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New comment by _rpxpx in "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"

_rpxpx — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:35:05 +0000

Would be really nice to be able to use this with an acoustic piano.

New comment by _rpxpx in "Market design can feed the poor"

_rpxpx — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:47:11 +0000

Brilliantly put. Also, the very fact that there are millions of underfed people in the richest country in the world, is itself evidence of the economic failure of markets. As Richard Wolff put it: in a milk shortage, markets allocate milk to the people with the most money - i.e. the least need for milk. That's not efficient.

New comment by _rpxpx in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

_rpxpx — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:11:42 +0000

OK, maybe. But how many programmers will know this in 10 years' time as use of LLMs is normalized? I like to hear what employers are saying already about recent graduates.

New comment by _rpxpx in "Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer"

_rpxpx — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:26:56 +0000

Because kids famously hate drawing and using their imagination. How wonderful to have technology that can solve that ancient problem.

New comment by _rpxpx in "Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer"

_rpxpx — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:21:46 +0000

Agree with all of that apart from "although cool". Why is it 'cool'? It's 'cool' only in the way Elon Musk and his retracting door handles are 'cool'.

New comment by _rpxpx in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

_rpxpx — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:19:21 +0000

I can only say that, in my own experience, you can't. Traveling pre- and post-smartphone are two completely different realities. The thing tethering you to a gigantic global faceless 'community' has the cost of weakening or blocking your engagement with real immediate physical people, and chance events and immediate experience. There is definitely a trade-off, no matter where your preferences lie. The last time I stayed in a hostel it was in Lima, Peru. It was mostly young people traveling. On every bunk in the room, a guest staring silently into their glowing palms. The joy of traveling used to be having very intense and focused encounters with completely new people who you would probably never speak to again...

New comment by _rpxpx in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

_rpxpx — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:55:33 +0000

I think the central message of that article is precisely that he is completing the adventure only because of community encouragement - but that that is the assistance of all the incredible people he met along the way, strangers on the ground who supported him and helped him on his way, and his friends and family at home. The community is the real people on the ground, and it is the real and living community of the humans who inhabit the entire world. The commercial transmissions with you as TV star are totally unnecessary, and actually only get in the way... Thesiger said that the greatest thing about his adventure across the Arabian Desert was his comradeship with the Bedouin. You just can't have that while waiving a selfie-stick and grinning into the camera...

New comment by _rpxpx in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

_rpxpx — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:38:18 +0000

There is nothing so wonderful that it cannot be ruined by turning it into a youtube channel... The really brilliant people I've met doing things like this always absolutely refused to mediafy their experience. Turning your adventure into a continuous TV show is great way to kill the adventure. We're now so used to everyone running their own shopping channel we don't even notice it. Read Thesiger's books for an account of real experience. The film I urge everyone to watch is Cronenberg's Videodrome - truly the film of our times.

New comment by _rpxpx in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

_rpxpx — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:24:30 +0000

Disingenuous is making a bald statement like that about a very long and involved debate in philosophy. Suggest you read around the subject a bit first before making such haughty comments... Could start here:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/technology/

https://bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.uci.edu/dist/a/3282/file...

New comment by _rpxpx in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

_rpxpx — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:21:27 +0000

I think Israel would find it harder to kill children, yes. In my view a good thing.

New comment by _rpxpx in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

_rpxpx — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:48:32 +0000

A very jovial discussion of systems that have killed millions of innocent people. Maybe you could do the same treatment of Nazi gas chambers or something for the next video?

New comment by _rpxpx in "Your Phone Isn't a Drug. It's a Portal to the Otherworld."

_rpxpx — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:08:24 +0000

A portal to an Otherworld in which I feel harassed, agitated, anxious, and stupid.

New comment by _rpxpx in "The lost cause of the Lisp machines"

_rpxpx — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:52:32 +0000

Also Maxima.

New comment by _rpxpx in "The Attention Economy Is Everywhere. Self-Hosting Is the Escape [video]"

_rpxpx — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:13:32 +0000

OK, but a bit lame. Luddite Club is more radical: https://www.theludditeclub.org/

Far Out Company

_rpxpx — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:51:14 +0000

Article URL: https://faroutcompany.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656556

Points: 2

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Far Out Company – artists of 60s counterculture

_rpxpx — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:00:14 +0000

Article URL: https://faroutcompany.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944059

Points: 2

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New comment by _rpxpx in "Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election"

_rpxpx — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:13:57 +0000

Good. Given Keir Starmer's abysmal behaviour, this is about the only chance there is of keeping a Tory/Reform coalition out at the next election. I would like to see voting age capped also, at 70. Increasingly senile and racist pensioners in comfortable homes are dominating British politics with horrific consequences.

New comment by _rpxpx in "Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival"

_rpxpx — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:30:35 +0000

Articles like this always start with such radical criticism, and end with such dismally modest proposals: "try not to look at your phone for 1 hour after you wake up", "before you pick up your phone, try counting to 100 first", "move 'instagram' away from your homescreen", etc. What about just getting rid of your smartphone? Who really needs anything beyond calls and text messages...? You can get a GPS map, and a camera. Complete freedom is right there for the taking.

New comment by _rpxpx in "iPod Linux (2017)"

_rpxpx — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:43:47 +0000

Great work, and great to hear about Echoplayer. Sorely needed. I currently use a Cowon Plenue D2 and have an iPod Video running Rockbox. The iPod looks nice, but is flaky and outdated, and can't utilize 24-bit flacs. The Cowon is pretty good, but the UI has a load of irritating elements and proprietary nonsense.

Congratulations on not carrying a cell phone!

Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices [pdf]

_rpxpx — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/limits2025-lafrechoux-retrofitting.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456480

Points: 1

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