Hacker News: parlortricks

New comment by parlortricks in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

parlortricks — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:40:51 +0000

We added other weapons to make a poor mans scorched earth as we were only allowed to make games.

New comment by parlortricks in "PySimpleGUI 6"

parlortricks — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:25:39 +0000

You could try Lazarus + FreePascal or even Delphi

New comment by parlortricks in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

parlortricks — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:31:16 +0000

I love FreeCAD, designed some parts, did a bunch of Solidworks challenges and entered CAD comps.

I also love playing with build123d, dune3d (uses solvespace constraint) and SolveSpace.

Do love Solidworks but I'm on linux now so time to embrace the other options more.

New comment by parlortricks in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

parlortricks — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:26:54 +0000

Cargo cult represent! How good are they, aye. I bought one 2 months ago, had it for 2 weeks and already done 200+kms on it, and that has saved me $60 in fuel so far. It is great for getting around and grabbing shopping last minute, going to work and just feeling more connected and happy.

New comment by parlortricks in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

parlortricks — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:59:03 +0000

This is great, i use a 3x3 font i drew up for lowres games, though there are many example that look mostly the same since it is such a small space.

New comment by parlortricks in "Can I run AI locally?"

parlortricks — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:05:25 +0000

Yeah, second the norgb option. Even more annoying when openrgb just randomly hangs scanning devices and now im stuck with rainbows i cant turn off!

New comment by parlortricks in "BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs"

parlortricks — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:57:59 +0000

You gotta love it, simple and straight to the point.

New comment by parlortricks in "The HSBC app refuses to work if "Bitwarden" is installed on user's Android phone"

parlortricks — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:24:22 +0000

What keyboard did you modify and why?

New comment by parlortricks in "Lua 5.5"

parlortricks — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:42:17 +0000

Excellent new release, now for Fennel and Love2d to update, fun times!

New comment by parlortricks in "Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained"

parlortricks — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:55:59 +0000

That is very handy to know.

New comment by parlortricks in "Landlock-Ing Linux"

parlortricks — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:17:12 +0000

Well that seems like a major oversight there...what is the reasoning for that?

New comment by parlortricks in "Racket v9.0"

parlortricks — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:38:16 +0000

That was a great read from Cloudflare.

New comment by parlortricks in "Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally?"

parlortricks — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:13:56 +0000

I just fired this up at work, and it was so seamless and my few small tests worked well.

New comment by parlortricks in "The App Store was always authoritarian"

parlortricks — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:44:06 +0000

Seems like the app stores could just seperate into App Store Recommended and Community apps. Then you keep both but the app store vetted ones are top always.

New comment by parlortricks in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

parlortricks — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:47:30 +0000

yikes, that is not a great logo. it has also lost its essence

New comment by parlortricks in "Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin"

parlortricks — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:14:20 +0000

Seems like i should be concerned that the company running our edge infastructure decided to expand into crypto...how is this not the signal to jump ship...

New comment by parlortricks in "Why do some gamers invert their controls?"

parlortricks — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 23:05:12 +0000

That is a very clever way to work it out, I'm going to use it im my Godot stuff.

New comment by parlortricks in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

parlortricks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:17:01 +0000

oh that uv lock is neat, i am going to give that a go

New comment by parlortricks in "Pixel 10 Phones"

parlortricks — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:56:43 +0000

That sounds great, how much friction does this setup cause you daily? Could you hand your phone to a firend or family easily if they needed it?

New comment by parlortricks in "BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM"

parlortricks — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:22:52 +0000

I just watched this yesterday, and i thought it was fantastic. It would be great to have more of these kinds of movies to explain the rich history of tech, as there is just so much of it.