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New comment by chrisshroba in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

chrisshroba — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:43:44 +0000

Can you speak to the total api costs to create one such game? Not looking for exact numbers but I'm curious if to create, say, that snowboarding game, it cost closer to $5, $50, or $500 in usage.

New comment by chrisshroba in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

chrisshroba — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:52:55 +0000

Sometimes your system doesn’t have a graphical session, like a raspberry pi with no x server running, or a cloud compute instance I’m ssh’ed into, or a docker image running on my laptop. Sometimes your system doesn’t have a (particularly usable) text system, like a work computer that disables the terminal or a family member’s MacBook who doesn’t have the time or space to install XCode terminal utilities to be able to use things like brew install.

My point is that it’s not a given that having one means you have the other.

TUIs are wonderful for the first case.

New comment by chrisshroba in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

chrisshroba — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:05:22 +0000

> 'remembering' a rule that never existed

Probably the Mandela effect!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect

New comment by chrisshroba in "Unix Isn't for Agents"

chrisshroba — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:52:01 +0000

Processes by default get stdin and stdout. If you run a command interactively from your tty, the tty shows your stdout and collects stdin from you to pass to the process. But nothing about Unix prevents you from hooking something else up to stdin and stdout. As another commenter said, you could use sockets and have a completely generic input and output stream which an arbitrary tool could read and write to. Or you could spin up a websocket server that spawns the process and converts between websocket messages and stdin/stdout bytes. Or http requests and long polled responses. Or read input from a speech to text stream and push output into a text to speech stream.

I feel like OP’s main gripe is that persistent interactive sessions should be supported without a third party tool like tmux or screen or zellij, but one of the main strengths of Unix is that it provides platform building blocks which can be composed to create whatever experience you’re looking for.

New comment by chrisshroba in "NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks"

chrisshroba — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:38:40 +0000

The contract ends in 2083 (58 years), which even by conservative estimates is well after cars will be able to self-park

New comment by chrisshroba in "Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT"

chrisshroba — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:09:34 +0000

Do you have any repository of apps that support that? I’d love to browse them!

New comment by chrisshroba in "The Lucas-Lehmer Prime Number Test"

chrisshroba — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:03:38 +0000

Except 91

New comment by chrisshroba in "New updates and more access to Google Earth AI"

chrisshroba — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:57:12 +0000

> Bellwether, a moonshot at Alphabet's X, is using Earth AI to provide hurricane predictions insights for global insurance broker McGill and Partners. This enables McGill's clients to pay claims faster so homeowners can start rebuilding sooner.

Hm, I'm quite skeptical about this claim.

New comment by chrisshroba in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

chrisshroba — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:36:09 +0000

For anyone interested, here is the flight playback:

https://fr24.com/data/flights/fr3418#3c7f91f4

New comment by chrisshroba in "Claude Code 2.0"

chrisshroba — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:03:15 +0000

Looks like you’re correct!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_characters

New comment by chrisshroba in "Ollama Web Search"

chrisshroba — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:16:09 +0000

Are the rate limits documented somewhere?

New comment by chrisshroba in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

chrisshroba — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:52:02 +0000

This always astounds me about cities who have a reputation for people breaking certain traffic laws. In St. Louis, people run red lights for 5+ seconds after it turns red, and no one seems to care to solve it, but if they'd just station police at some worst-offender lights for a couple months to write tickets, people would catch on pretty quickly that it's not worth the risk. I have similar thoughts on people using their phones at red lights and people running stop signs.

New comment by chrisshroba in "Sixteen bottles of wine riddle"

chrisshroba — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:35:52 +0000

I love riddles like this.

Has anyone found any good collections of these? Whenever I try to search for riddles online, I end up with mostly results containing wordplay riddles like "what has a mouth but doesn't eat, ..."

New comment by chrisshroba in "GPT-4.1 in the API"

chrisshroba — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:17:55 +0000

I also like Perplexity’s 3/day limit! If I use them up (which I almost never do) I can just refresh the next day

New comment by chrisshroba in "Tailscale has raised $160M"

chrisshroba — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:13:11 +0000

>I'm sure they have some cloud fees, but I thought it was mostly "control plane" and not data plane

Don't they host the relay servers that are the fallback if NAT hole punching and their other bag of tricks doesn't work?

New comment by chrisshroba in "Goodbye, Slopify"

chrisshroba — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:14:24 +0000

Agreed. I just navigated to my home page on desktop and I see the following categories:

- A section with 8 of my recently played playlists

- A section of "Made for " with 6 Daily Mixes (which I generally like), Discover weekly (which I like now that it's tailored to me: I used to hate that it only contained pop/hip hop hits), Release Radar (love it), and the AI DJ (which I find very annoying)

- A section called Recently Played which looks like all legitimate things I've played

- "New Releases for You", which are all by artists I've listened to very recently

- "Jump back in", which has several playlists and artists I've listened to recently

- A sidebar of all of my playlists I've created or followed

Of the ~50 actionable items on the page, the only one I dislike is the AI DJ, but it by no means feels forced on me since it's just a single square.

https://i.imgur.com/RKsIgLR.jpeg

New comment by chrisshroba in "Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy"

chrisshroba — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:41:52 +0000

Can we also add mass to the asteroid?

New comment by chrisshroba in "Test"

chrisshroba — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:19:47 +0000

It's actually 86 letters, making it TESLA

New comment by chrisshroba in "34x34x34 Rubik's Cube"

chrisshroba — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:27:57 +0000

I used to be able to solve the 3x3 in high school using memorized algorithms and then I lost interest since there was no reasoning involved. Your comment makes me want to pick it back up and learn 3-style, so thank you for the clear explanation!

New comment by chrisshroba in "Feds: You Don't Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books"

chrisshroba — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:59:10 +0000

> not to mention their full potential as an interactive medium has only barely started to be explored.

Any examples come to mind? I’d love to try (or at least read about) some games like this!