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New comment by flobosg in "Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria"

flobosg — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:13:38 +0000

My favorite antibiotic is fire.

New comment by flobosg in "Where the goblins came from"

flobosg — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:48:52 +0000

“No, John. You are the goblins.”

(https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Repercussions_of_Evil#The_Story...)

New comment by flobosg in "Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell"

flobosg — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:54:09 +0000

If you liked David Goodsell’s illustration you can find more of his work at https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/. I’m a huge fan.

New comment by flobosg in "Craig Venter has died"

flobosg — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:46:22 +0000

How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project: https://bioperl.org/articles/How_Perl_saved_human_genome.htm...

New comment by flobosg in "Mahjong: A Visual Guide"

flobosg — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:47:05 +0000

Yes, he is! (Which explains other of his mangas, Akagi):

> He has been playing mahjong since junior high school days, and admitted that though he has rarely lost a game when he was in school, his current level of ability is average. According to him, he has "tournament luck" and has even won mahjong tournaments between mahjong manga artists. He has also participated in professional mahjong matches. He played about two games against Akagi and Kaiji's voice actor Masato Hagiwara, who is known as one of the best mahjong players in the entertainment industry, and made Hagiwara say "I don't think I can beat him."

―https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuyuki_Fukumoto

New comment by flobosg in "Mahjong: A Visual Guide"

flobosg — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:27:14 +0000

In the Kaiji manga, the “Minefield Mahjong” arc uses a variation of Japanese Mahjong. It can be read without knowing the general rules (as I did), but I guess they make some of the scenes more understandable and/or impactful. Maybe I’ll give it a reread after checking this out.

New comment by flobosg in "The Free Universal Construction Kit"

flobosg — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:50:36 +0000

(2012)

New comment by flobosg in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

flobosg — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:49:13 +0000

Teenage Engineering designed the Playdate, in case you didn’t know: https://teenage.engineering/designs/playdate

New comment by flobosg in "DIY Soft Drinks"

flobosg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:08:10 +0000

Tereré is also a milder alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terer%C3%A9

New comment by flobosg in "DIY Soft Drinks"

flobosg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:15:17 +0000

> They have made a sugar free version now as well, but that not as cool as making your own

That version (Club Mate Zero) is hard to get in supermarkets as well, at least where I’m living in Germany. I usually order it online.

New comment by flobosg in "DIY Soft Drinks"

flobosg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:11:16 +0000

Club Mate has a different taste than traditionally brewed yerba mate. It’s carbonated as well.

New comment by flobosg in "DIY Soft Drinks"

flobosg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:09:27 +0000

> mate tea as tea sachets

Look for “mate cocido”. La Tranquera is the brand I use.

New comment by flobosg in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

flobosg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:02:17 +0000

See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... as well.

New comment by flobosg in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

flobosg — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:25:45 +0000

Here are plenty of small apps developed with LÖVE: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik, see also https://akkartik.name/

New comment by flobosg in "Twelve-Tone Composition"

flobosg — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:25:37 +0000

Also King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana.

New comment by flobosg in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

flobosg — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:39:10 +0000

Same here. I think no site brings me less joy than LinkedIn. I find broetry particularly tiring to read.

New comment by flobosg in "Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?"

flobosg — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:23:25 +0000

The header illustration brought to my mind, for some reason, the tomato bushy stunt virus depiction by the late Irving Geis: https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/geis-archive/gallery/geis-05...

New comment by flobosg in ""That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)"

flobosg — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:09:06 +0000

Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224

New comment by flobosg in "Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer"

flobosg — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:04:56 +0000

Nice! I’ve been meaning to do something similar with David Goodsell’s Illustrate (https://github.com/ccsb-scripps/Illustrate) but sadly haven’t progressed much.

New comment by flobosg in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

flobosg — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:14:08 +0000

Then you meant audiovisual content.