Hacker News: chrislo

New comment by chrislo in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

chrislo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:41:07 +0000

For example `rails generate ...` built into the Rails CLI.

New comment by chrislo in "Learning music with Strudel"

chrislo — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:30:35 +0000

Love this! Patterning the theme is such a great idea.

Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects

chrislo — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:57:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951387

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chrislo in "'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app"

chrislo — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:35:40 +0000

As a counter-point to streaming services and to try and provide an alternative, I'm busy building https://jam.coop - the intention is to be a music store owned collectively by artists and the people who build it. I think it's really important to explore alternatives in this space.

New comment by chrislo in "Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects"

chrislo — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:55:46 +0000

What evidence do you have for that? I was involved in adopting a code of conduct for a local tech meetup and we did that because a couple of incidents that weren't handled very well left other people feeling unsafe and unwelcome. Having some guidelines in place reassured folks that we took those concerns seriously and gave us a framework to deal with unwanted behaviour.

New comment by chrislo in "The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review"

chrislo — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:14:30 +0000

> nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period.

I do! I find it the easiest way to review code when the author has taken the time to structure it in that way. I'm lucky to work with some great people.

New comment by chrislo in "The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)"

chrislo — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:50:45 +0000

Or is peak British comedy Stuart Lee satirising that scene as a quaint village folk tradition? https://youtu.be/7J1J_iHC2Qw?si=kUy3aQvZ4p2PjLG8

Or maybe both?

New comment by chrislo in "Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace"

chrislo — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:20:37 +0000

Really exciting to see this manifesto.

There's already some existing co-operative music store/bandcamp alternative projects that are selling music and accepting new artists.

https://jam.coop is the one we are building. We launched last year in response to the sale of bandcamp and the uncertainty we felt in our communities of musicians who depend on Bandcamp for some or part of their living. In contrast to subvert we've decided to take an incremental approach. We're incubating jam inside an existing worker co-operative, building the features that our users need, and working towards an "exit to community" where jam will become a multi-stakeholder co-op owned by artists and workers.

I'm also familiar with mirlo and ampwall who are working on similar projects.

New comment by chrislo in "Asking the wrong questions (2017)"

chrislo — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:21:11 +0000

Trains?

New comment by chrislo in "Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative"

chrislo — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:55:37 +0000

There's also https://jam.coop (aiming to be a co-operatively owned/run bandcamp alternative)

New comment by chrislo in "Show HN: Music Audio Search Engine Using OpenAI's Embeddings on GPT Descriptions"

chrislo — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:22:01 +0000

This was fun to play with. I was initially expecting to be able to search for single notes or instrument sounds, e.g. I tried "warm synth tone single note C4" but afterwards I realised its library has mostly fixed tempo loops.

Like the idea, would be great if you linked back to freesound for each sample so I could explore the author's other sounds.

With my web audio hat on I'm imagining an interface that lets you mix, edit and add effects to the sounds you've found to help create new ones.

Thank you for sharing!

New comment by chrislo in "Jack Ma flees to Tokyo"

chrislo — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:51:04 +0000

Fair enough. I think the sentence I quoted is a very good summary of what I understand the term to mean.

New comment by chrislo in "Jack Ma flees to Tokyo"

chrislo — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:31:18 +0000

Simple Wikipedia has more "eli5" appropriate writing?

New comment by chrislo in "Jack Ma flees to Tokyo"

chrislo — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:27:55 +0000

Since the 1990s the term has been consistently used in academia to imply the move from welfare state to laissez faire economic management, particularly associated with the promotion of free market ideals in the late 1980s by Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the US.

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

New comment by chrislo in "Code Club World - Introduction to Scratch"

chrislo — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 07:22:42 +0000

A gentle introduction to scratch and python from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Code Club World - Introduction to Scratch

chrislo — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 07:22:42 +0000

Article URL: https://codeclubworld.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32125091

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by chrislo in "Amazon is intimidating and harassing organizing workers in Montreal"

chrislo — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:38:00 +0000

On the About Us page:

> Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

https://jacobin.com/about

New comment by chrislo in "Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer"

chrislo — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:01:30 +0000

Vital[1] is fantastic, I've been using it a lot.

https://vital.audio/

New comment by chrislo in "Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer"

chrislo — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:45:07 +0000

There's a scripting interface[1] which might help you do some of what you want, but I'm not sure if patches can be run headless.

If you haven't seen them already, SuperCollider, Chuck, PD, Faust and/or the Web Audio API might be better suited to generating training sets in an offline fashion.

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New comment by chrislo in "Web Audio API Is a W3C Recommendation"

chrislo — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:07:24 +0000

I'm not sure it does make any practical difference, but I could be wrong. But as someone who has been a little bit involved in the process since 2010 it's an enjoyable personal milestone. And I'm really happy for all of the wonderful people I've met along the way who contributed way more than I did.