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My flatmate used to watch TV in the living room quite loud when I was trying to sleep in my room.

I set a Raspberry Pi with an IR led running an Apache server close to the TV. From my phone I would visit the Raspberry IP and send signals to the IR led to lower the volume.

That sounds about right. But how come a manager having a 10 year old camera and not a newest model?
Re:Music for Programming on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:27AM (#32010907)
Here is my personal collection of more than 24h of voiceless electronic beats. I know is used for coding by two dev friends and myself:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36bPEqDdU1jZiQ9Ix6cM1c?si=...

Enjoy :)

Re:Show HN: Responsecodes.xyz on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:05AM (#31975385)
I actually encountered the same issue. I knew there was some service doing that, but I couldn't find it using Google. It took me several minutes.

I guess you have and edge if you manage to match user intent with your keywords and get ranked by Google.

Good luck!

Re:Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution? on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:27AM (#31907415)
Modern science differs from Middle Earth knowledge in having the willingness to admit ignorance. No scientific law, concept, theory or idea is sacred.

I don't think Middle Earth Christianity, Islam or whatever other premodern traditions of knowledge would agree in those two views. Everything that was important to know about the world was already known and written in the Bible, Qur'an or the Vedas.

How on earth there was going to be any secret of the universe yet to be discovered by mere immortals?

It looks like your projects resonate with people, and more important, you are capable of putting them in front of many eyes. Which is even harder than writing code. For that reason, don't seek the validation of VCs and figure out a business around it. Let your customers be your VCs.

Congratulations on your work :)

Ask HN: Books worth reading multiple times?

I've seen this advice in different tweets and podcast that goes like this:"It's better to read one good book multiple times than multiple books once" or "I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read all the books."However I fail to identify what books are worth reading over and over again.So, what books did you read more than once and are worth...

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Re:Colors.lol (2020) on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:00AM (#30496861)
I made a small tool [1] trying to replicate this article using neural networks.

[1] tailwind.ink

Re:Passwordle on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:35PM (#30366774)
This is a masterpiece.
Re:Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:22PM (#30250482)
For that I like this one: https://cryptobook.nakov.com/
Re:Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:29PM (#30248945)
Do you recommend any resources to learn about this?
Re:Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:32PM (#30248080)
First time doing this type of visualizations. I have this one tailwind.ink which will visualize a color palette on their luminance, chroma and hue values, but it's not really representing the algorithm behind.
Re:Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:01PM (#30247591)
Thanks :) I first implemented sha256 in js to understand its inner workings. Then I started displaying its variables with react and adding this stepped mechanism. Finally, I added some notes on the left to add some context of what is going on.
Re:Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:56AM (#30247511)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23166713

It seems like a "nothing up my sleeve" way to initialize the variables.

Re:Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:54AM (#30247472)
Thanks for the feedback and I am glad you'll use it for teaching (which was the main goal of this project)! The padding part it's briefly explained on the "dynamic" notes on the left column, but yes, can be improved. Typing on the input gives you some sense of what is doing on the background, specially if it jumps to two blocks.

The "for each chunk" is also implemented (which was one of the most difficult parts to synchronize with the UI), but I agree too, I should come up with some way to represent it better. Thanks again :)

Re:Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:50AM (#30245580)
I actually started this because my first idea was: can I implement SHA-256 with just TTL logic gates? which should be possible, but it would take months to do.

for puzzles try 12037465 for some coffee :)

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? on Sunday February 06, 2022 @09:50AM (#30232968)
- Have friends around you

- Have freedom

- Do meaningful work

- Spend $ on experiences, not things

- Help others with what you’re good at

- Lower your expectations

- Exercise + eat healthily

- Reflect on thoughts

Re:How I write and curate the cron.weekly newsletter (2020) on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:15AM (#30082376)
Site crashing on Android Chrome.
Re:Reverse engineering Wordle on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:52AM (#29908095)
This website is crashing Chrome on my Xiaomi :/
Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:39AM (#29646876)
Some more Spanish in Spain:

It sweat my dick.

I care a milk.

I care a shit.

I care a pepper.

I created a tool that could help you on creating this type of palettes. It's based on CIELAB and you can see where all the colors are placed in the lightness, chroma and hue space. You can also see they boundaries for any family color so you know how much you can stretch chroma without shifting lightness or hue.

Tailwind.ink

I created tailwind.ink for creating color families that can be interchanged as long as they gave the same numeric label. Interesting article :)
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:13AM (#27996787)
They will get probably outranked on the next big Google update.
I always wonder if I should add how much money are my projects doing so recruiters would take them more seriously.
Re:Show HN: GPU-Accelerated Inference Hosting on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @12:54AM (#27817736)
could I run spleeter on it?

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