> it's the same thing as the etched screen of the Steam Deck

Steam Deck nano-textured display: late 2023

Apple nano-textured display: late 2019

Might be the same but Apple have a 4 year headstart.

> Apple didn't invent anything

They do have the patent though - https://patents.google.com/patent/US11199929B2/en

> Can't say it's mine, I've seen it on a rice package!

Similar thing on UK butter - on a 250g block, there's 50g markings[0] on the wrapper to make simple(ish) weights easy.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/11ogzqj/... (only decent photo I could find on the webs and we don't currently have any butter in the fridge)

Why not just label each tablespoon and then just remember a tablespoon is 14g and do quick division.

US butter is similar, each stick is marked with tablespoons, cups, and fractional pounds.

I use iocaine[0] to generate a tarpit. Yesterday it served ~278k "pages" consisting of ~500MB of gibberish (and that's despite banning most AI scrapers in robots.txt.)

[0] https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org

Can't seem to access this.

It flashes some text briefly then gives me an 418 TEAPOT response. I wonder if it's because I'm on Linux?

EDIT: Begrudgingly checked Chrome, and it loads. I guess it doesn't like Firefox?

Doesn't work on my firefox either.

Friendly fire, I suppose.

Works on my Firefox. Mac and Linux

Nor Safari on iOS.

Works fine on my iOS Safari - maybe there's some extension that's tickling it just the wrong way?

It still fails with all of my extensions disabled (wipr, privacy redirect). I just get a download dialog. I don't know what the HTTP status code is, however.

I found a flagged HN submission about it and it has just about the same result for me and for others. My first tap failed in a weird way (showed some text then redirected quickly to its git repo) and all subsequent taps trigger a download.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538010

Unfortunately and you kind of have to count this as the cost of the Internet. You've wasted 500Mb of bandwidth.

I've had colocation for eight years+. My monthly b/w cost is now around 20-30Gb a month given to scrapers where I was only be using 1-2Gb a month, years prior.

I pay for premium bandwidth (it's a thing) and only get 2TB of usable data. Do I go offline or let it continue?

> You've wasted 500Mb of bandwidth.

Yep, it sucks, but on the positive side, I'm feeding 500Mb of garbage into them every day and that feels like enough of a small win for me.

> My monthly b/w cost is now around 20-30Gb a month given to scrapers [...] 1-2Gb a month

That definitely sucks.

> Do I go offline or let it continue?

Might be time to start blocking entire IP ranges and ASNs and see if that helps.

i have no idea what this does because the site is rejecting my ordinary firefox browser with "Error code: 418 I'm a teapot". Even from a private browser.

If I hit it with Chrome, now I can see a site.

Seems pretty not ready for prime time as a lot of my viewers use Firefox

> Why do you need to run the browser on the server?

I often need to authenticate against one of my Fediverse servers (as part of `toot login` for getting access tokens) and it's easier to open Lynx (which toot will do directly) for that on the server than copy+paste to and from a "real" browser.

Most terminals let you just click a link from the terminal to open it in your browser. The convience of an actual browser trumps a text only browser so I think it would end up being the experience most users would prefer.

> Most terminals let you just click a link from the terminal to open it in your browser.

Which involves moving my hands off the keyboard and to the mouse/trackball/trackpad. With the text browser option, I don't have to move my hands anywhere.

Worth noting that, in the UK, if there's CSAM on that page, you run a strong risk of prosecution[0]

[0] https://www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-guidance/indecent-and-pro... ("downloading an image from a website onto a computer screen: R v Smith; R v Jayson [2003] 1 Cr. App. R. 13")

Small screen (iPhone) that could also be a medium screen (iPad) or even a large screen (Macbook), no?

Yes but with Vector based logos, and considereing you don't actually need all sizes for most apps there's a lot of margin there

A 6 inch screen doesn't need an 8K logo and all it's variants

Someone was saying that Apple OSes don't do vector logos.

> AI on the other hand should be pretty good at figuring out those vague issues that you would never figured out otherwise.

Not least because it almost certainly has orders of magnitude more data to work with than your average GP (who definitely doesn't have the time to keep up with reading all the papers and case studies you'd need to even approach a "full view".)

Side by side or a diff view would be great.

Happy to see there's now a toggle between "your solution" and "optimal" once you've submitted. Makes it much easier to see what you missed.

I agree. Also, knowing the max score in advance would be better, so you know when to stop/whether to keep going.

I'm happy not knowing myself but the answer can be found easily in DevTools. All the max scores are there (for current and previous days only).

that gives away too much information, instead i'd go with something that tells you that you've found the best solution. you'll still be able to know whether or not to keep going, but you get no information that makes finding the ideal solution easier.

I did see a game recently which did that (you place a tile, the animal moves a tile, etc.) - possibly on itch.io. I'll see if I can dig it out.

There's an old Flash game called 'Chat Noir' where you have to trap a cat on a hexagonal grid. Here's a copy of it: https://www.hoodamath.com/games/chatnoir.html

Ah, yes, the one I played recently was basically that (except it was a horse, I think.)

I remember a game I played on my phone ~15 years ago called "Greedy Spiders". The spiders would move greedily towards something every move, but you could cut strings in their web so they would have to start a new route. So you would kinda have to lure them into going one direction while slowly chipping away at the web, until you could completely cut them off or force them to have to take a longer detour giving you more time to cut more of the web. Quite challenging after a while.

A Windows 3.1 game called Rodent's Revenge: https://classicreload.com/win3x-rodents-revenge.html

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6CnPzTXKE

Damn, the good old days when games didn't have loot boxes, ads, etc...

If you click on "View Optimal", it shows you the optimal solution which should be identical[0] to yours for "Perfect".

[0] I'm assuming, possibly quite wrongly, that there's only one optimal solution per day.

I don’t see any View Optimal button. Is it present in Mobile ?

I don't see this button either (desktop) but searching the HTML gives a <script> that says

  window.__LEVEL__ = null; window.__DAILY_MODE__ = true; window.__DAILY_LEVELS__ = [{"id":"FswXDo","date":"2026-01-06","dayNumber":8,"optimalScore":86},{"id":"6UV4Yw","date":"2026-01-05","dayNumber":7,"optimalScore":95},{"id":"VfWi_1","date":"2026-01-04","dayNumber":6,"optimalScore":77},{"id":"CNtGPI","date":"2026-01-03","dayNumber":5,"optimalScore":116},{"id":"tnLvlG","date":"2026-01-02","dayNumber":4,"optimalScore":51},{"id":"Qn9vLs","date":"2026-01-01","dayNumber":3,"optimalScore":74},{"id":"Kj7mXp","date":"2025-12-31","dayNumber":2,"optimalScore":90},{"id":"E03KkY","date":"2025-12-30","dayNumber":1,"optimalScore":68}];

EDIT: the view optimal button appears after submission

Results, then scroll down a tiny bit.