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Lobsters mentions (120)

• Ask HN: Which news aggregators can provide an alternative to Hacker News?

  Https://lobste.rs/ is an alternative that's more focused on tech news. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Range Partitioning: Zero to One

  Oh also, https://lobste.rs and filter by the `distributed` tag. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself

  "I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all" Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Banned for Self-Promo

  Reason: Ignored mod warning to stop self-promo for a while. Respectively: https://lobste.rs/domains/rednafi.com https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• What Went Wrong at Techstars?

  Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Blockly mentions (30)

• Ask HN: Modern Day Equivalent to HyperCard?

  If your kid is already doing Scratch, Blockly is a really easy next step. https://developers.google.com/blockly Critically, Blockly can emit JavaScript and Python, plus it supports plugins for extended functionality. So the kid can stay inside the blockly universe for as long as they like, but easily peer under the hood and get into Python or JavaScript as soon as they like. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• A shortage of teachers for computer science classes in California

  The issue with Alice is that graphical, block based coding is not at all an ergonomic way to code. Sure, C++ probably isn't the best for an intro CS courses, either, but even just Python with some wrappers over SDL to draw sprites is not only a better teaching tool it's also forms a more useful springboard to build other projects. Graphical, block based coding seems to be a common attempt to make coding more... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• ⚧︎ Super Smash Siblings Trans

  Unless it would contradict canon, every stage is very bright, highly interactive, full of pre-placed items, and so huge that you can usually run from your NPC opponents and enjoy exploring the stage in peace while they catch up to you. All buildings have Linux computers with actual internet access that allow you to program and print out your own projectiles/books/flags/UNO reverse cards/shinigami eyes/soupcans/cis... Source: 9 months ago

• Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

  If your kids tinker with Scratch, try out TurboWarp[1], a Scratch mod that compiles projects to JavaScript. Other alternatives to tinker with are Blocky[2] and Snap[3]. 1. https://turbowarp.org 2. https://developers.google.com/blockly/ 3. https://snap.berkeley.edu. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• (Free) Visual Scripting Game Engine

  Google made bockly It works with 5 languages. I think #C PHP and JavaScript. I know JavaScript for sure . But not sure about the others. blockly. Source: about 1 year ago