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New comment by asukachikaru in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

asukachikaru — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:01:15 +0000

According to the guardian’s report[0], yes. 45dB compared to 100 dB for a heli.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/electric-air...

New comment by asukachikaru in "Have a fucking website"

asukachikaru — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:22:29 +0000

Then it's twice the work. For a mom-and-pop restaurant, putting food on the table (pun intended) probably already cost them 24 hours a day.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Have a fucking website"

asukachikaru — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:38:35 +0000

On one hand, I totally agree, as I'm all for indie small web. Haven't used Facebook and Instagram for years. On the other hand, it's not (small) business owners deliberately choose to not have a website, it's customers saying it's too much friction for anything outside of FB or IG. For some people if you are not on IG you do not exist, no matter how nice your website is.

Have a fucking website

asukachikaru — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421442

Points: 948

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New comment by asukachikaru in "Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?"

asukachikaru — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:51:26 +0000

- https://henry.codes/

- https://www.fev.al/

- https://hugo.blog/

I just like this type of typography.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Good software knows when to stop"

asukachikaru — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:07:14 +0000

Similar thing happened to Diablo II recently as well. Blizzard added a new class and couple of quality of life updates, after not touching it for over two decades other than the pretty authentic resurrected remake. Some of the QoL updates such as loot filter are very long overdue (integrated by competitors and have been asked by the community for years). Blizzard even sent surveys looking for player opinions about further updates for this 25 years old game. All these while D4, the one that should be their flagship product has its expansion announced. I believe there is something other than nostalgia that makes D2 superior than all successors. I don’t believe current Blizzard is capable of adding contents without breaking that authenticity though.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

asukachikaru — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:29:44 +0000

No matter how much preparation and training one does, if they haven’t run the marathon, they haven’t run the marathon.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Treating anxiety as a bug in legacy code (engineering approach)"

asukachikaru — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:39:28 +0000

I tried many tricks (pomodoro, meditation, atom habit, you name it) to fight lack of discipline. TLDR: non really worked, to the point that I’ve accepted that it’s part of my character.

The one that kind of worked, at least for a while, was external reward. I set point for each task or habit I want to achieve, and the longer the streak goes the more point I earn. Point can be used as currency for rewards. I monitored my motivation against the tasks to iterate on the point distribution design. It worked great for six months in which I regularly slept and waked up early, did spanish vocabulary anki sessions, and no phone during remote work (“no phone for two hours” task,) etc., until I used all my point for a M2 IPad Pro which was the ultimate reward I set for myself from the very start.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

asukachikaru — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:40:30 +0000

Thanks for doing this! My website:

https://asukawang.com

Many schools no longer assign full novels but excerpts on school-issued laptops

asukachikaru — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:59:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/many-schools-are-assigning-excerpts-of-novels-to-read-instead-of-full-books-why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521131

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by asukachikaru in "Video Game Websites in the early 00s"

asukachikaru — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:34:26 +0000

http://classic.battle.net/war3/ still works. Every time I need to check some OG WC3 data for nostalgia or any other reason I use this instead of fandom.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Video Game Websites in the early 00s"

asukachikaru — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:32:07 +0000

The manuals as well. Loved the WarCraft III and Diablo II ones. They were legitimately part of the game experiences as lore was told there. Now the publishers don’t even bother to include a single sheet.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner"

asukachikaru — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:09:33 +0000

This is my bottleneck too. I'm all for paying artists, and the hustle of setting up self host doesn't bother me (maybe not for my wife though, who is way less tech-y than me and is in my spotify family plan.) But the benefit of tens of millions of music, a search away, is simply too much for me to give up. I do my annually retrospective in music, and Billie Eilish was my back-to-back favorite artist of the year. Without streaming service, I probably wouldn't have tried her music at the first place.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Strange.website"

asukachikaru — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:14:30 +0000

His portfolio / blog site is aesthetically my favorite blog of all time out there.

https://henry.codes/

New comment by asukachikaru in "Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?"

asukachikaru — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:59:56 +0000

No, but unfortunately I'm addicted to dopamine hits and HN is the most "organic" one, compared to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, you get the idea. HN is the one makes me the least depressed.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Ask HN: Working in a language that isn't your native one. How hard was it?"

asukachikaru — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:41:33 +0000

I have been working in a foreign language environment for more than a decade. Probably still sound like a child from time to time.

For some context, my (self observed) fluency of the language is around CEFR C1 level. No issue at all in every day conversation.

Listening / reading for the most part was not a problem i.e. I'm able to understanding and critically thinking about what people are saying in real time.

Speaking was more challenging for me. It took me about three years until the first time I felt I was close to expressing myself without major pause-and looking-for-words. Now it's a lot better, I can and frequently speak in meetings with or without preparation, but my level of expression is still limited, compare to my colleagues.

I feel like speaking for business is similar to children learning any language: I listen to what other adults are saying in what context to what opponent, and I try to mimic that. After several years I got enough vocabulary to get by in day to day tasks, including meetings, writing docs, discuss code designs, etc.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

asukachikaru — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:04:34 +0000

How about 1000 hours of chess? Or 1000 hours of warhammer? Or D&D?

One may say you make social bonds playing them, but that stands true for video game as well. Speaking for myself, I definitely spent more than 1000 hours on summoner's rift; 15 years later me and my league friends still playing LOL together and chat about all kind of things on a daily basis.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Ask HN: What are examples of awesome open source project websites?"

asukachikaru — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:13:46 +0000

https://animejs.com/

This is a js animation library so there may be some home advantage but very well made nontheless.

New comment by asukachikaru in "Slow social media"

asukachikaru — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:35:28 +0000

Never thought about it but banning non personal accounts sounds like a good start. I doubt such social media would gain any meaningful popularity though.

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New comment by asukachikaru in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

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New comment by asukachikaru in "Have a fucking website"

Have a fucking website

New comment by asukachikaru in "Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?"

New comment by asukachikaru in "Good software knows when to stop"

New comment by asukachikaru in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

New comment by asukachikaru in "Treating anxiety as a bug in legacy code (engineering approach)"

New comment by asukachikaru in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Many schools no longer assign full novels but excerpts on school-issued laptops

New comment by asukachikaru in "Video Game Websites in the early 00s"

New comment by asukachikaru in "Video Game Websites in the early 00s"

New comment by asukachikaru in "Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner"

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New comment by asukachikaru in "Ask HN: Working in a language that isn't your native one. How hard was it?"

New comment by asukachikaru in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

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