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Re:Ask HN: How to Be Alone? on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:48PM (#47304689)
Try to find places you can become a regular, it sounds like you're experiencing true grief and isolation is exacerbating it. I know how hard it can be to pull yourself out. Making myself a regular in places that suited my interests, a local bookstore where I buy all of my books and have a chat with the owner, an arcade where I go, a bar that has a night of music i'm into helped me. Just getting to the point where you can go into a space, and be acknowledged as a human being that another human being has seen and talked to before was really grounding for me. I made no friends from doing this, but it helped me feel a bit less isolated and helped make other positive changes that led to being less alone. What you do is so much less important than forcing yourself to just put yourself into a situation where you are face to face with someone else. I hope this helps
This has to be the most effective ad campaign they have done, I have seen some variation of this story on every platform I use. I don't think the brand has a lot of goodwill, but my awareness has gone through the roof due to this AI push
Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:29PM (#46640317)
oh yeah, my perception was that it was 75% gay, but, I think the grindr comparison is unfair, I think I've only been propositioned once or twice and no unsolicited dick pics!
Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:05PM (#46640023)
It's not perfect, but I've managed to make some friends on Bumble BFF, https://bumble.com/bff-us/ . If you are more of a one on one person and feel awkward in groups, this is the best thing i've found so far
Re:Google broke my heart on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:07PM (#46556921)
he has recently been clawing at relevancy with anti-trans talking points, which is specifically why I think his name would be something google would want to stay away
Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:06PM (#46556907)
Well, if racism in America was over. As in, similar rates of wealth and poverty, incarceration and college degrees, etc etc, across racial lines, then yeah, it would be a distraction. But when economic disadvantage, inherited from outright racist laws, is abundantly clear to see, it's hard for me to accept that we are not still anti black (and anti poor, etc) as a country when things like this happen
It be nice if you mapped the keys to the user keyboard kinda like ableton, for people who dont have a midi controller handy

White Keys: The keys from ‘A’ to ‘L’ on your keyboard correspond to the white keys on a piano, covering a full octave from C to D. Black Keys: The keys in between, like ‘W’ and ‘E’, correspond to the black keys or the sharp notes on a piano. from : https://www.electrikjam.com/use-your-keyboard-as-a-midi-cont...

Re:Google broke my heart on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:25PM (#46505931)
My immediate guess after reading this was that this isn't a change at Google but a name issue. Jeff Star getting confused with Jeffree Star (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffree_Star). He's a lightening rod for controversy, and has been in the middle of a controversial public persona shift that probably has caused an uptick in all kinds of requests to google.
Re:Public Domain 2026 Speed Library on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:47AM (#46466621)
was looking for a good speed reader after seeing this public domain post, https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01/public-domain-da... , and wanting to read Vile Bodies. Then took a few minutes to throw this together
Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:22PM (#46449844)
It would be the exact same problem, and equally bad.
Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:14PM (#46447823)
In the US, we have a living history of discriminatory policies based on race

https://www.thesidewalksymposium.com/blog/the-enduring-shado... , here is a quick overview of redlining in Memphis

Re:Claude Is Down on Friday October 31, 2025 @07:06AM (#45770694)
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi... , they have their own plugin for vscode that might fit your use case
I think the "My Tasted Notes" section captures it, that is a really nice looking screen
Not a coffee person, but the design of the app under "Coffee notes reimagined" looks great. However, I think your splash video isn't doing it justice, between the overlayed text and the glare from it being shot outside, I didn't get a sense of how great the UI is till that section down the page.

Best of luck!

Re:More people are getting tattoos removed on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:57PM (#43930655)
I think for some people, at least myself, tattoos are a narrative, it's such a bizarre process, half art and half science, that each session, wether it was in a punk house with no electricity or an upscale art gallery on the other side of the world gets ingrained a little deeper. They're like little time machines, I can remember who I was, where I was, who I was with. And I'm guessing I'm in the minority here, but I can't stand the look of a fresh clean tattoo, the stick and poke in a dorm room, the 20 year old one done in a studio that wasn't too concerned with checking ids, the one that was done way too deep, in the dark, and healed into a puff sticker like scar consistency, that's what I love. I've considered a few times going in and getting some of my more visible ones removed, and the occasional must wear long sleeved shirt wins every time, no matter what I gain or lose, I like my garbage art time machines
Re:Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @11:11AM (#41984644)
Only seems to cover half of what you're asking for... Starred this the other day and haven't gotten to trying it out :

https://github.com/usefulsensors/moonshine

Re:Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak on Monday September 09, 2024 @08:26PM (#41495863)
Sorry for the delay in response, the text prompt was "cute dog" and the uploaded image was also of a dog
Re:Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak on Friday September 06, 2024 @01:33PM (#41468101)
I have uploaded an image and then used text to image, and both videos were not animated but the audio was included
Re:Ask HN: Should I use React for a personal portfolio? on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @05:55PM (#40860798)
If you are looking for a front end role, a great idea, otherwise it's not a bad idea. But, I would suggest going with Next over React for static content, this a great starter https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/nextjs-boilerplate and your build process will be all set from the set and tied to the created GitHub main branch, best of luck!
Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @12:28AM (#40784493)
Kurt Loder broke a lot of really big news, but to be fair the example that comes to mind first is the death of Kurt Cobain and Biggie Smalls
Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @12:27AM (#40784486)
This is really interesting to me, can you expand on what you mean with examples?
Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @12:26AM (#40784477)
they are under fire for their hourly lending policy for books, who knows, I don't think too big to fail applies here
their lending scheme is timed by hour with the option to renew with some restraints, it is not lending to thousands at once
Re:Learn CSS Grid with a virtual garden game on Monday June 03, 2024 @07:06AM (#40561454)
I was thinking about this the other day, it was very helpful a while ago but was wondering if they incorporated sub grid? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_la...