Hacker News: SubGenius

New comment by SubGenius in "Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty"

SubGenius — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:35:09 +0000

Marcovaldo, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves are my favorite. Baron in the Trees too.

I'd definitely suggest starting with these. His short story work is beautiful.

New comment by SubGenius in "Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple"

SubGenius — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:04:23 +0000

Is this some kind of language wars engagement farming?

The OP submitted a post earlier titled "Zig Looked Like the Future – Until We Tried Multithreading" from the same blog.

What's going on?

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=RustSupremacist

1 - https://freedium-mirror.cfd/zig-looked-like-the-future-until...

New comment by SubGenius in "Ask HN: What books are you reading now?"

SubGenius — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:33:30 +0000

I just finished rereading Lonesome Dove, again. Don't let the western theme fool you. It's quite possibly one of the best novels ever written. Every word, every character, every like of dialogue is crafted to perfection. It will leave you with a book hangover like nothing else.

New comment by SubGenius in "Limp Bizkit announces death of bassist Sam Rivers aged 48"

SubGenius — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:04:39 +0000

Sad. The bassline on their song 'The One' is beautifully played.

New comment by SubGenius in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

SubGenius — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:24:17 +0000

Great to see CF sponsoring Ladybird! One of the most important projects out there right now.

I run vanilla arch/i3, so not super interested in Omarchy itself - but am curious to know how polished of a distro they can come up with. I may give it a try soon.

New comment by SubGenius in "Best split ergo keyboard(with trackball) for engineers?"

SubGenius — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 06:28:35 +0000

I use a zsa moonlander and a Kensington trackball, separately.

Just to be clear, I don't think ergo/split keyboards will necessarily help you type faster. They've been life-changing for me to help deal with nerve damage pain in my hands.

Although I do type noticably faster now, but that could just be due to reduced pain.

New comment by SubGenius in "LibriVox"

SubGenius — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 21:42:13 +0000

I've enjoyed quite a few very well narrated audiobooks on LibriVox. The Jane Austen novels voiced by Karen Savage are phenomenal.

New comment by SubGenius in "Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author"

SubGenius — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:27:16 +0000

I like David Thorpe too. George Guidall and John Lee are probably my favorite narrators. Jonathan Cecil narrating the Jeeves books is wonderful. So is Stephen Fry, but he's pretty much amazing in anything.

New comment by SubGenius in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

SubGenius — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:09:34 +0000

I'm building Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.

https://matrixbird.com

New comment by SubGenius in "The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities at 50"

SubGenius — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:42:33 +0000

Calvino is amazing. His short story collection Marcovaldo is just brilliant, it's my personal favorite. Cosmicomics is great too. Well actually, all his work.

It would be worth learning the language to read Calvino in original Italian. And maybe even Umberto Eco.

New comment by SubGenius in "Narcissus and Goldmund"

SubGenius — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:38:53 +0000

This is a beautiful book - his best work in my opinion. I haven't (re)read it in a while so this is a good reminder. There is a great audiobook version too.

New comment by SubGenius in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

SubGenius — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:38:18 +0000

Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.

https://matrixbird.com

New comment by SubGenius in "Siddhartha"

SubGenius — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:39:17 +0000

I liked this quite a bit the first time I'd read it. A decade later, not as much.

Narcissus and Goldmund is my favorite book by Hesse - it's beautifully crafted.

New comment by SubGenius in "Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)"

SubGenius — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:42:32 +0000

If you want the Snow Crash version of Da Vinci Code, then you might like The Illuminatus Trilogy. Robert Anton Wilson is something else. Umberto Eco's book Foucault's Pendulum is a slightly different vibe, but very entertaining read.

New comment by SubGenius in "The Severance writer and cast on corporate cults, sci-fi, and more"

SubGenius — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:58:33 +0000

There's an Iron Maiden song inspired by that show and features a voice clip from it. It's called The Prisoner.

New comment by SubGenius in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

SubGenius — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:15:02 +0000

> ...when the Athenian Democracy voted to condemn Plato to death.

That was Socrates, not Plato.

Socrates was allowed to choose his own punishment too, so he wasn't exactly condemned to death right away. He also had the opportunity to escape prison. He chose not to.

New comment by SubGenius in "Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?"

SubGenius — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 11:42:50 +0000

Ukridge by PG Wodehouse. I hadn't really ventured out the Blandings/Jeeves/Psmith collections that much. Ukridge may be the funniest book I've ever read. He's also featured in another book 'Love Among the Chickens' - absolutely hilarious.

New comment by SubGenius in "Zakir Hussain, legendary tabla virtuoso who defied genres, dies at 73"

SubGenius — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:07:11 +0000

Big fan of his work with Shakti/McLaughlin. RIP.

New comment by SubGenius in "What made Dostoevsky's work immortal"

SubGenius — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 03:10:13 +0000

I believe those words are said by the elder Zosima in one of the early chapters when he has several visitors. Not Alyosha - although it's been several years since I've reread the book.

New comment by SubGenius in "Noam Chomsky has passed away"

SubGenius — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:42:06 +0000

RIP to one of the greats.