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New comment by ajdude in "Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality"

ajdude — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:38:26 +0000

I used to receive a catalog every quarter for an audiophile magazine. They sold some very very expensive gold plated toslink cables. The gold planting was supposed to be for superior conductivity.

Toslink is an optical audio format, and a pair of fishing line would've even worked identical quality.

New comment by ajdude in "The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024)"

ajdude — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:15:32 +0000

My heroes are my parents, Superman and Wonder Woman!

New comment by ajdude in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

ajdude — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:22:54 +0000

I was really hoping to see 512gb but I guess they don't want it to cut into the sales of the Studio.

New comment by ajdude in "iPhone 17e"

ajdude — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:04:52 +0000

> Every single person I know who uses a phone of more than 4 years old, uses an iPhone 13 mini

That's because they haven't came out with another small iPhone in more than four years.

Half the time when I'm home I still use my iPod touch because it's even smaller than the mini.

New comment by ajdude in "Acme Weather"

ajdude — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:41:04 +0000

> Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app.

I will never forgive them for selling out to Apple.

Dark sky was the greatest weather app I've ever used, it had features such as considering the pressure of the atmosphere when predicting rain using crowd sourced phones, and it was the only app I've ever used that was as accurate as it was during a time when my job relied on quickly leaving the office and running across town multiple times a day.

it was sad watching the API get killed off but even worse was that a lot of the features that dark sky had never really made it into Apple weather, and the rain predictions at Apple Weather had were never as accurate as dark sky. There were several times where it was actively raining and Apple weather never even knew. Dark sky always knew.

Nope nope nope fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me, I'm not touching this with 39 1/2 foot pole.

New comment by ajdude in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

ajdude — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:40:34 +0000

The Telegram drop off for doing something really bad recently? I have not seen a single person mention it as an alternative. I don't really use discord that much except for the few friends I have that are not on telegram. Actually all of my family and friends are on telegram, even my grandmother is on telegram. When playing games with friends we just do a group call in telegram. I don't even see it on this list though.

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

ajdude — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:37:14 +0000

FYI they're sending the data to K-ID, a Malaysian AI company to "detect" the age.

New comment by ajdude in "Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access"

ajdude — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:31:45 +0000

They're using "k-id", a Malaysian AI company to detect it: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343...

New comment by ajdude in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

ajdude — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:00:43 +0000

> reducing speed from approximately 17 mph

Isn't the speed limit normally 15 mph or less in a school zone? Was the robotaxi speeding?

New comment by ajdude in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

ajdude — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:35:59 +0000

I have almost an identical wallet; I really considered using the card form factor but I would miss the precision find too much.

New comment by ajdude in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

ajdude — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:28:05 +0000

It would be nice if this could tie in to actively altering enforcement when it's turned on, maybe even require sharing with authorities for it to be enabled: the stalker would have to collaborate with police in order to stalk the victim.

New comment by ajdude in "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"

ajdude — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:13:34 +0000

I use netnewswire as my client and I'm self hosting freshrss, so my subscriptions can be synced between my phone and computer.

All of my YouTube and nebula channels I follow via RSS and I think that's kind of giving me the most bang for my buck. I can just get focused on the videos that I want to subscribe to without having to even go to YouTube and get pulled into the algorithm, as well as a few sub Reddits, hacker news front page (it's how I found this post), Lobste.rs, 404 Media, some local blogs (my food co-op, biking website, other community things), some web comics, one news group, and a couple forums.

I've also contemplated Podcasts, but I still have a dedicated player for that.

New comment by ajdude in "JPEG XL Test Page"

ajdude — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:09:09 +0000

> this means only Safari will display the image, as far as I know.

Works fine for me in Orion on both desktop and mobile ( https://orionbrowser.com ).

New comment by ajdude in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

ajdude — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:05:48 +0000

Does anyone else use the phrase "I'm going to google XYZ" while referring to actually searching it up on Kagi, DDG, or another search engine?

How to Create a Plug-In, in Ada

ajdude — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:47:17 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ada/comments/1qhzwzz/how_to_create_a_plugin/~

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692334

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ajdude in "3D Printed Origami"

ajdude — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:55:06 +0000

The intro alone is worth the watch- this is incredible.

New comment by ajdude in "World's largest functioning musical instrument: Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia"

ajdude — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:54:56 +0000

I've been going here almost every year my entire life, most recently this past December when I got to hear the Oregon play in a concert.

In December they also have a huge light show featuring the organ and a very cool Charles Dickens walk-through village.

New comment by ajdude in "One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household"

ajdude — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:29:59 +0000

I used YNAB since back when they used to just sell the software and maintained a subscription for a little while. I will say that their approach to budgeting has changed the entire way of how I look at money, and even though I have switched to GNU Cash, I have essentially replicated the envelope method there (it requires four entries per transaction instead of the standard two).

For anyone who wants to use this envelope method without paying for YNAB, I recommend checking out Buckets, which is another software that works similarly.

New comment by ajdude in "50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player"

ajdude — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:02:34 +0000

I've been on a physical media craze lately. It's been quite a few years since I stopped using Spotify, and I've been rebuilding my collection. Usually by hunting CDs at thrift stores to rip in iTunes to Apple Lossless. I own a bunch of vinyl records, and I've also ripped several of them.

After buying one vinyl album from a niche artist (djpoolboi), he actually then sent me a link to download the same tracks on flac, which I appreciated.

Lately I've found myself buying the same album both on vinyl for listening to at home, and on CD to rip for my digital music collection.

I work from home a lot so having to get up to flip the record gives me an excuse not to stare at my screen all day too.

New comment by ajdude in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"

ajdude — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:05:41 +0000

Even if this could jam signals, which a sibling comment attests that it cannot, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets flagged by security if you try to bring it in and hook it up to your phone