Hacker News: ditn

New comment by ditn in "Leave Me Behind"

ditn — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:03:44 +0000

For the longest time the Android community was super close-knit where people talked about this stuff online and in person constantly, and OP was a pretty active contributor.

Unfortunately Twitter pre-acquisition was probably the focal point and since then, I don't think the community has been the same.

New comment by ditn in "The Ribbon Microphone"

ditn — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:07:11 +0000

An interesting feature of ribbon mics - because the ribbon is open at the front and the back, they reject sound from the side (and top/bottom) almost perfectly. You can arrange these cleverly in live or studio settings to amplify one thing while rejecting another completely.

A typical usecase for this is a singer with an acoustic guitar - one mic can pick up the guitar and almost fully reject the vocals, and vice-versa. Pretty cool.

New comment by ditn in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

ditn — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:52:57 +0000

Generally these are only used in test methods, which is fine. I've never seen anyone use them outside that.

New comment by ditn in ""Frost crack" sounds may come from sky, not trees"

ditn — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:03:06 +0000

One thing that I found super interesting when I studied audio engineering is that our ears are very good at determining direction left/right, but absolutely hopeless at working out if a sound is up or down.

This makes their hypothesis a lot more believable to me; I can understand others incredulity.

New comment by ditn in "Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans"

ditn — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:06:11 +0000

Someone failed highschool chemistry. More gas can dissolve in cold water vs hot. The opposite of solids.

New comment by ditn in "Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs"

ditn — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:57:05 +0000

Yeah this is standard practise in the UK armed forces/EOD teams. Source: spent time with No. 5131 Squadron in Akrotiri.

New comment by ditn in "Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses, says report"

ditn — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:48:30 +0000

> I can’t think of any other place where people’s sense of net worth is as tied up with their house price as it is in the UK, while at the same time the increase in house price that people have been conditioned to believe is the norm over the last decade is wholly unsustainable given the stagnant wages.

Canada.

New comment by ditn in "Micro- and nanoplastics breach the blood–brain barrier in mice"

ditn — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:56:32 +0000

Regularly donating blood or plasma can reduce PFAS concentrations in the body, I believe the effect is the same on microplastics https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-shows-blood-or-plas...

New comment by ditn in "Tell HN: Google search is getting worse"

ditn — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 13:01:16 +0000

You can set a custom filter in uBlock Origin to do this for you - here's an example filtering out Pinterest garbage:

google.##.g:has(a[href=".pinterest."]) google.##a[href=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1)

https://awesometoast.com/argh-stop-the-pinterest-results/

New comment by ditn in "Turkey earthquake: please keep 28.540 clear for communications"

ditn — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 02:04:10 +0000

During the outbreak of the Ukraine war, this role was taken up by Twitter Spaces.

New comment by ditn in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)"

ditn — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:10:22 +0000

  Location: Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Android, Kotlin
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-bennett-4784b327/
  Email: info@adambennett.dev
  GitHub: https://github.com/ditn/

Android Engineer looking for a Staff or Lead role, ideally at a more established company but it depends on the problem space. I've worked and lead teams at fintech startups and most recently at Twitter 1.0, and I'm recognised as a Google Developer Expert in the industry.

Looking for new challenges and a chance to grow - I'm at my best when under some pressure and surrounded by smart people.

New comment by ditn in "Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said"

ditn — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:02:04 +0000

Then why were they reviewing unrelated codebases? iOS, Android? This doesn't hold up

New comment by ditn in "Twitter engineers told to print out their code"

ditn — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 01:32:58 +0000

They use git.

New comment by ditn in "Crypto lending company Babel Finance halts redemptions and withdrawals"

ditn — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:34:52 +0000

"No true blockchain"

New comment by ditn in "Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain"

ditn — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:24:01 +0000

60% _marginal_ tax, not everall.

New comment by ditn in "Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels"

ditn — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:25:13 +0000

For those reading this with incredulity I believe the above commenter made a typo - the average depth is 3688m, or 12,100ft.

New comment by ditn in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

ditn — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:16:44 +0000

https://adambennett.dev/

Mostly Android + Kotlin with a recent foray into interviewing, and I'd like to write about leadership/culture a bit more. I've gotten out of the habit of writing recently due to burnout but I'm starting to feel that motivation again.

It's a Hugo static site ontop of Firebase Hosting, and I just commit to GitHub and Actions builds and deploys the site for me. I recently started using http://forestry.io/ which is a nice GUI over the top for content management.

New comment by ditn in "Ask HN: What is a modern Java environment?"

ditn — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:45:01 +0000

It's not, it's a runtime service locator. In my experience it doesn't scale terribly well.

New comment by ditn in "The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe"

ditn — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:59:27 +0000

That's an event I'd like to see!

New comment by ditn in "The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe"

ditn — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:48:48 +0000

It's a hard limit due needing fuel to maintain its orbit. It's in a lagrange point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point) which requires occasional orbital corrections.