Hacker News: c_hastings

New comment by c_hastings in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

c_hastings — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:05:25 +0000

That was a lot of fun actually. I used one block to wreck all the others. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by c_hastings in "Programming languages used for music"

c_hastings — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:55:58 +0000

have you figured out a good tool flow for going from music to transcription?

I've used ai.splitter to generate stems, but need to go and identify tones and notes before plotting on to a sheet of music. I'm looking at doing this as a beginning cello student.

New comment by c_hastings in "N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams"

c_hastings — Sat, 03 May 2025 15:11:30 +0000

From their GitHub:

“ What does n8n mean?

Short answer: It means "nodemation" and is pronounced as n-eight-n.

Long answer: "I get that question quite often (more often than I expected) so I decided it is probably best to answer it here. While looking for a good name for the project with a free domain I realized very quickly that all the good ones I could think of were already taken. So, in the end, I chose nodemation. 'node-' in the sense that it uses a Node-View and that it uses Node.js and '-mation' for 'automation' which is what the project is supposed to help with. However, I did not like how long the name was and I could not imagine writing something that long every time in the CLI. That is when I then ended up on 'n8n'." - Jan Oberhauser, Founder and CEO, n8n.io”

New comment by c_hastings in "A Postmortem of a Startup"

c_hastings — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:28:18 +0000

As long as you remember to pay yourselves too!

New comment by c_hastings in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

c_hastings — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:50:19 +0000

I don't think this has to do with Covid or WFH. It is more likely that Apple is focused on showing huge profit margins, at the expense of hiring qualified staff, due to a quarter by quarter focus, in a mature market. When one person leaves, they don't get backfilled. You can hide a lot of sins with the aggressive push from marketing and focusing on hardware performance. How do you measure software experience? How do you brag about it?