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New comment by thataccount in "WorldFrame – Local-first worldbuilding in Markdown"

thataccount — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:09:12 +0000

I'd be inclined to try this for free, but not for $60 bucks. There are simply too many other tools out there I could use that have no price tag that might do the job just as well.

New comment by thataccount in "Messaging platform I can self-host for my agents to communicate"

thataccount — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:44:00 +0000

Is this in the same office or the same LAN? If so, you could check out BeeBEEP.https://www.beebeep.net/ I think it shares more in common with ICQ than Slack, though.

I guess I should ask if by agents you mean people, or AI too.

New comment by thataccount in "[dead]"

thataccount — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:24:16 +0000

I've seen this same article appear a couple of times on Hacker News all ready. I'm confused as to why it is relevant? Is it the mention of AI?

New comment by thataccount in "The computer that helped win World War II"

thataccount — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:22:06 +0000

The Japanese did not place much time or emphasis on encryption. So, if by help you mean "vacuumed up" all the stuff that was out in the open that was easy to crack, then yes.

New comment by thataccount in "Christian Persecution World Map"

thataccount — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:05:47 +0000

The clear bias in this data is that in order for it to be persecution it has to be reported in some way that generates data. There is a whole silent level of persecution that goes on that nobody hears about even in the churches, in part because nobody wants to hear certain things until they land in their yard.

New comment by thataccount in "Wordsmith"

thataccount — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:51:58 +0000

A good way to teach vocabulary that might make people retain what they have learned more readily.

New comment by thataccount in "Show HN: Free Bible study that explains every chapter you read"

thataccount — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:43:38 +0000

Looks neat. I like the pictures. What is generating the translations? Personal text or something else behind the scenes on the fly?

New comment by thataccount in "Decker"

thataccount — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:30:45 +0000

Ah. That would have been good to know! I was looking mostly in the interface for a font size tweaker of some kind.

New comment by thataccount in "Decker"

thataccount — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:48:28 +0000

Decker is neat. I was in the process of using it the other day, but discovered it did not have much by way of font size adjustment in text fields. You could make a heading, but I didn't see a way to make it bigger or larger than simply being a heading.

New comment by thataccount in "How to Write English Prose"

thataccount — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:28:27 +0000

There is something distinctly different from people speaking and writing in English prose in the 1600's versus someone trying to do so today. The person from today is infinitely more likely to be putting on airs than the person who is not commanding attention as an anachronism in the past. To be sure, Royal Societies were all about impressing each other to a certain extent, but also, there were some clever fellows/ladies that hovered and flitted about them.

New comment by thataccount in "What Happened to WordPerfect? Why the Dominant Word Processor Disappeared"

thataccount — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:03:03 +0000

Straight from one of the horse's mouths: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/ap_0intro.shtml

New comment by thataccount in "Stripe closed my account with a 0.18% dispute rate"

thataccount — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:12 +0000

Seen it in the past. Stripe is fickle, and impossible to deal with.

New comment by thataccount in "Ask HN: How would I restore this 101 year old postcard?"

thataccount — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:54:13 +0000

Saturation curve in photo editing software possibly broken down by channels.