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New comment by waxpancake in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

waxpancake — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:09:34 +0000

I certainly don't want to confuse anyone, so I added captions to every image (and alt-text, while I was at it). Thanks for the heads-up.

New comment by waxpancake in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

waxpancake — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:56:51 +0000

It's not an advertisement for Claude. It's a screenshot from the relevant part of Qontour's website that I was referring to in my post.

New comment by waxpancake in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

waxpancake — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:04:28 +0000

Oh hey, I wrote this. Thanks for the link.

New comment by waxpancake in "Size of Life"

waxpancake — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:17:19 +0000

This is definitely not something Neal would ever do. Can you share the URL you're talking about? There's no IQ test in his projects list at all. https://neal.fun/

AI World Clocks

waxpancake — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:35:22 +0000

"Every minute, a new clock is rendered by nine different AI models."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930151

Points: 1383

# Comments: 384

New comment by waxpancake in "Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights"

waxpancake — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:34:56 +0000

They said they’re looking to “move out of China,” but that almost certainly doesn’t mean the U.S. Probably India or Vietnam, maybe Turkey or Malaysia.

New comment by waxpancake in "How do I pay the publisher of a web page?"

waxpancake — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:06:47 +0000

The Web Monetization API was another recent effort to try to make this, the latest of many attempts. See previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274455

My guess is that 1. there’s virtually no demand from potential supporters for a more convenient way to pay creators than existing payment/subscription apps, and 2. relatively few creators have direct control over their own internet presence anymore, so any solution that requires modifying a web page is dead in the water.

Any new attempt to pay creators that doesn’t factor these two realities in will likely fail, because it just makes things harder than existing solutions.

New comment by waxpancake in "The quiet death of Ello's big dreams"

waxpancake — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:08:48 +0000

I ordered one yesterday as I wrapping up the post, and it was already shipped early this morning.

The quiet death of Ello's big dreams

waxpancake — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:35:59 +0000

Article URL: https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043871

Points: 503

# Comments: 253

New comment by waxpancake in "Retro on Viberary"

waxpancake — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:34:28 +0000

A semantic search engine for Steam games sounds like my jam. You should put a link to it in your HN profile!

Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning

waxpancake — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:15:42 +0000

Article URL: https://waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yankovic-voice-cloning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739233

Points: 328

# Comments: 198

New comment by waxpancake in "The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS"

waxpancake — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:25:03 +0000

I mentioned it in my post: in Image Capture, select the “Virtual Scanner II” device if it exists, and in the Details, set the Media to “Document” and Media DPI to “72 DPI.” You should see the preview of the first page of the Bitcoin paper. But that's only possible if the virtual device exists, and it's still unclear why it's hidden for some people but not others.

New comment by waxpancake in "The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS"

waxpancake — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:22:19 +0000

Others have confirmed to me that it wasn't in High Sierra (10.13) and shipped with Mojave in 10.14.0.

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

waxpancake — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 22:03:38 +0000

Article URL: https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461011

Points: 844

# Comments: 426

New comment by waxpancake in "Lost Media: Finding Bill Clinton’s “Boxers or Briefs” MTV Moment"

waxpancake — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:06:02 +0000

Hi, I wrote the post. This is patently false. There are plenty of articles about the clip, but none of the videos are still online and there’s no alternate angles, period. Please feel free to post links to prove otherwise.

New comment by waxpancake in "The Flickr Foundation"

waxpancake — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 04:54:54 +0000

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New comment by waxpancake in "Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues"

waxpancake — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:20:45 +0000

Knotwords is a delight, highly recommend checking it out if anyone likes this concept. https://noodlecake.com/games/knotwords/

New comment by waxpancake in "Skittish: A playful space for online events"

waxpancake — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:19:04 +0000

Hi! I work on Skittish. There's a minimap (and spatial audio, chat, emotes, and a bunch of other settings/features) in the full Skittish app that didn't make it into the demo. Create a new event and try it out!

New comment by waxpancake in "Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust"

waxpancake — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:55:28 +0000

The Brothers Chaps will probably end up switching from Flash to Ruffle on their own site eventually, but until then, the Internet Archive has almost all the Strong Bad Emails archived here playable with Ruffle. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_strongbad

New comment by waxpancake in "Playing with my son (2014)"

waxpancake — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:35:40 +0000

Have you played Contra? The weapons are about as realistic as Mega Man's.

It looks more like using bubbles to pop an endless stream of bad guys, Bubble Bobble-style.

https://media.giphy.com/media/DpXqHdILXRRDi/giphy.gif

So, no, I never worried about anything in an NES game having a negative effect on him.