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New comment by dpfu in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

dpfu — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:28:00 +0000

Nice game! I found 20 words.

I was a bit stunned by the concept of "bonus words". I found that every word should count. Also because some words are just plural forms (e.g. stroke+s), so kinda cheep?!

Keep ups the good work!

New comment by dpfu in "Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)"

dpfu — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:10:49 +0000

Just another data point — anecdata, n=1.

I'm an academic in the humanities with kids, currently in my late 30s. While having children certainly reduces the time and mental bandwidth available for purely intellectual pursuits, I’ve found it forces me to focus more sharply on what truly matters—both in life and in research.

Paradoxically, I feel more intellectually alive now than before. The recent advances in AI are transformative, and they’ve opened up unprecedented possibilities even for resource-constrained researchers like myself. This moment in time feels uniquely energizing and urgent, especially for the humanities.

Of course, having kids is a major responsibility, and in academia—where short-term contracts and financial insecurity are common—it can be daunting. I feel incredibly privileged to be able to do both: raise a family and engage deeply with my field. But this is very personal terrain, and there’s no one-size-fits-all answer.

New comment by dpfu in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

dpfu — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:30:53 +0000

It won‘t take long, 2-3 minutes.

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To add something to conversation. For me, this mainly shows a strategy to keep users longer in chat conversations: linguistic design as an engagement device.

New comment by dpfu in "Show HN: Hot Notes – Fuzzy Search for Apple Notes (macOS)"

dpfu — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:03:19 +0000

https://github.com/emadda/hot-notes/blob/main/license.md

Proprietary software

„Hot Notes is a fully functioning, time-unlimited free trial, with the occasional message to buy a license for continued use.

You can purchase a license by clicking the About Hot Notes menu item in the app.“

New comment by dpfu in "Oswald Spengler – an intellectual life"

dpfu — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:10:45 +0000

I find the writer‘s glowing admiration for Spengler disturbing. He was an antidemocratic thinker, whose books are pure speculative fiction. What the author calls „unorthodox“ methods, used to get a „holistic“ picture of historical developments, are (scientifically speaking) plain rubbish. Spengler wanted a dictator. He did not like Hitler, but was a Mussolini fanboy.

New comment by dpfu in "New 13-inch MacBook Pro"

dpfu — Mon, 04 May 2020 15:42:54 +0000

I tried with my current MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018). Apple offered 240€. Well.

A list of classless CSS themes/frameworks with screenshots

dpfu — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:57:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22350200

Points: 4

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New comment by dpfu in "Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support"

dpfu — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:04:09 +0000

Also check out Markdeep, which provides this (and a whole lot more) via JS: http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/#features

New comment by dpfu in "Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project"

dpfu — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:51:39 +0000

For Linux and Mac, there some experimental builds available as well [0, 1]. And they are looking for Mac and Linux testers (and developers).

[0] https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Mac_Support

[1] https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Linux_Support

New comment by dpfu in "The Oldschool PC Font Pack"

dpfu — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:42:42 +0000

Also check out Fontraption (a VGA Text Mode Font Editor for DOS) and Flexi IBM VGA Font (a Scalable Take on Text Mode).

https://int10h.org/blog/2019/05/fontraption-vga-text-mode-fo...

https://int10h.org/blog/2018/05/flexi-ibm-vga-scalable-truet...

New comment by dpfu in "Daimler Reitwagen"

dpfu — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:20:50 +0000

The original was destroyed by fire, but Mercedes-Benz made functional replicas. Here is a photo gallery with an engineer riding this thing (without a helmet, of course):

https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/125-jahre-daimler-reitwag...

New comment by dpfu in "The Vienna Bank Job"

dpfu — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:08:20 +0000

Because the article does not reflect the latest status of this story, here is an update: The bank has now successfully filed a complaint against the withdrawal of the license and is now again a bank, although under supervision:

"In the first instance, the Administrative Court temporarily suspended the immediate effectiveness of the European Central Bank's (ECB's) withdrawal of the former Meinl Bank's licence until a final decision has been reached [...]. The parent company of the bank, Far East, had lodged a complaint, according to the court ruling." Source: https://wien.orf.at/stories/3022615/ (Own translation, article is in German)

New comment by dpfu in "Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer"

dpfu — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:34:15 +0000

Re existing projects, there is a nice and exhaustive comparisons to other tools in the docs: https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/comparisons.html

New comment by dpfu in "FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws"

dpfu — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:40:18 +0000

There is a free plan on their pricing page [0], but this free tier is web access only.

[0] https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html

New comment by dpfu in "At 18 Stories, Mjøsa Tower Is World’s Tallest Wooden Building"

dpfu — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 08:47:49 +0000

There is also the HoHo building („Holzhochhaus“, lit. wood high house) in Vienna, which is a wooden high-rise with 24 stories and 84 m [0]. They just added an antenna to the Mjøsa Tower to break the record. (Boys and their towers…)

[0] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HoHo_Wien

New comment by dpfu in "Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature"

dpfu — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 23:10:46 +0000

There is, right in the article: Cummins, C. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0604-2 (2018).

New comment by dpfu in "CSS single-file stylesheets that you can drop into an HTML5 document"

dpfu — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:28:41 +0000

A nice way to compare how various CSS resets and frameworks style HTML elements is [https://kemar.github.io/html-elements/](https://kemar.github....

New comment by dpfu in "Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners"

dpfu — Wed, 31 May 2017 08:23:53 +0000

This is a awesome resource, thanks a lot! Some of these books are of course quite old. For example I would not recommend trying to learning contemporary German using this [1] book. Reading 'fraktur' alone can be rather challenging …

[1] [Worman, J. H.: Erstes Deutsches Buch, nach der Natürlichen Methode, für Schule und Haus, American Book Company, New York 1880](https://vivariumnovum.it/edizioni/libri/dominio-pubblico/Wor...)

New comment by dpfu in "Kenneth Arrow Has Died"

dpfu — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:59:27 +0000

You have made me curios, so I'm going to read the paper. It lives under this DOI [10.2307/2295952](https://doi.org/10.2307/2295952) (paywalled).

New comment by dpfu in "How I use Anki to learn mathematics"

dpfu — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:16:01 +0000

I successfully used the example in this StackExchange answer [0]. And you could also take a look at the flashcard package on CTAN [1]. Another easy option would be using some kind of markdown tool [2] or even a Word template to generate a PDF and then printing it 8-up.

[0] http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/89347 [1] http://www.ctan.org/pkg/flashcards [2] e.g. http://pandoc.org