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New comment by svag in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

svag — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:02:19 +0000

There are 2 Tutle WoW forum posts worth sharing

* Open Letter to Blizzard Entertainment - https://forum.turtlecraft.gg/viewtopic.php?t=22444&sid=72e3e...

* A Journey's End - https://forum.turtlecraft.gg/viewtopic.php?t=24891&sid=72e3e...

New comment by svag in "OpenRocket"

svag — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:51:42 +0000

[Ardupilot|https://ardupilot.org/] maybe? It's for controlling the drones, but I think it has simulators as well.

New comment by svag in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

svag — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:30:54 +0000

Not related to this story, but this one https://milk.com/true-stories/stupid_computer_users.txt was hilarious :)

New comment by svag in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

svag — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:41:45 +0000

I recently saw it as a play in a theater, and although I had my reservations regarding this, the result was an interesting experience. The minimalist staging shifted the focus to the performances and the emotional weight of the story, highlighting the quiet persistence of hope.

The title of the play also differed from the movie, Rita Hayworth: Last Exit, which feels somewhat like a spoiler. I believe this was the title used by the Greek distributor.

New comment by svag in "Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant"

svag — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:59:54 +0000

FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A23a

Comparing Data Serialization Formats: Code, Size, and Performance (Qt)

svag — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:58:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.qt.io/blog/comparing-data-serialization-formats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977734

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by svag in "Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction"

svag — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:37:59 +0000

So is this like https://comma.ai/ but for bigger vehicles?

New comment by svag in "Eleven v3"

svag — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:18:57 +0000

This is kind offtopic (although it's a text to speed model so it might not be so offtopic :)), but the eleven word reminds me of the comedy sketch with the voice recognition technology on an elevator in Scotland, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDnxzrbxn4.

New comment by svag in "I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs"

svag — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:05:03 +0000

There is a nice standup sketch from an Australian comedy group, the Axis of Evil, that most of the pop songs are using only four chords, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

Positioning and Navigation Software Without GNSS

svag — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:50:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tern.ai/how-it-works/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397864

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by svag in "A Raycaster in Bash"

svag — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:07:51 +0000

There are https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting2.html and https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting3.html just FYI

New comment by svag in "Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app"

svag — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:15:27 +0000

All those GPS art pieces reminded me of Nazca lines in Peru, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines. Are the GPS art pieces a modern version of Nazca lines?

New comment by svag in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"

svag — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:54:45 +0000

This is a very interesting article. I suppose something similar can be made for vehicles entering a tunnel, where eventually will lose the GNSS signal.

I have noticed that a year ago or so, Google Maps app would lose the GNSS signal and stop updating the position while there was no signal. But now I have noticed that the position is updated, although is not accurate. I wonder if something similar has been implemented...

The Useless Sites of the Useless Web

svag — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:28:39 +0000

Article URL: https://theuselessweb.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41922686

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by svag in "One Square Minesweeper"

svag — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:26:14 +0000

On the right bottom corner says that it's part of Useless Web Project, https://theuselessweb.com/, which has more interesting "useless" games...

New comment by svag in "Throwable tactical camera transmits 360° panoramic thermal images"

svag — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:38:55 +0000

The footage of the camera looks like an IR cut filter of a daylight camera rather than a thermal camera...

New comment by svag in "Reverse Engineering for Everyone"

svag — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:06:55 +0000

This brought back memories when I was reading reversing tutorials from searchlores.org and fravia.com...

It's in web archive now, https://web.archive.org/web/20191201105759/http://search.lor...

New comment by svag in "An animated introduction to Fourier series"

svag — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:32:20 +0000

Some explanation about Fourier transform can be found in the Feynman lectures here, https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_50.html

New comment by svag in "WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics"

svag — Thu, 23 May 2024 07:43:04 +0000

For anyone who wants to find more information regarding treemaps, which are used in this application, this link https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/ has some history about treemaps and here https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/demos/ you can find a Java implementation where you can play

New comment by svag in "Veo"

svag — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:34:01 +0000

An interesting thing that Google does is to watermark the AI generated videos using the [SynthID technology](https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/).

It seems that the SynthID is not only for AI generated video but for image, text and audio.