Hacker News: embit

New comment by embit in "Om Malik has died"

embit — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:43:45 +0000

What a great loss. Thank you for your writing and photography

New comment by embit in "Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station"

embit — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:56:22 +0000

And when I get confused, I watch TV. Television is never confusing. It's all so simple somehow.

New comment by embit in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

embit — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:34:44 +0000

One of the best Human-Cat interactions scenes about food in a movie is the opening 10 minutes from movie The Long Goodbye

New comment by embit in "Chuck Norris dies at age 86"

embit — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:48:52 +0000

His late seventies movies like Octagon, Lonewolf Mcquade, force of one and of course Delta Force are all cult classic action movies.

Chuck Norris dies at age 86

embit — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:38:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwynpwydp0xt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456149

Points: 23

# Comments: 10

New comment by embit in "Tony Hoare has died"

embit — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:45:32 +0000

Talking about Quicksort, John Bentley’s deep dive in Quicksort is quite illuminating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgYAQzg1z8

New comment by embit in "I love email (2023)"

embit — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:45:51 +0000

I once emailed Douglas Hofstadter with some of my own ideas after reading his book (GEB) and he actually responded with a long reply.

New comment by embit in "Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does"

embit — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:10:48 +0000

I have done similar style for tech news. Aggravating based on Tags. That way I can read tech news on micro topics. https://embit.ca/ Your feedback is appreciated.

New comment by embit in "The Burrows-Wheeler Transform"

embit — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:38:03 +0000

This is great. The best article I have read on BWT and experimented was in Dr Dobbs Journal around 1996-97.

New comment by embit in "Kagi News"

embit — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:31:23 +0000

Another one you can check out is one I have made for myself and used by friends [1], although only tech news. It also uses more than 100 RSS feeds to aggregate the top 10 news every few hours. Also has tags that can be used to read topic related news.

[1] https://embit.ca

Americans' junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

embit — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:52:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/junk-filled-garages-hurt-ev-sales-as-people-dont-have-room-for-chargers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44981678

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Quick scan of tech news from multiple sources

embit — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:38:03 +0000

Hello HN, I had submitted my website link sometime back but submitting again after many tweaks. https://embit.ca started out for me to check tech news every morning and several times a day, then few friends found out and started using it. It still has small audience but whoever has used finds it useful. I would appreciate some feedback from HN folks as there is lots of room for improvement without making it too complex. Thanks The website is at https://embit.ca

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898852

Points: 1

# Comments: 0