Hacker News: dsclough

New comment by dsclough in "MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%"

dsclough — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:29:55 +0000

Trees in pi let you do this, after done debugging you move back up and continue, leaving all the debugging context in its own branch

New comment by dsclough in "Library of Juggling"

dsclough — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:40:57 +0000

In my experience people can’t even tell how many balls you’re juggling after 3. 4, 5, 6, 7 all get “how many balls is that”, silly stuff like 3 ball factory blows more minds than 5 ball site swaps

New comment by dsclough in "Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples"

dsclough — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:16:45 +0000

Nonogram enjoyers might enjoy star battle, which I came across after having done lots of nonograms over the years(https://www.puzzle-star-battle.com/ or plenty of other places online). Though maybe it is a little too close to sudoku for some.

10x10 2star is the standard for me, I solved up to 6 stars but 10x10 is the sweet spot imo.

New comment by dsclough in "Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples"

dsclough — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:10:51 +0000

Voxelgram has gotten the most playtime out of me, the second dimension really makes it feel like whittling or something

New comment by dsclough in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

dsclough — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:53:58 +0000

I’ve recently been trying out the automations feature in the iOS shortcuts app to turn color filters off/on when opening/closing camera/photos/facetime so I can remove the triple click shortcut. It works well enough. Its disappointing but not surprising that in 2025 on an iPhone 15 pro this isn’t instant and takes a good half second for the color filters to turn off/on.

New comment by dsclough in "iPhone dumbphone"

dsclough — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:34:58 +0000

install the browser if you need it, uninstall it when youre done

New comment by dsclough in "Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?"

dsclough — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:41:08 +0000

Saw this earlier: https://x.com/adamscochran/status/1962148452072124879?s=46

As a layman the pathway seems to exist behind multiple massive materials science breakthroughs

New comment by dsclough in "Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)"

dsclough — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:38:35 +0000

Every time I’ve encountered this in Texas it is at the perimeter of the stores parking lot such that if you park in some of the furthest parking spaces your cart will be locked up when you try to return it to the corral.

I’ve always assumed it is to prevent literally stealing the carts themselves moreso than shoplifters trying to shoplift entire cartloads of stuff.

New comment by dsclough in "Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece"

dsclough — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 22:29:50 +0000

People win streak gold stake Balatro, A20H slay the spire, unfair slice and dice, and plenty of other games in this category. Nothing wrong with playing a game for 10 hours and being done with it but calling them rng fiestas just because you can’t beat the game on the hardest difficulty every time after 10 hours is a bit dismissive of the level of effort that is put in to getting these games as tightly tuned as they are.

New comment by dsclough in "My Journey Back to Math: A Short Review of MathAcademy"

dsclough — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 02:13:42 +0000

Is there some kind of marketing campaign by MathAcademy targeting hn or is it just an amazing product? I’ve seen multiple similar blog posts via here from blogs with very few or no other articles published, as well as various commenters singing its praises. Including other submissions by the submitter. Is it just that good?

New comment by dsclough in "People who are good at reading have different brains: study"

dsclough — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:34:02 +0000

After all that reading, got any favorite books / authors you’d like to share? Curious to hear

New comment by dsclough in "America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs"

dsclough — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:02:57 +0000

Your advice to people in tech with Google and Meta on their CV who couldn’t snap up new jobs instantly was to go into the trades? Really?

New comment by dsclough in "What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?"

dsclough — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:43:08 +0000

I’m mind blown you were willing to come up with random stories for your own blood and decided reading out ai drivel to them would somehow produce a better experience for any party involved.

New comment by dsclough in "Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)"

dsclough — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:24:29 +0000

THCs effects on proprioception are interesting enough to be worth pursuing if you have any interests in the physical realm. Dancing, climbing, lifting weights, running. Clearly one should be careful and I wish weed was still good for me but it’s just anxiety city so I’ll leave it to the folks who haven’t ruined their brains to enjoy.

New comment by dsclough in "Who Pays for the Arts?"

dsclough — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:38:58 +0000

Wasn’t crime and punishment published periodically in a magazine or something like it? What does this have to do with the quality?

New comment by dsclough in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

dsclough — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 04:00:02 +0000

Not sure about total death rates but I think gambling addiction has the highest suicide rate of any of the big addictions out there. It seems truly ruinous. I suppose if any random person can blow their savings on out of the money options theyre unable to gauge the risk of then they might as well be allowed to do the same with crazy parlay bets but seeing the whole landscape of sports betting evolve over the last handful of years has still been quite eerie to me.

My gut these days tells me its probably better for the humans in society if this stuff is left only to black markets because it seems like it destroys lives.

New comment by dsclough in "Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic (2017)"

dsclough — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 19:43:58 +0000

Hope you managed to preserve these, I’d be keep to take a listen if they’re hosted online somewhere. I’ve been using renoise for 15 years on and off and while nowhere near 100s of tracks a month I fondly look back on the first year I used it similarly - that combination of youthful energy and tracker software is really something special. Renoise has come a long way and is a joy to use.

New comment by dsclough in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"

dsclough — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:38:28 +0000

The crazy thing to me is that you’re confused about this. These companies make huge margin fooling consumers who aren’t paying attention. Nearly all the consumers I know are barely conscious, the first promoted link on Amazon is the one they buy. Losing customers like you who actually inspect the listed price is a pittance to the Amazon machine.

How much time have you spent in physical stores observing the physically listed price per volume labels? These things are all labeled specifically to fool people who are alive but not conscious. Again, we are just a rounding error to these monoliths

New comment by dsclough in "Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage"

dsclough — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 16:03:43 +0000

A nurse was unable to give my wife medication while in labor because the barcode on the bag of drugs wouldn’t scan. Fortunately we just had to wait another 20 minutes to get a new bag from the pharmacy but I can easily imagine a world where doctors are unable to perform procedures they are physically capable of doing because of liability surrounding not using the computer systems as intended. Epic particularly has really done a number on the healthcare system.

New comment by dsclough in "Progress Quest"

dsclough — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 02:47:15 +0000

The gnorp apologue demonstrated there is a lot of interesting design space left in the genre. I’m excited to see what comes of games made by folks who were inspired by it.