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New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:53:04 +0000

Probably more on imaging / as going up and \ as going down.

I'd think that associating pitch increase/decrease with up/down works for the vast majority of people without any second thought.

New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:48:55 +0000

> ë

What else is there with ë except for Noël and Israël ?

New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:10:39 +0000

If there's one thing I wish someone pointed out when I was just starting learning French is this:

  é - the accent is pointing up, so it's a higher-pitched e

  è - the accent is pointing down, so it's a lower-pitched e

That's it. That's how it should be explained.

* It's also in their names - aigu and grave, but this requires knowing what these words mean.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Chuck Norris has died"

huhtenberg — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:29:16 +0000

Chuck Norris jokes were making rounds well before Vin Diesel was even born.

New comment by huhtenberg in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

huhtenberg — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:05:42 +0000

What if you have two things? You'd then need two buttons.

The push button is a perfectly viable option, it just needs to be in a form factor that's works. Could be as simple as a tiny low-energy Bluetooth board with a coin battery that will last several months.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

huhtenberg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:24:04 +0000

Why would it mean that?

All inbound packets are matched against existing sessions. In this case none will turn up, so the packet will go through the "new session" flow and be subject to the same filtering as a bare SYN. Look up how connection tracking works, e.g. in the Linux kernel, it's rather simple and logical.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

huhtenberg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:37:29 +0000

Sanity checks, sure, but SYN,!ACK packets cannot be rejected before the conntrack for obvious reasons.

> Plenty of setups block incoming SYN,!ACK packets

Nowhere close to being "plenty". It's doable, but this is extremely niche.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

huhtenberg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:27:01 +0000

> Plenty of setups block incoming SYN,!ACK packets

Even in the presence of a conntrack entry created by an earlier outbound SYN,!ACK ?

Got a source?

New comment by huhtenberg in "Poor Man's Polaroid"

huhtenberg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:34:29 +0000

Looking at all ready-made options on Amazon and elsewhere - anyone who will roll out an adult-oriented well-made single-button camera that takes in standard thermal paper rolls will make a fortune. This is such a great thing to have for get-togethers and parties. But it's essential to not being bound by $X/shot proprietary cartridges and be able to shoot and snap without thinking. Mementos for everyone!

* ... without thinking of costs involved. $2 per polaroid with half of them not even developing properly is a bit too high for spontaneous photography urges.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Show HN: Stacked Game of Life"

huhtenberg — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:38:16 +0000

I am a simple man. I see Game of Life in the title, I upvote the post.

New comment by huhtenberg in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

huhtenberg — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:53:39 +0000

WhatsApp infamously did just that.

It vacuumed the contacts and spammed them with "Join me on WhatsApp". One of the reasons for their initial exponential growth.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Ask HN: Options for single-button media remote control for smartphones?"

huhtenberg — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:07:08 +0000

Rather inconvenient when running since it can be several times per minute.

Ask HN: Options for single-button media remote control for smartphones?

huhtenberg — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:50:51 +0000

I'm going through a Language Transfer course [1] and it requires pausing lesson after Mihalis asks a question and before his minion gets a chance to answer it.

I'd like to go through the course while running, so looking for a simple one-button remote control for the phone that can pause/resume the playback.

There are some shutter controls of this sort for taking selfies, but they don't seem to be re-programmable for media control.

Are there any ready-made options for this?

[1] https://www.languagetransfer.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066189

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by huhtenberg in "Show HN: Prompt to Planet, generate procedural 3D planets from text"

huhtenberg — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:48:33 +0000

As others have noted, the output doesn't seem to be anywhere close to what's being prompted.

New comment by huhtenberg in "We're Launching Our Second App!"

huhtenberg — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:10:27 +0000

https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard wants its name back.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

huhtenberg — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:15:13 +0000

It gets easier with practice, but sometimes some words are very difficult to find. Hints help though.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

huhtenberg — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:29:58 +0000

Seems like a good post to plug a recent find and my new favourite -

https://puzzlist.com/stackdown

It's from the person who made https://wafflegame.net if you are familiar with it, one of many that came on the tails of the original Wordle.

In comparison, the Stackdown is less rushed and way more rewarding when solved. Also, more interesting in structure.

Escutcheon

huhtenberg — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:58:21 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escutcheon_(furniture)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849789

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by huhtenberg in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

huhtenberg — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:56:51 +0000

This is wonderful. Thank you.

New comment by huhtenberg in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

huhtenberg — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:19:06 +0000

It doesn't mean much. Roblox is banned in Russia.

They've been just gradually banning everything not made in Russia.