Hacker News: kleinishere

New comment by kleinishere in "The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline"

kleinishere — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:51:52 +0000

Probably dependent on age of kids. For the 4yo-6yo demographic with no access to an iPhone or screen device, the analog phone is a blast. And family/friends, especially those living elsewhere, are having fun with it. Admittedly, we’re a month in but I’d be surprised if interest zeroed any time soon.

Run your own Asterisk server with special #0 that the kids can dial to listen to children’s podcasts, etc., it can be very entertaining.

New comment by kleinishere in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

kleinishere — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:46:21 +0000

Also stuck on Lightroom for this purpose. Have been looking for any analog/film perspectives on this update from Photrio and Reddit but nothing yet. Curious if this could potentially replace Negative Lab Pro (despite generally being quite good) in my workflow and take me out of Lightroom.

New comment by kleinishere in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

kleinishere — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:10:23 +0000

Thanks for linking this. What is the monthly spend? And how long ago did you do it? Has it grown/stayed the same/or decreased in its use?!

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

kleinishere — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:47:40 +0000

2017 EPA Award as well :

https://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/green-chemistry-challenge...

New comment by kleinishere in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

kleinishere — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:43:01 +0000

This particular episode.

New comment by kleinishere in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

kleinishere — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:13:44 +0000

This kind of daily goal setting reminds me a lot of this podcast, if of interest. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invest-like-the-best-w...

New comment by kleinishere in "My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)"

kleinishere — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:20:58 +0000

Any chance you’re doing this for film photography? I also use a plugin (Negative Lab Pro) for negative inversion of film scans that keeps me stuck on Lightroom Classic. It would be great to get a pipeline beyond Classic but with the ability to jump back and re-edit. Curious if you have more details on what you do/don’t connect into Immich from Lightroom.

New comment by kleinishere in "Show HN: I spent 10k hours building the perfect language learning app"

kleinishere — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:15:32 +0000

Congrats on the innovative product and sticking with development!

How has the translation quality changed / improved since this Show HN a couple years back? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39177467

For languages not using the Roman alphabet, is it required that the user know the characters already? After registering but before starting a trial, I wasn’t clear on this.

Some comparison of who should choose this over Duolingo and why (ie features) could be useful.

New comment by kleinishere in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

kleinishere — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:39:30 +0000

This makes a ton of sense - thank you for taking the time to write it out like that. Crystal clear. It’s somewhat different than what I’m solving for and that’s reassuring to see!

New comment by kleinishere in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

kleinishere — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:40:29 +0000

Happy Journelly user here! Finally a great place to store notes/links on my iPhone in a simple but powerful app for rediscovery. That I can bring to my windows / Linux / Mac eMacs.

New comment by kleinishere in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

kleinishere — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:32:35 +0000

I’ve looked into a log/journal date tree approach with my various activities across the day (meeting notes, independent work notes, etc) under the date. But then I prefer being able to look through headings that anchor on context first, then dates second (/eventually).

Does your daily log link to other parts of one org file, or other org files?

I’ve asked LLMs their opinions. But curious for yours!

Also thinking about trying denote. The filenames begin with dates, then use tags/keywords to keep the thread on recurring topics.

New comment by kleinishere in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

kleinishere — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:11:20 +0000

just encountered these in a local public library a week ago. toddlers loved them.

New comment by kleinishere in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

kleinishere — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:40:07 +0000

Encountered these miniature wood marble runs in Switzerland. Still on my “wish list.” Sounds like you may enjoy them, too.

https://cuboro.ch/en/

New comment by kleinishere in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

kleinishere — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:05:20 +0000

Link to blog post? Didn’t see it on quick look at your site.

New comment by kleinishere in "Show HN: I built a free kids coloring site with AI"

kleinishere — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:25:48 +0000

Feature request - a way to filter by age / difficulty from the home page. I see it on individual pages but didn’t quickly see the age listed as a tag. This is a point of friction on most coloring page sites. Congrats on this. I have bookmarked it. Thank you

For others who stumble upon this, another good free site without too many ads:

https://colorango.com/

New comment by kleinishere in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

kleinishere — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:51:20 +0000

What stack? Are you considering a TUI overlay to make it remarkably efficient?

New comment by kleinishere in "Claude Is Down"

kleinishere — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:07:51 +0000

Didn’t realize this was available.

Similarly published by OpenAI: https://status.openai.com/

30 day comparisons as of writing:

99.61% for Claude.ai 99.22% for ChatGPT

99.92% for Claude APIs 99.25% for OpenAI APIs

Obviously not apples to apples and somewhat up to discretion of what triggers an impact. We’re clearly not at 99.99% yet.

New comment by kleinishere in "Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?"

kleinishere — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:11:26 +0000

Came here to find this. MANY upvotes.

I used Doom for a couple months.

Then started considering a vanilla eMacs. I started taking notes on packages I found highly recommended and interesting.

Then I found this. And the author has done all that work and then made it into a “let me walk through a config” including a lot of the most recommended packages and sensible configs.

Gives you the lesson of building a config, knowing what’s in your config, and then being fluent in changing it.

He also has more notes on his blog about the packages + more : https://www.jamescherti.com/essential-emacs-packages/

And I now feel comfortable making changes myself.

New comment by kleinishere in "I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer"

kleinishere — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 01:29:45 +0000

Phenomenal. Thank you.

New comment by kleinishere in "I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer"

kleinishere — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:18:12 +0000

For the many posters recommending BPA free paper - does anyone have suggestions / a link for a reliable seller?

I looked on Amazon after another receipt printer post on HN but couldn’t find anything that provided confidence in the BPA characterization. ULINE is quantities are absurd for personal use. Imagine their most be a decent alternative but never see any named.