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Re:Introduction to Computer Music [pdf]
on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:51PM (#47645710)
I'm so happy to see Nick Collins taking this on. If you haven't seen his book, Handmade Music, it's an excellent book for music projects. This contribution looks exceptional as well.
Re:A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:50AM (#47384923)
I love Chris Markers work so much, this essay is mind blowing. I had no idea he knew how to program or created a second life
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:57AM (#46635489)
It’s a synthesizer, I might change it soon though
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and...
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:15AM (#46309770)
I'm at year 1.5 and built this software for making small art books
The goal is to make physical books. It's still early days, but fun to see what people are creating.
Re:Yet another bad three months as Tesla reports its Q2 2025 results
on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:09AM (#44671658)
It’s like a master class in how to burn down a company. He alienated his core customer base.
Re:Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for st...
on Sunday May 18, 2025 @02:07PM (#44023233)
Wasn't it already deciphered, though?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368991190_The_Voyni...
Re:Pure Data: an open source visual language for multimedia
on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @01:42PM (#32568392)
PD is great, what other language is working towards a 30 year backward compatibility!
Re:History of the Salvator Mundi
on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:56PM (#31320969)
Hito Steyerl has a nice talk on XR technology that starts with this work. (talk starts at about 6:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Qhy0_PCjs
Re:Beetle walking upside down under water surface filmed in Australia
on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:41AM (#27791838)
I bet his toilet flushes the other way too!!
Re:FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:25PM (#16632245)
I love how now this issue is alright to talk about on hacker news. For some reason when it was happening and all of the alarms were going off, it was banned content on hacker news. Technology is inherently political with political ramifications. -_-
Re:There’s Something Fishy About the Other Nefertiti
on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:27PM (#11240099)
there is a lot of press around this work but seems derivative of material speculation ISIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6e-kEkur0
Re:Twitter's new timeline feature
on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @03:37PM (#11075775)
I left facebook for this exact reason. the platform has diminished so greatly that it's now virtually unusable to me.I'm really not sure what to equate the experience to, it feels like trying to read a newspaper that is all ads. It's all vapid useless sales instead of meaningful interpersonal connections over long distances... the way it started. I fear twitter is not far behind.
Re:Jack Dorsey: “We never planned to reorder timelines next week.”
on Saturday February 06, 2016 @07:25PM (#11050828)
Hey hey good joke! If every web service was as bad as g or fb we could all enjoy a internet that acts more like cable television...
Re:The Art World’s Patron Satan
on Friday January 02, 2015 @10:25PM (#8829813)
The article is a little annoying in its portrayal of artist being completely unaware. A really good discussion broke out on Paddy Johnson's (artfcity) fb page where Simchowitz chimed in. I'm glad to see it on hn though ~ I think there are many analogues to the tech scene and many younger builders/hackers/engineers. I think it's a symptom of wildly speculative markets with potential major payoffs and few regulations.
Re:A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe
on Saturday December 07, 2013 @07:37PM (#6868416)
just to be clear, tuition is inversely proportional to the amount of funding the government gives to higher education:
http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/pa/key/understandingtuition.html
Re:Show HN: Theremin I/O
on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @10:58AM (#6683306)
check out standaloneV2 as well https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/standalonev2/id656556702?mt=..., works similar but based on sound waves and is free for the month as a part of the wrong biennial http://thewrong.org/
Re:The computer rig of the Philip Glass Ensemble
on Sunday August 04, 2013 @08:29PM (#6157737)
bidule is fine but max/msp is much more interesting from a audio software/programing environment.