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Optimization lessons from a Minecraft structure locator

ftk_ — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:41:23 +0000

Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/optimization-lessons-from-a-minecraft-structure-locator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458805

Points: 64

# Comments: 11

New comment by ftk_ in "Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect URLs based on regex"

ftk_ — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:21:13 +0000

If you have uBlock Origin installed you can enable URL tracking protection filter list or write your own filters `$removeparam=`.

New comment by ftk_ in "Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux"

ftk_ — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:45:09 +0000

There are now third party launchers for proton, such as: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

As well as "game libraries": Lutris, Bottles, Heroic

Personally I use this alias to launch an exe via proton:

  alias proton='SteamGameId="${SteamGameId-1000}" PROTON_USE_WINESYNC=1 STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$PWD" STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=$HOME/proton /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos/proton waitforexitandrun'
  # cd /gamepath
  # proton Game.exe

New comment by ftk_ in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"

ftk_ — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:38:35 +0000

Not OP but also wrote a similar thing for mpv.

https://github.com/ftk/mpv-confluence/tree/torrserver

New comment by ftk_ in "YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox"

ftk_ — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:29:13 +0000

I implemented downloading of youtube thumbnails for one of these scripts.

https://github.com/marzzzello/mpv_thumbnail_script

New comment by ftk_ in "Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends"

ftk_ — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 09:03:24 +0000

Here's how I use youtube, usually without opening web frontend at all:

Install mpv and yt-dlp.

Use play-with addon to open youtube or other video links directly in mpv.

Periodically convert youtube subscriptions into OPML using an userscript.

Import OPML into freetube or other RSS reader to check for new videos.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/

https://github.com/theborg3of5/Userscripts/tree/master/youtu...

New comment by ftk_ in "Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran"

ftk_ — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:33:01 +0000

There's also DNS tunneling (dnstt) which is slow but probably harder to block

New comment by ftk_ in "Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?"

ftk_ — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:03:14 +0000

Little known but you can "subscribe" to YouTube channels without Google account by using RSS https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=${channe...

New comment by ftk_ in "I made a mechanical keyboard with 3D-printed switches"

ftk_ — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:07:13 +0000

Good job! However, according to the wiring seems like it wouldn't be able to register something like ctrl+shift+z which is used as redo hotkey almost everywhere.

New comment by ftk_ in "Firefox 80 to Support VA-API Acceleration on X11"

ftk_ — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 13:41:19 +0000

There's also play-with extension which doesn't require native client. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/