Hacker News: interglossa

New comment by interglossa in "Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network"

interglossa — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:12:42 +0000

I tried it sometime ago. I liked the interface but haven't found much of a community around it. It is very unfortunate that diaspora did not thrive earlier.

New comment by interglossa in "Linux on Samsung Chromebook Plus (Kevin) with Rockchip RK3399 ARM SoC (2024)"

interglossa — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:54:36 +0000

Thanks for this post. I bought this model used in 2019 and still use it daily. Beautiful screen and form factor, a real gem. The updates stopped a long time ago.

New comment by interglossa in "Asus Eee PC"

interglossa — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:41:39 +0000

I owned the eee 701 and it was fun using it in cafés. I graduated to the Acer 1410. Now I have a used Lenovo OG bought for $80 but its use case is similar to the netbook.

New comment by interglossa in "The BBC is shutting down BBC SOUNDS for non UK listeners"

interglossa — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:06:31 +0000

This is a blow in particular to anyone who likes the Radio3 classical music station. The BBC may even block VPNs like Proton so there might be no workaround eventually.

New comment by interglossa in "The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home"

interglossa — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:50:31 +0000

The fascination with home recording on disc is not new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42037367

New comment by interglossa in "The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home"

interglossa — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:48:22 +0000

There is an argument that the loss of dynamic range and other factors in the compression required in mp3 or CD recordings make the latter inferior to vinyl. This was a prolonged debate forty years ago

New comment by interglossa in "Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space"

interglossa — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:00:57 +0000

I am surprised no one mentioned otomata: https://earslap.com/page/otomata.html

New comment by interglossa in "Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?"

interglossa — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:36:29 +0000

I used it to prepare for retirement. The investment in T-bills is not the sole strategy they proposed but the basic ideas are solid.

New comment by interglossa in "Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content"

interglossa — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:40:20 +0000

No. Dennis Cooper lost work this way years ago. They need to be aware of this and let some of their followers help them.

New comment by interglossa in "Daily multivitamin improves memory in older adults: meta-analysis study"

interglossa — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:58:21 +0000

The Centrum brand is mentioned explicitly in some of the articles on this story as well as a guidance from a scientist to use established brands of multivitamin. Hmmm.

New comment by interglossa in "Why I didn't play this harpsichord sooner"

interglossa — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:40:02 +0000

I also thought this was an actual harpsichord rather than a metaphor, until I followed the hyperlink back to your blog.

New comment by interglossa in "Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?"

interglossa — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:41:46 +0000

I worked with a very intelligent software engineer with a PhD in CS who encountered orgmode and it enticed him into the same OC spiral you are describing. He resolved the problem by switching to lab notebooks (8 1/2 x 11" or A4 size, don't remember which) and writing design plans, test notes, everything in pen or pencil. This worked well for him but obviously would not be everyone's solution.

New comment by interglossa in "So you want to learn physics (2021)"

interglossa — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:02:33 +0000

Also see Gerard 't Hooft's site on how to become a good theoretical physicist (https://goodtheorist.science).

New comment by interglossa in "Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano"

interglossa — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:28:34 +0000

The Keybird X1 (https://keybird-instruments.com/) is a more functional redesign - an acoustic which can be transported as two pieces of 43 and 16 kg and can be tuned by the owner. This can be purchased now.

New comment by interglossa in "Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano"

interglossa — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:21:29 +0000

Josef Hofmann and Daniel Barenboim played pianos with smaller keys.

New comment by interglossa in "Chrultrabook – Modify a Chromebook to Run Windows/Linux/macOS"

interglossa — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:33:05 +0000

The unwholesome horror is finally revealed.