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by jsnell 2y ago
Glad to hear you came back to it. The underlying board layouts were generated manually, and are reused. They can get flipped for more variety though. Everything else about a puzzle (splitting the chosen board to areas, placement of words on
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by jsnell 2y ago
That's fair! This is intended to be a game more in the style of crosswords and Sudoku than Wordle.
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by jsnell 2y ago
It kind of depends on what you mean by there being enough information to solve it. There's a guarantee that at least one solution exists, but not that it's unique. There's no guarantee on exactly what kind of process you can
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by jsnell 2y ago
Thanks, I've added an explicit statement to that effect. The instructions were very terse to start with, due to a misguided attempt to keep them to one page even on tiny screens for aesthetic reasons. I gave up on that, but maybe didn&
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by jsnell 2y ago
Thanks for the report, and the kind words! I couldn't reproduce the bug on three different browsers, so there's probably some kind of an additional constraint for just what triggers the bug. Based on the description there should b
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by jsnell 2y ago
On keyboard, backspace or delete. On mouse, right-click or drag it off the board. On touch, drag it off the board. (I've updated the instructions.)
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by jsnell 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation! Wanting to just type and have the game do the right thing is a very reasonable expectation, and auto-assignment is an interesting idea. It might need to be a one-way street to avoid unpredictable cascades though,
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by jsnell 2y ago
Thanks. Is there something you tried doing instead for switching groups, or was it more that you didn't expect to need to do it?
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Show HN: Huewords, a Word and Logic Puzzle(huewords.snellman.net)
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by jsnell 2y ago
What's being described does look like a strict improvement over the current state. But Gnome has been burning user and developer trust for more than a decade (both with Gnome 3 and the mismanagement of GTK), so maybe people don't
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by jsnell 2y ago
No message, just a gray background with a pixelated frowny face. Not sure if it's coming from your game or from itch.io. Chrome 125.0.6422.147. (I don't have the phone set up for developer tools, so can't tell if there's
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by jsnell 2y ago
Congrats on finishing and releasing the game. Some feedback: - The game crashed during load on Chrome on Android. - The undo feels really slow. Is is intentional for some kind for artistic effect, or is it related to the tech stack? It feel
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by jsnell 2y ago
Which language is this writing system meant for? It doesn't seem like a great fit for English due to the vowel system. Based on a quick check, something like 40% of the most common words will require using at least one wovel placeholde
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by jsnell 2y ago
(2016). Previous significant discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12796556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826600
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by jsnell 2y ago
Your claim was that you're not going to "pay for an ad service". If you're proposing to be a paying client, that population of paid clients seems like the most relevant possible population. Yet you're dismissing it.
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by jsnell 2y ago
The creators get the majority of the ad revenue from YouTube's ads (it's a 55/45 split).
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by jsnell 2y ago
Why do you think you'd be paying for an advertising service in this scenario? - Gmail doesn't show ads to Workspace users. - Your emails aren't used for ad targeting, whether it's a Workspace account or a normal Gmail on
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by jsnell 2y ago
Something seems off with these numbers. NYT digital subscribers at the end of Q1 were at 9.9M. There are apparently about 140M iPhone users in the US at the moment. Even if we assume that all Apple users are iPhone users (no Mac-only or iPa
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by jsnell 2y ago
Also, at least: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316035 https://news.ycombinator
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by jsnell 2y ago
The article was about headphones using a Lightning port, which suggests a phone without a 3.5mm jack or USB-C. (It must be an iPhone, so no 3.5mm port if it's newer than 8 years; and Lightning and USB-C are mutually exclusive).
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by jsnell 2y ago
Wireless earbuds being that cheap isn't bad. What's bad is that the price of real wired headphones is artifically inflated by the licensing terms, to the extent they can't compete.
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by jsnell 2y ago
The original claim was that there was some kind of a "everything for free without ads" promise and that blocking adblockers was "going back on a promise". The first claim is demonstrably untrue. The second seems pretty i
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by jsnell 2y ago
YouTube has existed for 19 years, and started showing ads within 9 months of the initial launch. The premium service for no ads has existed for 10 years. There was never any explicit or implicit promise of "everything for free, with no
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by jsnell 2y ago
I feel like I'm missing something. "I turned off view history, and now the app isn't keeping any history of the views for me" seems like an odd complaint. But the actual way to stop Google from using your view for ad tar
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by jsnell 2y ago
We don't know that. In fact, the product has existed for almost 10 years, and they still haven't added ads. The obvious reason they haven't added in ads is that the subscription model is more profitable, and the lack of ads i
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by jsnell 2y ago
Fitbit has been making smartwatches for like a decade. They've been making models specifically for kids before Google even bought them. It's the Fitbit Ace line. Why is continuing that product line something you're amazed by?
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by jsnell 2y ago
But why should we give any credence to these opinions? Certainly not because the author is an expert on the subject, their background appears to in PR. Nor because the author is showing any kind of understanding of the subject; actually the
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by jsnell 2y ago
I've been seeing links on HN to Chatbot Arena results pretty regularly after any kind of model releases or updates for a long time, at least six months, probably nine. That's way before GPT-4o was released, so it seems unlikely yo
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by jsnell 2y ago
> Three billion “daily active people” across Meta’s “family” combines WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger (which I’m confident it counts separately), Oculus, and Threads. Why is the author so certain that Facebook Messenger
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by jsnell 2y ago
It doesn't need to be the same article to be a duplicate submission, it just needs to have no significant new information compared to recent submissions that already got a lot of HN attention. This article is literally just summarizing

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