Hacker News: WhiteOwlLion

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

WhiteOwlLion — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:48:39 +0000

I use Twitter/X on web because the iOS so bad.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

WhiteOwlLion — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:58:54 +0000

Samplers became accessible at the time which allowed music production with just loops. Look at snap I got the power. All looped samples

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

WhiteOwlLion — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:55:40 +0000

You make a better product if you plan it out first. That’s part of a PM’s job so it’s natural fit when the ai does the coding. The code may not be ideal but it’ll have the structure you can improve on.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Vouch"

WhiteOwlLion — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:06:55 +0000

What about HashCash, where proof of work increases with more pull requests from a user ID? Beyond typical submission frequency, proof-of-work would become exponentially more difficult to prevent spam, helping to keep the riff-raff out.

Doesn't require money, just computing power.

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

If HiveCoin were still around, we could donate the hashing power to some tech-related non-profit.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively?"

WhiteOwlLion — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:19:09 +0000

https://friture.org/

spectral analyzer. not sure if you need cli or batch function, but the frequency will be cut off regardless of the purported bitrate even if it was "upscaled" since those frequencies were chopped previously. you can see a sample screenshot in the upper left showing the frequency. re-encode a 320kbps to 128kbps and you can see the frequency range diminished on the 128kbps.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Anatomy of a credit card rewards program"

WhiteOwlLion — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:21:37 +0000

If you're only getting back 1% to 2%, you're losing out on better cash back cards.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem"

WhiteOwlLion — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:10:53 +0000

Aren't torrents block based so file boundaries are not observed without hacks?

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Seeing like a bank"

WhiteOwlLion — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:47:49 +0000

you're forgetting the next person they give that 100 bucks to, deposits that money (if not completely spent) into a bank, which is again used to lend out more money.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Seeing like a bank"

WhiteOwlLion — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:42:24 +0000

You sometimes have to treat adults like little children. The first thing I say is, "you're not in trouble". Kids assume if an adult talks to them, they are automatically in trouble. I've gotten a lot of helpful results by telling people no one is in trouble when you make your inquiry. Amazing how grown adults regress to children when a different department calls them.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Seeing like a bank"

WhiteOwlLion — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:35:04 +0000

Fastrak anyone?

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles"

WhiteOwlLion — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:14:47 +0000

seems like a good project to integration with ChatGPT video and figure out ways to automatically insert start & end times for sponsors, interaction reminders, intro, outro, etc. With a little training, this could be fully automated accurately.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews"

WhiteOwlLion — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:43:25 +0000

The trademarks are required for Chinese businesses to house products in the USA for Amazon FBA (freigh by Amazon). They make non-sensical trademarks so there's no conflict with the trademark office. Techquickie (Linus Tech Tips) has an episode on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UrqlMfwUC4

Amazon 3P (third party) has essentially become what eBay was in the 90s except the crap is sometimes housed in the USA for faster delivery. Amazon doesn't care. It pretty much all fell apart after he separated from McKenzie and lost the way.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews"

WhiteOwlLion — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:39:06 +0000

If I include tl;dr or eli5, chatGPT makes an effort to distill the answer to the essentials.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "The best kimchi is made in earthenware pots"

WhiteOwlLion — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:53:09 +0000

I read the Portuguese introduced chilli pepper in the 15th century, but Wikipedia says 16th century. There were other forms pickled vegetables like mool-kimchi but that doesn't have the spice component.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "The best kimchi is made in earthenware pots"

WhiteOwlLion — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:49:38 +0000

Everyone has a different taste, but I do concur with you. Your grandma and my grandma kept to the traditional manual methods and that tastes best. The chilli peppers cultivated in Korea have a different sweeter taste IMO and the cheaper ones imported from China (while cheaper) do not hold up in terms of the sweetness and balanced spice. The earthenware pot also act as a refrigerant by being buried in the ground. Since the pot is placed below the frostline, kimchi is available through winter.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Dan Russell, senior research scientist at Google, was laid off"

WhiteOwlLion — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:05:44 +0000

I recall Facebook handle terminations this way. Maybe eBay too?

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Tell HN: Copying and pasting from ChatGPT unsolicited sucks"

WhiteOwlLion — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:37:41 +0000

You haven't met some of my friends. Do we need a humility parameter with ChatGPT?

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Which Banks Had Higher Performing PPP Loans"

WhiteOwlLion — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:16:35 +0000

Technology helped the small guys compete with the big boys. Cross River is a tiny bank yet they ranked 4th after the top 3 banks with staff, resources, and scale beyond Cross River. Yet, they were were able to utilize fintech to rank 4th. It really put the top 3 to shame and shows how limp they are when it comes to innovation and agility.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office?"

WhiteOwlLion — Thu, 21 May 2020 05:09:33 +0000

Yes, it is called Google Docs. It has all the version history and the person that made the edit known. Still unimpressed with Office collaboration features and all the other Microsoft tools you need like SharePoint. Its 2020! Microsoft had 20 years to get it right and they are still giving us sub-par features.

New comment by WhiteOwlLion in "DigitalOcean VPC"

WhiteOwlLion — Fri, 01 May 2020 01:11:56 +0000

As long as you don't use vendor specific tools, who cares? That's the point of kubernetes and to abstract away the whole "cloud" provider. Let it become a commodity and a race to the bottom.