Hacker News: bbx

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.

New comment by bbx in "Show HN: ChordsCrush, a free musical chord training game"

bbx — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:22:22 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. The toggle should be simple enough actually. Adding a soundfont is also a good idea (I'd never heard the term before).

New comment by bbx in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bbx — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:04:06 +0000

https://jgthms.com/

Show HN: ChordsCrush, a free musical chord training game

bbx — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:37:47 +0000

I've always wanted to practice playing piano chords on my computer, so I built this simple game that gives you a random chord to play.

The game supports input from a computer keyboard, a mouse, a touchscreen, and even a MIDI keyboard.

There is a training mode that will highlight the notes to play.

You can also adjust the difficulty, the oscillator type, and the root note of the generated chord.

Built with React/TypeScript.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46615933

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by bbx in "Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface"

bbx — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:44:17 +0000

Funnily enough, if you Google "Calibri", the page itself is in Calibri. I've never seen that happen for any other font.

New comment by bbx in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

bbx — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:50:48 +0000

Yes I think on mobile, having only the list scroll would be great. I actually had the Apple alarm interface in mind for a bit but thought implementing it would be more difficult. But you're right, it's probably a better experience.

New comment by bbx in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

bbx — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:49:23 +0000

Thanks, that's great feedback.

For number 2, that should be possible, since I have the position of each item in the list (and the position of the list itself. Using a

For number 4, my main concern would be that it would feel like "scroll-hijacking". What I did however is prevent the picked item from going beyond the list, in both directions.

Number 5 is a good idea as well, easy to implement.

New comment by bbx in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

bbx — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:21:25 +0000

That's a great idea actually. I'd have to find a way to highlight the possible landing spots.

New comment by bbx in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

bbx — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:03:31 +0000

Sorry, it's public now.

Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop

bbx — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:12:06 +0000

I find that the drag and drop experience can quickly become a nightmare, especially on mobile. To tap, hold, drag, and scroll, all at the same time, is both difficult to achieve, and prone to errors. I've always had in mind this 2-step approach, where picking an element and placing it were two separate steps. So I implemented this basic version to showcase my idea.

While it might take more time than a regular drag and drop, the benefit is for people who struggle with holding down the mouse button. With picknplace.js, you only need two clicks and some scrolling.

This solution is meant as an experiment, so I'm open to discussion.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290349

Points: 455

# Comments: 152

New comment by bbx in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

bbx — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:59:07 +0000

One of those apps that "just works". Been using it recently to share files between an Android phone and my Mac. Turns out it works better than Airdrop itself when I couldn't send a file from my iPhone to my Mac. Great user experience as well.

New comment by bbx in "CUDA Ontology"

bbx — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:06:23 +0000

For reference: CUDA means "Compute Unified Device Architecture".