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New comment by asystole in "Googlebook"

asystole — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:58:53 +0000

Not for human consumption

The Last Quiet Thing

asystole — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:22:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409924

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by asystole in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

asystole — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:29:28 +0000

A fully conscious one. :)

New comment by asystole in "Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware"

asystole — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:16:57 +0000

So we're just using "vibe coded" as a generic insult now for project we don't like?

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

asystole — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:46:57 +0000

> They are just everywhere, the web was never like this in the beginning.

Maybe briefly. I've been on the web since the late 90s and horrible banner ads (and for a while, shudder, flash ads) have been a thing for as long as I can remember. At least now we have good content blockers!

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

asystole — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:09:25 +0000

>John Smith hits you -> you seek relief from John's insurance company. John's insurance premium goes up. He can't afford that. Thus, effective financial feedback loop. Real skin in the game.

Ah great, so there's a lower chance of that specific John Smith hitting me again in the future!

New comment by asystole in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

asystole — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:37:27 +0000

An all-TTS audiobook offering is just about as appealing as an all-stable-diffusion picture gallery (that is, not at all).

New comment by asystole in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

asystole — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:33:40 +0000

This bug isn't that. It's the frontmost app losing focus to nothing.

New comment by asystole in "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"

asystole — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:57:36 +0000

Are you suggesting they carry around a Starlink dish in a backpack and deploy it on the go whenever they want to stream some music?

New comment by asystole in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022)"

asystole — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:22:35 +0000

It's a pop sci magazine, of course they use language like that. Actual academic papers are different.

New comment by asystole in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

asystole — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:06:15 +0000

He's the Stephen Wolfram of game dev.

New comment by asystole in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

asystole — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:50:49 +0000

They did well to get acquired before the AI bubble pops.

New comment by asystole in "Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof"

asystole — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:08:32 +0000

Schild's Ladder is my personal favourite.

New comment by asystole in "Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass"

asystole — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:23:08 +0000

This is on the order of the "descartes before the whores" joke on reddit years ago. Generational stuff

New comment by asystole in "WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops"

asystole — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:18:11 +0000

GTK theming was a mess long before libadwaita came along.

New comment by asystole in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

asystole — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:36:06 +0000

Trust me, I do understand all that. My personal set of trade-offs is such that I really can't be bothered with self-hosting.

Capacities has one-click export of all of your objects (notes/pages) with a sensible folder structure that produces markdown with frontmatter and includes all media attachments. That's good enough for me.

New comment by asystole in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

asystole — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:34:14 +0000

https://capacities.io/tutorials/outliner-mode

New comment by asystole in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

asystole — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:11:17 +0000

capacities.io

New comment by asystole in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

asystole — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:06:58 +0000

This is why I love Capacities. It's object oriented with properties and tags. No folders.

New comment by asystole in "Surviving Threads: Why Are People Drawn to the World's Most Harrowing Film?"

asystole — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:08:42 +0000

I watched Threads for the first time recently and it really did ruin the rest of my day. I still think about it regularly. It influenced my thinking on the threat of nuclear annihilation a lot.

If you don't feel like watching the whole film (and you definitely should, the first third is all lead-up and it's masterfully done - and the aftermath part is the most believable post-apocalypse I've ever seen in a movie) you should at least watch the bombing scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHoMSRZOS4