Hacker News: ctkhn

New comment by ctkhn in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

ctkhn — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:37:03 +0000

The US needs to start imagining something else. It's hard to think of the last war that the US won.

New comment by ctkhn in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

ctkhn — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:46:24 +0000

What theater is that at? Sounds like a mega chain like AMC or Regal. The local indie theater we go to in one of the 5 largest American cities has never been over $15 per ticket and adding popcorn and a drink is maybe $10 more on top.

New comment by ctkhn in "Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones"

ctkhn — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:28:24 +0000

This is fantastic. Been looking for a way to get feedback on my pronunciation since I came back from Shanghai and haven't been seeing native speakers every day. Is there any plan to make this a download for desktop or mobile? Would be using it weekly to get back up to par on Mandarin

New comment by ctkhn in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

ctkhn — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:39:55 +0000

Teams is still nowhere near Slack's features and usefulness. I wouldn't say it's a direct competitor, it's like store brand vs a mid-luxury item

New comment by ctkhn in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

ctkhn — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:13:05 +0000

I've got a paperwhite 4. But for now KUAL is enough

New comment by ctkhn in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

ctkhn — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:08:47 +0000

Love my jailbroken kindle, but would love a full replacement OS like this.

New comment by ctkhn in "Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?"

ctkhn — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:03:15 +0000

As an American I would take DB over Amtrak any day. At least the country would be covered with fast rail to some extent

New comment by ctkhn in "Things I want to say to my boss"

ctkhn — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:55:19 +0000

People have been writing about it for years. This is why we have child labor laws, work week standards, etc except in white collar and tech work we've been tricked into thinking we don't need those things

New comment by ctkhn in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

ctkhn — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:51:49 +0000

In my experience, a lot of the time the people who COULD be solving these issues are people who used to code or never have. The actual engineers who might do something like this aren't given authority or scope and you have MBAs or scrum masters in the way of actually solving problems.

New comment by ctkhn in "Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System"

ctkhn — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:24:50 +0000

That is a bonkers edge case that it never occurred to me would happen. I am glad to not be under those regulations

New comment by ctkhn in "Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System"

ctkhn — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:08:03 +0000

People need to learn manners, nobody should be using video calling without headphones. It's insane whenever someone joins and we hear all their background, feedback of whoever is speaking, etc as if nobody has ever told them to mute or stop using speaker in their life.

New comment by ctkhn in "I just want working RCS messaging"

ctkhn — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:25:16 +0000

I think it's pretty fair to expect people on here to know what RCS is, it's not exactly new this year

New comment by ctkhn in "GitHub partial outage"

ctkhn — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:29:12 +0000

My org hosts it on prem, and while I don't like the way pages are organized for projects, I only really interact with the PR page and that is laid out well. Most of my interaction with git is happening from my terminal anyway so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

New comment by ctkhn in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

ctkhn — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:01:53 +0000

This is crazy expensive. I built my own copy stand recently from this post's specs and even adding in a digital camera, it's still a lot cheaper than 999 euros. https://alexandermatragos.com/blog/2023/1/15/building-a-copy...

Show HN: RSS Feed Generator

ctkhn — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:37:26 +0000

I built a typescript app that will take a directory of mp3 files, rip the metadata and cover art, and turn them into a podcast feed. I had been self-hosting a podcast feed for a couple friends and wanted to build something better than I had found previously, at least for my specific use case.

I wouldn't be happy turning this in at work = it's not perfect, definitely not optimized, and docs need work. I'm sure it breaks a lot of rules for clean code, good abstractions, and proper nodejs usage, but it's my first time using ts/js for backend and I haven't always had the time for personal coding projects like I've wanted to, so I'm just glad it's working.

Just swapped out the docker image on my homelab and was excited to start seeing per-episode cover art show up in my feed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45639516

Points: 3

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New comment by ctkhn in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

ctkhn — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:08:06 +0000

Not to be anti YC on their forum, but the VC business model is all about splashing cash on a wide variety of junk that will mostly be worthless, hyping it to the max, and hoping one or two is like amazon or facebook. He's not an engineer, he's like Steve Jobs without the good parts.

New comment by ctkhn in "Ask HN: Favorite Pairing App?"

ctkhn — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:24:32 +0000

That's exactly what I'm looking for, thank you!

New comment by ctkhn in "Ask HN: Favorite Pairing App?"

ctkhn — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:26:16 +0000

Pair programming - I just want to share my screen and audio with a teammate, so a full video meeting software is over the top bloat. And this https://tuple.app/ is tuple, previous company gave us subscriptions to use and I was a huge fan of it.

Ask HN: Favorite Pairing App?

ctkhn — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:23:43 +0000

Been looking for a solution for some volunteer work. I used Tuple at a previous job and I wanted to find a low-cost or self-hosted equivalent - NOT a full video conferencing app. I really liked the focus on audio and screen sharing that Tuple had, but after some github and reddit searches I can't find anything that is currently open and self hosted. Does anyone here have something they recommend?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581151

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by ctkhn in "Why did containers happen?"

ctkhn — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:11:52 +0000

On a personal level, that's why I started using them for self hosting. At work, I think the simplicity of scaling from a pool of resources is a huge improvement over having to provision a new device. Currently at an on-prem team and even moving to kubernetes without going to cloud would solve some of the more painful operational problems that send us pages or we have to meet with our prod support team about.