Hacker News: alana314

New comment by alana314 in "Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool"

alana314 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:44:18 +0000

This would pair well with Midicard, the tiny credit-card-sized MIDI keyboard I make: https://midicard.com

New comment by alana314 in "macOS Tahoe"

alana314 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:37:46 +0000

TextEdit has a styling toolbar now which I appreciate. The new spotlight has more functionality and seems faster (and less likely to pull up a website instead of the app I'm trying to launch)

New comment by alana314 in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

alana314 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:15:06 +0000

This is the best thing ever

New comment by alana314 in "Show HN: Lazy Tetris"

alana314 — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:59:24 +0000

Fun! Can we get a keyboard shortcut for clear?

New comment by alana314 in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview"

alana314 — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:45:17 +0000

The google sheets UI asked me to try Gemini to create a formula, so I tried it, starting with "Create a formula...", and its answer was "Sorry, I can't help with creating formulas yet, but I'm still learning."

New comment by alana314 in "Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices"

alana314 — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:53:06 +0000

This works insanely well. What is your intended use for this? Multi room playback? Listening to music with friends?

Show HN: Lucidia, a WebGL visualizer inspired by Drempels

alana314 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:58:36 +0000

Made with ChatGPT, open source at https://github.com/alana314/lucidia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43797354

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alana314 in "Declarative Web Push"

alana314 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:23:03 +0000

I have not found a good use case for browser notifications, to the point that I have turned them off completely due to endless prompts for permission from every website to push them.

New comment by alana314 in "4o Image Generation"

alana314 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:55:58 +0000

I was relying on that to determine if images were AI though

New comment by alana314 in "Microplastics in the human brain"

alana314 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:44:44 +0000

I think this is a conversion error. According to the ABC story about this the brain has 4800 micrograms of microplastics. That's alarming, but that is 4.8mg, which is .0048 grams. A plastic spoon is over 4g. They mixed up micro and milli and were off 1000x. ABC news: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/brain-tissue-higher-amounts-mi... Original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1

New comment by alana314 in "The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)"

alana314 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:56:49 +0000

As a result I hear B0 everywhere, in power lines, electric arcs, industrial motors, speaker buzz, etc

New comment by alana314 in "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?"

alana314 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:31:47 +0000

The CSS on the site isn't loading properly for me FYI on chrome, it looks insane

New comment by alana314 in "Show HN: Tetris in a PDF"

alana314 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:10:37 +0000

Wow, I had no idea PDFs could be this dynamic. Doesn't work in Mac OS preview or quicklook but works great in chrome.

New comment by alana314 in "Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far"

alana314 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:21:07 +0000

I tried image playground on mac and can't think of why I'd want to use these corny looking images. It downloaded a ~5GB model and doesn't offer the option to remove it. Anyone know where it's stored so I can delete it?

New comment by alana314 in "Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems"

alana314 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:03:51 +0000

Great article, agreed. I don't want to work for a company where algorithms are weaponized against me.

New comment by alana314 in "The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess"

alana314 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:50:18 +0000

That's so funny. Water doesn't even wash away the taste anyway

New comment by alana314 in "Hand Tracking for Mouse Input"

alana314 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:43:13 +0000

This has tons of potential in the creative technology space. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by alana314 in "Programming an ARM chip with a 3D printed dock and pogo pins"

alana314 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:02:08 +0000

A blog on programming the next version of the MidiCard Plus controller using a 3D printed dock, an Amtel-ICE and pogo pins

Programming an ARM chip with a 3D printed dock and pogo pins

alana314 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:02:08 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.io/project/196436-midicard-usb-c-tiny-keyboard/log/234087-programming-v2-with-amtel-ice-pogo-pins-and-pcbway

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008780

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by alana314 in "Meta Movie Gen"

alana314 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:46:40 +0000

I'm thankful to be able to recognize that sheen, though I think it will go away soon enough