Hacker News: levysoft

New comment by levysoft in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

levysoft — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:38:36 +0000

This app is really amazing, congrats!!!

New comment by levysoft in "Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music"

levysoft — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:05:08 +0000

Thank you for sharing the track: I got chills within the first few seconds... could it be a matter of the high-harmonic frequencies of the strings, and the crescendo combined with the spacious reverb of the place where the music is performed?

New comment by levysoft in "Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph"

levysoft — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:02:50 +0000

Congratulations: from a simple intuition about something that many wouldn’t have noticed, you wrote a beautiful article.

New comment by levysoft in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

levysoft — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:31:46 +0000

Interesting, but the opening line threw me off:

> Sure, I still make fun of the PHP I remember from the days of PHP 4.1, but even then I didn’t hate it. (ref. And “PHP: Training Wheels Without a Bike” is still in the Top 10 of my favorite memes.)

I still use it to build my latest projects, and for me it’s like breathing. Simple and functional. It’s not perfect, but no language is.

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

levysoft — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:12:49 +0000

Merry Christmas from Italy!!!

New comment by levysoft in "iPod Socks"

levysoft — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:54:46 +0000

I still use them to plug in my wired earphones.

New comment by levysoft in "ChatGPT Atlas"

levysoft — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:22:39 +0000

So ChatGPT Atlas is basically Clippy's revenge: a helpful overlay that knows what you want before you do. What could possibly go wrong?

New comment by levysoft in "ChatGPT Atlas"

levysoft — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:18:02 +0000

I think it's just because they always start developing for macOS or iOS first and only later move on to the others.

New comment by levysoft in "ChatGPT Atlas"

levysoft — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:07:45 +0000

More than anything, now my chat history in the sidebar is growing out of control. I think they should have made it separate. Browser chats (mostly temporary, throwaway, and not very useful) are one thing, while my long ChatGPT sessions, the ones I actually want to keep visible and organized, are another.

New comment by levysoft in "ChatGPT Atlas"

levysoft — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:05:26 +0000

Yes, I think the absence of preinstalled extensions gives a misleading impression of speed.

New comment by levysoft in "ChatGPT Atlas"

levysoft — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:38:39 +0000

Trying it right now and it feels really fast.

Ask HN: Long computer routine after work. Am I overdoing it?

levysoft — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:40:54 +0000

I’m looking for feedback on my daily routine. I work as a developer and, beyond office hours, I spend almost all my free time on digital activities; while driving I listen to tech podcasts. At home in the afternoon (after dealing with family duties) I usually sit at the computer to work on side projects, study new language-model developments, and write articles. On weekends, if I have no other commitments, I spend most of the time on the PC (updates, backups, small experiments).

Important note: my family doesn’t feel neglected. In fact, they let me do it because they see I enjoy it and keep learning. Still, I wonder whether, even with their approval, I’m pushing it too far or if it’s fine.

Questions – Does anyone have a similar routine? – How do you prevent “useful” time from becoming compulsive or unproductive? – Do you have rules or rituals to balance family, offline leisure, and learning? – What signals tell you it’s time to dial back or change pace?

TL;DR: I spend most of my free time at the PC between study, side projects, and repetitive micro-tasks; I’m looking for experiences and strategies to maintain a healthy balance without taking time away from a supportive family.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44801427

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by levysoft in "Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy"

levysoft — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:41:52 +0000

One of the earliest references comes from John Michell in 1783, who, in a letter published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1784), suggested that a sufficiently massive object could exert such a strong gravitational pull that light would not escape—effectively predicting the concept of a "dark star," an early analogue of a black hole.

Another key figure was Pierre-Simon Laplace, who, in the first editions of Exposition du Système du Monde (1796), independently proposed the existence of such massive celestial bodies that could trap light. However, he later removed this idea from later editions, possibly due to skepticism over the corpuscular theory of light.

The first real attempt to quantify how much gravity might bend light was made by Henry Cavendish (circa 1783–1784). Though unpublished at the time, his notes (discovered in 1921) contained the first calculations of the bending of light under Newtonian gravity. Later, in 1801, Johann Georg von Soldner formally published a paper calculating the deflection angle of light passing near the Sun under Newtonian mechanics, obtaining a result (~0.85 arcseconds) that was later found to be half of what general relativity predicted.

These early discussions framed gravitational lensing in a purely Newtonian context, treating light as a particle affected by gravitational attraction.

New comment by levysoft in "Ask HN: What was the editor mentioned when OpenAI's Canvas was introduced?"

levysoft — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:48:18 +0000

Thanks! I appreciate the suggestions, but I was specifically looking for the source code of the editor itself.

New comment by levysoft in "Ask HN: What was the editor mentioned when OpenAI's Canvas was introduced?"

levysoft — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:47:23 +0000

I mean a WYSIWYG text editor that focuses on minimalism and clean text formatting, likely open-source.

New comment by levysoft in "Ask HN: What was the editor mentioned when OpenAI's Canvas was introduced?"

levysoft — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:45:59 +0000

Thanks! I had also come across that one, but I was referring specifically to the base editor itself. I know it might be hard to explain... sorry for not being able to provide more details!

New comment by levysoft in "Ask HN: What was the editor mentioned when OpenAI's Canvas was introduced?"

levysoft — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:39:48 +0000

Thanks for the reply! I remember Claude's Artifacts, but that wasn't the one I had in mind. It was a project for an editor, very similar to Canvas, possibly available on GitHub. It stood out for its minimalistic approach and the way it handled text formatting. Do you (or anyone else) recall what it might be?

Ask HN: What was the editor mentioned when OpenAI's Canvas was introduced?

levysoft — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:57:16 +0000

Hi, I remember that when OpenAI introduced Canvas, someone in the HN comments mentioned another editor that did pretty much the same things—or maybe even inspired Canvas (I don't recall if it was an explicit influence or just a similarity pointed out by users).

I've tried searching through the comments, but as often happens on HN, it's a bit like going down a rabbit hole , and I can't seem to find that reference again. Unfortunately, I also forgot to upvote it, so it's not in my saved history.

Does anyone remember which editor it was?

Thanks in advance!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42961884

Points: 1

# Comments: 8

New comment by levysoft in "How I ship projects at big tech companies"

levysoft — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:33:53 +0000

I bought it back in 1998 and started using it right away... it truly felt like the future!

New comment by levysoft in "Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?"

levysoft — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:20:34 +0000

For convenience, I asked ChatGPT to create this table, which summarizes how many times each movie has been mentioned in this conversation so far. It got a few counts wrong (as usual), but it still gives a good sense of the frequency. I hope it can be useful to someone:

| Movie | Number of Mentions | |-------------------------------------------|---------------------| | The Matrix | 9 | | Lord of the Rings Trilogy | 8 | | Pulp Fiction | 8 | | Alien | 7 | | Fight Club | 7 | | Ghostbusters | 6 | | Die Hard | 5 | | Back to the Future | 5 | | Inception | 5 | | Star Wars Trilogy (original) | 5 | | Groundhog Day | 5 | | Terminator 1 & 2 | 5 | | Jurassic Park | 4 | | The Thing | 4 | | The Fifth Element | 4 | | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 4 | | Ghost in the Shell | 4 | | Interstellar | 4 | | Casablanca | 3 | | Office Space | 3 | | Shawshank Redemption | 3 | | The Godfather Trilogy | 3 | | The Blues Brothers | 3 | | Blade Runner | 3 | | Mad Max: Fury Road | 3 | | Unforgiven | 3 | | Total Recall (1990) | 3 | | The Crow | 3 | | The Princess Bride | 3 | | Akira | 3 | | The Big Lebowski | 3 | | Guardians of the Galaxy | 3 | | American Psycho | 3 | | Indiana Jones Trilogy | 3 | | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 2 | | Ratatouille | 2 | | A Clockwork Orange | 2 | | Mission Impossible (various) | 2 | | Casino Royale | 2 | | Skyfall | 2 | | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 2 | | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 2 | | Apocalypse Now | 2 | | The Shining | 2 | | Groundhog Day | 2 | | Donnie Darko | 2 | | Dune (2021) | 2 | | Gladiator | 2 | | Predator | 2 | | Seven/Se7en | 2 | | The Dark Knight | 2 | | Snatch | 2 | | Prometheus | 2 | | Schindler’s List | 2 | | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2 | | Dr. Strangelove | 2 | | Silence of the Lambs | 2 | | Kill Bill | 2 | | Real Genius | 2 | | Top Secret! | 2 | | Tenet | 2 | | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 2 | | The Adjustment Bureau | 2 | | The Expanse | 2 | | Pulp Fiction | 2 |