Hacker News: szidev

New comment by szidev in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

szidev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:24:47 +0000

What an insane ruling considering Co-Star is entirely an astrology app and was picked as an app store "Editor's Choice" at some point.

New comment by szidev in "Show HN: Yet another daily word game – wotd"

szidev — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:06:01 +0000

Hey thanks! Glad you like it.

New comment by szidev in "Show HN: Yet another daily word game – wotd"

szidev — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:05:33 +0000

Great suggestion. I'll try and get that added in today. I was debating adding in score checkpoints that unlock other permutations, but I might just add in a shuffle and make sure it doesn't reveal the wotd. Thanks for the feedback!

New comment by szidev in "Show HN: Yet another daily word game – wotd"

szidev — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:21:09 +0000

Great callout. I forgot to update the help modal when I put in that 3 letter minimum. Sorting is a great idea, too. Thanks for the feedback!

Edit: Both things added in. I appreciate ya!

Show HN: Yet another daily word game – wotd

szidev — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:21:00 +0000

Howdy HN. I wanted an excuse to do some lightweight JS/TS development and to get reacquainted with the Cloudflare stack, so I put together a daily word game. It's partially inspired by NYT's Spelling Bee and Wordle. The main goal is to find a specific word each day that uses each provided letter at least once. There's a secondary goal of finding as many words as possible. Right now progress is all stored on-device, but in the future I might add leaderboards or other competitive elements. Hope y'all enjoy!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077254

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New comment by szidev in "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end"

szidev — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:25:41 +0000

Alyssa is such an inspiring individual. I'm glad she's working on the things that interest her.

New comment by szidev in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

szidev — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:20:43 +0000

Not the A variant, which is what USAF flies.

New comment by szidev in "Please log in with router's password"

szidev — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:56:05 +0000

not every tp-link model (or revision, or locale, or firmware version) that shares a web interface with the c7 requires you to manually set a password. even if that were the case, there are bound to be users who aren't security savvy and chose a very weak password (e.g. "password", "admin").

many tp-link routers also have configurable vpn servers built in, which can open up the whole network to malicious actors.

New comment by szidev in "'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions"

szidev — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:16:26 +0000

I know you're joking, but someone has actually done that: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antar...

New comment by szidev in "An FPGA sprite graphics accelerator"

szidev — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:22:43 +0000

What a great writeup! It's awesome to see the process all the way from component selection, through code, to a final working demo. I'm definitely saving this for when I have time to do more hands-on FPGA learning.

New comment by szidev in "Detecting duplicate images with Python"

szidev — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:06:37 +0000

That's pretty impressive performance given the hash size and speed. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by szidev in "Detecting duplicate images with Python"

szidev — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:56:31 +0000

Great write-up! We did something very similar when trying to find duplicate product images for a consumer review site we were working on. Our implementation desaturated the image, broke it into a fixed number of tiles, and generated a histogram of each tile's values. Then we put a threshold on the histogram values, and had each value in the tile represent a bit. Combine the bits, and we had a hash to store in the DB. Our hashes were a bit larger, so images within a certain hamming distance were flagged, rather than just looking for exact hash matches. It took quite a bit of tuning for us to get good results, but it seemed to work pretty well. Do you see many false positives with such a small processed image size (the 9x8 one, I mean)?

New comment by szidev in "Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again"

szidev — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:19:27 +0000

great idea. i'll have to keep this in mind for future projects.

New comment by szidev in "Web Domain White Elephant Exchange"

szidev — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:45:53 +0000

this is great. i have a strange compulsion to buy awful domain names, regardless of their usefulness. is there any rule against multiple entries (aside from the possibility of exchanging with yourself?)

New comment by szidev in "FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better"

szidev — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:21:29 +0000

your reply wasn't really grumpy, and i understand it's a touchy subject for many people. the content of the article wasn't what interested me so much as the topic of it. it had never really occurred to me that the movement of potential suicide notes to digital media allows the opportunity for prevention.

New comment by szidev in "FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better"

szidev — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:14:19 +0000

what the fuck merited this response? i've read and re-read my comment, and i can't seem to find anything that would suggest that i'm seeing people simply as numbers here. are you honestly so jaded and cynical that you think someone talking about suicide prevention doesn't realize there is a human element to the matter?

New comment by szidev in "FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better"

szidev — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 04:24:19 +0000

this is great. the positive responses you've seen combined with an interesting article i read a few days ago [1] make me want to write an ML suicide prevention bot for social media channels. a 20-30% positive response to suicide prevention would be astounding, and the cost is so small.

[1] http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/6451/what-suicide-n...

New comment by szidev in "Yahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale"

szidev — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:31:39 +0000

i wouldn't be surprised if this was less of a multi-market strategy and more of a play to get a games platform for tumblr. just a thought, though.

New comment by szidev in "Yahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale"

szidev — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:29:25 +0000

they're most known for their main product: player.io. here's a link to that: http://playerio.com/

New comment by szidev in "Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing?"

szidev — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:40:32 +0000

Here's the tricky part: they do ask for permission to post on your behalf when you open the app. It's pretty muted, at the bottom of a popup, and dwarfed by a larger, more colorful call to action.

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/oWDstiC.png

It's also not entirely obvious to me what happens in every case. If I close the popup, does it still count as my giving consent? If I close the app? My guess is that most people skim over the copy and click the big blue button, totally disregarding the checkbox down there.