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New comment by THansenite in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

THansenite — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:43:29 +0000

As much as people make fun of "new math", it is really neat to see my 3rd grader working through a math problem step by step in a way that makes sense to them instead of the rote memorization I had to do as a kid. While they don't like showing their work, it helps them to work through each step to make sure their assumptions are correct, like you said.

New comment by THansenite in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

THansenite — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:25:57 +0000

This makes sense when you think about the divided state of the USA today. People were isolated during COVID and had no feedback on opinions formed then. When they started creating bubbles after lockdown, they wanted validation for the opinions they formed without that feedback. Now, people constantly argue online because that feedback they needed while cementing those ideas wasn't there and we aren't willing to take that communication feedback to tweak our opinions based on common sense because we all believe we are right. This article makes a lot of sense.

New comment by THansenite in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"

THansenite — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:39:08 +0000

Agreed. As a developer, I'd love to see how this was done or if you have it out on Github.

New comment by THansenite in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

THansenite — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:25:28 +0000

This is so true. My wife loves knitting and frequently gets comments about her items of people asking if they could have her knit something for them. When she tells them that if she tripled the prices of a similar store-bought one, she'd still be making sweatshop wages, they go back to the mass produced version they already have pretty quick.

New comment by THansenite in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

THansenite — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:18:29 +0000

I've been fascinated by mechanical watches for years. It can become a deep rabbit hole (like most hobbies). I frequently have watch restoration videos playing in the background as I'm doing things and love the process of taking apart, cleaning, and reassembling these watch movements. Wristwatch Revival is probably my favorite. I has encouraged me to tear apart a few watches of my own to give them a good service. As complex as they look, most follow a very similar process to rebuild.

New comment by THansenite in "OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury"

THansenite — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:32:06 +0000

I'm imagining a Dungeon Crawler Carl style view-meter that shows more people tuning in as he gets to some juicier parts of his journal. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-osss BATTLE!!!!

New comment by THansenite in "OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury"

THansenite — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:05:22 +0000

I can understand what you are going for here, but I feel it is a slippery slope along the lines of police saying, "why can't I search your house if you have nothing to hide?" Orwellian oversight leads to stifling creativity because you know people are watching. I like that I can 'speak freely' in my journal since they are my personal thoughts.

New comment by THansenite in "OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury"

THansenite — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:41:46 +0000

It is actually a decent sized community. As someone who works in technology, I enjoy the aspect of actually creating something physical when so much is ones and zeros on silicone. While not daily, I try to journal regularly as a practice to slow down, focus my thoughts, and use it as therapy to get frustrations/emotions/musings out so I can move on.

New comment by THansenite in "OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury"

THansenite — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:37:49 +0000

I honestly don't know how I feel about this. I keep a journal where I can get thoughts out of my head so I can move on. Like the article, its nothing I'd really be ashamed of, but I see it as a kind of personal therapy where I can dump my thoughts. I write with the assumption they are my private thoughts and even I don't have any plans on going back and rereading. I know I'm not a CEO, but even I wouldn't want my private thoughts brought into a courtroom that I never thought would see the light of day.

New comment by THansenite in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

THansenite — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:48:38 +0000

Do you have more details on this project anywhere? I've been working on habit-building and tracking in my journal for the past year and a half or so, but I'm looking to amp it up a bit more. Your project appeals to my software developer and hobby collector mindset and would love to learn more about it.

New comment by THansenite in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

THansenite — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:06:04 +0000

Because downtown city centers were missing out on office worker revenue and started giving incentives to companies who brought people back into the office. I 100% believe the reason we went back into the office at all was because of this despite all the talk of 'in-person collaboration.'

New comment by THansenite in "Text-Based Google Directions"

THansenite — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:51:42 +0000

As someone who is currently enamored with Meshtastic devices, several of which have built in GPS, this is making me wonder of future iterations of the software and being able to somehow utilize the directions on the mesh.

New comment by THansenite in "Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?"

THansenite — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:04:12 +0000

This series popped into my head as soon as I read what the original poster was looking for. As someone who loves building things, I've read through many Gingery books in the series with aspirations of building many of the machines. That said, the refractory sand for the foundry in the first book is still sitting in a bag in my garage.

New comment by THansenite in "The Life of NHL Dentists"

THansenite — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:29:24 +0000

Playing rec league years ago, I had always played with a full cage. I decided to go with a half visor to be one of the cool kids. Went to my local shop and it was a bit more expensive than I had planned so I figured I'd wait until the next week to buy it. That week, I took two pucks to the cage. I never did go back to buy the visor.

New comment by THansenite in "Des Moines Register grapples with how to handle reporter’s past tweets"

THansenite — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:54:40 +0000

As someone currently living in Des Moines, this is all the city can talk about right now. Facebook is on fire with people going after the Register, pitchforks in hand. It is kind of ridiculous they'd dig up 8ish year old posts this guy made in a story about his generosity towards a children's hospital, but it seems that is what media has to do now to get eyes. The backlash on the Register has been swift and harsh, though, and with print media already on the decline, is probably pretty bad news for the paper overall.

New comment by THansenite in "Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons"

THansenite — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:42:28 +0000

Or, ya know, the real experts.....parents on Facebook.

New comment by THansenite in "Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns"

THansenite — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 17:59:03 +0000

You'd see it more if you look in finance. Outside of tax season, you can frequently see them at H & Arrrrrr Block.

New comment by THansenite in "Ask HN: Where to start on creating AI for games?"

THansenite — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:24:12 +0000

You should check out CodinGame. I go on there from time to time to mess around with the challenges where you program the AI to do the task presented. Might be a fun way to get in the AI mindset.