Hacker News: hrnnnnnn

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Magenta RealTime 2: Open and Local Live Music Models"

hrnnnnnn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:52:28 +0000

Seems to be MacOS only.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:52:22 +0000

Consider phrasal verbs like "shut up", "get lost" or "kick off". Knowing what the parts mean doesn't let you understand the whole.

In your native tongue you take these for granted, but in a second language you have to learn that the sum is more (or different) than the parts.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

hrnnnnnn — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:28:12 +0000

I think this is exactly it. I started getting RSI, spent a little time researching, bought a zsa moonlander and it cured me.

I haven't turned it into a hobby, it's just a tool that solves a problem.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

hrnnnnnn — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:43:06 +0000

I've been using Firefox on android for over a decade, including for YouTube, and maybe once a year I encounter a problem where I need to use Chrome for a specific website.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Maggots, an efficient source of protein"

hrnnnnnn — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:37:50 +0000

We could, instead, simply eat beans.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:22:53 +0000

I recommend altSnap to get this functionality on Windows.

https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "How to Synthesize a House Loop"

hrnnnnnn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:57:58 +0000

Renoise just added support for a programmatic sequence generator called pattrns.

https://github.com/renoise/pattrns

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:26:41 +0000

Norway isn't part of the EU.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch"

hrnnnnnn — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:43:04 +0000

Probably not.

https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/space-weather-and-c...

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ"

hrnnnnnn — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:17:57 +0000

By coincidence I just listened to the Decoding the Gurus episode on Sabine https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/sabine-hosse...

I also just finished a four-and-a-half-hour defence of modern physics by Sean Carroll which has some really good counterarguments in it, as well as a whirlwind history of the last century in physics. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/31/245-...

I am conscious of the irony of responding to this post by posting podcasts.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:43:55 +0000

It was specifically Benn Jordan and Venus Theory who cut their ties.

Polarity has never stopped making Bitwig content and I've learned an absolute ton of stuff from him.

https://youtube.com/polaritydnb/

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Trying to play an isomorphic piano (2022) [video]"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:56:04 +0000

It's really nice to play a scale, come to the octave, slide, and keep on playing the same shape across the higher strings. It's made the fretboard feel a lot more transparent to me.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Trying to play an isomorphic piano (2022) [video]"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:33:09 +0000

On guitar in fourths tuning, you only need to learn each interval and chord shape once, compared to multiple permutations in standard tuning. Not sure how much difference this makes over the long run as another poster pointed out, but for me it made the process seem much less overwhelming and motivated me to start learning how to make my own chord voicings, which is something I wouldn't have done in standard tuning.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Trying to play an isomorphic piano (2022) [video]"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:29:40 +0000

I haven't played a linear isomorphic keyboard, but I do play guitar with an isomorphic tuning (EADGCF) and I have an Intuitive Instruments Exquis, which is a hex-grid. I feel like melody makes more sense linearly but harmony makes more sense in 2D.

https://dualo.com/en/exquis/

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Trying to play an isomorphic piano (2022) [video]"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:26:51 +0000

I use all-fourths tuning on guitar (EADGCF) which makes the fretboard isometric.

You lose some idiomatic guitar vocabulary, but if you don't care about that you gain the ability to construct your own chord voicings much more easily, and only need to remember one fingering for each chord instead of three.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration"

hrnnnnnn — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:13:03 +0000

I tried to install it recently to a linux container running on proxmox. I gave up after half an hour because it requires a ton of PHP dependencies and there's no instructions or script provided to install them. I guess if you use the docker version it should be easier, but that wasn't an option for me.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 07:07:50 +0000

Here's a video showing how to use it in the Renoise DAW.

https://youtu.be/9c9Qq5LieBY?t=46

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Octobass"

hrnnnnnn — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:07:49 +0000

I can't speak for YouTube's specific compression, but since there's less information in low frequency sounds they should compress better than high frequency sounds.

Anecdata: the bass in low bitrate online drum and bass radio in the 2000s always came through cleaner than the mids and treble.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

hrnnnnnn — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:21:17 +0000

I use pocket all the time to save articles to read on my kobo, which has a pretty good first-party integration in the OS.

I wonder what Rakuten are going to do.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite (2024)"

hrnnnnnn — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:14:45 +0000

Brett Domino wrote a song about this.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UJHKB4arFNQ