Hacker News: jordigh

New comment by jordigh in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

jordigh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:34:10 +0000

I know it's a very niche domain, but I feel this way about Lizard.

My lizard is the lizard of website: https://rainwarrior.ca/lizard/

My lizard is the lizard of source: https://github.com/bbbradsmith/lizard_src_demo/

"﷽" U+fdfd: Arabic Ligature Bismillah AR-Rahman AR-Raheem (Unicode Character)

jordigh — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:39:24 +0000

Article URL: https://unicodeplus.com/U+FDFD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509790

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jordigh in "No Bookmarks"

jordigh — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:50:11 +0000

I don't use phones, so if I have to go somewhere, I have to memorise the route. I enjoy the exercise. I look up the directions on my laptop, mentally rehearse the points of interest that will indicate to me where I need to take particular turns, and then have to put into practice my memory with the actual physical landscape I tour as I follow this route. Sometimes I make mistakes, but correcting them is part of the exercise.

It seems very few people nowadays know how to follow a route, especially an unfamiliar one, without being tethered to their GPS.

It's illegal to build a gaydar in the EU

jordigh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624791

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jordigh in "Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES"

jordigh — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:27:45 +0000

Rentals too often came without the manual.

New comment by jordigh in "Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES"

jordigh — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:11:02 +0000

The Japanese release of the game flips around the "soundless" sections with the music section, suggesting that listening to that rocking track for most of your flight is the intended experience.

https://tcrf.net/Top_Gun_(NES)#Music

New comment by jordigh in "Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES"

jordigh — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:08:02 +0000

The information to properly land the plane is in the manual. The required air speed and altitude have never been a secret, if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).

The real difficulty, not explored in this disassembly, is that the game has semi-realistic physics! My older brother was in flight school at the time and was able to easily land the plane and taught me how to do it.

As the article states, "Altitude and speed are both controlled by throttle input and pitch angle". So you can't just hit the engines or air brakes button to change your speed. If you lower the nose of the plane, you'll speed up and vice versa! So you have to carefully juggle your speed and altitude by altering both your pitch and your engines/air brakes.

My brother taught me that my speed wouldn't reduce if I'm nosediving, so raise the nose a little while opening my air brakes for a quick reduction in speed and then level out to maintain altitude. The game actually models this somewhat accurately!

33 days, new WR in speedrunning a fan translation of a long-lost game

jordigh — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:46:23 +0000

Article URL: https://aeongenesis.net/news?date=2025-12-03T10:10:49-08:00

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138313

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025

jordigh — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:04:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ballardgames.com/tales/hiring-dev-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883995

Points: 133

# Comments: 111

New comment by jordigh in "How to make a Smith chart"

jordigh — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:17:00 +0000

Btw, as all Möbius transforms, a Smith chart can be understood by looking at the complex plane as a sphere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1fIsUNhO4

Micro Machines BIC-23 PCB with hardware ROM patch

jordigh — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:17:49 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=26295

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630407

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jordigh in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

jordigh — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:51:41 +0000

That's interesting. Was AI slop harder to spot in 2023? I can't remember anymore when did everything really start getting flooded with it.

New comment by jordigh in "If all the world were a monorepo"

jordigh — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:37:38 +0000

Peeved that it isn't an equation. There's no equals signs!

Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

jordigh — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:40:06 +0000

Article URL: https://phishyurl.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45295898

Points: 1127

# Comments: 320

New comment by jordigh in "This map is not upside down"

jordigh — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:07:59 +0000

Thought of this old Mafalda strip, haha.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

A love letter to the CSV format (2024)

jordigh — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:27:13 +0000

Article URL: https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/news/a-love-letter-to-the-csv-format/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195267

Points: 109

# Comments: 116

Ekai: AI Twin for Slack Users

jordigh — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:53:19 +0000

Article URL: https://yourekai.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434480

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jordigh in "Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus"

jordigh — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:56:09 +0000

Donkey Kong 64 running for 11 hours just fine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWUg_iM7yIg

Hailey gets LLM code review

jordigh — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:28:55 +0000

Article URL: https://social.hails.org/@hailey/114752144098708214

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44392461

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jordigh in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

jordigh — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:26:43 +0000

The point of most ads isn't to get you to buy things. Most ads just want you to think of the product and be aware it exists. Their objective is to slowly hijack your brain.

If you know what "it gives you wings" or "the happiest place on earth" means, the ads already worked.

Ads are trying to combat obscurity. A brand with bad reputation is far better than a brand nobody's ever heard of.