Hacker News: eastoeast

New comment by eastoeast in "Apple Made a Sports App That Does Almost Nothing. It's Incredible"

eastoeast — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:41:21 +0000

This was on show hn years ago and it’s still my main sports source https://plaintextsports.com/

Scorigami

eastoeast — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:09:18 +0000

Article URL: https://nflscorigami.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940402

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by eastoeast in "Ask HN: How do you prevent children from accessing your products?"

eastoeast — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:42:45 +0000

It's obvious from the profiles they fill out. Things like "I love pink things" or "I like kpop demons" etc. Just trendy kid stuff

Ask HN: How do you prevent children from accessing your products?

eastoeast — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:48:20 +0000

After launching my first few apps, I'm running into an unexpected problem: younger children are the ones most likely to click my ads, using their parents' phones/tablets. This gets around the age restriction, and in fact, has a compounding effect: they are too young to have their OWN devices (so they just install and never use again), burn ad money, and most importantly, skew the target demographic towards users like them- so ad placements end up targeting more of them, because they're most likely to click!

This causes all my campaigns to immediately fail, no matter how much I play with the age restriction (again, parent's device). I've changed settings to stop showing in games and on tablets, which has helped a bit, but not fully.

Obviously, there is no chance I'm adding real age verification to the app itself.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767934

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

New comment by eastoeast in "Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?"

eastoeast — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:20:49 +0000

I’m mostly a hardware engineer.

I needed to test pumping water through a special tube, but didn’t have access to a pump. I spent days searching how to rig a pump to this thing.

Then I remembered I could just hang a bucket of water up high to generate enough head pressure. Free instant solution!

New comment by eastoeast in "Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read"

eastoeast — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:36:02 +0000

Sweet, looking now to get some recommendations! I'm actually surprised more people don't have my two favorites overlapped more often (Mistborn and Name of the Wind)!

Question: when you don't search a book, it shows "Loved by X people", when you do, it shows "Book twins". I'd be really interested in seeing most frequently loved books, from people that like the book/books I'm searching. It would make it obvious I'm missing something!

New comment by eastoeast in "Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45"

eastoeast — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 05:19:12 +0000

This is a lot of fun! Works decently well on mobile too. One suggestion (although, take it with a grain of salt)- I didn’t notice the deselect since header disappears on zoom. Might be better that way, but might be useful sticked top. Nice work!

New comment by eastoeast in "Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free"

eastoeast — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:42:49 +0000

This is a great idea. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this, given I generate and screenshot so many “poster images” in html just like this. Haven’t played around a ton but seems intuitive. Nice work!

New comment by eastoeast in "GPT-5.2"

eastoeast — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:01:42 +0000

For the first time, I’m presenting a problem to LLMs that they cannot seem to answer. This is my first instance of them “endlessly thinking” without producing anything.

The problem is complicated, but very solvable.

I’m programming video cropping into my Android application. It seems videos that have “rotated” metadata cause the crop to be applied incorrectly. As in, a crop applied to the top of a video actually gets applied to the video rotated on its side.

So, either double rotation is being applied somewhere in the pipeline, or rotation metadata is being ignored.

I tried Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, and Codex 5.2. All 3 go through loops of “Maybe Media3 applies the degree(90) after…”, “no, that’s not right. Let me think…”

They’ll do this for about 5 minutes without producing anything. I’ll then stop them, adjusting the prompt to tell them “Just try anything! Your first thought, let’s rapidly iterate!“. Nope. Nothing.

To add, it also only seems to be using about 25% context on Opus 4.5. Weird!

New comment by eastoeast in "Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app"

eastoeast — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:59:16 +0000

This is pretty cool. Congrats on the launch! With anything, there will be multiple corner cases to handle, but I'm initially impressed!

Low hanging fruit feedback that would really improve the experience of many: I haven't been able to pinpoint it, but there seems to be double scroll bar enabled in both the container of the whole page (top navbar, and "non-content") and the actual wanted scrollbar inside the rendered content. Because of this, especially on mobile, when I try to scroll, the outside scrollbar "captured" my scroll input and I could never get past the Headline.

Might be a missing height: 100vh; or overflow-y: hidden in your min-h-screen class. Cheers!

New comment by eastoeast in "Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator"

eastoeast — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:39:54 +0000

Too accurate. Awesome!

New comment by eastoeast in "Ask HN: How did your startup get its first real users?"

eastoeast — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:10:08 +0000

I’m documenting my exact process of this here: https://opus.cafe/goal/jj/26#progress-6

Still a lot of learning to go, though

New comment by eastoeast in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

eastoeast — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:02:51 +0000

It's been a while. But I believe what caused me the most headache while trying to build something like this was handling the interactions between different elements. Declaring which objects were affected by "attacks" or could be "player interactive" or "affected by player but not by NPC". Really this boiled down to proper inheritance. But I found myself so deep and tangled a fresh reset would have been better. Then determining if the object itself or an "objective manager" should perform the calculation each cycle.. etc

It was messy. I ended up having NPC, Item, Attack classes and for each a NPC Manager, Item Manager, and Attack Manager to calculate all their interactions and states.

That's why your project seems interesting because it seems to handle the heavy lifting of behaviors and "behind the scenes".

New comment by eastoeast in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

eastoeast — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:32:02 +0000

This is really cool. Nice project!

I tried doing something much more rudimentary before. Will be following

New comment by eastoeast in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

eastoeast — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:19:29 +0000

I’m still working on https://opus.cafe/ outside my full time job.

It’s been a fun 3 year project. Just launched on iOS and am in user acquisition phase. Totally new learnings here! Getting users is definitely the hard part... I can build something all day

New comment by eastoeast in "Any hardware tinkerers have suggestions for building this mechanism?"

eastoeast — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:28:36 +0000

Haha, you are correct. I think they'd have to be a little bigger! Now I'm thinking the gearing might slip during movement.

Building a social media from scratch 1

eastoeast — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:08:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZjbe2wFAiw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733115

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by eastoeast in "Any hardware tinkerers have suggestions for building this mechanism?"

eastoeast — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:00:43 +0000

We are discussing using a string and gear but haven't tested. Thank you!

Any hardware tinkerers have suggestions for building this mechanism?

eastoeast — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:00:43 +0000

Article URL: https://opus.cafe/goal/iammaker/0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706920

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by eastoeast in "Best strategies to grow from 300 –> 1000 users?"

eastoeast — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:08:50 +0000

You can see what I’ve tried so far in my goal progress. Any other things you guys would recommend? Thanks!