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Chabuduo World

wbobeirne — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:30:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/chabuduo-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077303

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New comment by wbobeirne in "I'm Tired of Being on the Network"

wbobeirne — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:24:28 +0000

I recently switched to a used Minimal Phone (no longer being made sadly) and its been great for this. The best thing for me is to just make the phone completely unappealing to use, but still capable of essentials. A slow refresh rate eink screen helps a lot with that.

For the authors complaints about ads, I recommend paying for ad free versions of things you truly enjoy. Budgeting will mean you consume less and have fewer choices, but enjoy it more. And if something doesn't offer an ad free experience you can pay for, that's a great reason not to use it.

New comment by wbobeirne in "Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits"

wbobeirne — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:34:05 +0000

It's difficult to turn your phone off if you have a spouse or children or other dependents who you can't drop communication with for hours at a time. But it's helpful to strip it down to the essentials so it doesn't double as an entertainment device.

New comment by wbobeirne in "When LLM judges agree, should we believe them?"

wbobeirne — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:30:45 +0000

This was the first time I'd heard that gotcha question. I just threw it at Opus 5:

    None — a bass in water is a fish, and fish are notoriously bad at music.
    
    The instrument version plays four strings as standard (five and six-string basses exist for players who want to go lower or higher), and it prefers to stay dry.

Seems like a pretty good answer to me!

New comment by wbobeirne in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

wbobeirne — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:50:10 +0000

Not officially, but I did add the ability to drop shared pins on the map for your friends. I also had that in mind, some of the most fun or wild moments have been on the street.

New comment by wbobeirne in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

wbobeirne — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:18:33 +0000

I'll be flying to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival in a couple of days, and I've been putting together a much better app than the official one. It builds the full catalog of shows as a sqlite database and syncs it to your phone so that you can filter, search, sort, and build a schedule even with the traditionally spotty data during the fest. I also added a bunch of coordination features for planning your Fringe with friends.

It's a PWA, not a native app over at https://fringeflypost.com/ (or you can go directly to https://fringeflypost.com/shows to browse if you don't want to make an account.)

New comment by wbobeirne in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

wbobeirne — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:54:10 +0000

Funny how at this point election fraud is a bipartisan issue, everyone seems to believe it's happening or will happen!

New comment by wbobeirne in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

wbobeirne — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:55:42 +0000

Running a performance profile in Chrome doesn't back this up for me, and looking at the loop it looks like it maintains an active `Set()` of which components to update, and clears them out when they stop moving.

Agreed the comments look a bit slop-ish but I don't see anything obviously wrong with its approach, and the core loop is running in microseconds for me when nothing is happening.

New comment by wbobeirne in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

wbobeirne — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:48:09 +0000

Do you have reduced motion enabled? That disables all the effects.

New comment by wbobeirne in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

wbobeirne — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:46:08 +0000

I'd imagine that it's them doing something they earnestly want to do, but trying to lampshade something that they believe people will perceive of them or be judgmental about. Like most self-deprecating humor, people often want to signal that they're 'in' on their behaviors and not completely unaware of how they're perceived.

New comment by wbobeirne in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

wbobeirne — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:39:56 +0000

> The makers of both iOS and Android treat the ability to "bookmark" a web URL onto your home screen as a power user feature that requires navigating through complex, technical-sounding menus.

Not the case on many Android browsers, you can present the user with a button to do this for them by listening for the `beforeinstallprompt` event. There are some requirements to meet for that, but it's a pretty user-friendly way to push your PWA to the home screen: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

New comment by wbobeirne in "I Changed My Name"

wbobeirne — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:19:58 +0000

Funny, when I saw "FM" and "FF" I interpreted it as "Family Male" and "Family Female." But Father and Mother are those characters gender swapped!

New comment by wbobeirne in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

wbobeirne — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:01:49 +0000

Hard to say "entirely" when you also have a movement of people and non-profits who are also pushing for more regulation.

New comment by wbobeirne in "Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2"

wbobeirne — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:13:20 +0000

Being able to share and replay seeds is a big part of the StS community.

New comment by wbobeirne in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

wbobeirne — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:37:19 +0000

Good call, attribution shows up on desktop but it gets covered by the search on mobile. I'll be sure to nudge that up. Thanks!

New comment by wbobeirne in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

wbobeirne — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:00:16 +0000

I have been going regularly to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and their app is always terrible. Connectivity is very spotty since the city is swarmed with way more people than usual and the older buildings can kill your signal.

So I've been working on https://fringeflypost.com/, an event tracker with maps, search and filter, scheduling, and sharing with friends that's offline first. It syncs down a locally stored sqlite database and caches assets pretty aggressively.

(You don't actually need to sign up, and you can just jump into the list of shows directly here https://fringeflypost.com/shows).

New comment by wbobeirne in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

wbobeirne — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:57:14 +0000

As someone who used to pride myself on being able to make complex graphical designs a reality, it has definitely put me into a little bit of an identity crisis. But ultimately I think it just pushes you to find the things that are still hard for AIs, which in turn continues to differentiate your work from what everyone can now generate.

Feels similar to the move away from realism to impressionism as the camera became available.

New comment by wbobeirne in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

wbobeirne — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:55:16 +0000

I'm glad to see more positive takes on client-side rendering. Unless SEO and crawlability are important for your site, server side rendering is such an overprescribed solution. If I put my tin-foil hat on, I'd say it gets a lot of attention because it's a lot easier to charge people for server time spent in SSR that you just don't have in CSR.

Bottom line is, if your app's content is behind a login screen, just use client side rendering. It is way lower complexity and a way better user experience.

New comment by wbobeirne in "Multi-stroke text effect in CSS"

wbobeirne — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:04:26 +0000

Art is often made from clever use of things that were not intended to make art. Let them have fun.

New comment by wbobeirne in "Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed"

wbobeirne — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:06:28 +0000

Many websites have looping or scroll-triggered animations, or play gifs / videos that a static image wouldn't capture.