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New comment by i4i in "Ear Training Practice"

i4i — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:27:08 +0000

Let's not forget MusicTheory.net Been around forever and has a very robust set of exercises and lessons. Free online and a great app as well. https://www.musictheory.net/exercises

New comment by i4i in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

i4i — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:53:15 +0000

He ends his essay with "Fuck Google for ranking some copycat website higher than mine, even though they copied my article", but how is it not OpenAI, Anthropic etc. as well as Google, to blame. We're meant to believe that with their resources they couldn't have created a micro-payment scheme to compensate creators? Altman on Fridman podcast two years ago about compensation... https://youtu.be/jvqFAi7vkBc?si=9YbKoH_dFIishAXt&t=2409

New comment by i4i in "A hacker has allegedly breached one of China's supercomputers"

i4i — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:31:21 +0000

I think it's odd that what seems like a big story people would like to be following along with just vanished.

A hacker has allegedly breached one of China's supercomputers

i4i — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:45:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomputer-hackers-hnk-intl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732508

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by i4i in "Urea prices"

i4i — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:39:09 +0000

Excellent in-depth article and it's 6 years old. If this gets solved it will be a very big deal. We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser – it could make farming more sustainable https://theconversation.com/we-found-a-way-to-turn-urine-int...

Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

i4i — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:35:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142587

Points: 145

# Comments: 129

New comment by i4i in "Our approach to advertising"

i4i — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:09:36 +0000

https://chatgpt.com/share/696a8c52-f29c-800d-b597-93dfde0c30...

What you’re reacting to isn’t just “ads.” It’s the feeling of: Someone monetizing the collective output of human thought while quietly severing the link back to the humans who produced it.

That triggers a very old and very valid moral instinct.

Why “sleazy” is an accurate word here

“Sleazy” usually means: technically allowed strategically clever morally evasive

New comment by i4i in "Aphantasia and Psychedelics"

i4i — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:06:20 +0000

My understanding is that most aphantasics (like myself) can still see images while dreaming—suggesting that dreaming uses a different network for visualization. I have vivid dreams most nights.

Shane Williams (an aphant) hosts a podcast where he interviews people using a set of questions designed to probe their inner sensory world. From it I’ve learned, for example, that some people can taste food when reading a menu, or have a conversation with a deceased loved one and actually hear their voice. One of his prompts is whether guests can place themselves inside a photo of a carnival (which he provides); many say they can smell the cotton candy or hear the chatter of the crowd.

It’s striking how little we really know about the variety of inner sensory experiences: Discovering Your Mind – Aphantasia and Beyond https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/discovering-your-mind-...

A favorite research paper compares brain activity in identical twin sisters, only one of whom is aphantasic: The Neural Underpinnings of Aphantasia: A Case Study of Identical Twins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614521v2

New comment by i4i in "Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan"

i4i — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:34:04 +0000

Science Mag Podcast covered this as well... with Madeleine McLeester, assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College. I thought interesting that they have yet to find the village that associates with the gardens. https://www.science.org/content/podcast/farming-maize-ice-ag...

Ask HN: Local AI for Handwriting Transcription?

i4i — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:05:08 +0000

Is it possible to teach an AI to privately read one's digitized handwritten journals on an off the shelf late model Mac? If you're done it, please share how to.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161953

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

A Steve Jobs Christmas [video]

i4i — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:25:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiMQnKu9aGw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562306

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by i4i in "Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide"

i4i — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 21:56:21 +0000

Immediately after the book won the Pulitzer in 1981, Gottlieb could not recall Toole or the manuscript. In his 2016 memoir, Gottlieb wrote that, after returning to A Confederacy of Dunces decades later, he felt the same about its flaws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gottlieb

New comment by i4i in "How French Drains Work"

i4i — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:53:38 +0000

I suddenly remembered why, having previously found this channel, which is full of great information, I can't stand to watch the videos - the innocuous background music! Anyone else have this problem... where you're perhaps overly sensitive to music, especially non-fiction videos and podcasts? I find the background music unbearable.

New comment by i4i in "Ask HN: Why Google shut down business.site website feature?"

i4i — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 21:13:00 +0000

Anything that Google does apart from make money selling ads and turning the internet into an ad cesspool functions as a smoke screen to fool the public (and their employees) into thinking they do anything of real value or that serves the community. All of it https://killedbygoogle.com/ serves as a (relatively) inexpensive marketing tool.

Bi-2 detained in Thailand, fearful of deportation to Russia

i4i — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:27:24 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/b12-progressive-rock-israel-thailand-detain-59d3d2892d25d11664c96710fe5c30d2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201045

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by i4i in "Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history"

i4i — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:50:05 +0000

Awsm!

New comment by i4i in "Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history"

i4i — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 18:44:49 +0000

I may be missing something, but I would like to be able to search by zip and return individual doctor's names.

New comment by i4i in "Continuous glucose monitoring in people without diabetes"

i4i — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:58:53 +0000

...What I usually hear from “CGM users without diabetes” is along the lines of ‘it helps you to understand your metabolism and make changes to your diet and lifestyle’. This is a compelling narrative, but I have a couple of problems with it: First the premise that CGM outside of diabetes can show you something to fix is at best flawed and at worst an invention designed to move product.

Continuous glucose monitoring in people without diabetes

i4i — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:58:53 +0000

Article URL: https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/in-pursuit-of-the-flat-line

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37770787

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by i4i in "How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)"

i4i — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:33:59 +0000

Having only discovered Aphantasia in my 6th decade on the planet, it's safe to say that you can't miss what you never had. That said, in a FB forum that discusses Aphantasia, a few people who previously had the ability to 'see memories', were devastated by the (stroke) loss of it. Upon describing my situation, one friend immediately asked incredulously, "How do you jerk off?" I'm intrigued with the article. That a "Mind's Eye" could be developed is an exciting possibility. BTW, This is a tight, short, Hank Green video that I send to folks who have no idea what I'm talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A91tvp0b1fY