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New comment by hypertexthero in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

hypertexthero — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:04:22 +0000

> These tests blew me away.

Made me laugh : )

Text-wrap:balance; CSS rule to avoid typographic orphans

hypertexthero — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:00:50 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/text-wrap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904974

Points: 4

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Confused about how to keep up with the pace they themselves created

hypertexthero — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:15:18 +0000

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/13/the-final-bottleneck/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184362

Points: 2

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New comment by hypertexthero in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

hypertexthero — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:59:27 +0000

Guitars certainly have a more intimate connection between the touch of fingers and the sound, including the bending of the tone, one of Hendrix’s virtuosities.

Keyboards can approach that with polyphonic touch keys like the Hydrasynth (lean into keys, pressing them harder, for bending the tone in a configured patch), sustain pedals, and pitch bend/modulation controls, but not the nuanced touch of skin on a vibrating string.

I think synth guitars exist, too, but don’t know anything about them. The pedalboards are enough, maybe :)

New comment by hypertexthero in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

hypertexthero — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:57:03 +0000

Hmmm, I disagree, having played electric and acoustic guitars for over two decades and begun learning piano and synths for the first time in 2025.

For one, you can’t easily play two melodies simultaneously across several octaves, using both of your hands, with an electric guitar.

Stringed electronic instruments do have their advantages, but so do the others. Each music making thing has its place in the spectrum.

Two books that have helped me greatly in my musical life, in case people haven’t heard of them, are The Listening Book, and Bridge of Waves, by W.A. Mathieu.

New comment by hypertexthero in "Instagram's URL Blackhole"

hypertexthero — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:48:55 +0000

This brings to mind this question:

Should HN allow links to sites that break the back button, like all Meta sites (Ig, Fb, etc)?

New comment by hypertexthero in "The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth"

hypertexthero — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:41:51 +0000

My favorite part of the video is when Stéphane “makes a mistake” and shows it, like enlightened people, such as Cliff Stoll — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUZTTLpDtk — do :)

New comment by hypertexthero in "Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI"

hypertexthero — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:07:52 +0000

Potentially unrelated tangent thought:

The Man Who Listens to Horses (1997) is an excellent book by Monty Roberts about learning the language of horses and observing and listening to animals: https://www.biblio.com/search.php?stage=1&title=The+Man+Who+...

Video demonstration of the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtTz9GtAT4

New comment by hypertexthero in "Airfoil (2024)"

hypertexthero — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:13:41 +0000

The F-15C (and the F-16), yes.

The F-15E was a different story, which I remember from flamewars at flightsim forums over how slow of a climber it was :)

New comment by hypertexthero in "Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow"

hypertexthero — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:55:12 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

Foley (Sound Design)

hypertexthero — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:52:23 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(sound_design)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588508

Points: 1

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New comment by hypertexthero in "Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware"

hypertexthero — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:18:01 +0000

Yes, but Wacom recently discontinued macOS driver support for older versions of the Intuos, and I had to downgrade to an older driver to make it work.

When it doesn’t anymore I’ll need to get something else, probably an iPad so I can also use it as a 2nd screen.

New comment by hypertexthero in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

hypertexthero — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:59:31 +0000

Brought REM’s ÜBerlin to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITh-XIikgI

New comment by hypertexthero in "50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player"

hypertexthero — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:02:58 +0000

Vinyl record covers are nicely-sized artworks for displaying in a room.

Listening to an album you love, while taking the time to flip the record or tape, or taking the time listen to an entire album in your streaming service of choice, helps you to notice things and be present.

Recommended film: Perfect Days by Wim Wenders - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Days

Recommended book: Bridge of Waves by W.A. Mathieu - https://www.shambhala.com/bridge-of-waves-288.html

In 02026: Slow down, and fix things.

Slow is smooth.

Smooth is fast.

New comment by hypertexthero in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

hypertexthero — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:36:39 +0000

I think 2026 will bring many to Linux because of Steam Machine: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

New comment by hypertexthero in "The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films"

hypertexthero — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:31:18 +0000

I watched a performance by Donnie Rankin on a classic Wurlitzer organ at Grand Rapids Public Museum in Michigan this past November.

https://tickets.grpm.org/events/01998223-5b9a-deac-f45e-f0d7...

My favorite pieces he played were the themes for Princess Leia and Star Trek TNG.

It’s an amazing instrument.

New comment by hypertexthero in "How we lost communication to entertainment"

hypertexthero — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:42:12 +0000

It took me a long time to notice that the word in the title is “massage”, and not “message”, in Marshall McLuhan’s and Quentin Fiore’s The Medium is the Massage (An inventory of effects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage

Links to various editions: https://www.biblio.com/the-medium-is-the-massage-by-marshall...

Also of interest, notes about the observer being the observed in Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Think on These Things — https://www.biblio.com/9780060916091 — and The First and Last Freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom

New comment by hypertexthero in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

hypertexthero — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:51:55 +0000

Merry Xmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMNtEKHURU

New comment by hypertexthero in "Size of Life"

hypertexthero — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:23:07 +0000

The following from clicking on the i on the top-right after starting the show:

> Created by Neal Agarwal

> Illustrations by Julius Csotonyi

> Production by Liz Ryan

> Music & SFX by Aleix Ramon

> Cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga

Beautiful work.

Tessitura

hypertexthero — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:26:15 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessitura

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209370

Points: 2

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