Played TTD for hundreds of hours as a kid. The soundtrack and ambient sound effects are still so clear in my head - distant sounds of industry and vans and busses and trains just doing their thing. And then occasional updates popping up. It had a really nice flow to it. Very addictive. I'm fairly sure I spent at least one 'sick day' off school playing TTD instead.

I've tried OpenTTD and the touch versions but they didn't grab me the same way. Maybe just a different stage in life? I just try OpenTTD again though... Just to scratch that itch.

Thanks for this. Generic links posted without context to HN with no other explanations (especially those which are likely to be quite well known to this audience) are often quite confusing.

That's referenced and linked to in the article.

Ah - kind of like scrumping in British English.

Reposts are fine after a year or so! (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and historical material is always welcome here. Links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers.

(Whether the current submission was a good repost or not is a separate question of course.)

See also: 'look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them' - https://alexwlchan.net/2024/emptydir/

> fence

Had never come across this term before. Huh.

I feel like this post gets posted to HN every few months.

Not as frequently as that, but a bit:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

When accessing from UK: "This content is not available in your country/region."

Holy moly. How is this even still a thing?

Yeah - it kind of blew my mind when I picked up a cheap DVBS satellite receiver box recently, tuned my dish to a satellite that carried German services, and found plain old Teletext running beautifully well on HD TV channels, rendered pixel perfect on my TV via HDMI. Mind boggling!