Hacker News: SnooSux

New comment by SnooSux in "Why English doesn't use accents"

SnooSux — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:55:11 +0000

Unless The Economist does it as well, you were probably thinking of The New Yorker.

https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-...

New comment by SnooSux in "Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they're not"

SnooSux — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:55:45 +0000

Headline made me think this was about political affiliation

New comment by SnooSux in "How OpenElections uses LLMs"

SnooSux — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:32:52 +0000

There's lots of posts on HN for developments and companies doing OCR and Document Extraction. It's a classic CV problem but still has come a long way in the past couple years

New comment by SnooSux in "Physics Informed Neural Networks"

SnooSux — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:39:54 +0000

Around a month ago there was a PINN post[1] on here and there was a healthy amount of skepticism in the comments. Even in the toxic positivity of LinkedIn, commentors say they're overhyped when a ML "Influencer" posts that one GIF with a MLP and PINN fitting to an oscillator. I would be interested to see what they're actively being used for.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42769623

New comment by SnooSux in "Ask HN: Has anyone tried adapting a court reporter keyboard for writing code?"

SnooSux — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:51:57 +0000

This guy on YouTube talks about his experience using a steno keyboard and Plover for writing code.

https://youtube.com/@aericksteno

New comment by SnooSux in "Bloom: Optimization-Driven Interactive Diagramming"

SnooSux — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:19:42 +0000

This could be really cool for teaching geometry (or more advanced math) concepts. Reminds me of GeoGebra and 3B1B.

New comment by SnooSux in "Declaring 'Crisis,' South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week"

SnooSux — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:41:45 +0000

I can't speak to attitudes, but when I was in grad school years ago, Koreans were very well represented in my program. There were fewer Korean students than Chinese but more than Indian. Generally they do well in both coursework and research so there's likely at least some opportunity to stay in the states, assuming they don't have obligations back home.

New comment by SnooSux in "Lynn Conway has died"

SnooSux — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:29:34 +0000

She spoke at my commencement a few years back. Her story is an interesting one

New comment by SnooSux in "Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years"

SnooSux — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:54:16 +0000

What does this mean for the value of the yen in the near future?

New comment by SnooSux in "Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]"

SnooSux — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:43:01 +0000

To measure academic achievement they use First Year GPA. It makes sense they're correlated, both require studying known material for a test. But is GPA the best measure, especially first year? I would be interested in other metrics like 3rd-4th year GPA or placements into jobs and such.

New comment by SnooSux in "Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid"

SnooSux — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:52:38 +0000

There are definitely ways to progress from here, but they may be more advanced?

The 1 SouthEast of the bottom 2 touches two tiles, and the 1 immediately West touches a superset of those two. The difference between the larger and smaller set must be clear. And you can go further off of that.

New comment by SnooSux in "Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines"

SnooSux — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:07:40 +0000

Reminds me of similar tools for DDR machines near you.

https://ddrfinder.andrew67.com

https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcades.php

New comment by SnooSux in "Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu"

SnooSux — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:46:19 +0000

Keyboard shortcuts don't have the discoverability of a menu interface but are good for power users. Ideally they would complement each other.

I really like the ergonomics of pie menus, though my experience is limited to Blender. Navigating linear menus require more fine movements than flicking the mouse in one of 8 or fewer directions. And the direction of mouse movement becomes muscle memory the way a keyboard shortcut does. I find a pie menu works well in a mouse-heavy workflow like 3D modelling. But there are definitely applications where it wouldn't be the right fit.

New comment by SnooSux in "Infinite Craft"

SnooSux — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:31:21 +0000

This idea is pretty common, I remember playing a similar game on my iPod Touch nearly 10 years ago

New comment by SnooSux in "Emoji by Year"

SnooSux — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:57:49 +0000

Interesting that some emoji going back to 2020 don't render on my desktop browser. The flags don't show up either (just the two-letter codes).

New comment by SnooSux in "California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open 5 more years"

SnooSux — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:31:19 +0000

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant sounds like something out of a video game.

New comment by SnooSux in "Should you split that file?"

SnooSux — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:52:26 +0000

I like tools like vim and tmux for being able to quickly and easily split windows and show multiple terminals. If I could extend things out further than just my monitor that would be really cool. Or stack windows on top of each other so I could scroll through windows in a specific spot.

New comment by SnooSux in "Omegle 2009-2023"

SnooSux — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:53:56 +0000

Stumble Upon used to be so addicting

New comment by SnooSux in "Two hackers one keyboard two ways"

SnooSux — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:50:42 +0000

Feels like it could be useful for one-handed keyboarding as well.

New comment by SnooSux in "Show HN: Modern Moodle learning platform open-source alternative"

SnooSux — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:00:11 +0000

Learnhouse sounds like Anglish for school.