Hacker News: Supercompressor

New comment by Supercompressor in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

Supercompressor — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:02:44 +0000

Appreciated - thank you.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

Supercompressor — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:16:40 +0000

I've been looking for the opposite - wanting to dump text and it be read to me, coherently. Anyone have good recommendations?

New comment by Supercompressor in "Bird brains (2023)"

Supercompressor — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:13:31 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea

New comment by Supercompressor in "Bird brains (2023)"

Supercompressor — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:26:35 +0000

Domestication ≠ habitat classification. Alpine refers to habitat. Kea live, feed, and breed in alpine environments and are behaviourally adapted to it. By your logic, because my ancestors ~300 years ago aren’t from New Zealand, I’m not a New Zealander.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Bird brains (2023)"

Supercompressor — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:39:12 +0000

Kiwi here. They live in alpine regions, they have adapted to alpine life - how are they not alpine parrots? Go back far enough and you could make this argument about anything.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Bird brains (2023)"

Supercompressor — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:36:33 +0000

If you'd like to read a long-form version of this, take a look at Jennifer Ackerman's "The Bird Way" from 2020. Really loved this book.

https://www.jenniferackermanauthor.com/the-bird-way

Also, just my opinion, but Kea's are the best bird there is.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

Supercompressor — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:49:48 +0000

Free now isn't free forever. If something has inherent value then folks will be willing to pay for it.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Google Antigravity"

Supercompressor — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:19:00 +0000

If you dismiss and respond something like "proceed" it resumes. Takes a fair while to actually run out of usage.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

Supercompressor — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:51:18 +0000

There would be so much subjectivity to this. I like the idea but executing in a reliable, repeatable way would be very challenging imo.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On"

Supercompressor — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:12:35 +0000

I'm in the same boat as you, even with a botched migration about 12-14 years ago and am really passionate about this stance. I've lately been getting further enjoyment from thrifting CDs and ripping FLAC upgraded tracks to my library, overwriting old 128kb/s fuzz. Actually have been at this for about 3 years now and around 1200 ripped. I try now to only listen to those albums + bandcamp, etc purchases where possible.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Find SF parking cops"

Supercompressor — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:32:47 +0000

FYI the ticketing time is showing incorrectly out of Pacific time, e.g. here in Eastern all recent activity shows as 3 hours ago. Not a big deal as almost all users would be in Pacific, but wanted to mention.

Great work though, this is rad.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"

Supercompressor — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:10:55 +0000

Safety and privacy are so closely linked for this usage to be feasible, especially with how available and identifiable anonymised data can be.

New comment by Supercompressor in "The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return"

Supercompressor — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:27:07 +0000

This is mentioned in the link.

New comment by Supercompressor in "Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours"

Supercompressor — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:41:17 +0000

The headline makes this out to be deception by Seagate but the article reads as if it's just one shady, but approved distributor who's sneaking these out as new drives.