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New comment by e1ghtSpace in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

e1ghtSpace — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 03:58:23 +0000

Yeah it would just be easier and faster to have a Yes/No selection for each word and you just say whether you know the definition or not. That way you can blaze through all 100. Having keyboard shortcuts for each selection would help.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

e1ghtSpace — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:07:48 +0000

what if it seems ai has literally replaced your thinking? Is there a way to unreplace it? im talking literally.

Show HN: Playing music over movies causes them to sync

e1ghtSpace — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:49:34 +0000

Hey HN! I've been wanting to discuss this for some time now and I think I have enough evidence at this point that I can safely talk about it. I've been experimenting with playing music over movies and noting the effects. They seem to sync up, and the movie becomes a music video of the song. I am not sure if it matters who watches the videos but I feel this may affect the final result.

As an example where this is very noticeable is here at 20:55: https://x.com/KyleSerbov/status/2044696810095255732

I have never heard of anyone really talking about this, so I am curious to see what you guys think of it. I often wonder if the filmakers would be interested in seeing my recordings of their films.

I really like the visualiser the guy does at 2:22 here: https://x.com/KyleSerbov/status/2046164265502212137

I have found it even works when the music is backwards. Here is another example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40MXiiXosY Please note this video is region blocked in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899560

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New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

e1ghtSpace — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:54:27 +0000

Do they ever make AIs that are super rediculously expensive to run but get really good scores on tests, and aren't for consumers? Like drag racing for AI?

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Too Much Color"

e1ghtSpace — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:28:16 +0000

0.0043, but to be honest, I could probably do better if I changed my monitor's settings. But I have it setup with low brightness for night time lights off viewing that won't wake me up.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

e1ghtSpace — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:59:44 +0000

Maybe we can nuke a handful of countries and try to go for just a light nuclear winter to get everything cooled down again.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps"

e1ghtSpace — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:25:03 +0000

Damn now I want to buy a large crystal for my desk.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

e1ghtSpace — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:59:06 +0000

Are you suggesting the voxel grid is attached to the camera, or that the camera moves through the grid?

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation"

e1ghtSpace — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:33:05 +0000

I like the idea of evolving agents from scratch with no "learning", they just evolve their ability to survive in the environment. Maybe one day it'll be advanced enough to see life evolve.

How does the narrative story generator work?

I played around a bit with NEAT networks, and tried to create a bitcoin trading bot, but the best I could do was a +10% gain over many months. I was hoping for at least 30% each month. Oh well, I guess it doesn't all just depend on past price history.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years"

e1ghtSpace — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:14:39 +0000

I thought it would be longer than 30 days.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

e1ghtSpace — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:09:14 +0000

I honestly wonder why NASA bothers. To me it seems like a massive waste of money when SpaceX can do it much cheaper.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

e1ghtSpace — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:07:40 +0000

I quit too. I’ve since found on random days where I do have a coffee I feel slightly numb to everything so can procure more physical effort, but I slightly shake uncontrollably and also have worse sleeps. So I almost never have a coffee (or caffeine).

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Builders Unscripted: Ep. 1 – Peter Steinberger, Creator of OpenClaw"

e1ghtSpace — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:22:56 +0000

I like listening to Peter. Hes cool.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

e1ghtSpace — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:42:55 +0000

I used the pay as you go from google with openclaw for about one hour, then checked the next day and it cost me $7. It was the latest flash preview model. I can't justify the cost right now. At least I won't get banned though.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app"

e1ghtSpace — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:54:25 +0000

"Powered by gAI™"

I wonder if it would be worth creating an app that just sends you on dates using AI. Like, you don't even get to look at the other person's profile. Then afterwards you would report to the app whether you would go on another date with the person you just went out with or not.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

e1ghtSpace — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:49:05 +0000

Your username is very similar to mine.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

e1ghtSpace — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:03:32 +0000

I opened this on a new tab and forgot about it. When I came back it thought it was the legit front page and was amazed to see "ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes"... oh well.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

e1ghtSpace — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:31:18 +0000

No, I wish we'd go back to the skeuomorphic iOS 6 (and below) look.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

e1ghtSpace — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:36:20 +0000

Does anyone else find articles from 2008 etc. easier to read? Its like I gloss over it if I think an AI has written the article but when its from ages ago I take more care to actually understand it.

New comment by e1ghtSpace in "Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music"

e1ghtSpace — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:02:22 +0000

Theres this one song I like - Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qPZl7M2REM

If you change the speed to custom 1.05x and listen, you'll notice it sounds different to normal. Then if you switch to normal and listen again you can get your brain to recognise the different pitch from the 1.05x speed version and one time I got into an altered state of consciousness.