Founder at Quail, a store management platform for antique stores. Previously an engineering lead at Palantir, co-founder of an indie games studio, and a publisher of digital magazines.
Did you look at them, or did you just tell Claude to look at them? /s
Seriously, though — if the history is valuable and interesting, include it. If it provides context in general, include it; if it’s just overconfident marketing fluff straight from the parrot’s mouth, drop it. I like my READMEs to open with the ‘why’ of the project: why I built it and why you might need it too.
Truly evidence that we’re living in the worst timeline — the Bulwer-Lytton has been one of the highlights of my year for as long as I can remember. My parents introduced me to it before I could read; I remember them laughing and crying as they tried to explain to four-year-old me why this one inscrutable sentence was the funniest thing on earth. I’ve looked forward to it ever since, though recently I’ve only checked in to read the dishonorable mentions and winners once every few years.
Knowing I’ll never again check and find a year’s crop of perfect sentences dims the light more than I would have expected. Sad times.
> Endpoint views break down request volume, errors, latency, and status codes. Crash and ANR detail adds the app version, device, and thread context around a failure. This is where a problematic UI transition can be connected to a backend or runtime condition.
The project README reads like a first draft straight out of Claude, and it's incredibly off-putting. The 'Show HN' post here is so much better; clearly you're capable of writing a decent explanation of what this project is, its history, and for whom you've built it. Take the time and write the damn README yourself.
If you expect human attention, put in human effort.
You're a sophomore at UT, so as a UTCS alum (:wave: from a fellow Turing Scholar) I'm not letting you off the hook. Unless things have majorly changed, I know you're taking 6 hours of writing-heavy coursework.
That's up to GoG; I've submitted every game I've released to them and it's like talking into the void, never a response. They're a delight as a customer, but kind of half-assed as a platform (at least if you're a self-published indie).
There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!
I know this is nitpicking, but as a Texan I have to correct you on a point of grammar. The “west” in “West Texas” (and similarly for the other regions) isn’t an adjective; it’s part of the proper noun and should be capitalized. So it’s “West Texas,” not “west Texas.”
Yes, this is weird and no, I have no idea why we do it, but it’s really weird to read “export it to east Texas” — to the extent that I had to re-parse the sentence to figure out what you meant.
EVs aren’t exactly new; there’s a deep, accessble secondhand market by now. I’ve been using a 2019 Nissan Leaf as a primary family car for two years now, that I picked up off Gumtree for around £3k. It’s been one of the best (little) cars I’ve ever owned.
Not saying new EVs aren’t pricey, but if you want into electric on a budget (i.e. because you don’t feel like you can afford to fill up on diesel) it can absolutely be done.
Oh, man; I got my hands on a (dead) one of these when I was a freshman in college (2004) and instead of trying to restore it my friends and I gutted it and used it as an original Xbox case mod. It was pretty satisfying to show up at LAN parties with what looked like a Solaris box and watch people boggle when we played Halo on it...
I've spent the last couple days building out an automated classifier on top of the batch API, and just this morning (about a minute before the outage began!) started running my first live tests. I thought I was going mad!
I’ve noticed this tendency in my own UI work as well: dark designs tend to get darker, and light designs lighter, when updated or refreshed in isolation. Is there a term for this kind of ratcheting effect?
It's not clear from the linked page, which seems to have been last updated in 2022, aside from user comments asking for support. Thank you for the clarification!
To be fair, this tool doesn't claim to fix a broken system; as near as I can tell it doesn't actually remove the underlying Windows installation, so the core problem will remain.
> We're not bragging (okay, we're bragging a little) but it turns out that not burning through VC cash on ping-pong tables and "growth at all costs" actually works.
Have an internet fist-bump from a fellow successful bootstrapper; this is the way, and you're calling it out!
I wonder if this includes Skywise, the Palantir-built data lake and design stack that they use for many many internal operations (design, airline support, manufacturing). Not sure what difference it really makes where the data is hosted if the folks doing the hosting call home to Colorado…
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