Hacker News: gravitronic

New comment by gravitronic in "Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase"

gravitronic — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:34:05 +0000

*adds "be intentional" to the prompt*

Got it, good idea.

New comment by gravitronic in "Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s"

gravitronic — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:58:02 +0000

Don't worry, it's actually a 4MB SD card with a fake sticker

New comment by gravitronic in "“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place"

gravitronic — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:12:21 +0000

Well, I watched it. The archival footage makes it pretty clear they did it for the lulz and only in the present day interviews do they bolt a social action to it. I prefer if they kept it purely for the lulz because then it was art.

New comment by gravitronic in "“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place"

gravitronic — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:31:15 +0000

Their act was cool. Post-hoc bolting a protest social action on top seemed dishonest.

It's fine to say you did something cool because you could, in fact the coolest things are done just because. Adding commentary that it was a protest for stolen / wasted space, spare me the minutes please

New comment by gravitronic in "Cracked - method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library"

gravitronic — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:28:04 +0000

You should check out webaudiomodules and sequencer party.

New comment by gravitronic in "“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”"

gravitronic — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:07:37 +0000

That's a really cool and simple solution to a difficult problem!! I love it!

New comment by gravitronic in "“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”"

gravitronic — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:53:41 +0000

years ago the daily wtf had a challenge for writing the worst calculator app. my submission maintained calculation state by emitting it's own source code, recompiling and running the new executable.

New comment by gravitronic in "OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser"

gravitronic — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:06:22 +0000

there is a DAW with that feature, they then extracted the multiplayer core and license that. Forget the name, though.

New comment by gravitronic in "OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser"

gravitronic — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:56:46 +0000

hey, this is really nice. Have you seen web audio modules? https://webaudiomodules.com

It is an audio/video/midi plugin standard for the web and it is rather mature.

During covid I worked on a collaborative browser-based DAW, https://sequencer.party. I definitely bit off more than I could chew, but you can wire up plugin chains at least.

I would strongly suggest you consider adding webaudiomodule support and instantly get ~50 plugins supported in the DAW. I also packaged up a bunch of them ready for consumption here: https://github.com/boourns/wam-community

New comment by gravitronic in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

gravitronic — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:45:47 +0000

Yes, that is what I'm talking about! I had once dreamed of building a service you could ask questions like "what other artists recorded in the same city in the same year as artist xyz" and have it figure it out via the discogs dataset.

New comment by gravitronic in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

gravitronic — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:05:13 +0000

If you haven't seen it, discogs releases a huge dataset for free that I feel like is ripe for powering a cool music recommendation engine

New comment by gravitronic in "Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths"

gravitronic — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:24:57 +0000

slippery slope fallacy that giving people control of their own deaths will turn into the state euthanized anybody against their will

New comment by gravitronic in "A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)"

gravitronic — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:49:27 +0000

Well my kids are already convinced 1+1=window

New comment by gravitronic in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

gravitronic — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:39:01 +0000

Reminds me of the chrome bug I filed years ago that is still unfixed. An extension with access to all browsing tabs can open a hidden iframe to a website that commonly would have mic and camera permission (like hangouts.google.com), and then inject its own JavaScript into that hidden iframe to capture mic or camera.

For this to work hangouts.google.com had to not include the HTTP header to block iframing but thankfully if you make up a URL the 404 page served on that domain does not include that http header.

New comment by gravitronic in "Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest"

gravitronic — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:30:08 +0000

give the carbon tax revenue to consumers to offset that the price of food now reflects it's true cost. people can still afford to eat and food producers would actually be incentivized to reduce emissions.

New comment by gravitronic in "Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)"

gravitronic — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:56:50 +0000

First thing I thought when I saw the headline was "oh! I should tell Sirupsen"

New comment by gravitronic in "Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town"

gravitronic — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:40:24 +0000

My 10 year old walks home from school with a few friends regularly and stops in at the local library. I haven't been arrested yet.

New comment by gravitronic in "Reflections on Palantir"

gravitronic — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:49:27 +0000

In 2012 I was at a conference in Montreal for CS students that had Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard, bed bug registry) do the closing talk, and he was giving advice to students about what to work on. He said it out loud, "or if you want to work for evil go into the hallway and talk to the Palentir booth". It was a great moment of one man speaking truth to power in a packed room of their target audience.

New comment by gravitronic in "Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain"

gravitronic — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:05:22 +0000

Starting to eye my dryer lint as a toxic substance

New comment by gravitronic in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

gravitronic — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:47:19 +0000

Yes, and if I remember correctly at least one girlfriend for a few months