Hacker News: closetkantian

New comment by closetkantian in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

closetkantian — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:46:22 +0000

I first read about this in The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence by Gavin McCormick. Really good read.

New comment by closetkantian in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

closetkantian — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:14:46 +0000

Frankly, I think if you're going to do something like this you're going to need to use well constructed critical reasoning items from graduate level exams like the GRE and LSAT.

New comment by closetkantian in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

closetkantian — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:31:23 +0000

I find the "unverified download" thing in Chrome so annoying, too. Remember when computers used to treat us like adults? I miss those days.

New comment by closetkantian in "Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner"

closetkantian — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:23:20 +0000

I love it

New comment by closetkantian in "Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?"

closetkantian — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:25:41 +0000

Source? I've seen studies that suggest the opposite.

New comment by closetkantian in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

closetkantian — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:41:17 +0000

Really wish someone would do this for Alpha Centauri, my favorite game of all time

New comment by closetkantian in "Show HN: Search complex flight itineraries with natural language"

closetkantian — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:27:43 +0000

I like the concept, but it doesn't work for me. I just see a red circle with a line through it when I hover over the text boxes.

New comment by closetkantian in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

closetkantian — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:37:59 +0000

I like the concept, but I'm not going to be reading Simple English Wikipedia.

New comment by closetkantian in "Scott Adams has died"

closetkantian — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:41:14 +0000

It seems that you're not very familiar with what actually happened. The phrase "It's okay to be white" had become associated with white supremacists, And black people's responses to the pole had nothing to do with their opinions of white people as a whole. You, as well as Scott Adams, decided to misinterpret it. Scott Adams took things a step further and decided that he wanted nothing to do with black people on the simple basis of this poll, which is absolutely wild.

New comment by closetkantian in "Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know"

closetkantian — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:47:36 +0000

This is genius! I love it.

New comment by closetkantian in "Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1"

closetkantian — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:51:50 +0000

If you're studying Chinese, maybe you realized that Chinese writing works in a very similar way.

New comment by closetkantian in "Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?"

closetkantian — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:53:15 +0000

I'd recommend Careless People, if you haven't read it.

New comment by closetkantian in "SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB"

closetkantian — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:18:50 +0000

I had one of these break within a few days of purchase. It's a no for me.

New comment by closetkantian in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

closetkantian — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:06:44 +0000

I just released my SAT Writing textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Matthews-Guide-Digital-SAT-Writing/dp...

It took me two and a half years to finish. Now I've got to market it.

Ask HN: What is best LLM-powered OCR?

closetkantian — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:03:01 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665377

Points: 3

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New comment by closetkantian in "Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners"

closetkantian — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:58:51 +0000

Very well said. There really should be a public option. Large scale PBS for the internet.

New comment by closetkantian in "Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths"

closetkantian — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:47:43 +0000

Recently I've been thinking about deconstructing a ThinkPad and putting the internals inside a MIDI controller. We're at the stage where VSTs/DAWs easily sound better than any synthesizer with internal sounds. But, it's a huge pain to carry a laptop and a sound card to a gig. When will someone address this?

New comment by closetkantian in "Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features"

closetkantian — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 08:19:31 +0000

Can I run this on my laptop?

New comment by closetkantian in "Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos"

closetkantian — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:50:37 +0000

I'd love to see this for English grammar

New comment by closetkantian in "A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries"

closetkantian — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:23:56 +0000

Well it was founded as a non-profit