Hacker News: entwife

New comment by entwife in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

entwife — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:23:30 +0000

It seems like Angela Lipps needs some help. There's no "Go Fund Me" or similar information associated with the article. Perhaps her (former) attorney could provide more information.

New comment by entwife in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

entwife — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:38:35 +0000

Here is the contact information for her defense attorney, who was appointed in North Dakota, Jay Greenwood. It is unclear to me when he took up this case.

https://www.ndcourts.gov/lawyers/06020 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-greenwood-57360b86/

New comment by entwife in "What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?"

entwife — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:21:39 +0000

Yes, doubling the price of oil, and setting random maybe-not-enforceable tariffs and embargoes, is a net positive because it has the unintended effect of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

New comment by entwife in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

entwife — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:04:55 +0000

For toddlers who are able to communicate, simply add an absorbent layer into the disposable diaper to give them sensory feedback about moisture. Gauze squares from the first aid aisle work well and are very cheap.

New comment by entwife in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

entwife — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:30:07 +0000

The Lexical whitepaper is insightful, interesting, and resonates with my experience in language learning. I'm looking forward to finding out whether Lexical supports my target language.

New comment by entwife in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

entwife — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:06:42 +0000

The short intro video is helpful in understanding what Phrasing does. The promised walk-though video would also be helpful. I am interested in software for aiding language learning, but after reading your original landing page I could not understand what exactly Phrasing is or what it does. I'm looking forward to trying this out some time this week with my target language. Nice work!

New comment by entwife in "Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language"

entwife — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:13:19 +0000

I have used TalkPal for Catalan. I found it slightly superior to ChatGPT, especially, I find the feedback about performance, daily/weekly summary emails, the suggested responses, and the gamified experience to be motivating. The conversations use voice and text input, and audio and text output. I believe they also have a Dutch version.

It is not quite what you are looking for, but I also liked Lingoclip for both Catalan and Spanish. I had exceptional difficulty training my ear to distinguish speech sounds, so recognizing words in song lyrics was helpful.

New comment by entwife in "Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation"

entwife — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:52:26 +0000

Use cases: health indicators, avoiding conception, achieving conception, and accurate pregnancy dating.

A well developed period tracking system with a long history is the Creighton Method. Briefly, individuals are trained person-to-person to collect consistent, reliable repeatable data. This can be compared between users, and has many uses. However, the data collection is inconvenient or in some cases impossible, and they will only train married women.

New comment by entwife in "Disney's earliest Mickey Mouse enters public domain as US copyright expires"

entwife — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 09:59:57 +0000

It's ironic that a cartoon that depicts musical improvisation is such a symbol of passively consumed culture.

New comment by entwife in "Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota"

entwife — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:21:37 +0000

I agree with Auromis. The reported research is interesting, and yet is not yet ready for application to human health. It's tempting to leap to conclusions. The top poster takes this too far.

I hope that NIH funds a lot more Alzheimer's research looking for microbial causes, and also, that the technology for understanding gut microbiome continues to develop.

New comment by entwife in "Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school"

entwife — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:36:33 +0000

It is news in Spain because, in Spain, there is a 1000+ euro fine for transmitting intimate photos of a person (of any age) without their consent. This applies to anyone who transmits the photo, including third parties. The controversy and legal question is whether or not these photos constitute intimate photos.

This probably happens elsewhere, but there is no legal mechanism to prevent it.

New comment by entwife in "CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification"

entwife — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 17:58:08 +0000

I also came to comment that the software's name might cause confusion with the human language, Catalan.

New comment by entwife in "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (1963)"

entwife — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:05:52 +0000

There exist gyms and personal training education for pregnant and postpartum women. I considered sharing one here, but I realized that the comportment of many on HN would be disruptive to them.

New comment by entwife in "Show HN: The Uncolouring Book"

entwife — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:14:36 +0000

Reminds me of the Anti Coloring Book. I had several as a kid. https://us.macmillan.com/series/anticoloringbook

New comment by entwife in "Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil"

entwife — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:57:51 +0000

Where does the fluorine end up after this process?

New comment by entwife in "A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT"

entwife — Sat, 27 May 2023 16:27:06 +0000

I'm only peripherally involved in the law field, and I am aware that ChatGPT and similar do not consistently provide correct legal citations. It also gets things wrong some of the time; the only way to tell is to be an expert or to look up the facts yourself. Don't use ChatGPT for legal writing, nor for anything else that requires accuracy.

New comment by entwife in "Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative"

entwife — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 09:15:07 +0000

The sounds emitted by the plants are between 20 and 80 kHz, which is within the auditory range of some mammal, such as mice. Although the normal range of hearing in humans is said to be 100 Hz to 20 kHz, when I was a grad student in my early 20s I could detect sounds up to 28 kHz in the sound booth.

I wonder whether there are people who can hear these sounds, even faintly.

New comment by entwife in "Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos"

entwife — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:57:34 +0000

In the US it is allowed to take photos of people and publish them, in public. Wikimedia commons has a table of laws here: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specifi...

The question is whether Afroman's use of the officers' images is for-profit, or if it can be categorized as educational or journalistic. I am in favor of the latter characterization, as I found the videos newsworthy and educational, and illustrate problems with policing that I have primarily heard about by word of mouth.

New comment by entwife in "FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank"

entwife — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:07:29 +0000

Are there any other banks that might be affected by interest-rate risk?

New comment by entwife in "Lemon-derived nanoparticles block the progression of kidney stones"

entwife — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:03:57 +0000

> 5000 milligrams of C a day for years

Vitamin C supplements are synthesized from fermentation products of corn and wheat. [0]

A single lemon contains about 32 milligrams of Vitamin C, along with many other things. This study showed that it's lemon extract, not vitamin C alone, that improves kidney stones.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24258144/