I love the concept, and it's super timely of course (or about time, depending on your perspective).

I was trying to find your website to get a better understanding of it all, is this it? https://www.enhancedradar.com

If so, for most people it would be super helpful if you could put together something that explains this a bit better, with visuals, videos, testimonials, etc. I work on similar challenges in a completely different problem domain, and it takes quite a bit of material / explaining to really show what we do / what's possible, and make it feel less abstract.

Good callout — we're being a little vague to the public while we build out these first use cases (HN doesn't count as the "public"). Expect more detail soon!

Best way I've found to stimulate quickly, resize your window to be as small as possible, and have lots of bouncing DVDs.

I figured like thirty seconds into using the site that resizing it smaller would give me more DVD bounces per second. But then during resizing i kinda cheated myself some points accidentally, and discovered that trick where they're just bouncing on every tick.

Normally I'm a sucker for clicker games, but cheating the progress (even accidentally) always kills the point of it.

This is the way, two minutes and already at a million.

I cheated and opened up multiple windows of this game in a tiled window manager so I can get more stimulated, but it wasn't enough so I opened up youtube (minecraft parkour videos), netflix (comfort shows) and live streamed it to twitch providing live commentary.

You can get a massive amount of money with the stock market plugin once you get the cryptocurrency and leverage upgrades.

After you get to the cryptocurrency it's basically game over, you can earn over a million during a few market cycles, and the speed you can do it it raises (almost) exponentially. Stocks are similar, but much slower.

Why do you think that stock and crypto plugins will be very profitable? There are no tools to combine finance data in easy way?

During my 20 minutes I noticed stocks and crypto seem to always fluctuate within a given range. So if you buy in the low end of the range you're guaranteed to see an opportunity to sell at the higher end of the range.

Crypto is just stocks with a wider range and more volatility.

> seem to always fluctuate within a given range.

... except for sometimes, when they don't.

Also, zoom in the window!

Level 42 was my limit

Fun fact about the sequel, it comes with a sticker that says "kids" that can optionally be used to cover up the Babies label, for those children who'd refuse to pick up anything that is targeted at babies :)

The first book came with a bunch of stickers, saying "monsters", "kids", and some other funny ones I don't remember. (My sister gifted it to my 1yo daughter. I mostly enjoyed explaining to everyone who would listen how the latch circuit worked, and what it was for ...)

That brings back fond memories. In high school (a long time ago), I coded up a client-server application in Perl/Delphi to utilize the ISDN D-channel to transmit small amounts of data by repeatedly dialing a destination, using the call initiation metadata to communicate, and then hanging up before the call got established.

In Europe at that time, every call (even local ones) started getting billed as soon as the dialed party picked up. So effectively, this allowed for fee-less small applications that didn't need much data, but that I wanted to invoke many times a day (think checking email, checking server status, IM, etc).

This is the coolest, old school hacker tech I've heard in a while

Fantastic channel, and I love that he named it (and designed the logo) after his heterochromia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum

From his FAQ:

What does the name 3blue1brown refer to?

I'll be the first to admit this is a little odd. The logo is a loose depiction of my right eye color. It has what's known as "sectoral heterochromia", meaning there are different colors in different sectors, which in my case looks like 3/4 blue and 1/4 brown.

In the same way that many channels simply share their name with the author, a younger me thought that a more genetic signature might be neat. Plus, the channel is all about seeing math in certain ways, so it felt fitting. The name is just a reference to the logo, factoring in a desire for something deliberately weird-sounding that stands out.

Maybe somewhat off-topic, but visiting this URL causes my Ubiquiti setup to trigger a Security Alert about an Incoming connection from the IP that hosts plover.com related to TOR (screenshot of the alert: https://share.cleanshot.com/J1cfSd1W)

Curious if anybody else experienced this, and what's behind it?

This was a fun distraction to track down...looks like the IP that this site is hosted on is in some IDS rulesets, likely this one, which Ubiquiti uses: https://github.com/vncloudsco/suricata-rules/blob/main/tor.r...

Looks harmless, but I learned something new today :)

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Given that they are not necessarily the same, perhaps more accurate to say "So who crossed the finish line first?" in your article? We know who won.

As someone who has both won and lost bike races determined by photo finish, I enjoyed this article a lot. Well done sir!

Most blog posts are marketing efforts. I think the test is whether the article provides value. I have a pretty okay background in this field and found it interesting.

I filed my first claim with AirHelp a few weeks back. It’s “sent to airline” now, so we’ll see what happens.

I don’t think that I’ll hook this directly into my email, but if the one-off service works well, I’m sold.