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Re:Pokemon PWA on Thursday June 11, 2026 @11:46AM (#48491980)

Show HN: The Pursuit of Happiness

https://www.zineanteoh.com/blog/happiness

i have been a huge fan of bartosz ciechanowski's blog[0], and it has always been my goal to combine my writings with some 3d interactive visualizations of some sort.this is my first attempt at re-creating bartosz-like blog! unlike bartosz (he uses raw webgl, which is crazy[1]), i built this with pmndrs's react-three-fiber[2].hope you enjoy the interactive 3d experience![0]:...

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Re:Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course) on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:33PM (#42857581)
this is unbelievably helpful, wow -- thank you!

curious: which part of the pipeline does the majority of 'business' value come from?

Re:YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:44PM (#42837506)
this is very interesting!

though i noticed some outdated info for most companies (last updated >2 months ago).

Re:OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now on Thursday November 21, 2024 @03:08PM (#42208096)
what else do you think about when prompting, which you've found to be useful?
Re:Chinese app design: weird, but it works [video] on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @04:21PM (#41185022)
totally agree. culture is prevalent yet it is also difficult to learn & understand it well.

have you found reliable ways to learn about other cultures?

Love this!

I also made a math game 3 years ago.

https://github.com/zineanteoh/clean-the-river

I called it “Clean the river”. It is a web-based game that lets children practice forming and solving basic mathematical expressions by "cleaning the river".

Re:Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024 on Sunday February 04, 2024 @05:42AM (#39249152)
"From the soil: Foundations of Chinese Society" by Fei Xiaotong.

It is a book (accessible to non-chinese) that helps one understand a population of >1.4 billion in less than 180 pages. Wouldn’t one call this a bargain?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134293.From_the_Soil

Re:Finish Your Projects on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:00AM (#36321273)
Thank you so so much for listing these examples. I am the exact target audience for your financial accounting videos. Immediately bookmarked and shared with a few of my close friends. Appreciate you for finishing these projects -- they definitely will come in valuable for people like me :)
Re:April Fools: Evidence of Pi Varying over Time on Friday April 28, 2023 @04:50PM (#35746948)
A humorous paper (2009) on the time variation of pi by Robert J. Scherrer of Vanderbilt University.

Published for April Fools day 2009

Re:How to Draw Ideas on Sunday January 15, 2023 @06:12AM (#34388556)
I love this! I especially love Ralph’s clarity of thought and his delivery of complex ideas through such simple writings and drawings.

And the best part is: I can imagine how much work each one of his article takes! Mainly because I have tried writing in a manner similar to Ralph’s myself [1], and I found it is not easy to articulate complex topics in an easy-to-digest manner. Drawings help to lower the barrier to understanding, and Ralph knows this very well.

[1]: https://zineanteoh.com/the-colors-we-paint-of-others

* for the enjoyment of HN community, i share my blog publicly for the first time. the pw is ‘thelittleprince’

I used to consistently journal on Day One. That period of time was arguably the most retrospective and emotionally accepting period of my life… until I stopped. Turns out, I would often return to previous days’ logs to augment, modify, and rephrase what I wrote…

This is a bad habit I noticed in myself. Because hindsight would cause me to rationalize to myself: “I don’t believe that’s how I felt 2 days ago, so let me reword it more positively.”

Coincidentally(?), I saw OP’s post on reddit a while ago, and back then I noticed something interesting about Baseline: its acknowledgement that my mood is a momentary snapshot of how I feel about that day, and how its design philosophy encourages me to be completely honest about my feelings.

Most mood journaling app allows me to go back and edit previous entries. But Baseline does not, and I think this is an underrated feature.