Hacker News: bretbernhoft

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Helm"

bretbernhoft — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:03:10 +0000

This is outstanding. Thank you for sharing a link to this program.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit"

bretbernhoft — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 18:50:33 +0000

The Amen Break is (in my understanding) one of the more important fragments of music in modern history. As there is a common, golden thread that began seventy years ago in Jamaica. Which runs all the way up into the modern day as Drum And Bass music and beyond.

The Amen Break is part of a special story, one of fusing human cultures from around the planet into a common sound. I encourage people to do a bit of research here, it's worth your time.

Thank you for the great article and excellent subject.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Digital Public Library of America"

bretbernhoft — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:30:34 +0000

Well this is pretty cool. Always interested in seeing more digital accessibility projects.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (1999)"

bretbernhoft — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:20:01 +0000

This is a thought I just finished having. Right alongside a bowl of canned soup, that (with the help of spices) turned out to be a five star meal. Food is medicine, as it is said.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)"

bretbernhoft — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:37:26 +0000

I'm really excited to see another link to The Gutenberg Project. They do amazing work. And if their download stats are accurate, they must be one of the largest libraries of PDFs on the public Internet.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking"

bretbernhoft — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 15:15:00 +0000

How many domains do you guys have blocked? I am at around four million domains blocked on my Pi-hole.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)"

bretbernhoft — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:17:03 +0000

I've heard that the Knights Templar could transform common metals into gold, at a rate comparable to ancient Egypt.

Show HN: Text analysis app, written in JavaScript

bretbernhoft — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 04:15:29 +0000

Article URL: https://freetextanalysis.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33650195

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)"

bretbernhoft — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:57:09 +0000

I did not know that YouTube offers RSS feeds for their channels. I can see a lot of good use cases for that information.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay"

bretbernhoft — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:40:05 +0000

This makes a lot of sense. But maybe it's the direction that Mozilla is already headed in?

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Internet Archive Seeks Material for Library of Amateur Radio and Communications"

bretbernhoft — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:11:36 +0000

Outstanding context, thank you!

This is a wonderful partnership to learn about. I hope that Internet Archive is successful here.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Factory jobs are booming like it’s the 1970s"

bretbernhoft — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:42:02 +0000

This reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite short stories, "The dollar was strong and jobs were plentiful, so when the factory in town announced they were hiring, hundreds of people applied. John was one of the lucky few who got a job. The hours were long and the work was hard, but John was grateful to have a job that paid well. With the extra money, he was able to buy his family a new house."

Narrative Device

bretbernhoft — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 08:20:06 +0000

Article URL: https://narrative-device.herokuapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32960686

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster"

bretbernhoft — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 04:13:37 +0000

Your point about more people working on similar projects in stealth mode is likely an underappreciated notion. And thank you for introducing me to Adept; looking forward to keeping my eyes on that company's progress.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "Human Enhancement"

bretbernhoft — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:04:40 +0000

I'd be interested in others' perspectives on whether or not human enhancement is "cheating". I'm personally a proponent of technological human enhancement. But other might not be.

New comment by bretbernhoft in "FLAC – Format overview"

bretbernhoft — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:41:41 +0000

I've only ever used .WAV and .MP3 formats. What would a .FLAC file format be used for?