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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Monday October 13, 2025 @02:25AM (#45565282)
This is super addicting, love it!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Monday October 13, 2025 @02:23AM (#45565269)
Agree, Beatmaker seems cool!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Monday October 13, 2025 @02:22AM (#45565266)
You desperatly need some screenshots on your homepage.
Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes on Sunday October 12, 2025 @05:20AM (#45556735)
I’ll bite. Why does this not work as you’d expect?
Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes on Sunday October 12, 2025 @05:18AM (#45556726)
thank you so much. this should be included in the original post.
In Switzerland we have the equivalent called "Generalabonnament" (GA), which is quite a common thing for people to have. It's steep in price, but often time it evens out pretty quickly if you travel by train often - I have my GA since my apprenticeship about ten years ago. I looooove it, just a bit sad that during Covid train travels weren't possible as much.
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:01AM (#24440552)
Thank you so much for rephrasing that terrible original motto, it always has bothered me as well.
Re:Productivity and the Workweek (2000) on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:59AM (#20767516)
Personal anecdota: it definitely seems like a huge part of the people in my city (Zurich) are working 80% (4-day week for 80% pay).
Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:30AM (#18075213)
I prefer to listen to music podcasts as well.

My absolute favourite is KEXP's Music That Matters[1] of the KEXP Live In-Studio performance fame[2]. They have an amazing artist selection.

I love the soothing voices of Cheryl Waters, Kevin Cole and John Richards, the short background informations they provide about the bands and their upcoming releases and tour dates, and the music usually spans across multiple genres which broadens your listening horizont and appreciation of other styles which you might not usually listen to.

But most of it all, I truly enjoy discovering new music from them which almost always is spectacular.

[1]: http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/musicthatmatters [2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUh4W61bt_K6tflBpjWgn...

Sidenote: I also like that they prominently (actually, "equally" should be the more fitting word in a better world) feature female musicians/bands (which you sadly cannot say from most other music podcasts / radio shows... most of it features male voices/artists), even without ever mentioning "Ladies" or all-female or otherwise including the gender in their short artist announcements (as it should be).