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Re:Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:41AM (#50071626)
I love using https://convert.to.it/ for all of my converting needs; everything is client-side in the browser with over 400 file extension options to choose from.

Source: https://github.com/p2r3/convert

Re:A small collection of text-only websites on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:59AM (#46466778)
This entirely depends on your perspective/interpretation of “text-only”.

To me, having only text as the output with no ads, videos, or images is “text-only”. It doesn’t matter how it’s presented as long as it’s just text.

But I also see your perspective. You want plain defaults with white background color, black foreground color, and no formatting.

Re:What do Americans die from vs. what the news report on on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @07:31PM (#45586242)
It's like my journalism professor told me since he used to be a news anchor ... "If it bleeds, it leads".
Re:Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML on Sunday September 07, 2025 @10:45PM (#45164243)
Re:Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @09:40PM (#43339125)
Also, thanks to @dang for keeping the community in-line with the rules/guidelines.
I ended up turning my TV off and watching from my phone because of the buffering/freezing. The audio would continue to play and the screen would be frozen with a loading percentage that never changed.

I have Spectrum (600 Mbps) for ISP and Verizon for mobile.

Re:1374 Days – My Journey with Long Covid (2023) on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:50PM (#42009415)
Physics Girl on YouTube is still fighting it.

https://www.youtube.com/@physicsgirl

Re:Am radio tower power [video] on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:30AM (#36516674)
Wow! I’m just a normal person here. Could someone explain how that’s making the sound from the AM station like it’s a speaker?
Title seems oddly similar to another Reddit-like post from today….

Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years (https://non.io)

Title seems oddly similar to another “Reddit-like” post from today!

Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years (https://flingup.com)

I wonder if running PiHole would be a good work-around?
Re:The World's Smallest Hash Table on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:56PM (#35023916)
I am not OP.
I have my own "conspiracy" theory about black holes relating to our universe. Bare with me here.

Some scientists believe in parallel universes and are unsure how they may or may not interact. Some scientists also believe in the so called "Big Bang' that began the expansion of our universe.

Since everything is made up of molecules/atoms (or matter in general) etc and all those things have a resonant frequency, what if each parallel universe operates at a different resonant frequency and our brain is only tuned to receive/understand the frequencies of our own universe? This would somewhat explain why we cannot perceive the other universes. Keep that in-mind for the below.

My theory is what if black holes are just vacuums sucking all the energy from one parallel universe into itself only to be blasted out the other side (that we cannot see) creating the "Big Bang" event to create the beginning of the next universe?

Makes you think, even if it sounds crazy.

Re:Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:29PM (#32543003)
I’ve had similar issues of not receiving emails before and it’s annoying especially if you’re trying to do password resets.

I like the idea the author is taking about although I’m not too techie with all the details.

If I tried this “reverse” approach I would do it this way,

After the user creates their account, simply generate a unique token and tell the user to simply copy the token and send it back to a specific email address controlled by me with the token as the subject line and the body is ignored.

This way the user sends the unique code from the email address they want to use so we know it’s them cause how else would they get the unique token.

Is it 100% fool-proof? No. But most things humans touch is not secured 100% anyways but I’d like to think it’s a start.

Well Tesla did say and I quote “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

AND

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

I think we’ll make great progress if we eat those words.

Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:24PM (#31508499)
The game idea I documented about a decade ago and have yet to start on because I never pushed myself to spend the required time to learn the C programming language enough to do it.
Re:America Online Exploits Bug in Own Software (1999) on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:56PM (#29203838)
That was an interesting read, Thanks!
Re:Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:10PM (#29170629)
Re:A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (2017) on Sunday July 18, 2021 @10:26PM (#27878646)
> In the end, nobody came. Nobody else cared.

From my experience just being an observer and not too much of a techie I’d say it’s one of the cons of open source products.

For example, if there’s an open source product you like to use but the maintainers are not very active, you may get aggravated and fork it and start another similar product thinking you can do it better justice. Problem is, for every new “fork” of a product you end up dividing the user base as well.

When users have too many options to choose from they usually do not compare differences when there’s too many to compare and just pick one.

Also, most of these similar products are not always backwards compatible which is one of many reasons people may not try to compare similar products.

Another way of thinking about it is the less effort someone has to input to copy something, the more “copies” you’ll have to pick from. From a users perspective it is very confusing and frustrating not knowing what to pick to use.

Re:CSS Zen Garden on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:44AM (#22634969)
I see a lot of people bickering here in the comments about what's better and why, but does it really matter? I mean I don't care if you like to wear rain boots when it's sunny or flip flops when it's raining, as long as you have some footwear on.

There's many ways a webpage could be programmed/designed/developed/styled but the only thing that really matters is that it's usable and visible to the end-user. No programmer likes every other programmers code when they have to work with it and we all know there's ten different ways to solve the same problem so just let people do it the way they know how as long as you can use/view it with no major issues who cares.

Re:Ask HN: What IT certifications should I get for my degree? on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:59PM (#21445068)
What non-programming type roles exist that I could focus on?

Ask HN: What IT certifications should I get for my degree?

I have my B.A. in Computer Information Systems with a focus on Networking and Security. I've been applying for jobs for almost an entire year with no luck so I'm looking into getting some certifications but not sure which ones exist that I should get nor do I know which organizations to trust to take the tests with or which study materials to get that will have all the information needed to...

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Re:Version Museum on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:13PM (#20740827)
Always interesting to see how fast things have changed in terms of how websites are designed.
Thank you for your feedback. I agree I should work on some side projects.
Noted. Thank you very much.
Could you provide a URL for Trilobyte? I tried searching but only got results for a gaming company.

Ask HN: What's my best option to get into the IT field with my BA degree?

I was considered a non-traditional college student when I started for my BA in Computer Information Systems when I was 25 years old. I graduated this past December (2018) at the age of 30.Since then I have been actively applying for jobs in the IT field such as "Software Developer, IT Help Desk, Desktop Support, Programmer" etc. Some of them are mostly the same thing just different titles.As of...

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Re:Report examines origins and nature of 'math anxiety' on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:54PM (#19402311)
I have math anxiety. I've been bad at math since I was a child. Mainly because I was hyper and had short attention span and neither of my parents were good at math, nor did we have money to get a tutor so my basic mathematical foundation has always been weak.

I'm 31 years old now with my BA in Computer Information Systems and I still don't know all of my multiplication problems from 1's to 12's, and have difficulty solving basic algebra problems.

I've always stated that I hated math, and that schools are always forcing students to learn certain types of math just to pass/graduate. Instead I think the schools should focus on math that the students can immediately start applying to their daily lives and jobs; no child working at a fast-food chain is going to even try to apply calculus to their job.

My issue is that not everyone learns or interprets the language the same. Some like myself take longer to process a problem to form a solution, but in school you're on a timed schedule so people like me struggle.

Also, some teachers only teach the way they learned and understood the language and don't really care or think that other students may learn from different ways/perspectives.

I know I can learn any type of math, I just need it explained and demonstrated to me in simple english that even a 5th grader could understand and not with college words that I need a dictionary to comprehend.

I secretly deep down want to be great at math and to learn and master, algebra, trigonometry, geometry, calculus, etc. so that I feel competent in the computer industry to solve basic and more advanced problems. But instead, I am reclusive and feel dumb and that I will never be great at any type of math discipline.

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