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New comment by kelseydh in "Obsolete Sounds"

kelseydh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:11:22 +0000

Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening.

Obsolete Sounds

kelseydh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:11:22 +0000

Article URL: https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514248

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by kelseydh in "MacBook Neo"

kelseydh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:23:19 +0000

My wife traded in her Macbook for a laptop. I couldn't believe anybody could live without a proper desktop computer but she proved me wrong. Aced some pretty intense physiology classes just using an iPad + touch pen.

IANA tz (and POSIX) cannot add British Columbia's new Pacific Time (PT) timezone

kelseydh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/8b46071fd85a7a9434d63894bac64d30362cc16d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245566

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by kelseydh in "Number Research Inc"

kelseydh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:04:46 +0000

How high can the numbers go?

New comment by kelseydh in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

kelseydh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:00:46 +0000

Very cool, would love to see Ruby support added.

New comment by kelseydh in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

kelseydh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:46:58 +0000

School ends at 3pm so that the teachers, who work a 9-5 like you, get two hours after class to grade homework and prepare lessons for the next school day.

New comment by kelseydh in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

kelseydh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:43:48 +0000

One of the most depressing days of the year in B.C. is when daylight savings ends, and clocks are switched back an hour in November. The sun goes from setting at ~6pm to ~5pm, and you officially end work with it dark out. I'm very happy we are switching to permanent daylight time.

There's nothing more glorious than those late summer solstice sunsets w/ daylight time, where the sun doesn't set until 10pm. Great for festivals and planning outdoor activities with friends.

New comment by kelseydh in "Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code"

kelseydh — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:31:51 +0000

The Fourier transform audio examples fooled me. The example sounds and slider for them appeared consistent as far as I could tell... but then again I don't know much about Fourier transforms.

Maybe I'm out of the loop but have to say this is the first time I have seen an LLM generate a webpage with working audio widgets.

New comment by kelseydh in "Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code"

kelseydh — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:07:14 +0000

It's mindblowing while reading this that I had no idea they were LLM generated.

New comment by kelseydh in "Is coding dead because AI has taken over it?"

kelseydh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:10:19 +0000

That assumes the problem is a common one others have encountered, which the examples I gave above certainly were. When you're wrangling with poorly documented legacy code operating under the context of its own internal domain logic (e.g. arcane country specific banking regulations), often the only source of good "judgement" (that's the commonwealth spelling btw) are those in the past who wrote the code the way they did.

This is an area where Claude Code is both valuable and dangerous. It can propose sweeping (correct) changes based on inconsistencies it finds within the codebase. The developer, in situations where nobody more senior is around to answer those design questions, is left making a judgement call based on vibes and what logic they can piece together about Claude's changes.

New comment by kelseydh in "Is coding dead because AI has taken over it?"

kelseydh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:33:28 +0000

Claude Code does empower developers to do deep higher level work. It's easier to generate advanced changes now.

E.g. database optimisations a Senior Engineer might do, such as designing a database partition or creating a complex composite index. The problem? When Claude recommends more advanced solutions without a deep understanding it is easy to miss where the foot guns lie or if Claude got it outright wrong.

It's like being handed a chainsaw when you had an axe. Without good judgement, it's easy to cut down the wrong trees.

New comment by kelseydh in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

kelseydh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:31:40 +0000

> you could model a pretend economy where only the wealthy ever buy stuff

In the United States, the top 10% of income-earning households are responsible for approximately 50% of all consumer spending.

New comment by kelseydh in "Claude's new constitution"

kelseydh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:29:06 +0000

I can't think of anything scarier than a military planner making life or death decisions with a non-empathetic sycophantic AI. "You're absolutely right!"

New comment by kelseydh in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

kelseydh — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:00:21 +0000

At the peak of the Gilded Age in 1910, the richest 0.00001% of the US population owned wealth equal to 4% of national income.

Now, the richest 0.00001% owns 12%.

US billionaire oligarchs today are even wealthier than the original robber barons.

Source: https://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SaezZucman2020JEP.pdf

New comment by kelseydh in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

kelseydh — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:56:50 +0000

Counter to your point, what's most striking from that chart is how comparably similar both Europe and the United States are in their GDP per capita growth.

I wouldn't bank too much on those high salaries for U.S. tech workers. The U.S. tech industry has been in a contraction since the post-COVID hiring boom: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

As AI tooling improves, tech workers are finding their opportunities for high-paying prosperity fizzle out. Non-AI tech jobs are going the way of the rust belt and most tech professionals have seen their pay flatten. https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2024/02/05/tech-salaries-stag...

New comment by kelseydh in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

kelseydh — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:31:05 +0000

America has already been living in a decline of living standards relative to Europe for many decades.

EU vs US Comparison

Life expectancy EU: 82 yrs US: 78 yrs

Infant mortality (per 1,000) EU: 3.3 US: 5.6

Poverty rate (below 50% of median income) EU: 15% US: 18%

Public debt EU: 81% of GDP US: 120% of GDP

Top 1% wealth share EU: ~25% US: 40%

Student debt EU: ~€0 US: $40k

Homicides (per 100k) EU: 2 US: 5

Prison population (per 100k) EU: 111 US: 531

Women in workforce EU: 71% US: 57%

Workplace deaths (per 100k) EU: 1.63 US: 3.5

Source: OECD, Eurostat, CDC

New comment by kelseydh in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

kelseydh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:15:34 +0000

Disturbance storm time index (DST) is a better measure of peak intensity as KP is just a weighted average of the intensity from the last three hours across monitoring stations.

The May 2024 G5 electrical storm had a peak measured DST of −412 nT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms

The Carrington Event had an estimated peak DST of −800 nT to −1750 nT, but no one really knows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

New comment by kelseydh in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

kelseydh — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:55:48 +0000

I've heard about technology like this for over a decade. Have never encountered a use case (even no coverage at music festivals) where it once became viable.

New comment by kelseydh in "Dead Internet Theory"

kelseydh — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:25:08 +0000

What is now certain is Dead StackOverflow Theory.