Hacker News: croh

Keep Calm and Adapt AI

croh — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:21:12 +0000

Article URL: https://quillette.com/2026/02/16/keep-calm-and-adapt-ai-matt-shumer-automation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47090872

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Study Reveals How Tattoo Ink Affects the Immune System

croh — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:25:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/tattoos-influence-the-defence-system-of-mice/90522006

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081300

Points: 27

# Comments: 2

New comment by croh in "AT&T Archives: The Step-by-Step Switch [video]"

croh — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:05:11 +0000

Copying here an interesting comment on the video from user @melkiorwiseman -

Fun Fact: The first step-by-step switch and indeed the very first automatic telephone exchange was invented by Almon Strowger. Almon Strowger was an undertaker by trade. He became convinced that the manual telephone exchange operator, who was the daughter of the only other undertaker in town, was deliberately directing all calls for "the undertaker" to her father's practice instead of dividing them equally between the two as was standard practice at the time. Strowger decided that he needed to invent a way for telephone customers to dial the number themselves and used cut out pieces of paper to represent the electrical contacts so that he could work out how the equipment should work. If I remember correctly, Strowger was granted a patent for his automatic telephone exchange in 1929. Strowger's exchange required two extra wires from the exchange to each telephone to carry the dialling signals, but some clever lateral thinking allowed for using the same two wires for nearly all signalling as well as for speech.

AT&T Archives: The Step-by-Step Switch [video]

croh — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZePwin92cI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066167

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Tuned Mass Damper

croh — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:39:44 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40824412

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Apple MacBook Pro Fragrance

croh — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:55:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.air-aroma.com/blog/the-scent-of-a-apple-product-sourcing-the-macbook-pro-fragrance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40691876

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by croh in "Ask HN: Tired of being a software engineer, what next?"

croh — Tue, 30 May 2023 17:52:35 +0000

I am not as smart as you but still after spending a decade in industry learned few things on my way.

- your job can'not satisfy you always. There are good jobs and bad jobs. But good job can become a bad one in overnight. Nothig is permanent. So don't get attached to it, instead love your craft.

- the software domain is the easiest one to experiment. Having a computer and internet is enough to build whatever you want. If you wanna have kick by writing good code, just get it from your own project.

New comment by croh in "Learn Vim (2021)"

croh — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:16:06 +0000

It is not about only Vim as editor but Vim as keybindings too. Nowdays, most of all modern IDEs support Vim keybindings along well integrated IDE features.

New comment by croh in "Philosophy of mathematics – a reading list (2020)"

croh — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:34:18 +0000

I would highly recommend 'Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning'

New comment by croh in "RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD"

croh — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:11:11 +0000

I don't know what is the last time you used linux but lately there is great improvements in user experience. I know non-techie people using Linux Mint/ubuntu without any hassels.