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New comment by bbx in "Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad"

bbx — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:40:54 +0000

TIL. I'm French but live in the UK. Never realised it was a non-EU feature. How come? What's the law that restricts it?

New comment by bbx in "Pirating the Pirates"

bbx — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:51:01 +0000

I've been signed up a few months at a time over the years. It has tons of independent movies from the US/UK/France but also from lesser exposed countries (think Danish, Greek, Thai, Polish, Norwegian…). It's mostly films released recently or in the last 20 years. It also has some older classics (Memories of Murder, Carrie, Dogma, Obsession, Carlito's Way…) but there aren't that many and they're often only there temporarily.

It's worth doing the 30 days trial. I sign up for a month or two whenever I feel like the library has at least 10 films I'd want to watch.

New comment by bbx in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

bbx — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:26:12 +0000

I just released a game [1] on both iOS and Android.

The Google Play process is more thorough. There are a lot of steps and you need to clear them one by one. This means waiting several days between each step. The Play Console dashboard is quite well documented to be honest but can be overwhelming. The main obstacle is that you need to find at least 12 testers to play your game for 2 weeks straight. I ended up paying a service to test my app.

On iOS, the process is a bit more obscure. It's fairly easy to submit an app, but then you don't really know what's happening. You can only see a status like "Pending review". And then one day, you are approved.

Overall, the iOS process felt easier for me. As long as your build succeeds and you provide the correct information, your game can be live within a week. The Android process took more than a month in total.

[1] https://jgthms.com/hopera/

New comment by bbx in "Apple iPod Engraver (2019)"

bbx — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:06:31 +0000

I used to love that glossy gradient header that looked like physical tabs. Apple used to be so colorful and skeumorephic in their interfaces, I kind of miss that.

New comment by bbx in "Apple iPod Engraver (2019)"

bbx — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:05:06 +0000

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe it had to be done server side for accuracy. I can imagine customers returning their iPod because the shipped result didn't match what the webpage was showing. At that time, text rendering in the browser was still fairly pixelated.

Show HN: Hopera, a free musical soothing rhythmic game

bbx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:30:08 +0000

I built this small musical game in Lua, with the LÖVE 2d engine. I initially tried building it in Unity but it was more complicated than expected. I use LÖVE because it allowed to draw every pixel as I wanted. It's free to play on iOS, Android, and even the web.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660111

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New comment by bbx in "Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts"

bbx — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:47:24 +0000

Ha, fantastic line that one. Transparent pngs caused so much unnecessary trouble in IE6, it was very annoying, and limited our options as graphic designers.

New comment by bbx in "Nebula Sans"

bbx — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:43:36 +0000

Feels like a mix of Open Sans and Source Sans Pro. These were all over the web about 12 years ago. They got well with Montserrat in all caps and Merriweather: https://www.fubiz.net/

Whitney was the main font of Stripe when Benjamin De Cock initially redesigned the brand. It was one of the most beautiful websites I'd ever seen (and still is): https://dribbble.com/shots/2974913-Home

New comment by bbx in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?"

bbx — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:45:18 +0000

You're right, there's no gradient.

New comment by bbx in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

bbx — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:32:30 +0000

Great game! I really like how it removes any possible letters or connections. I managed to finish two zanagrams without any wrong answers. It’d be great if there was a way to gain a “perfect” score.

New comment by bbx in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

bbx — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:20:55 +0000

Great game. I love playing chess so this is quite a unique way to play it.

One piece of feedback: dragging a piece on mobile seems inaccurate at times. I’m used to chess apps where it works great. Here it seems the dragged piece doesn’t always end up where I’ve left my finger. I’ve lost a few rounds like this.

New comment by bbx in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

bbx — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:50:08 +0000

I waited a couple of years to get one. Glad I got it last December. Wouldn't have bought at this new price.

New comment by bbx in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

bbx — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:38:04 +0000

It feels like the one used in the Papers, Please video game.

New comment by bbx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

bbx — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:51:41 +0000

I'm building a small video utility app, built on top of ffmpeg. It allows you to convert from/to different formats, split a video into clips, combine videos into a single one, take screenshots…

New comment by bbx in "1D Chess"

bbx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:25:43 +0000

Oh very interesting. Even with these restrictions, there are quite a few variations, and it seems only one ends up with white winning.

New comment by bbx in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

bbx — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:59:20 +0000

I'm all for creating new frameworks that are faster and more secure. But I don't see how this one relates to Wordpress (not in PHP, serverless, not "plug and play", dependent on Astro, "AI Native"…).

It looks like a good open source project, but just call it a new CMS. I think calling it a "spiritual successor to WordPress" is just to gain some marketing points.

New comment by bbx in "The road signs that teach travellers about France"

bbx — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:53:24 +0000

These road signs are iconic. They’re noticeable but not distracting. They inform without imposing themselves. There’s something very soothing about them.

If you’ve ever taken the A10 motorway France between Bordeaux and Paris, it’s about a 500 km stretch that is fairly straight and, thus, a bit boring. But seeing these golden signs along the road was always a small event for me as a kid. They act as sporadic milestones: every time you see one, you know you’ve made progress and entered a new region.

New comment by bbx in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

bbx — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:30:24 +0000

I was expecting it to open the FFmpeg website at the end.

New comment by bbx in "[dead]"

bbx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:28:08 +0000

The website feels quite sluggish, especially when hovering color palettes. There's some missing CSS optimization here.

And I'm not sure what the point is linking to a Github repo that only has a License and a Readme?

New comment by bbx in "Skip is now free and open source"

bbx — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:14:42 +0000

Interesting. I used Expo recently and loved the development experience. I also built a simple iPhone app with Swift, and it was a decent experience. I have plans of building another iPhone app and was considering Swift again, which would make me miss building an Android app, but maybe Skip would allow me to do it anyways.