Hacker News: chungus

New comment by chungus in "I’m joining OpenAI"

chungus — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:46:19 +0000

My imposter syndrome is essentially fear of being julius.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture

chungus — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:25:01 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_about_music_is_like_dancing_about_architecture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827961

Points: 5

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New comment by chungus in "Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)"

chungus — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:58:53 +0000

Very nice read thank you. Still remember very clearly putting the Richard D James album CD into my Sony disc man for the very first time 22 years ago

New comment by chungus in "Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen"

chungus — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:27:20 +0000

Absolutely love it. Inspires me to think about porting my own productivity tools to an IRL device.

New comment by chungus in "The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)"

chungus — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:43:11 +0000

For those not familiar, this post is by John Walker[0] one of the co-founders of Autodesk who made AutoCAD. He passed away last year[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297185

New comment by chungus in "Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty"

chungus — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:28:15 +0000

Judging by your profile location being in the netherlands, I think you are confusing the generic Ziggo ISP blocked page[1], where it lists Russia Today and Sputnik News and then in another post ThePirateBay

In this case, the ISP blocked it because the website is anna's archive [2], which was blocked around a year ago, but they have not made a post about that.

If you put "pcm." in front of the link it will work (for now)

You should probably edit your post, so as not to misinform. But I have to admit this confusion stems from bad decisions at the ISP.

[1] https://www.ziggo.nl/website-geblokkeerd

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive#Netherlands

New comment by chungus in "RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games"

chungus — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:21:56 +0000

Wow, there goes 20 minutes. Really enjoyed it, thanks.

New comment by chungus in "Show HN: Making AR experiences is still painful – had to make my own editor"

chungus — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:31:05 +0000

Do you think it's just frustrating in the Meta landscape? I've been playing around with stuff I find on the "Linux VR Adventures wiki" [1]

I've got a different, (not meta) VR HMD, and am running things using Envision and Stardust XR.

Excuse me if none of this applies to mixed reality.

[] https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/

New comment by chungus in "Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?"

chungus — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:41:08 +0000

Yes, please do, I've been considering changing careers as well. (Currently software engineer)

New comment by chungus in "Show HN: A Customizable Workspace Inpired by Notion and Obsidian Md"

chungus — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 02:25:30 +0000

Thanks for sharing! I like the look of this a lot. I'm always looking for personal knowledge base and note taking style tools.

Will you provide source code anywhere?

Japanese sake brewing added to UNESCO intangible heritage list

chungus — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:21:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/05/japan/society/unesco-sake-brewing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42327484

Points: 2

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New comment by chungus in "Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday"

chungus — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 23:13:36 +0000

When I just started out, I used to take everybody's on-call service because it paid well. Also had the advantage that I learned the ropes quicker. Now-a-days I'm very happy to not be awoken at 3am, even if 1 weekend incident would amount to a couple grand.

New comment by chungus in "DIY Full-Frame Camera "Sitina 1" Nov 2024 Progress / Photo Update [video]"

chungus — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:50:46 +0000

Has anybody attempted to do this DIY? The photo's look very warm and nostalgic.

New comment by chungus in "Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price"

chungus — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:55:48 +0000

Anybody have a reliable, up-to-date pc build guide, for a full node? I find very fragmented information everywhere. I get that "most pc's can run Bitcoin core" but I'd like some more detailed information.

New comment by chungus in "Is yt-dlp/yt-dlp compromised?"

chungus — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:01:30 +0000

I use this daily, and let it use browser cookies. So I hope it's not.

New comment by chungus in "Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques"

chungus — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:13:31 +0000

Clicked this because it sounded interesting and was surprised to see one of my favorite movies in the introduction!

edit: really nice and nostalgic read, I played almost all of the games mentioned.

New comment by chungus in "Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical)"

chungus — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:34:38 +0000

Thank you for this extensive answer. Eager to see what kind of inventions and improvements you come up with in the future.

New comment by chungus in "Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical)"

chungus — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:28:05 +0000

Love this. Is the private key printed on a separate piece of paper? I saw only #####'s. How long does it take to generate a full key using dice?

New comment by chungus in "Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity"

chungus — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:45:44 +0000

Do they want to keep a centralized database of everybody's eyeballs? I'm not sure I'm interested in this. I'm predicting people getting their eyes gauged out in high stakes robberies.

New comment by chungus in "UEVR: An Exploration of Advanced Game Hacking Techniques (2023)"

chungus — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:31:10 +0000

This is arguably the biggest thing to have happened to the VR space. I've been enjoying triple-A titles in VR, through UEVR since it came out a few months ago. It's reignited my love of gaming. The immersion is crucial to being able to forget about work and daily life for a couple hours.