Hacker News: coldblues

New comment by coldblues in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

coldblues — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:38:50 +0000

It already has quite big communities https://simplex.chat/directory/

The founder of it is on here https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epoberezkin

New comment by coldblues in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

coldblues — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:58:47 +0000

I am referring to the standard metric used in SRS communities.

When people in the language learning community say they "learn 20 words a day", they are referring to New Cards Added. It is a metric of input and initial encoding, not guaranteed permanent storage.

In Anki, "Learning" is literally a specific phase (the red cards). You introduce the card, you pass the initial threshold, and then the algorithm handles the retention over the subsequent weeks. You are conflating the process of learning (adding new information) with the result of mastery (long-term active recall).

New comment by coldblues in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

coldblues — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:10:35 +0000

You've just admitted that the way you use "learn" is different. It's you who is using it differently from the commonly agreed upon way. (3) is arbitrary, ideally you would want to remember the words for your entire lifetime. A lot of people don't care about (2), you'd only care if you want to live in the country and are presented with a lot of paperwork.

You learn the words for a day (you're able to match the sounds and meaning to it). You will forget a lot of them tomorrow, so now you have to re-learn them. This is just how Anki works. You keep learning and re-learning until they stick for a prolonged period of time. It's common for Japanese learners to add between 20 or 30 words to their learning queue.

If you understand how Anki works, you will also understand how the word learning is used in relation to its flashcard mechanism.

New comment by coldblues in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

coldblues — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:15:41 +0000

Everyone here talks about LLMs, but for me, the reason why StackOverflow became totally irrelevant is because of dedicated Discord servers and forums.

New comment by coldblues in "A website to destroy all websites"

coldblues — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:31:43 +0000

The website to destroy all websites is https://gwern.net

For however much I can respect individuals for showing their creativity, the novelty of it wears off. The majority of people in the Indie Web scene all blend together. The presentation might be different, but the essence is mostly the same. Not everyone needs to express themselves and voice their opinions. "Lurk five more years before posting" as people used to say.

The article is also laden with a certain kind of politics. You can infer the philosophical premises that led to some of these conclusions.

Shutting down our search proxy Leta

coldblues — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:44:24 +0000

Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-search-proxy-leta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45835161

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by coldblues in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

coldblues — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:52:01 +0000

Every time I see posts like these related to fiat, my heart sinks. Despite pro privacy sentiments across the site, there is a concerning amount of people who have not only fallen to the trap of convenience, but even consider cash use suspicious or criminal (the morality of tax evasion is a whole different subject, the places where it's most popular often coincides with a corrupt, inefficient government). Soon, cash use will be made impractical due to digital currencies and growing government control, but cryptocurrency will take its place, it has already to a limited extent.

New comment by coldblues in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped"

coldblues — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:16:32 +0000

Even without Chat Control, I still self-censor even in private communications. The majority of people you chat with show complete disregard for your privacy. They piss on it. There are very basic requirements that a minuscule amount of people follow, like: full-disk encryption, using a password manager, being aware of your rights to protect yourself against searches, having good computer hygiene and competency. The level of incompetency and ignorance when it comes to privacy & security makes me deeply angry and frustrated to a level that brings me to nihilism and misanthropy

Color NPM Package Compromised

coldblues — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:57:27 +0000

Article URL: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/color-npm-package-compromised

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171564

Points: 23

# Comments: 1

New comment by coldblues in "Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese"

coldblues — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:27:41 +0000

I agree with you, but Anki is a generalized flashcard SRS memorization tool, not specifically made for learning Japanese, so it's not within my area of critique; I'm thinking of apps similar to Duolingo. It works extremely well because it helps you memorize very efficiently. One of the few applications that will indeed boost your learning by a lot. Anything requiring manual input rather than a simple Again or Good button choice tends to be worse. Any Anki deck requiring manual input as an answer should not be used.

New comment by coldblues in "Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese"

coldblues — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:09:33 +0000

Apps/platforms don't work for learning Japanese. You just need to memorize the hell out of the vocabulary, spend some time learning the grammar, and most importantly IMMERSE. Watch, read and listen to content in Japanese.

https://learnjapanese.moe

https://alljapanesealltheti.me/ (this used to be THE guide for learning)

New comment by coldblues in "Notes on Managing ADHD"

coldblues — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:39:11 +0000

For those who cannot be prescribed amphetamines, I recommend seeking out Modafinil. It works really well and a regular psychiatrist should be able to prescribe it.

New comment by coldblues in "Is moderate drinking healthy? Scientists say the idea is outdated"

coldblues — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:06:24 +0000

As far as I understand, the aftereffects of alcohol are due to its poisonous effects on organs, receptors and neurons. Drugs act on receptors directly by binding to them or restricting binding.

New comment by coldblues in "Fight Chat Control"

coldblues — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 23:10:49 +0000

Telegram is not E2EE because it's easier and faster to sync and transmit messages between millions of people. The scale of Telegram groups and channels is massive. Telegram, for a long time, has not complied with law enforcement requests and has made it hard for authorities to get data because of their architecture. You still have Secret Chats for E2EE messaging as an option.

New comment by coldblues in "Animated Cursors"

coldblues — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:28:40 +0000

Emacs has https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon

Proton Planning Monero Payments

coldblues — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 08:07:59 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/davidgpeterson/status/1941500514803548636

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44487844

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by coldblues in "I deleted my second brain"

coldblues — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 07:58:49 +0000

Digital notes take an insignificant amount of space, you can just keep them and ignore them, use them when you need to. Deleting them seems to me like neuroticism. Some kind of symbolic gesture for emotional relief. There are a lot of productivity gurus online that will try to sell you a course on the best way to take notes, and perhaps the author has fallen into one of those traps, taking notes of things they don’t have interest in. in a way that does not feel natural and satisfying. I only take notes when I am compelled to. It’s a gut feeling that I rely on. It’s effortless for me to take notes because of it. It provides me comfort and relief knowing that my memories are accessible, and I gladly write them. The author makes some grandiose assumptions that we have to forget. You don’t have to, and neither do you have a choice in it. It’s some kind of idealist way of thinking to justify the author's actions. Seems misguided. Memorization plays an extremely important role in learning, but for those of us with executive function problems, using our notes augments our life for the better. Just as the author talks about how memories work, my notes are just like my thoughts, webs of interlinked notes strung together. A lot of times, I just remember what tags and backlinks I can use to find the information I am looking for in my notes.

New comment by coldblues in "De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR"

coldblues — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:16:31 +0000

https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html

After this is implemented, it will really strengthen its privacy. It will take a few years of development, iteration and planning. Move slow and... don't break things?

New comment by coldblues in "De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR"

coldblues — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:04:09 +0000

Tari uses Mimblewimble (privacy coin developed by previous Monero devs with a focus on privacy), so we're not far from being able to benefit from it.

New comment by coldblues in "As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook"

coldblues — Wed, 28 May 2025 08:05:53 +0000

Finally someone had the guts to say it. I see the same arguments again and again that writing in a notebook makes you remember things better and think more thoroughly, but who exactly was tested here? Were people with an extensive and deeply personal Zettelkasten note taking system added as participants in the studies? What was their note taking process? Most people severely underutilize or even misuse their digital tools. Just take a look at people who use Notion ;)

I iterate faster, have more freedom and information is displayed and manipulated in a more ergonomic way to me on a computer, in such a way that it creates a symbiotic relationship. I severely doubt physical notetaking and brainstorming could ever compare