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Show HN: CSSBattle 2.0 – The funnest CSS game for web designers and developers
Hello HN!

My name is Kushagra, and I am the co-founder of CSSBattle[1]. We built CSSBattle to make web designing a bit more fun. CSSBattle is an online competitive game where you have to replicate a given target image with CSS. When you submit your CSS code, you get a score based on how well you replicated the image + how short your code is. Our community has now grown to 320k+ players across the world.

Over the past 3 years, we've been working hard to make it even more fun and educative for our players. I am very excited to show you a completely revamped version of CSSBattle with great new features which makes it the best frontend gaming platform on the web. Here's what's new:

- Daily Targets: after talking to our users, we realized that not all players liked the pressure of leaderboards and competition. So we've introduced Daily Targets where players get a new target every day. These targets don't have leaderboards and are great for beginners who are just getting started

- CSS Courses: We've also introduced game-like interactive courses for learning CSS

- Monthly Battles: We now host monthly battles for players who crave competition. These are heated battles where players spend hours on shaving off a single character from their code just to rise up on the leaderboards!

- Redesign: We've revamped the whole site to make it look nicer, and the whole experience smoother. We've also optimized it to work on mobile devices

We would love it if you get a chance to check it out and are excited to hear all your feedback. Thank you for the support!

[1] https://cssbattle.dev
Friendly question about this kind of company from the perspective of employer competitiveness: Is known that sweet-VC-money + equity (debatable) is the edge for Startups, BigCo the brand, and BigTech Money + Prestige.

From a pure employment perspective, what are the clear unique advantages of working in some of those bootstrap businesses?
Apple AV1 support: Details from iPhone15 event, hls-interest group, WebKit blog
Didn't you hear the OP? It's 100% possible.
Downvotes of course. Programmers like to think they can write secure code with no guardrails. The fact that CVE lists are full of memory errors in 2023 says otherwise.

Even if you can write secure code in unsafe languages, it’s still a problem. Bugs creep in over time as more people work on a project, changes are merged, it’s ported to other platforms, etc.

If your project has any longevity you can’t bet on your pristine C code staying pristine.

There are more safe languages than Rust though.
Thats BS, the NSO has very big connections with the mossad, its not a coincidence all their leadership come from the mossad.
You can always trust politicians to do the exact opposite of their claim. For example: inflation reduction act, affordable health care act, voting rights act 2023. The propaganda is strong with net neutrality. It is just another play for more government control over information.
Lol, yeah, if you Google “who owns which power tool brands” you can find the Rosetta Stone of tool brands to figure out which cheaper brands come from the same factories as the expensive stuff. It’s a web of deception for sure.
Google's "answers" feature was already unreliable enough when there was only one AI involved (the one picking the answers) - I remember it once said that the capacity of an Amiga floppy was 1760 KB, because the Wikipedia page it picked (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_variants#Amiga) failed to mention the capacity of the "standard" floppies and only provided a number for the (non-standard) HD floppies.
> “In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian parliament, which involved honouring, in the presence of President Zelensky, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland,” announced education minister Przemysław Czarnek.

> “Such crimes constitute grounds for applying to Canada for his extradition,” added Czarnek in the letter.

Actual Nazis getting standing ovations! Unbelievable. Drag him home and try him.
Why? Wikipedia is beating AI in every respect as far as I can tell.
This subject actually doesn't belong in mathematics: it's philosophy of mathematics. I.e. no matter how much you study mathematics you will not be able to answer (or even attempt to answer) these questions because no mathematical tools or disciplines are designed for that.

I also believe that the emphasis on "rigor" here is misplaced. The argument isn't about whether mathematical rules are rigorous or not. The argument is about whether mathematics exists independent of mathematicians (and they discover it in a way how an astronomer peers into telescope and discovers new stars) vs mathematics being created by mathematicians' minds (similar to how an architect designs a building: there weren't one before, and now there's a concept of a new building with so many walls, floors, windows etc.)

I believe that mathematics is art, not science. I.e. mathematicians create new rules, they don't discover them. The whole argument to support this point would be too long to write it in a single post, but the general idea is that mathematics is a system that can easily describe counterfactual worlds. We use it to also describe our physical world because, of course, it can do that. But then asking the question about the "surprising effectiveness" is moot: we deliberately made it to be as effective as possible, so how is it so surprising that it is?
Doesn't look like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imVKSskCB4I#t=3m50s
yes, and I found a new gig within a week. I also refrained from making a linkedin post including a selfie of myself crying
Not true. A certain segment of the population (early adopters) do not care about polish and these are the customers you're looking for. You really do not want to spend a long time polishing something that nobody cares about. This is the YC advice even today.
Is that by chance a public dataset? I would like to do some benchmarks with large non-synthetic zip archives.
Likewise there are plenty of JMS implementations to play around.
Going for a college drop is analogous to the lottery, because losers will end up further behind those that skipped the expensive degree and lost money to inflation.
> They also shut down their old license validation portals

For a company that makes a truckload of money from selling CPUs it's unforgivable their tools are not

a) free

b) top-notch

I know one is limited by how good Windows is when you ship a tool for Windows, but your description is quite horrifying.
"Providing the user with more information is fine and not anti repair imo. If the user boots the phone and sees a bunch of non-genuine warnings, they can know to steer clear of buying the device."

You're assuming a technical, informed and assertive user here. There are lots of people who don't even try to turn off and on the phone when buying. Or fall for bullshit like 'it's normal, just ignore that message'. And what do you do when some repairman used a knockoff battery and is threatening with calling the police if you don't accept and pay for the 'repaired' phone?
Downvotes because we are tired of the rust spam.
Doing a map of a flight from Sines, to Bermuda, to Charleston airports:

* http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=LPSI-TXKF-KCHS

The (great circle) route is straight through the Azores.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_navigation

Whomever made the map for the diagram just drew a straight line from Portugal to Bermuda, which works for a flat surface, but in the real world the world is round, so the shortest distance is often curved (as it appears on a 2D projection).

However this site shows the cable travelling south of the Azores:

* https://www.fiberatlantic.com/system/n5OE4
On the other hand there are the cases where you do want to emphasize small variations. In a control chart showing the fill weight of cereal boxes you certainly don’t want zero on the chart. Neither do you want to plot daily temperatures in a city on a chart that includes 0 Kelvin.
But throttling only the competition is not.
Cook, yes. Burn, yes. Vaporize, yes. Melt, no.
There are founders that think their goal is to get funding to hire people to build their product for them and measure their personal success by how much theyve raised
Of course you can build something that's easy on the eyes - but you also need to build the product, the value. My point is that you need both, and you need to do it lean, without getting into the toolchain swamp that is modern UI development, because you will never be nearly done that way.
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Health_savings_account

> Fidelity offers HSAs for employers and, as of November 2018, individuals.[36] Individual HSAs have no account opening or transaction fees.[37] In a favorable review of the Fidelity HSA's features, the The Finance Buff wrote: "No other HSA provider comes close to what Fidelity offers."[38]

I would go to Fidelity.com/toa and start a transfer of assets from your current HSA. If it is an employer sponsored HSA where your employer contributes to it, then leave $25 to avoid it getting closed. But every year, move the remainder to Fidelity and invest the remainder like any other IRA.
"My voice is my password"
Rust is not the only memory-safe language (not even the first).
For tar, I have memorized: x, c, z, j, v, f

The trick with tar that people seem to have issues with is the ordering with "f" - since it takes an argument, if you're using the combined short form it has to be last with the filename immediately following.
Lovely indeed. Much better fate than what the vast majority of brazilians will ever experience.
Governments don't need guns to stay in power. It's sufficient for them to have a lawyer and some cops to put you behind bars if they wish.
Resisting will just make you go behing those bars for much longer.
The Xerox systems were more modern and demanding than UNIX, for their time.
I for one can’t get all the things I want in a few days: I want ethically sourced clothing, or milk from local cows gently pasteurized. Sometimes I want a particular kind of cheese from a farmers market and they’re sold out that day.

When you start looking for quality material produced in a way that minimizes human suffering, no, capitalism doesn’t make this available to me in a few days or for cheaper.
Eh, I'd argue it's still a business decision. It's still possible to find "true unlimited" data plans with some companies. I've got one with Cricket Wireless.
Don’t they have a relationship with OpenAI? I never checked: are the answers the same every time?
No. Not the drain hole. It was some sort plastic tub, and it was torn open about 4" from the drain hole.
> People expect few bugs, good UI and UX.

People/companies expect solutions for their problems. If the solution has bad UX and is still buggy but solves their problem "well enough", they'll usually pay for it.

Also empirically, you can still regularly see products both on HN and Product Hunt by "indie hackers" that end up being quite successful and were incredibly rough on initial release.
>One of the things that should be a deep embarrassment to the technology industry is its failure to replicate some of the strengths of paper and make them ubiquitous across platforms. Things actually seem to be settling for a lowest-common-denominator that's getting ever lower (e.g. people regularly resort to screenshotting text in 2023).

This lack of ubiquity of features happens because proprietary systems aren't interested in supporting other systems' features, because they're competing. It's literally caused by capitalism.
Interestingly, when researching this, I found the opposite - with the ChatGPT answer explaining that "The most common way to melt an egg is to heat it using a stove or microwave.", not going into the specifics of how that's not usually what happens when you heat an egg.

(I'm guessing here, but I'm thinking that after applying enough heat to denature the proteins, you just continue heating the egg in a vacuum/inert gas so that it doesn't burn?)
1 Yes

2 Yes, positively. I found a better job within a few months

3 Absolutely not. Imo, getting laid off doesn't come with a big social stigma. Professionally - yea, I sugarcoated it for recruiters. But everybody else treated it like I broke my leg: an unfortunate, mostly random occurrence, after which I may need some help.

Edit to add, for context: I got laid off from a pivoting startup in a hot market. I suspect my experience would've been different if I was hit in the layoffs over the past year.
May I suggest uBlacklist to remove Quora. I can't believe even Google allows such pollution of their whole search platform.
Have you ever experienced an extended period of unemployment, or have you been able to hold down a steady job for the duration of your career?
> You get $FOO as the code and $BAR as the cost. That lets the market discover, over time, which providers are charging $BAR+$EXTRA, which insurances only cover $BAR-$uncovered.

The problem with this view is that it assumes providers have relatively few SKUs and relatively static pricing, and that providers are relatively static over time. In reality:

- medical providers have an incredibly long list of SKUs, which can have adjustments (e.g. quantity).

- pricing changes frequently

- staff changes frequently. A bill is typically not a provider charging $BAR+$EXTRA, it's more like provider A working at facility B on procedure C has Price 1, but that same provider working at facility D on the same procedure has a different price. And all the prices are affected by the patient's insurance, and the specific contracts that were in place between the provider, the facility, and other parties at the time of service. (I'm simplifying this, in reality pricing is more complex).

It's entirely possible for Provider A to be the cheapest option in town (for a given patient-insurance combination) when a procedure is done at Facility 1, where they work Monday-Wednesday but the most expensive in town for that same patient when a procedure is done at Facility 2, where they work Thursday & Friday. This relationship can change frequently. Worse, this relationship can be subject to the specific service codes that end up being performed (all of these may not be knowable before the service begins).

I want to especially highlight the "over time" aspect as it assumes the relationships between any of these items are relatively static. In truth, it's entirely possible that your insurance carrier has a great deal for a given service this year, but next year has a terrible deal for that service at the same facility (possible because one of the underlying providers has changed). Second, it highlights the opacity in all of this. Even if you had the ability to digest all of the raw data, it's likely the outcome would not be very predictive at all for a given individual who needs to make a purchase today.

> If you have a better proposal for determining what the market will bear, lets hear it.

The market needs a lot more regulation. Think more like electric utilities instead of software.
Had to look that one up:

a circular symbol that depicts a snake or dragon devouring its own tail and that is used especially to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth
There are simple practical reasons though. We don't do that to be fancy. There are simply not enough letters in the latin alphabet to not have common intersection in writing. We like to use the same letters for objects of the same type (like x,y for coordinates or i,j,k,l for indices) because that increases readability significantly. But it does mean that you run out quite quickly.

Adding another alphabet alleviates those issues somewhat but even with greek letters added in we still run into this issue somewhat commonly.
I'm a middle-class person from the US. I've even had several short stints of living in Europe. I'd love to live in one of the countries there, but being a little bit older now I really don't want to start over again. Making new friends is hard, and it gets harder the older you get. Not to mention family here in the states. I've spent a few holiday seasons alone and it sucks.

To add to your QoL statement I feel as though European countries have a different kind of QoL. Here in the states the material quality of life is high. Things here are cheap compared to the rest of the world. Whereas in say, Germany, the social QoL is higher. People are more taken care of there and overall have less stress. Cities are walk-able, trains can actually take you where you want to go in a reasonable amount of time, a sense of community still exists. I think of lot of people from the US value the type of QoL we have here over what they have in various European countries.
If you have VC backing (they force their ventures to use each other's products), or launching a product as a known brand (Meta, Threads), yes.

Try doing that when nobody knows who you are and you ask your potential customers to connect their GitHub account to your app. You need to at least make sure it does not look like a shoddy hacking operation.
I'm not sure I'm following you. Of course you need a product. You can solve whatever problem it is your customers are trying to solve and have something decent in terms of ui/ux is my point. The UI/UX expectations like you've mentioned have gone up, but so has the ease in meeting that expectation. It's a no-op unless you decide to do everything by hand without using the ecosystem of tooling that exists these days.
You never know, maybe that's their row microservice.
(Author here) That's a great, great question, and it is difficult.

I think I might write this up as a separate post as there's a lot to unpack. There are pros to working for a bootstrapped company, but they less concrete than the pros of working for someone with a massive B round.
> When will they scrunch up and toss away the last page?

When you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Paper is a tool and a good one. It is simple, flexible, and most of all reliable.

You'd be laughed out of the room for suggesting that Wi-Fi connected e-hammers [0] are the way of the future, and when will the last old fogeys finally get with the times and throw away their old dumb hammer?

[0] I mean is it really even hammering without an oled screen that shows you how much force you're swinging with? And don't forget about the proprietary app that graphs your hammer swings for you. The light glaze of gamification (try for the biggest force!) will distract you from the personal data it's hoovering up to sell. Yes it definitely needs your precise location for Home Depot Hammer Hard Coupon Rewards (TM).
I mean, I assume it's mostly a joke, but if you assume that their system of selecting high officers isn't merit-based (which you would tend to assume given that it is Putin's Russia) then assassination which preferentially kills off the more incompetent officers would indeed be beneficial to the military as a whole.
How 10k Developers All Contribute to the Same Repo
Stop using Google, start using Kagi! (not affiliated with them, just a happy customer!)
>The "I will then, on top of that, charge you extra for arbitrary content that I don't produce, and you will have no choice as I have an effective government approved monopoly", has limited parallel that I'm aware of.

It has limited parallel because it's nuts. It'd be like BMW/Toyota/whoever charging you an extra monthly fee if you want to drive your car to work and otherwise the car just refuses to go there. For a slightly closer analogy, the car would be leased rather than owned, but it's an extra clause in addition to the mileage limit.
I think it's a sliding scale. The more unique your product is, and the more pain it solves, the more users are willing to put up with hard UI.

I've seen a lot of bad ui make a lot of money, because it found a market segment that had no other options.
This can't really be used to defend the abrogation of net neutrality, the sky might still fall, the only thing holding it up is how it's perceived in focus groups and that there is still some competition in the ISP market

The two are not set in stone

Give it a few years of throttling youtube to 480p if you don't have a premium plan and regular consumers will get used to more
That's because you don't see the disruptive innovation of my idea!

Seriously so, once AI writen content arrives at Wikipedia, the internet will become a lot less useful. Heck, I'd pay for a offline version of Wikipedia before it comes to that!
I think it depends on the market your entering and the problem your solving.

I've brought some very, very unpolished products to market, but they were in a completely new category. They got traction because there were few-to-no other options and they were all the same level of "poor" polish. That's the the market tolerated.

Likewise, ChatGPT is arguably not a particularly polished product. Even more so when it came out. It was a slow, somewhat buggy chat experience with no bells or whistles. Overtime, they've iterated and iterated and iterated.

If ChatGPT came in as "just another search engine", they'd have been laughed at from day one. The power and flexibility of LLMs would have been completely lost against the benchmark of mature, decades old search engines.

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In my opinion, the value of the product you built is the ease of use. All of the major source control platforms have basic levels of assignment and notification. Your system must provide significant value on top of that or be a pleasure to work with.
The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children
Yes, officially. It was part of a ~4.5% to 5% total RIF, I wasn't happy, not doing my best work, one of "the remote guys" that was GIVEN to another group with an in-office culture and we just didn't gel.

So they didn't SAY it was performance related, (I've actually called and am listed in their system as "eligible for rehire", they say), but I know it was.

The time between "the call" and end date was long enough that I had my next job lined up and basically took off Wed-Fri of my last week before my next job started. Truth be told I actually accepted the offer of $nextjob before $laidoffjob's "the call" came. I knew it was coming, so _officially_ I can say I never looked for a new job as a result of layoff given the timing.

So to #3, yes and no. It hurt. It still hurts. It's a gut punch, so it's something I'll just have to live with. It gets better, but to date it hasn't gone away.
What I don't understand is why Quora would be auto-generating an answer for this question in the first place.

The theory in the tweet that it's about identifying a frequent query doesn't really explain anything: the question already had two answers written by humans years ago, there was no need for them to come up with additional answers.
This is ghastly. While I "understand" promoting oil and gas, some directions seem odd:

> remove protections for the greater Yellowstone ecosystem’s population of grizzly bears, and bar the Department of the Interior from creating a working group to help restore bison populations

What benefit does this give anyone?
No it hasn’t. We’re fighting a boogieman.

Instead, we’re going to do is further entrench local monopolies, since only the large guys will be able to afford to comply with regulation.

You literally can’t force corporate Americas to act beneficial to their consumers of incentives are misaligned. It takes literal FDA-levels of regulation to accomplish that, and even that has failures while generally making the entire process expensive while consolidating things down to just a few market players.
Really nice article!
>cylinders of ground quartz crystal, so flat ... their navigation worked by what you'd expect: Looking at the stars and comparing them to a super accurate timestamp, plus some core memory logarithmic tables or whatever

I didn't expect that, can someone explain? Sounds like some kind of dead reckoning system, I don't get why you need flat quartz discs to read the stars though?
Came here looking for this comment, not disappointed.