Hacker News: curiouser2

New comment by curiouser2 in "AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart"

curiouser2 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:17:08 +0000

baby gronk got rizzed up by livvy?

New comment by curiouser2 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

curiouser2 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:16:06 +0000

right, but at least human hands used to touch the process. even in 2000s copy-paste boy band era it was at least human

New comment by curiouser2 in "Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)"

curiouser2 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:49:29 +0000

Wow the HTML is so nice. I was surprised at first bc there are no

tags but apparently it's valid! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/p#...

New comment by curiouser2 in "The Twins Obsession"

curiouser2 — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:53:01 +0000

Greg Egan's book Axiomatic has a short story "Blood Sisters" around the medical implications of twins, interesting read

New comment by curiouser2 in "Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)"

curiouser2 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:38:52 +0000

What's the hot stack for self-hosting headless blog stuff now? Been out of the loop since I started reading about jamstack. Hugo? Gatsby? Is Jekyll still a player here?

New comment by curiouser2 in "Calibre – E-Book Management"

curiouser2 — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:09:14 +0000

Yeah it's wild how the use case for 90% of users is "convert epub/mobi/whatever to azw3 and upload to kindle" and doing that is buried in several right click context menus... I'm comfortable doing it now but it seems as easy as having a left pane for books in my "library" and right pane for books on my device

New comment by curiouser2 in "Calibre – E-Book Management"

curiouser2 — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:07:27 +0000

nah it's worse, prompts for a manual download and update.

New comment by curiouser2 in "Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal"

curiouser2 — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 01:02:24 +0000

I'll give you one better, I wrote a plant life simulator that takes place over 4 or 5 days: https://github.com/jifunks/botany

New comment by curiouser2 in "New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spring Back in Your Typing"

curiouser2 — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:53:33 +0000

Wow hadn't seen this one before. A friend had the model M13 growing up with a trackpoint and a pretty shitty right/left click in the middle of the keyboard but this looks amazing.

New comment by curiouser2 in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

curiouser2 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:24:37 +0000

Yeah what the hell is this person talking about? How do they think software was installed prior to Steam?

New comment by curiouser2 in "I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API"

curiouser2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:29:38 +0000

Yeah this guy really should have approached Dairy Queen with a campaign and sold it off.. "we know you can't get mcdonald's ice cream? come to us"

New comment by curiouser2 in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

curiouser2 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:27:32 +0000

It's likely solve the gap of "I can't use my phone while it's wirelessly charging". With the magsafe thing you can just clunk the charger to the back of your phone and keep using it. While battery life is still crap on these (side note - I didn't hear a single thing in the presentation about battery life... yikes) people are going to be charging their phones while they use them.

I hate to be a pessimist but with them not including a charger or headphones, they're slowly moving toward no data port whatsoever

New comment by curiouser2 in "Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels"

curiouser2 — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 21:08:06 +0000

Would be really nice if you could use real keyboard commands (ctrl+backspace to delete a whole word or whatever), makes typing much faster than deleting individual letters.

New comment by curiouser2 in "Nova by Panic"

curiouser2 — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 20:02:38 +0000

It's worth checking out if the Neovim VScode plugin[1] works for your workflow. It's not as mature, but was much smoother when I tested it out. I'm not able to make the change until they implement a "toggle vim mode" command available... but once they do I'll jump. Also check out Onivim[2]

1: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia... 2: https://www.onivim.io/

New comment by curiouser2 in "“TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network.”"

curiouser2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:14:29 +0000

I'm confused by this. Aren't apps sandboxed fairly hard? How would TikTok get any data outside of what's allowed by Apple/Android's app APIs? If they're getting more information than that, isn't that up to the OS to limit?

New comment by curiouser2 in "The Return of the 90s Web"

curiouser2 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:25:09 +0000

The psychology of the "hot take" on twitter is a prime example of this. Is it less friction to read a 3 page blog post that critically analyzes a subject and takes into account different viewpoints that all have merit, or to read someone's 280 character reaction?

I am guilty myself, I often find myself jumping to the comments section even here on HN to understand what people are taking away from an article without even finishing it.

New comment by curiouser2 in "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)"

curiouser2 — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:44:32 +0000

VSCode WebGL link - was enabled in one of the latest versions as an experimental feature for terminal: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_41#_new-experimenta...

New comment by curiouser2 in "Training a neural net to generate British placenames"

curiouser2 — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:41:35 +0000

I did this with a list of 10,000 cannabis strain names scraped from a seed database, have had results running on a twitter bot: https://twitter.com/high_learning_

my favorites so far: 'Grape Meth', 'Bitch Kush', 'Critical Burple', 'Space Hell'