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New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music"

ZYZ64738 — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:11:29 +0000

try to mimik one of your fav. tracks. maybe first try to reproduce part of the drum pattern with any daw. then you could try to do the same with the baseline, the melody, effects... just playing around. no need to match the exact sound designs.

use simple (caustic3) or cheap software at first (reaper) you later will know what exactly your needs will be. this are just some starting points. i am at your same situation: i have almost no clue about music theory nor i do play a real instrument but i do have a simple midi keyboard just to have a tactile direct access.

one a while i look for YT-advice.

Especially for caustic3 there is a good YT series explaining the basic machines used for electronic music.

caustic3: https://singlecellsoftware.com/caustic3.html

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcM7HcMAhmhaLNX80o4FFRA

reaper: https://www.reaper.fm/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq297H7Ca98HlB5mVFHGSsQ

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:19:10 +0000

There are many ways to make coffee, with various options for additions like milk (including plant-based milk) and sugar, as well as flavorings... Don't these have any effect at all?

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:44:18 +0000

Studies with fewer than 1,000 samples are not very meaningful.

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

ZYZ64738 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:45:49 +0000

Why on earth? It seems to me that the brain itself is the very disease they're trying to preserve here. Not to mention that, as usual, only certain super-rich people could probably afford it—which, to me, seems like one of the worst and most incurable "diseases" there is. Just my humble opinion, coming from my broken brain ;-)

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

ZYZ64738 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:10:36 +0000

> NTransformer High-efficiency C++/CUDA LLM inference engine. Runs Llama 70B on a single RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM) by streaming model layers through GPU memory via PCIe, with optional NVMe direct I/O that bypasses the CPU entirely.

untested:

https://github.com/xaskasdf/ntransformer

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?"

ZYZ64738 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:34:45 +0000

if it's worth i extract the core value out of the "conversation" with myself. could be a page in any knowledge base, a snippet in my ide, or whatever suits well... then the email thread goes either into archive or into data nirvanah.

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:41:21 +0000

...sending myself an email

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Xfce is great"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:37:44 +0000

If you are a dark mode addicted like me:

go for NORD theme

https://github.com/EliverLara/Nordic

and I love this icon set (white)

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1277095

for more NORD integration have a look here:

https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

have fun

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Web development is fun again"

ZYZ64738 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:51:27 +0000

I feel u!

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Show HN: AirFryPro – Convert any oven recipe to air fryer"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:47:12 +0000

UX flaws:

Switching between C and F does not change the label of the field accordingly.

I can enter negative, unrealistic values or no values at all.

Maybe round (floor, ceil) the temperature results in steps of 5 (most devices cannot be adjusted in 1 degree steps)

Improvements: Timer (1st alarm at 1/2 the cooking time. 2nd alarm when done)

New comment by ZYZ64738 in ""I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI""

ZYZ64738 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:53:54 +0000

Great but I don't want meet myself letting AI write 10k lines of "code" for me

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Ask HN: What's the Best Linux Laptop? (August 2025)"

ZYZ64738 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:25:25 +0000

Maybe https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ is of some interest to you.

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Korean Color Test: Your Personal Palette, Instantly"

ZYZ64738 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 07:05:05 +0000

Be prepared to pay with your personal data and receive nothing! unless you order a subscription

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "I deleted my second brain"

ZYZ64738 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 06:51:31 +0000

I used Obsidian 2 yrs. ago for almost 2 weeks and I quit. I did not know why - until this post. I felt missing s.th. or left myself behind by not using s PKMs. Now I feel calm after reading this post. It seems that my subconsciousness alredy knew, that (to me) a PKM would never reach a break even point...

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "How to post when no one is reading"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:12:54 +0000

Well, I have orbited the sun 55 times, 24 of them together with another person besides my life partner. I understand that some parameters in life were chosen by others (my name, place of birth etc. even my gender I could not choose myself), but many other decisions were, are and will be made by me and their consequences are sometimes quite different from what they were planned or expected. In any case, this is still my reality that I have to deal with - everything else is illusion or wishful thinking. The best I can do is to accept things and situations as they are, as happily as possible. This means that I can and perhaps even have to adapt within the scope of my possibilities in order to be as happy as possible.

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "How to post when no one is reading"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:57:56 +0000

Exactly what I want to read on Monday mornings: it describes and confirms my experience from different areas of life, whether it's coding, yoga or DJing; your life is for you and it's supposed to be fun. Then it's original and, with a bit of luck, others will enjoy the things you do too. However, if you do everything just to please others, then you are enslaving yourself to them, copying things that already exist and your originality is gone. My humble opinion...

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Ask HN: Rest Doesn't Help with Burnout"

ZYZ64738 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 05:00:30 +0000

my advise: think about your diet and do yoga regularly. take this valuable time for yourself. i am pretty sure that after a while you will relize what is best for you in your situation which noone else will ever know. sendin my best wishes

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Ask HN: Which product have you purchased that increased your wellbeing?"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 01 May 2023 19:13:25 +0000

A yogamat

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Ask HN: What one piece of music should everyone listen to?"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:08:29 +0000

Oh wow - thx for this one!

New comment by ZYZ64738 in "Ask HN: What one piece of music should everyone listen to?"

ZYZ64738 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 06:16:46 +0000

Some suggestions:

Hinkstep - Aldrig Mer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xCk7ZH_fzCY

Nachur - Cicada Sessions (sadly just three tracks ever made as far as I know) https://youtu.be/4z1ygc_nyJY?list=OLAK5uy_kjOlnCToH30pIfVIa2...

and finally - even well known - lend an ear to Kruder & Dorfmeister (most tracks) https://youtu.be/ShWTcxqUqvw

Have fun