<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: user24</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=user24</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:58:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=user24" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "A website to destroy all websites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought it was <a href="https://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/" rel="nofollow">https://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:07:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465459</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Confusing Git Terminology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"under the hood git rebase main is merging the current branch into main (it’s like git checkout main; git merge current_branch"<p>This is wrong. 'git rebase main' doesn't affect main at all! If you are on main and check out a new branch, then add commit-one, then switch back to main and add commit-two, then switch back to the new branch and 'git rebase main', your new branch will have commit-one and commit-two, and main will still only have commit-two.<p>it's much more like simply 'git merge main' with some extra magic to avoid a separate merge commit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2023 06:42:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138717</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: A 'map editor' for Forbidden Island. No database required]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A side project of mine just for fun.<p>The island shape is fully determined by the URL; there's no database behind this. Compressing the islands into sharable URLs was quite a fun challenge.<p>At the moment I just munge together each row into one long binary string, chop that into 6-bit chunks, and then convert each 6 bit chunk into a single letter chosen from a 64 character alphabet (because 111111=64).<p>I added a header with a version number to the encoded island to allow me to change the format in the future without breaking existing URLs.<p>In the future I'd like to generate a human-readable url so e.g. sunkenatlas.com/#evil-rocky-cove or /#perilous-sandy-archway would in a similar way be able to encode the islands deterministically.<p>But I think I'd need quite a large wordlist for this, as there are 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible 8x8 islands (2^64).<p>We can reduce that space quite a bit by ruling out islands with far too few or far too many tiles. But it's still Quite Big.<p>Any help appreciated on that front :)</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36724196">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36724196</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://sunkenatlas.com/</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36724196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36724196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Quake's lightning gun bug explained [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I discovered that some were playing Q3 at ramped up physics speeds in single player. When going back to playing at regular speed, it feels like you're playing in slow motion.<p>That's amazing, like training at altitude but for e-sports.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:27:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341906</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> just preparing for and attempting the interviews at [better companies]<p>This really rings true, I attempted and utterly failed an interview recently and was a real kick up the arse to improve myself - I'm no longer the hot shit I was 10 years ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:14:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978047</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very funny, you almost had me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:33:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629045</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a fair bit of Hieronymus Bosch in there too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:25:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12758970</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12758970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12758970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you can't find a job title, why not put the whole first line of the original posting. Better to have that than a sea of "no job title found", imho.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:49:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634840</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Growveg.com | Remote, based in UK | Full time JS Developer needed!
<a href="https://www.growveg.com/recruitment.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.growveg.com/recruitment.html</a><p>We are a small, profitable company who build edible garden planning software. Our iOS app Garden Plan Pro was featured in a WWDC video, and we are now looking to rebuild our flash based planner in JavaScript. We're also working with the university of York on a research project to create a machine learning driven pest prediction service.<p>We are seeking to hire a new developer to help us deliver the next generation of garden planning software, and you'll be joining a small highly tech driven team and given autonomy and ownership over a brand new project.<p>I personally have been working here for 2.5 years and can attest to the fact that it is a really great company to work for, so feel free to chat informally to me (@user24 on twitter), or contact us directly via the website above!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:46:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631615</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Show HN: Primitive Pictures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> image recognition algorithms would probably find this kind of input quite hard.<p>I doubt it; they could just run it through a blur filter and then apply normal CV to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12565001</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12565001</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12565001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool. I was thinking of expanding mine to work with other recipe sites, so this may come in handy, thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 14:38:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730548</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd love them to release it as open data so that I'm not in murky waters.<p>If they move the recipes I can update the links. If they take the recipes down (which they've said they won't, now) I have got all the data so could rehost them.<p>edit: but, if you want to do some fun ML work, my scraper should help get you started!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 12:23:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729576</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>nice idea. Eventually, if I add more recipes, I'll need to move the search serverside too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 10:55:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729256</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Show HN: BBC Recipe search engine. Open source, super fast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the BBC (fondly aka Auntie) would be archiving their recipes, so I quickly scraped the site and wrote a search engine for it.<p>Not sure how the site will evolve, if at all, but it was a fun side project!<p>Code is here if you want to play: <a href="https://github.com/user24/auntiesrecipes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/user24/auntiesrecipes</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.auntiesrecipes.co.uk/">https://www.auntiesrecipes.co.uk/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729205">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729205</a></p>
<p>Points: 12</p>
<p># Comments: 7</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 10:39:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.auntiesrecipes.co.uk/</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.0</a><p>Discussion at the time: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zrshb/real_satoshi_nakamoto_denies_being_dorian_nakamoto/cfwefwo" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zrshb/real_satosh...</a><p>The consensus is that it was not from the real Satoshi.<p>In fact the reaction to that forum post are the same as the reaction to CSW's claims: Sign it or it's worthless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2016 13:22:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635818</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The only time Satoshi spoke out was to help the poor bloke who was mistaken to be Satoshi<p>no, the forum account was hacked to make that claim. It wasn't by Satoshi.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2016 13:05:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635688</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get the connection, I don't get the joke...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2016 13:41:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628233</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "Amateur ISIS Investigator Ends Up in Prison"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Holy Moly.<p>> Without access to his records, prison psychologists assumed his tales of talking to Islamic State members were fiction, symptoms of a mental illness that made him incompetent to stand trial. Prosecutors sought a hearing to decide whether he should be forcibly medicated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:34:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559803</link><dc:creator>user24</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by user24 in "ASCII Art Weather"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Use a postcode instead: <a href="http://wttr.in/cb1" rel="nofollow">http://wttr.in/cb1</a></p>
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