Hacker News: aaarrm

New comment by aaarrm in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

aaarrm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:38:59 +0000

It truly is not a choice, as I cannot sustain my family / lifestyle with manual labor. Opting into working out for the sake of my health is not nearly the same.

New comment by aaarrm in "Peptides: where to begin?"

aaarrm — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:12:04 +0000

My partner's grandfather died of cancer because when he was having pains they believed their homeopathic medicine would work. When he finally when in to see a real doctor it was too late. If he had gone in earlier, he would been able to have a chance. This is not a rare occurrence for these types.

New comment by aaarrm in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

aaarrm — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:38:51 +0000

While this can be true, this absolutely is not true for the majority of paycheck-to-paycheck people. You truly need to get your head out of your ass if you honestly believe this is what is causing people to be poor.

New comment by aaarrm in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

aaarrm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:46:41 +0000

The angle / position your wrist is when your fingers need to do these lateral movements could be more or less taxing depending.

New comment by aaarrm in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

aaarrm — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:24:40 +0000

I think there are actually discord client mods which let you stream in high quality anyway.

New comment by aaarrm in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

aaarrm — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:38:58 +0000

Okay, what's the actual point of this website? It's just a glossary of singing terms, that if you sing at all you would know pretty much all of them. Even the "resources" section that links to youtube just links to a search on youtube of the term, not a specific video. Was this just your AI project for fun?

New comment by aaarrm in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

aaarrm — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:19:40 +0000

I often imagine a world where ads are illegal.

New comment by aaarrm in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

aaarrm — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:02:47 +0000

I see a lot of people in here posting success stories from lessons, which is great. But I tried lessons for about 2 months and go absolutely nowhere haha. It was just repeatedly practicing some song that I wasn't super into and I never even felt like I was "singing" just talking kind of louder / longer and felt very forced and odd. Terrible experience tbh, but I do love singing and still want to some day. (I generally just sing in falsetto to songs in my car because I'm too timid to really project my actual voice)

New comment by aaarrm in "Wind Chime Length Calculator (2022)"

aaarrm — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:02:08 +0000

Where did you get them if you don't mind me asking

Also do you know the material of the metals? I wonder if it'd be worth it to have them in different metals for different timbres. Like two different instruments

New comment by aaarrm in "Study: Minimal evidence links social media, gaming to teen mental health issues"

aaarrm — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:43:10 +0000

Honestly this issue isn't inherent to just teens. I want to do be able to do these sorts of activities as an adult even, but there's nowhere that you're allowed to just be or do anything.

New comment by aaarrm in "Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds"

aaarrm — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:10:16 +0000

It doesn't need to be tech. From the Guidelines section of HN:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

New comment by aaarrm in "No knives, only cook knives"

aaarrm — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:11:10 +0000

A pair of scissors for every room is what I subscribe to

New comment by aaarrm in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

aaarrm — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:34:21 +0000

Well not with their battle passes in Dota. They employed a lot of FOMO tactics where you had to spend hundreds to guarantee a set that you'll otherwise never be able to get again.

New comment by aaarrm in "Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021)"

aaarrm — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:49:39 +0000

Could you reword and reformat this? I'm interested in what youre saying but am struggling to understand it fully.

New comment by aaarrm in "Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021)"

aaarrm — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:43:35 +0000

It's not as hard as you think to get close to people, but you have to be intentional about it.

First step would be to widen your "funnel" of new people in your life before then filtering them down. Simply need to go to social events, meetups, etc.

New comment by aaarrm in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

aaarrm — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 01:14:30 +0000

I'm the same, and it has kind of ruined me. No one I know thinks the ways I do. I keep wondering if it's just due to anxiety or a fear of death, or an inability to feel present or what. But I really wish I could figure this aspect of myself out so that I can relax and enjoy in a moment.

Whenever I realize that I was lost a moment, I get anxious about what I should be doing with my time instead.

New comment by aaarrm in "Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?"

aaarrm — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:00:32 +0000

I've been meaning to make the jump into joining random teams' game jams that are looking for additional people. I get nervous about it, that my skills aren't up to par, but I know it would be a great way to increase them.

I'm curious about anyone's experiences who has joined random teams in game jams and how it turned out.

New comment by aaarrm in "A Year of Telepathy"

aaarrm — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:33:47 +0000

Considering you have options, one could argue that you must be okay with them, otherwise you could just choose to not support them. I personally believe there's more nuance than that, but Ive heard that line of argument before.

New comment by aaarrm in "Life is more than an engineering problem"

aaarrm — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:04:59 +0000

Neural networks are a simplification of our brains, they are not a replication of it. It is just a modeling method that was inspired by how human neurons work, that's it. It's not 1 to 1 or anything.

New comment by aaarrm in "Macrodata Refinement"

aaarrm — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:05:42 +0000

From is quite fun too. It is extremely similar to lost in its vibes and writing style. For the record I think both of these shows are not good shows, but are definitely entertaining shows.