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New comment by rogierhofboer in "Disney 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that failed"

rogierhofboer — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:06:31 +0000

This source seems legit: https://allowe.com/downloads/games.html

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Disney 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that failed"

rogierhofboer — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:50:07 +0000

Sierra made an adventure game of it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(video_ga...

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Black_Cauldron_The_1986

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics"

rogierhofboer — Mon, 26 May 2025 20:22:38 +0000

Lot's of flash comparisons in this thread... I'll share some tools I've not seen mentioned before:

Google Web Designer is what Google created to 'replace' flash for ads, but it can also be used for other purposes. It has a WYSIWYG editor, timeline, events and scripting.bl But no Lottie support https://webdesigner.withgoogle.com/

Expressive Animator (paid, but not expensive and with free trial), made for SVG animations, can also export Lottie. https://expressive.app/expressive-animator/

And there is the open source Glaxnimate, which does support Lottie. https://glaxnimate.org/

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming"

rogierhofboer — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 23:33:51 +0000

You're not alone, I have the exact same experience.

I already gave up on anything complex, but it also fails at relative simple things.

It goes like this: The first answer does something useful, but is not the full solution or contains a bug.

When told, it apologizes and gives code that does not even compile. Then when trying to get it in the right direction, it gets worse and worse.

Then it hallucinates a non-existing library,that should solve the problem.

And in the end I end up writing the code myself...

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?"

rogierhofboer — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:27:30 +0000

Same here. Windows Commander when I bought it and still using all the time.

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

rogierhofboer — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:45:40 +0000

I am missing a very important one:

Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=168s

And lot's of others here: https://go-proverbs.github.io/

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Is YouTube (Partly) Down?"

rogierhofboer — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:46:06 +0000

Thanks for you suggestion and it is good to know this, but in my case I can rule out the cause. There is a spike in downdetector for YouTube at the time of my comment, so it must have been a larger glitch somewhere...

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Is YouTube (Partly) Down?"

rogierhofboer — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 19:07:28 +0000

I can browse, it plays ads, but no actual video starts playing.

Edit: A few minutes after finally asking, it works again...

Is YouTube (Partly) Down?

rogierhofboer — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 19:07:28 +0000

Article URL: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061586

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: Is there any open source/open hardware Echo Dot alike?"

rogierhofboer — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:59:00 +0000

https://mycroft.ai/product/mark-ii/

Unfortunately it isn't going as well as they'd hoped: https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/

Or you could try reSpeaker (different options available): https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker/

An older interesting comparison of mic arrays: https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-r...

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: Payment gateway for multi-vendor marketplace as an early stage startup?"

rogierhofboer — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:53:26 +0000

I am not sure if I understand your exact requirements, but maybe split pay out is the functionality you are looking for.

https://developer.myccv.eu/documentation/payment_api/online_...

Full disclosure: I work at CCV https://www.ccv.eu/en/solutions/payment-services/online-paym...

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book"

rogierhofboer — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:30:47 +0000

Same in The Netherlands: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0017452/2021-07-01/0

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Color has been disappearing from the world"

rogierhofboer — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:52:31 +0000

Immediately thought about the movie "Corpse Bride" from Tim Burton, where the world of the living is grey and the world of the dead is very colourful. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0121164/

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: AI-Generated Music?"

rogierhofboer — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 18:31:31 +0000

https://www.musicdevelopments.com/

Technically not ‘AI’ though, more based on music theory ‘rules’.

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?"

rogierhofboer — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 19:19:10 +0000

Philips Momentum series, technically game monitors, but do come in 55 inch. Note these do not have any DVB tuner, so you’ll always need a separate mediabox to watch TV.

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days"

rogierhofboer — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:47:04 +0000

Two options to consider, no personal experience with one of them though:

https://frame.work/nl/en

https://nl.starlabs.systems/

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: Most Reliable Modern Refrigerator?"

rogierhofboer — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:24:08 +0000

Not sure if you are joking, but almost every modern car has Bosch (sensors, battery, ABS, wipers etc) and/or Samsung (displays, DRAM etc) components.

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: Most Reliable Modern Refrigerator?"

rogierhofboer — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:30:38 +0000

It are Miele specific models though, some are very similar to high-end Liebherr models, but they are not exactly the same. Especially the interiors differed the last time I checked.

New comment by rogierhofboer in "Ask HN: Most Reliable Modern Refrigerator?"

rogierhofboer — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 19:55:38 +0000

Or Liebherr, Miele does not manufacture refrigerators, Liebherr makes them for Miele…

New comment by rogierhofboer in "We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)"

rogierhofboer — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 08:49:49 +0000

A while back, Andreas Zwinkau collected this kind of stories. Please post him if there is anything not yet listed.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html