interglossa
Re:Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
on Sunday April 05, 2026 @10:12AM (#47649663)
I tried it sometime ago. I liked the interface but haven't found much of a community around it. It is very unfortunate that diaspora did not thrive earlier.
Re:Linux on Samsung Chromebook Plus (Kevin) with Rockchip RK3399 ARM S...
on Thursday April 10, 2025 @08:54AM (#43643299)
Thanks for this post. I bought this model used in 2019 and still use it daily. Beautiful screen and form factor, a real gem. The updates stopped a long time ago.
Re:Asus Eee PC
on Sunday March 09, 2025 @10:41AM (#43309400)
I owned the eee 701 and it was fun using it in cafés. I graduated to the Acer 1410. Now I have a used Lenovo OG bought for $80 but its use case is similar to the netbook.
Re:The BBC is shutting down BBC SOUNDS for non UK listeners
on Saturday March 08, 2025 @11:06AM (#43301219)
This is a blow in particular to anyone who likes the Radio3 classical music station. The BBC may even block VPNs like Proton so there might be no workaround eventually.
Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:50AM (#43220423)
The fascination with home recording on disc is not new:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42037367
Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:48AM (#43220389)
There is an argument that the loss of dynamic range and other factors in the compression required in mp3 or CD recordings make the latter inferior to vinyl. This was a prolonged debate forty years ago
Re:Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space
on Thursday June 20, 2024 @10:00AM (#40738892)
I am surprised no one mentioned otomata:
https://earslap.com/page/otomata.html
Re:Ask HN: What Nonfiction Books Do You Keep Rereading?
on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:36AM (#40285273)
I used it to prepare for retirement. The investment in T-bills is not the sole strategy they proposed but the basic ideas are solid.
Re:Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually expli...
on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:40AM (#39851295)
No. Dennis Cooper lost work this way years ago. They need to be aware of this and let some of their followers help them.
Re:Daily multivitamin improves memory in older adults: meta-analysis s...
on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @09:58AM (#39104144)
The Centrum brand is mentioned explicitly in some of the articles on this story as well as a guidance from a scientist to use established brands of multivitamin. Hmmm.
Re:Why I didn't play this harpsichord sooner
on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:40PM (#38894599)
I also thought this was an actual harpsichord rather than a metaphor, until I followed the hyperlink back to your blog.
Re:Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?
on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:41AM (#37623672)
I worked with a very intelligent software engineer with a PhD in CS who encountered orgmode and it enticed him into the same OC spiral you are describing. He resolved the problem by switching to lab notebooks (8 1/2 x 11" or A4 size, don't remember which) and writing design plans, test notes, everything in pen or pencil. This worked well for him but obviously would not be everyone's solution.
Re:So You Want to Learn Physics
on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:02AM (#37210484)
Also see Gerard 't Hooft's site on how to become a good theoretical physicist (https://goodtheorist.science).
Re:Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano
on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:28AM (#37033030)
The Keybird X1 (https://keybird-instruments.com/) is a more functional redesign - an acoustic which can be transported as two pieces of 43 and 16 kg and can be tuned by the owner. This can be purchased now.
Re:Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano
on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:21AM (#37032978)
Josef Hofmann and Daniel Barenboim played pianos with smaller keys.
Re:Chrultrabook – Modify a Chromebook to Run Windows/Linux/macOS
on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:33AM (#37012383)
The unwholesome horror is finally revealed.