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New comment by cnees in "Building the Grace Cathedral experience"

cnees — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:59:00 +0000

I used to live just down a (very steep) block. I'd pass it on my walk to and from Trader Joe's and often stop inside. I met friends on the steps, I walked the mazes, I went to events, and I explored the building and grounds. It's very nostalgic to revisit it again. I hope I get the chance to go back to SF before too long.

New comment by cnees in "How to earn a billion dollars"

cnees — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:30:05 +0000

Another solid interpretation is that nobody gets a billion in wages. You have to own something that appreciates, and it appreciates because of the people who work for you, and you take disproportionately much of the benefit.

New comment by cnees in "How to earn a billion dollars"

cnees — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:17:59 +0000

"It's impossible to earn a billion" means it's impossible to work hard enough to deserve to have a billion dollars in a world where so many people died for lack of money, not that it's impossible to get it without cheating.

New comment by cnees in "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle"

cnees — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:50:13 +0000

Figure 2 is beautiful!

New comment by cnees in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

cnees — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:10:28 +0000

It's about time. Google is doing so much to keep the web usable. They're the only ones with the teeth to back up standards for mobile web load time, max sender spam rates, leaving browser history alone, etc.

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

cnees — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:28:50 +0000

Challenge: Rearrange the blocks into a stable configuration without losing any offscreen

New comment by cnees in "ai;dr"

cnees — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:39:46 +0000

Re: unsettling Perhaps it could replace any characters that will go on to be deleted with astrisks.

New comment by cnees in "Children and Helical Time"

cnees — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:42:45 +0000

This is the paragraph that grabbed my attention. I wasn't expecting to find something so human.

I remember coming to the realization during my more challenging school years that waiting all week for Saturday to come was literally wishing my life away. I didn't know what burnout was at the time, but an angel of a friend recognized it and helped me understand.

New comment by cnees in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

cnees — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:46:12 +0000

I can't recommend enough ordering a $10 collapsible ball pen. My son understood even at age 2 that some toys needed to be played with in his play pen, and it means I can let him play with toys with hundreds of pieces and then scoop them all up at once.

New comment by cnees in "Colors of Growth"

cnees — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:53:52 +0000

I'm 0% convinced. You can tell from a color palate whether some wallpaper was from the 70's or 80's, but that tells you nothing about the economic conditions and everything about what colors were in style.

New comment by cnees in "Don't push AI down our throats"

cnees — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:46:25 +0000

Amazon's Price History feature certainly doesn't need to open their AI assistant, but in addition to be graph I came for, I get a little summary of the graph. I really hope they aren't using an LLM for that when all it's doing is telling me it's the lowest price in 30 days.

New comment by cnees in "Neopets.com changed my life (2019)"

cnees — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:54:47 +0000

Neopets itself. Codepen and Khan Academy also let you share your HTML/CSS creations, and they add support for JS, but they don't have the game/pets elements that make coding petpages fun.

New comment by cnees in "Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature"

cnees — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:23:03 +0000

OpenAlex has 240M. https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/works

CORE has 431M. https://core.ac.uk/data

Crossref has 165M. https://www.crossref.org/blog/2025-public-data-file-now-avai...

These datasets are all biased towards work published in the digital age, but it's important to note that work is coming out much faster now than it used to.

New comment by cnees in "iPhone Pocket"

cnees — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:50:56 +0000

On one hand, I want bigger pockets that fit my iPhone, and on the other hand, I want smaller iPhones that fit in one female-sized hand.

New comment by cnees in "iPhone Pocket"

cnees — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:32:23 +0000

I'm still waiting for them to collaborate with Levi's to bring iPhone sized pockets to women's jeans.

New comment by cnees in "I hate screenshots of text"

cnees — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 03:10:23 +0000

We use Slack and GitHub, so it's trivial to send formatted text or a file/line link and I basically never have to deal with screenshots of text. I guess this is just a nice reminder for me to be grateful.

New comment by cnees in "When is it better to think without words?"

cnees — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:50:52 +0000

I've certainly noticed a bit of a pattern where programmers who can listen to podcasts or lyrics while they code (I can't; I rely too much on my verbal center for coding) can operate much faster and solve more complex problems than your average bear. They're rare, so I don't have enough data to feel certain, but I have a suspicion that sometimes they're forced into it by living in noisy environments where tuning out the words or thinking without them makes more sense.

New comment by cnees in "Jupyter Collaboration has a history slider"

cnees — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:47:14 +0000

Probably related to today's massive AWS outage

New comment by cnees in "Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits"

cnees — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 20:25:42 +0000

Perfect! I like the percentage and daysweeks remaining features.

New comment by cnees in "Jupyter Collaboration has a history slider"

cnees — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:42:17 +0000

Both collaboration and history are killer features. I'm going to have to try this out at work!