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Show HN: Blundle, an open-source country guessing game

eviledamame — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:54:00 +0000

Similar to the game "Worldle" (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) but a bit different!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296485

Points: 2

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New comment by eviledamame in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

eviledamame — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:22:29 +0000

the turn order is shown at the bottom. although i do think it could be improved. adding additional highlighting around "power plays" (moving opponents piece, then immediately own piece) could be helpful

New comment by eviledamame in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

eviledamame — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:21:02 +0000

yeah good point, something like that could definitely help

New comment by eviledamame in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

eviledamame — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:17:02 +0000

I love that! A very similar situation was also the inspiration for this variant- a beginner friend and I wanted to play but make the game less serious and more funny

New comment by eviledamame in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

eviledamame — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:00:47 +0000

The tricky thing about playing locally is that white and black will always alternate- so if you're not paying close attention to the turn order at the bottom, it appears as if it is playing out as normal chess. However the turn order is five normal moves, followed by two blunder-for-opponent moves, repeating

New comment by eviledamame in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

eviledamame — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:59:36 +0000

Very true!

New comment by eviledamame in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

eviledamame — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:58:52 +0000

My observations so far is that this game mode causes a lot of draws- because when a player gets a "power play" (moving opponent's piece, then immediately own piece) they can nullify pretty much any attack. It does seem like restricting mobility to your important pieces like the queen and rooks can be advantageous- to prevent your opponent from taking them on a "power play"

As for the turn order- it generally needs to be "odd number of consecutive normal moves" followed by two "blunder for opponent moves". I have it set at five consecutive normal moves right now. Initially, I tried three, but that was too frustrating. Your opponent had too much control over your board. I could be convinced that seven normal consecutive moves is better than five though. Beyond that, I would think that the gimmick (playing for opponent) would occur too rarely. I'm not sure though! I'm curious what others think

New comment by eviledamame in "Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves"

eviledamame — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:21:09 +0000

there were indeed some networking issues which should now be resolved :)

Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves

eviledamame — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:22:01 +0000

blunderchess.net is an open source, peer-to-peer chess app where every five moves, players each get to make one blunder-move for their opponent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063970

Points: 126

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New comment by eviledamame in "Autotone – A vocal pitch correction web application, like Autotune"

eviledamame — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:13:27 +0000

This may be because your sample rate was not a multiple of 16000. If that's the case, a low-quality, linear resampling is applied to the input audio to make it compatible with the pitch detection model. This resampling function should be improved.

I just pushed a change that will attempt to set your sample rate to 48000 now which may improve your quality. Additionally, your sample rate will now log out in the console.

New comment by eviledamame in "Autotone – A vocal pitch correction web application, like Autotune"

eviledamame — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:02:30 +0000

Yes, that should be possible, the pitch shifting is very fast. I would expect the audio to sound pretty funky if you shift beyond one octave though

Autotone – A vocal pitch correction web application, like Autotune

eviledamame — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexcrist/autotone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34396303

Points: 113

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New comment by eviledamame in "Ask HN: What is your favorite front end state management solution?"

eviledamame — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:43:28 +0000

oof

Ask HN: What unrelated fields of study pair best computer science?

eviledamame — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 01:12:20 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32021818

Points: 2

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Show HN: Score Da Ball

eviledamame — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 01:01:24 +0000

Article URL: https://score-da-ball.herokuapp.com/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31688809

Points: 2

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New comment by eviledamame in "Show HN: I built a beatbox-to-drum translator using WASM"

eviledamame — Thu, 05 May 2022 15:05:11 +0000

Great point, thanks for the feedback

Show HN: I built a beatbox-to-drum translator using WASM

eviledamame — Thu, 05 May 2022 03:10:04 +0000

Article URL: https://app.projectbeatbot.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31268941

Points: 2

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Scaffold for a live-reloading web application that uses C and Webpack

eviledamame — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:46:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexcrist/webpack-wasm-c-livereload

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30326813

Points: 2

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New comment by eviledamame in "A web app that can play musical scales according to mathematical equations"

eviledamame — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:13:05 +0000

Just switched out the backend to a more robust library (mathjs). A lot of the previous problems should be fixed now :)

New comment by eviledamame in "A web app that can play musical scales according to mathematical equations"

eviledamame — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:12:15 +0000

Looked like infinity was not being handled gracefully. Fixed now!