Hacker News: dave84

New comment by dave84 in "DropZap World – My falling block game with lasers, released after years of work"

dave84 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:01:22 +0000

DropZap! Blast from the past, congrats on the new release. Not available in Europe though.

New comment by dave84 in "Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform"

dave84 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:08:39 +0000

Unrelated to https://www.flowcode.co.uk/

New comment by dave84 in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

dave84 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:53:03 +0000

Recently I asked 4o to ‘try again’ when it failed to respond fully, it started telling me about some song called Try Again. It seems to lose context a lot in the conversations now.

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?"

dave84 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:58:18 +0000

Things 3, really polished todo/personal task manager app. I also use on iOS and Apple Watch. Blackhole, sound routing e.g recording os audio when screen recording.

New comment by dave84 in "Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021)"

dave84 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:50:26 +0000

They messed up the pricing time and again sadly, then they made it free and now they killed the classroom product.

New comment by dave84 in "FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)"

dave84 — Sun, 26 May 2024 22:02:17 +0000

Still actively used for releases in the demoscene.

New comment by dave84 in "Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone"

dave84 — Sun, 26 May 2024 11:06:31 +0000

No mention of the iPhone’s built in ‘Assistive Access’ mode. That would be my first port of call for turning it into a dumb phone.

New comment by dave84 in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

dave84 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:27:16 +0000

I’ll never forget the sense of wellbeing I felt after my first “sun holiday” further south, it was revelatory.

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: How often do you restart your computer?"

dave84 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:36:17 +0000

Only when I need Keynote to recognise a newly installed font.

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: Who are your most treasured live coders?"

dave84 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:42:44 +0000

There's a fairly substantial Demoscene live coding community with shader coding and non-competitive jams (with an archive here: https://livecode.demozoo.org/)

You can take a look at the final of the Shader Showdown at Revision last year here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7KAD0NyGw

There's a TIC-80 'bytejam' every Monday Night (8 or 9pm UK time depending on the week) on https://www.twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo

And you can catch some previous VODs here: https://scenesat.com/videoarchive

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: How does Apple CarPlay work?"

dave84 — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:07:54 +0000

You can get a wireless CarPlay adapter for cheap and just leave that plugged in.

And that page 18 seems to have nothing to do with the car manufacturer.

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?"

dave84 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:12:25 +0000

I give up. Best of luck OP.

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?"

dave84 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 10:55:44 +0000

Again, I can see that. I want to know what they actually tried and what the result is that they're unsatisfied with to take as a starting point.

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?"

dave84 — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 22:05:31 +0000

Very helpful reply, thanks. I use it every day and have no issues getting to to generate an appropriate tone for my responses so I want more concrete examples of the issues.

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?"

dave84 — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 20:15:16 +0000

Can you give example prompts and responses?

New comment by dave84 in "Tiny Code Christmas"

dave84 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:28:21 +0000

The creator of Uxn/Varvara is actually doing TCC again this year and they have published code so you can take a look. Lots of approximations for avoiding square roots and trig. Good discussion on the discord about it.

New comment by dave84 in "Ask HN: What is your most wanted HN feature?"

dave84 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:20:33 +0000

I wish posts I just read wouldn’t disappear completely when I press the back button due to being flagged or whatever, especially if they’re on the front page. Happens enough to annoy me.

New comment by dave84 in "Tiny Code Christmas"

dave84 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:07:58 +0000

Highly variable based on your previous programming experience but it’s designed to not take up too much of your time.

New comment by dave84 in "Tiny Code Christmas"

dave84 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:38:00 +0000

Thanks for posting, if anyone has any questions about Tiny Code Christmas, feel free to ask.

It's not too late to start, there's no time limit. It's all very informal so you can start anytime and the videos and website will stay up. Checkout #lovebytetcc on Mastodon to see what people are up to, the discord is also very welcoming and active if people are stuck and need help.

New comment by dave84 in "Tiny Code Christmas"

dave84 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:16:20 +0000

Thanks for posting! I tried a Show HN and it got nowhere.