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Re:Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/Re...
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:08PM (#43918891)
ty for maintaining kcc, I’ve used it heavily for close to a decade. I definitely noticed the performance boost on my macbook :)
Re:What New Orleans Taught Me
on Saturday May 03, 2025 @03:37PM (#43881519)
it’s all part of the experience lol. I’d imagine I’d stop finding these quirks amusing pretty quickly if I actually lived there and got over the honeymoon phase. Also the self affirmation messages they play on the buses were kinda surreal the first time I heard them after a long night on bourbon street
Re:What New Orleans Taught Me
on Saturday May 03, 2025 @02:01PM (#43880866)
I just moved to Seattle after being in New Orleans for about a month and I already miss nola. There’s really nothing else like it in America. I’m especially missing the cheap public transit and good dive bars, Seattle is lacking with both of those things
Re:Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:27PM (#43499909)
I’d imagine mostly due to a lack of incentive on microsoft’s part. Like minecraft is literally the biggest video game to ever exist with, making 2 entirely separate code bases work while keeping all the features the same and preserving compatibility with over a decades worth of mods just so the mostly separate java and bedrock communities can play with each other is just not worth the risk. So many people play minecraft in so many different ways means that making even minor changes in gameplay can be huge sources of controversy, let alone major infrastructure changes.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe ...
on Saturday March 22, 2025 @03:36PM (#43448054)
There was a pretty great article a few years ago about the downfall of 23andMe (I think it was in The Atlantic), but basically they ran through all of their potential customers within a few years. It turns out that when your entire business is sequencing someone’s dna it’s hard to get repeat customers. They tried to pivot to a subscription model where they would give health advice based on your genetic sequence, but it turns out that most health information you can glean from a dna is suspect at best and next to useless most of the time.
Re:Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command
on Sunday March 16, 2025 @02:30PM (#43381054)
tysm for contributing to standard ebooks, one of my favorite things on the whole internet
Re:MacBook Air M4
on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:47AM (#43267172)
I used to hold the same opinion as you, but since getting a m2 air I’ve really enjoyed how thin and light it is. It really is a noticeable quality of life improvement. Once you have a decent stockpile of usb c cables the port thing isn’t really an issue anyways
Re:Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it...
on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:07PM (#43234479)
https://youtu.be/hB6eY73sLV0?si=pF-etE5W-xZhoVBf
here is the link for anyone curious
Re:Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of...
on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:52PM (#43131383)
annas archive has a whole section on torrenting
Re:A Year of Telepathy
on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @08:51AM (#43025403)
Thank you for sharing this short story. I read it with my coffee and really enjoyed it, turns out existential dread goes well with the first hit of caffeine of the day. You made my morning :)
Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
on Friday January 24, 2025 @09:15AM (#42813208)
have you considered it might be a joke
Re:The Toyota Prius Transformed the Auto Industry
on Saturday January 18, 2025 @10:08AM (#42748901)
My experience with a prius in the north east was that it wasn't particularly bad in ice and snow and the few times I got caught in snowstorms it handled about as well as any front wheel drive car. I certainly wouldn't go out into a snowstorm with it if I had the choice, but thats true of almost any non-awd drive. The windshield defrosting situation was also a non issue for me.
Man I miss my prius, I sold it when gas was under $2...
Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown
on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:37PM (#42744402)
thanks for the gift link :)
Re:Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)
on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:38PM (#42591472)
It's kind of funny how far back this whinging about kids not being able to use computers goes, especially how condescending this blog is. Most people will only learn as much about computers to do their work and nothing more, because isn't it normal to only learn the bare minimum about something you don't care about?
Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
on Friday December 13, 2024 @12:57PM (#42410754)
The main argument against capital punishment isn't even that mistakes are made. Capital punishment is more expensive and less effective as a deterrent for crime compared to life imprisonment.
The argument for MAID is more about terminally ill people being able to prevent excessive suffering. Also consent is a major difference between MAID and capital punishment
Re:Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory
on Thursday November 14, 2024 @08:39AM (#42136038)
It does show how out of touch tech workers are that they are shocked someone is able to live off 1k a month. It sometimes feels like hn posters were born on college campuses and shielded from normal society until their twenties, after which they move to the Bay Area with the upmost confidence that they know everything there is to know about the world.
Especially if you are doing it voluntarily, 1k a month can provide you more then enough for a comfortable life in many part of the country. More so if you can avoid car ownership/insurance and health insurance (Which gwern seems to do).
Re:Welcome to the Era of the $20k Family Car Insurance Bill
on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:52PM (#41906543)
Making using a car more expensive doesn't disincentivize car ownership or usage when there is no other alternative. Like you can't rely on public transportation, biking, or ride shares to get to your job in most parts of this country. The rising costs of the past few years haven't reduced personal car usage as much as its made the lives of people near the bottom of the income scale much more stressful and expensive.
Re:The Global Temperature Just Went Bump – the hottest day in 125,000 ...
on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:25AM (#41139029)
Re:Factsify: Nutrition facts for your Spotify listening habits
on Saturday July 27, 2024 @08:37PM (#41090408)
This is cool and the formatting is spot on with real nutrition labels. It’s doesn’t scan all that well though, it’s not immediately apparent that this is a listing of tracks and not albums or artists. Replacing m with mins would really help, and maybe replace the serving size with number of tracks like “Serving Size: 10 Songs”. If someone is sharing this on social media to their friends their spotify handle is probably like the 5th most relavent piece of info. Also the whole track popularity is pretty confusing, especially with how many numbers are dedicated to it.
You got all the hard problems for this project done already, and with a little tweaking it could be really cool and shareable
Re:How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet
on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:17PM (#41073974)
The difference is showing my id to a minimum wage liquor store worker for a few seconds vs giving my id to a company and trusting them to store it indefinatly and tying my internet presence to my actual identify all for a law that would be at best a minor hinderance for underaged people wanting to access pornography
Re:Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly (2022)
on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:45AM (#40706119)
Thats definitely what's happening, at least with music. When radio was dominant, the "hot 100" lists were pretty diverse because everyone was exposed to the same set of ~70-150 hit songs every year, that were curated by record companies and radio stations. This system let weirder or more ambitious music occasionally trickle to the top. Without everyone listening to the same programming, the only artists that can be the most popular are the most widely appealing musicians.
Re:Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first
on Thursday May 23, 2024 @03:39PM (#40458983)
At the very least, you get acclimated to the smell of cannabis much quicker then the smell of cigarettes at least in my experience. It's also becoming increasingly common to vape cannabis in America, which only has a residual smell in small, enclosed spaces with frequent use.
Re:Are Kids Losing Their Love for Music?
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @11:40AM (#40442331)
I think this is an out of touch perspective. Big industry music has never been more irrelevant since radio stopped being the main way people discovered new bands. I notice that with my peers (early 20's), I listen to at most 20% of the same music as someone with similar tastes to me, and most of what both of us listen to is independently released from small artists. While industry backed musicians are still the largest artists in the world by sheer numbers, they have never been less relevant.
Also YouTube and tiktok are really good at recommending obscure/independent artists if you actively search for independent music. Like Spotify and YouTube aren't actively promoting and finically compensating independent artists because they are being payed off by the "industry" to suppress what you consider "good" music, they just recommend what's most likely to keep someone on their service and they pay poorly because streaming services don't have an actual business model beyond growth hacking.
Re:Are Kids Losing Their Love for Music?
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @11:11AM (#40441985)
The most practical/cheap option would probably be an old phone with parental locks and access to a streaming service. It'd be much more functional and cheaper than any dedicated screenless device, and it gives a kid much more autonomy. It's understandable to want to protect kids from predatory algorithms, but music streaming services are probably the least predatory out of all the "big" apps. Also they never stopped making cheap mp3 players, if you want to have complete control over their music discovery
Re:Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures
on Thursday May 02, 2024 @11:30AM (#40237381)
This is adorable, I had so much fun seeing what creatures I could make.
Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 mont...
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:59AM (#40212523)
As other commenters have already said, Discord has more or less replaced the traditional forum. I'd argue that this push towards small Discord communities has been happening for years now, since places like reddit, twitter, or even instagram are unsuitable/hostile to forming connections. The primary focus on those platforms is content consumption, and any sense of community (at least on reddit) completely breaks down after a sub becomes >10k. My theory is that LLM's won't drastically change people's experience with reddit/twitter, because those platforms already make communicating with humans on them as meaningless and impersonal as talking to an LLM.
Also younger people find forums archaic and weird, to the extent that most people my age (early 20's) that I've talked to about this prefer imageboards over forums. As much as I'd love for forums to make a comeback, younger people are the ones who determine the next shape culture will take and there is very little chance small forums will grow. It's such a shame too, it's so difficult to find good Discord servers and so much technical knowledge is unindexable and will most likely be lost forever once Discord stops burning money for growth.
Re:Analyzing a Baking Recipe
on Thursday April 18, 2024 @11:15AM (#40077112)
scales are wonderful for measuring oil/liquid though. Putting a bowl on a scale and pouring 54 grams of olive oil is so much easier and accurate then measuring out 3 table spoons of oil
Re:Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:37AM (#40075548)
At least hacker new is pretty good, I can't think of any other forum of this scale that isn't a toxic shithole.
Re:Show HN: Term Typer – Learn a Language by Typing
on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:09PM (#40057261)
Very nice site, it looks and functions great. However, autocorrect still works for me on MacOS, unlike other typing practice sites. Maybe not that important, but it does somewhat diminish the typing practice you can get :)
Re:Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
on Monday April 15, 2024 @01:24PM (#40043279)
Not understanding the mechanisms of psychiatric medications is the norm, from what I understand with my limited knowledge of psychiatry. The brain very poorly understood compared to the rest of the body. Not knowing how exactly something works doesn't make it any less effective anyways, it's a small miracle there are so many effective drugs for so many disorders with how little knowledge researchers have to work with.