remote storing of PDF features: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/jb4axl/comment...

Has this gone away?

New comment by GNOMES in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

GNOMES — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:26:01 +0000

Paying fines while still racking in cash. Basically the cost of doing business.

New comment by GNOMES in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

GNOMES — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:17:00 +0000

Understand your point, but Epic (Fortnite) and games like Fifa have gotten sued or major slap on the wrists for the same practices

New comment by GNOMES in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

GNOMES — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:09:39 +0000

My kiddo has easily spent 500+ on Roblox across birthday/Xmas gift cards/chores.

I can't stand that almost all of the games seem to have a pay to win aspect, or are heavily advertising every chance they get.

As a gamer dad, I try to show my kid better games to play, but because they aren't free, his friends can't play. Just drives him to keep playing and wanting more Robux. It's compounded when his favorite Youtubers play...

Seriously don't understand how Roblox isn't being investigated for predatory practices. I imagine they can hide behind the fact users are making most of the mini games, and they are just providing a platform.