Hacker News: dtagames

New comment by dtagames in "AI is the greatest money-wasting scheme humanity has ever invented"

dtagames — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:21:05 +0000

New comment by dtagames in "Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development"

dtagames — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:22:57 +0000

I can answer that one. They're public domain as a result of a trademark lapse by Hanna Barbera many years ago. Widely available and downloadable on the Internet archive.

New comment by dtagames in "Tesla Cybertruck resale value plunges amid sales slump"

dtagames — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:30:34 +0000

We do say that in Texas! Surprisingly, a huge number of people here are still very taken with Mr. Musk and his various hats.

New comment by dtagames in "Vintage "Greetings From " postcards production design notes"

dtagames — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:27:57 +0000

These are fascinating and everyone knows the iconic design styles this company developed.

Seen from 2026, the telegram messages with art revisions look just like the prompts we give to AI tools, "Put Greetings from Yellowstone under the bears and the big bear doesn't look right." They're terse, like tokens!

New comment by dtagames in "NASA Says Farewell to Maven Mars Mission"

dtagames — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:23:23 +0000

It's worth noting that the satellite failed at the exact time it was in the best position to photograph comet 3I/ATLAS, something observers on earth had been anxiously awaiting as Maven offered a viewpoint not achievable from here.

New comment by dtagames in "OpenAI Has a Branding Problem"

dtagames — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:16:57 +0000

Also a problem, like what happened to Xerox and Kleenex.

And another... Few people connect ChatGPT and OpenAI, and there's nothing open about it, so strange branding all around.

New comment by dtagames in "Why is news.ycombinator still relevant and devs keep coming back to it?"

dtagames — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:09:42 +0000

Because smart people come here to read and write original thoughts and share things they find interesting.

There are not nearly enough places in the world where that happens.

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:54:31 +0000

Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying it. The blocking and my lack of any way to know about or fix it is definitely one of the downsides of having such open and community-sourced content. Try the Scan & Remove feature and see if you like it, documented here: https://tvexplorer.live/help/25-things-18

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:52:56 +0000

For me it's like a media research library. I definitely can't "couch potato out" and watch for a long time, but I never do that with any TV. My favorite thing is the variety and access to content that we don't normally get in the US because none of the big streaming providers bother to offer it.

New comment by dtagames in "Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]"

dtagames — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:10:37 +0000

Little known fact: Walt himself is a named inventor on the patent, and the device is the basis for all contemporary animation layers and UI effects, even in Photoshop and the browser.

Walt would be pleased.

New comment by dtagames in "Anthropic is conditioning our minds"

dtagames — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:57:37 +0000

That's your harness and not the model. Use Cursor with Claude models. It's made for controlling agents and works the way you want.

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:00:05 +0000

It works with your VPN if you have one, but I agree, a built-in option might be useful.

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:45:43 +0000

I'm pleased to tell you this is live in version 3.41, and thank you again for the great idea! You can move back and forth between the channels you've tuned using your browser's back and forward buttons. Enjoy!

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:15:34 +0000

I'm very glad to hear that and thank you for saying so!

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:14:54 +0000

If you reach out to me through the help page, I'd be interested in where you are and what you tried, even though I don't have any control over their blocking of course.

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:01:53 +0000

If you contact me via the help or from my portfolio site I'd be happy to help diagnose.

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:00:36 +0000

It's not a box that runs a browser. Apps for Roku are built with a special, limited language where TVE is in Typescript.

New comment by dtagames in "What Distinguishes the Super Rich from the Rest of Us"

dtagames — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:59:00 +0000

Someone had to say it!

New comment by dtagames in "How to Build a Shitty Robot"

dtagames — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:58:20 +0000

This person went to the trouble to block visitors that come from HN (via HTTP referrer).

That strikes me as odd. After looking at the article, I don't think we're missing anything.

New comment by dtagames in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dtagames — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:04:04 +0000

It's there! Right on the home page. Click around in that map. So glad you're liking the app.