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New comment by niothiel in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

niothiel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:04:07 +0000

I've been working on cardcast.gg. It gives you the ability to play Magic: The Gathering with your friends remotely using a webcam.

I got back into MTG back during the pandemic after a long hiatus and Spelltable is what brought me back. My playgroup lamented more features and something tailored to our needs, so curiosity got the better of me and here we are. :)

I've never worked with computer vision before, but I went through a whole journey that started with the classical computer vision techniques and ended with recently migrating to the transformer-based models. Been a really cool adventure!

My playgroup has been loving it so far, and I would love for people to try it and tell me what breaks! Discord is on the site.

https://cardcast.gg

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

niothiel — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:32:12 +0000

I'm working on a (hopefully) better version of Spelltable to play Magic: The Gathering with my friends: https://cardcast.gg.

I think I got all of the important bits in place, now just working on improving the quality of life experience and bug hunting.

New comment by niothiel in "Show HN: Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell"

niothiel — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 22:01:28 +0000

Would love to know this as well.

If your primary bank allowed you to “link” your other banks, would you do it?

niothiel — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 23:20:17 +0000

Similar to how mint.com and other financial aggregators allow you to see all of your financials in one place, would it be valuable if your primary bank allowed this as well?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841852

Points: 1

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New comment by niothiel in "Program your next server in Go"

niothiel — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:45:21 +0000

Per your typo point, this has already been solved by linting. If I made a typo like that, any decent editor (Sublime in my case) would draw a big red box and complain at me for using an undeclared variable. In the case of a typo on assignment as in your example, the linter would report a variable declaration without usages.

Per your testing point, so what? Doesn't everyone strive for 100% code coverage anyway? One of the big advantages of dynamic languages is that more functionality can be implemented in less code which in turn makes it easier to hit that 100% coverage.

New comment by niothiel in "Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack"

niothiel — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 13:07:19 +0000

If you like doing this sort of thing, check out http://mithril.js.org.

New comment by niothiel in "Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack"

niothiel — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 13:02:28 +0000

Mithril.js uses 'm()'.

Check it out: http://mithril.js.org