Hacker News: philihp

New comment by philihp in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

philihp — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:29:30 +0000

Can we settle for Factorio and 2028?

New comment by philihp in "ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones"

philihp — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:10:00 +0000

Possible, yes, but pretty damming to Microsoft's reputation if proof that their infrastructure has been compromised and anyone realizes it's happening. This sort of thing killed Sourceforge when they started shipping adware bundled into installers of the programs they distributed.

New comment by philihp in "Getting rid of bed bugs: trickier than ever"

philihp — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 18:54:21 +0000

Not much can stop a lone bedbug carried in. What you're trying to do is prevent your mattress from becoming a nest.

The problem with DE is it's so inexpensive and effective, and that makes it difficult to sell as a product. I got a 2kg bag of it for $10, and it's enough to last decades.

New comment by philihp in "PostgreSQL is enough"

philihp — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:02:13 +0000

The way you've trivialized a database vendor swap makes me curious how often you do this.

New comment by philihp in "After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]"

philihp — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:47:00 +0000

Alexander wept

New comment by philihp in "Never Ship on Fridays"

philihp — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 05:15:48 +0000

When you control the devices to which you're deploying to, there is little reason why you wouldn't deploy as often as you can. It helps a great deal in isolating bugs to keep your changesets small, and you can either do that by slowing down the product iterations (and getting poor feedback from each), or releasing more often. This is ubiquitous with web development.

Weekly releases (or slower) is appropriate when you rely on users to update their software or firmware. Most mobile app development does this.

New comment by philihp in "Find Legal Moves in Brass Birmingham with Datalog"

philihp — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:10:19 +0000

I implemented the rules of Ora et Labora. Every card's ability is some fun puzzle of enumerating all the legal ways to play it. Some are simple like "go here and you get an amount of sheep", others are "you can convert an amount peat to coal here" so if you have 5 coal, you can offer 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 peat as input. The more fun problems are like "convert 3 different resources into 6 of any one type of basic resource" or "convert four to bread for 0.5 energy each" and wood is worth 1 energy, peat 2, and coal 3 energy. Lots of fun combinatorics.

It's all open source and playable at https://ora.kennerspiel.com

New comment by philihp in "Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion"

philihp — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:48:45 +0000

I remember you remembering that when we celebrated 1500000000!

New comment by philihp in "GitHub Actions Are a Problem"

philihp — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:34:44 +0000

Running actions triggered from a non-main branch does it for me, either on pushes to the branch, or 'workflow_dispatch'. You'll otherwise never get that level of fidelity to what happens in production.

Keep the logic in your YAML "dumb". Avoid variables and subroutines in the file, if you want to DRY something, create your own custom action. You can have unit tests on an action, you can't have unit tests on a GHA workflow.

New comment by philihp in "HTML First"

philihp — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:15:22 +0000

For a frontend developer who is younger than jQuery, starting a project following this advice would be a good opportunity to learn why we do the things we do like build steps, and remember how much development sucked before HMR.

I suspect the author hasn't actually done this on a project with more than one person, supporting 99% of browsers in the wild. I also suspect they didn't run their own code, because either my screen is not as tasty, or "onlick" is not an handler of div.

New comment by philihp in "The Classic Super Star Trek Game"

philihp — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:18:30 +0000

I still have the music for egatrek in my head!

New comment by philihp in "The glEnd() of Zelda: Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)"

philihp — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:21:07 +0000

Sounds like you have a bigger problem if your browser isn't properly sandboxed.

New comment by philihp in "CancelQuora"

philihp — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 14:24:06 +0000

The design of Quora is awful. It's like Yahoo Answers, but instead of an inane unqualified answer, you get a dubious answer surrounded and camouflaged by answers to sponsored questions you didn't ask.

New comment by philihp in "Railway time"

philihp — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 10:16:45 +0000

Imagine knowing this, and still using the imperial system

New comment by philihp in "Meta wants to charge EU users $14/month if they don't agree to personalized ads"

philihp — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:03:54 +0000

I'm hopeful as well, although pessimistic. The demographic of people who would pay money to escape advertising are also quite profitable if you can successfully target in your advertising campaigns.

New comment by philihp in "Valve releases Counter-Strike 2"

philihp — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:47:55 +0000

"Nobody plays Halo on PlayStation"

New comment by philihp in "The Frustration Loop"

philihp — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 09:23:41 +0000

I've never understood the appeal of guestbooks and commenting on Wordpress. Static HTML is a wonderful medium for getting your message out, do we need the validation of visitors commenting?

New comment by philihp in "Rushed exodus frm rain soaked BurningMan could have adverse environmental impact"

philihp — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 04:52:52 +0000

An almond tax would probably balance it out.

New comment by philihp in "Pornhub blocks access to entire state of Virginia"

philihp — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:10:52 +0000

There's a lot of irony in this.

New comment by philihp in "HBO Max new Captcha system"

philihp — Tue, 30 May 2023 04:34:21 +0000

Healthcare could also do it. Ultimately you need people to be incentivized to both have an UID in the system, and also not want more than one.