skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Dubai, UAE Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Game Dev, Unity/C# (uGui, Ui Toolkit, App Ui), BrainCloud (successor to GameSparks Classic), Playfab with Azure Scripting, Skillz, Epic Online Services, Xsolla Backend, Adobe + Figma
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manofspirit

Portfolio: https://dribbble.com/manofspirit

Email: manofspirit@gmail

Available for Unity UI-based App/Game Development, Gaming Backends, and UI/UX Design Opportunities – One-Man Army from Concept to Launch

I’m currently available for on-site/remote roles worldwide, as well as remote opportunities in Unity UI (uGUI, UI Toolkit) based App/Game Development, including gaming backends and UI/UX design. As a one-man army, I have a proven track record of taking projects from concept to launch across desktop, mobile, and web.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve been working on over the past 5 years: www.linkedin.com/posts/manofspirit_opentowork-activity-7237722209241214977-U3ZG

As a versatile designer and developer, I’ve created UI-based 2D games and applications with multiplayer features, ranging from XR-based Metaverse app WeDream to the NASBA-accredited educational app Earmark CPE, to Scrabble-inspired UGC-based Word Game, and even Ludo and Bonza-inspired puzzle games across various platforms.

Starting with GameSparks (RIP) in 2014, I’ve since worked with BrainCloud, PlayFab with Azure Scripting, Epic Online Services, and most recently started exploring Xsolla Backend (AcceleratXR). I’ve built fully integrated BAAS games and apps that often include async multiplayer, user-generated content (UGC), social integration (friends, messaging, etc.), tournaments, achievements, leaderboards, and monetization strategies (in-app purchases, subscriptions, virtual currencies, sales, ad mediation, etc.). Additionally, I’ve developed Unity-based admin tools for seamless management of users, content, and reporting.

On the UI/UX side, I started with Adobe Photoshop 8 and CorelDraw 9 almost 20 years ago; today I design beautiful applications and 2D games while utilizing my development skills to automate design tools for bulk art generation, variations, and solving repetitive tasks. I also leverage AI tools like MidJourney to push beyond creative limits.

Even though my focus is on the design and development of backend-driven Unity-based apps/games, my diverse skill set and ability to wear multiple hats allow me to seamlessly contribute to every stage of a project—from initial concept and UX design to backend integration, multiplayer systems, and final launch. This versatility enables me to adapt to different roles and challenges, delivering comprehensive solutions that align with the project’s goals.

If you have any openings that align with these diverse skills, I’d love to connect and explore how I can contribute.
Ooh! Thanks!!
I don’t think shrimp Jesus was initially intentionally bad.

They were farming interactions on fb pages and… well… people on fb seem to like AI images of Jesus.
I remember one event vividly.

Exec asked for some business information information while traveling.

I replied promptly, sending a link to a webpage, within the proper process for secure data sharing according to company policy. This required exec to visit our internal website to view the information.

A teammate emailed the information directly, violating policy and good data stewardship.

CEO replied to teammate's email with a big group thank you for "emailing the information quickly".
Sometimes that is true, but often it is "oh, I forgot to tell you about that obscure rule". It always feels malicious when it happens to you though.
SEEKING WORK | Dubai, UAE | Remote/OnSite
Technologies: Game Dev, Unity/C# (uGui, Ui Toolkit, App Ui), BrainCloud (successor to GameSparks Classic), Playfab with Azure Scripting, Skillz, Epic Online Services, Xsolla Backend, Adobe + Figma

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manofspirit

Portfolio: https://dribbble.com/manofspirit

Email: manofspirit@gmail

Available for Principal Unity UI-based App/Game Development, Gaming Backends, and UI/UX Design Opportunities – One-Man Army from Concept to Launch

I’m currently available for on-site/remote roles worldwide, as well as remote opportunities in Unity UI (uGUI, UI Toolkit) based App/Game Development, including gaming backends and UI/UX design. As a one-man army, I have a proven track record of taking projects from concept to launch across desktop, mobile, and web.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve been working on over the past 5 years: www.linkedin.com/posts/manofspirit_opentowork-activity-7237722209241214977-U3ZG

As a versatile designer and developer, I’ve created UI-based 2D games and applications with multiplayer features, ranging from XR-based Metaverse app WeDream to the NASBA-accredited educational app Earmark CPE, to Scrabble-inspired UGC-based Word Game, and even Ludo and Bonza-inspired puzzle games across various platforms.

Starting with GameSparks (RIP) in 2014, I’ve since worked with BrainCloud, PlayFab with Azure Scripting, Epic Online Services, and most recently started exploring Xsolla Backend (AcceleratXR). I’ve built fully integrated BAAS games and apps that often include async multiplayer, user-generated content (UGC), social integration (friends, messaging, etc.), tournaments, achievements, leaderboards, and monetization strategies (in-app purchases, subscriptions, virtual currencies, sales, ad mediation, etc.). Additionally, I’ve developed Unity-based admin tools for seamless management of users, content, and reporting.

On the UI/UX side, I started with Adobe Photoshop 8 and CorelDraw 9 almost 20 years ago; today I design beautiful applications and 2D games while utilizing my development skills to automate design tools for bulk art generation, variations, and solving repetitive tasks. I also leverage AI tools like MidJourney to push beyond creative limits.

Even though my focus is on the design and development of backend-driven Unity-based apps/games, my diverse skill set and ability to wear multiple hats allow me to seamlessly contribute to every stage of a project—from initial concept and UX design to backend integration, multiplayer systems, and final launch. This versatility enables me to adapt to different roles and challenges, delivering comprehensive solutions that align with the project’s goals.

If you have any openings that align with these diverse skills, I’d love to connect and explore how I can contribute.
Ideally DRM would be banned, as it's in fine a danger for liberal democracy. But there are very powerful interests (including at the state level) that consider DRM worth having even to 'protect' something as trifling in comparison as commercial leisure products.

So I guess we're stuck with personally avoiding DRMed (including online only) media, and supporting the likes of EFF, GoG, and https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

See also :

https://technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-softw...
Good. This ruling is absolutely absurd. The judge should be removed from office. What an incredibly biased ruling after shareholders voted for what they wanted.
Sort of lame compared to Shopify's Black Friday dashboard. Stripe sort of feels like they lost some magic.
Putin relaxing nuclear weapon usage policies and now south korea making anti-democratic moves, 2025 is going to be interesting.

EDIT: Not mentioning Trump is my mistake.
Even if they were high enough they would just fall back to earth. There are lots of videos explaining orbit, this one looks good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvnfQlz1x4
> and now we pay based on cores

Didn't even oracle drop this monstrosity of a licensing fee? Didn't microsoft also dropped / stoped pursuing it? How on earth do people justify this?
Transparent coup d'etat attempt rumored to happen for months. The only option when the mouse is cornered. Approval rating in the <10% range, Japan whispering in his ear and pulling the puppet strings, crazy selfish wife abusing state resources, it is almost comically predictable if not for how serious it is. North Korea is always the convenient excuse... only hope Westerners don't get fooled by the rhetoric. Guy digging his own grave, only hope Koreans get off their complacent asses and take this guy down quickly. World cannot afford more instability.
That pricing might work for direct human use but just too expensive for automation and agents.
It's definitely less than Mach 5.5 given all the roadworks.
Almost everyone in Korea is completely shocked, including most people who voted for him in the presedential elections. This is in a country where no one bats an eye even when sirens go off.
IMO if doing this, you should avoid text in the charts entirely (as the title can sometimes I think lead the models astray, such as the clustering title I think will bias it to find clusters even if none exist). Presuming you are the one making the chart and not just prompting with another image.

I believe the text in the image will be more prone to misinterpretation that direct text in the prompt anyway, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2024/07/16/using-genai-to-describ...
Great, all the world needs is yet more instability.

Any guesses on market reactions here? Are component prices going to get worse?
Martial law typically involves the suspension of ordinary law and the imposition of direct military control, which for a relatively fresh democracy like South Korea doesn't sound like a nothing-burger exactly.

Makes me think of the Gwangju Uprising in 80s, which happened after martial law was instated, after a military dictator was put in place. IIRC, the US was also involved with the newly installed military junta.
The Chris Boden Prison Story
Geo stationary orbit is 36000 km give or take.

Orbiting however is more about radial velocity. You are sort of constantly falling towards Earth, but you are moving so fast that you always miss it and so you end up orbiting it. A great animation on the subject: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1btbn...
NZXT Flex – Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated [video]
The Browser Company teases Dia, its new AI browser
OK - how many practical declarative goal-based languages have been successful in the past 50 years? Only option I can think of till now is SQL. Maybe there were some Operational Research optimization stuff as well. All of these were quite limited in terms of the kinds of goals we could specify, and the range of impacts they could have on the world.

The possibility of pure goal-oriented systems are at an inception now. So it's a totally different game, different mechanisms, and so on.
Interesting, I don't remember learning or hearing about this one.

> While the South Korean government claimed 165 people were killed in the massacre, scholarship on the massacre today estimates 600 to 2,300 victims.

Just for the sake of it, compared it to the widely known chinese tiananmen square massacre, albeit this one has widely varying figures on wikipedia:

> The Chinese Red Cross had given a figure of 2,600 deaths but later denied having given such a figure.[16][17] The Swiss Ambassador had estimated 2,700.
Beijing hospital records compiled shortly after the events recorded at least 478 dead and 920 wounded. ...etc
I know almost nobody in the real world that pays for Kagi, but the search API may have some business use case perhaps.
starcraft 2 was really cool when it came out, but it is not good now. And you can't play an old patch because it's always online
Location: Argentina

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Node.js, Nest.js, Express, Javascript, Typescript, React, Next.js, React Native, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, GraphQL, Serverless, Microservices, Docker, AWS, REST.

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/lardissone

Email: leandro@ardissone.com

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lardissone

Versatile and forward-thinking full-stack software development professional with over 20 years of experience. I leverage cutting-edge technologies to deliver robust and scalable solutions across diverse industries, including gaming, healthcare, fraud detection, lead sales and online courses.
I am passionate about new technologies and I am a quick learner. I'm available for full-time or part-time work.
For me, pretty much none of the "smart home" stuff with rare exceptions (e.g. my bedroom was never updated with a light switch) actually does anything that saves me any real effort. There are a ton of things I'd like to just wish away but they require manipulation of the physical world.
It also simply takes the settings from your account for its search results. I hope when it's out of closed beta that there will be a lot more flexibility to it. Though if it will truly be available to any member, creating an account specifically for your bot doesn't sound too terrible.
This is very likely done for his own domestic reasons, unrelated to NK.
I have been fixing my grandparents IT stuff for the past 30 years, it's nothing new. I remember how happy I was I'm now an adult (15 or so, well over a decade ago) with enough authority to pass this on my brother.
It's a very brief news article but this caught my eye:

"He has also been dismissing calls for independent investigations into scandals involving his wife and top officials"

Well, there's a standard motive.

And, if there's two things that seems constant in conservative politics, it's that they don't want anything to change (by defintion of 'conservative'), and they do seem to be forever embroiled in accusations of corruption.

And they never look trustworthy, for what that's worth. Perhaps it is as I understand that a lifetime of being lousy to other human beings shows on one's face, in one's voice, and is evident in one's lack of happiness.

We all reap what we sow, for ill or good, and apparently the vast majority of people that seek power generally do so for selfish, greedy reasons.
One approach to mitigate the connection problems for tpcc would be to utilize a connection pooler like pgbouncer or yandex/odyssey. It’s certainly more complexity.

Another suite to look at is sysbench. It’s very flexible, for better or for worse, but it can allow you to create an interesting mix of queries at different scale factors. For something like this where you’re going head to head with Postgres, having more dimensions with more benchmarks isn’t going to hurt. Ideally you’ll see a nice win across the board and get an understanding of the shape of differences.
ridiculously expensive. yep. starter pack:

300 searches per month $5/mo
Closed Beta, of course it's simple and missing features users might expect.
The definition of relative pitch is unfortunately ambiguous, however--I've heard it defined as being able to pick out one note or several note, but having to rely on that reference note from memory to determine the pitch of other notes. I have A flat and E flat burned into my mind from playing Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf rag so many times as a teenager, so if I think hard I can figure out what any note is based on that reference. I can't quickly identify a note without doing that in my mind though, so I don't claim to have perfect pitch.
Don't have the time to make a long rebuttal, but my points are:

- For the past 50+ years, really intelligent people, including Turing award winners have believed in this dreams
- In fact, getting computer to solve problem on their own is the more intense path IMHO. The lazy path is sitting content with the way things are.
Are the army likely to back him?
> President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law,” Tuesday accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament [...] Yoon — whose approval rating has dipped in recent months —

Seems like a coup.

> Yoon’s conservative People Power Party had been locked in an impasse with the liberal opposition Democratic Party over next year’s budget bill.

Yeah, just like in France where the government is expected to fall within the next two days. Not a reason to attempt to force the way: the fact opposition can actually sometimes fulfil its purpose which include blocking a budget is a normal thing in democracy.
I believe you didn't see it, many locals didn't. But I bet you can find it if you go looking. I personally check this stuff, it's my kind of weirdness, and I assure you it's the case in every EU country (I checked) and I'd bet it's the case in every European country.
I want to use Kagi but the internet has given me such trust issues that creating an account with a service that can log and tie all my search history back to a personal account or credit card is such a high wall for me to mentally overcome but I'm glad Kagi is expanding their offerings. I truly hope they succeed.
> amazing that we now have subscription medicine

Now? You don't keep up on your immunisations? Ever seen an old person's medicine cabinet?
Brightcove to be Acquired by Bending Spoons for $233M
That’s why we are living like luddites. During house renovation nothing smart comes inside despite complete new electrical installation. There come thick cables for wallbox and heat pump, but that’s all. I am so tired of barely working apparently simple electronics.
Does it apply to the whole country? Then we the tourists are really freaking pissed
It’s a mix of time on HN and points. Which means articles which are of interest to the people here make it up rather fast.

There isn’t really anything secret to HN. It’s not unbiased, but it’s easy to see which posts are “sponsored” as in the case of job postings. Obviously Kagi will rank well since it’s very popular with HN, but any “startup” tech company which has new features will typically rank high here.
I grew up immersed in the art world—my father is an artist, and my sister is a curator working on exhibitions for institutions like MoMA and the Reina Sofia Museum, and linked to a known dead artist. Based on my lifelong experience in this environment, here are my thoughts:

Art as a Business: Selling art is predominantly a business, and, frankly, quality often doesn't play the leading role. Market dynamics, branding, and influence have a much stronger impact on an artist’s commercial success. Many buyers lack a refined taste for art but are guided by curators, galleries, or social trends to invest in one artist over another. This is particularly true outside the realm of blue-chip artists like Picasso, van Gogh, or Bacon, where established market signals guide decisions.

Theory and Practice: while I love the theoretical discussions around art (e.g. Walter Benjamin) I find these ideas largely irrelevant to the business side of the art market. Theory has its place in academia and criticism, but it often feels disconnected from the pragmatic realities of selling and promoting art.

If you're interested in understanding how the art world operates, I highly recommend visiting Art Basel or similar art fairs. These events showcase the intersection of commerce, curation, and culture, providing a fascinating snapshot of the art market's priorities and trends. I personally did my own art intervention with technology and received known artists who wanted to participated in the experiment and beyond the project originality it would not work in other contexts without some validation (being in a space in Wynwood [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynwood
Wikipedia disagrees with you[1], and if pounds were a unit of weight that'd be very unpractical from a legal PoV to have things being labeled in pounds since the same object have a different weight in Puerto Rico (close to the Equator) and Fairbanks (close to the North Pole).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)
> only hope Westerners don't get fooled by the rhetoric

This AP article is written very unsympathetically towards him
> There are only three things the UK uses Imperial units for: road signage (speed limits, distances, and vehicle dimension restrictions; and since 2016 all new dimension restriction signage has to be in dual-SI and Imperial units[1]), beer, and milk

Do people not weigh themselves in stones and pounds?
Wow... I haven't heard of someone using refresh timing to speed up a system outside of retro hardware in ages. I guess I'd just assumed that after we'd transitioned to DDR that refresh cycles were just such a small part of overall cycle time that it didn't matter. Goes to show what I know!
> what they call AIDS that appears in HIV negative people and is essentially ignored by the public health community, as it's not supposed to exist

And people who test negative for influenza often show flu-like symptoms, must be a conspiracy.
Been thinking about this recently and how best to pass on/handover these digital responsibilities onto my spouse/eventually my children.

I'm going through a home reno and walk to document everything but dunno where how to start. [1]

It's only getting worse in terms of volume of 'smart' items, planned obsolescence of these items, trying to reduce reliance on BigTech.

[1] Related HN discussion -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444577
I imagine the gold standard of perfect pitch would be identifying exactly how many cents sharp or flat a given sound is--you could tune a piano by ear if you had that.
> no one promotes the simple tactic of not sleeping around

Idiots constantly do. It's great at boosting the teen pregnancy rate [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3194801/
Japan's Nomura bank boss takes 30% pay cut after worker tries to kill customer
Can someone familiar with South Korean politics give us some context for what is happening here?
Yeah, that's the point, ambiguity.

Again, what I meant is, of course, "price hike" in itself always constitutes some increase, but its nature can be one of two: 1. positive delta 2. setting the price to a ratio > 1.
World War ME
This kind of extra-judicial tampering cuts short the process, which exists for a reason. There are two sides to every story--I have every reason to expect there was a valid reason for a lawsuit here. Such mafia-like behavior is unsettling.
> E.g. most of us on HN have profiles with no contact info at all. (Translation: most of us don't want our HN profile to be another attack vector for anyone to spam us.)

For what it's worth, I've always had my email on my HN profile, and my email is also public + I'm pretty sure my phone number is public too after 2 decades of using it carelessly and also having it in my email signature.

I don't think I receive more spam emails/calls than anyone else. After entering a "no-spam" block list for my phone in Spain (Lista Robinson) I receive literally no spam calls anymore, and I get about ~30 spam emails per day it seems.
As someone who’s seen the inside of a game company, this thesis reads true. Success really warps expectations, and warped expectations create perverse incentives that are different than make this particular game good.
WoW seems to have passed its local minimum, partly due to no longer being a single game anymore with classic and the seasonal editions. I can see them thinking remasters are a way to get a few more tie in franchise sales from those players, maybe somewhat cheaply. Throw in a tie-in mount/whatever for WoW and you'll have players buy it without any intention of actually playing it.
Neither, it's entirely about domestic politics. Everything about NK is an excuse for what's just a power grab.
This is just domestic politics, not related to international events as far as I can tell. Even the North Korea sympathizer line from the President seems forced.
Link from article: https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac...

Figure 22: https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/30b954...

A less exciting title might be: "highest rates of oral cancers found in place where people habitually chew known carcinogen".
Non-market housing (called council housing in the UK I think) for at least 30% of the renting demand is probably the best way to keep renting prices sane. If renting prices go down, so will the buying prices.
It's a web page. It has links. You can click on them for more information.