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New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: MegaDSP an effects plugin for DAWs with 50 effects"

locusofself — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:37:45 +0000

Totally, Airwindows is a very cool project and his videos are fun to watch. I wanted to bring a nicer UI along with it, using JUCE, and more focus on live usability.

Show HN: MegaDSP an effects plugin for DAWs with 50 effects

locusofself — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:08:38 +0000

Hey HN,

I am creating megaDSP, a huge DAW plugin for all platforms, with the goal of it being a free, open-source, and semi or fully autonomous github project that evolves around community feedback.

It currently has more than 50 audio effects that can be combined together in effects chains, and also supports "snapshots" where you can seamlessly switch between different effects chains (for live use, like a fancy guitar pedalboard for example).

I would really love if you have a moment to test it out, give thoughts, etc.

There are many, many plugins out there in the world, but many of them are either DAW-specific or have annoying copy protections etc.

Having one huge plugin with great DSP algorithms seems like it could be a benefit to the music/audio world.

Thanks, -Kevin

first pre-release:

https://github.com/kevinlong206/megaDSP/releases/tag/v0.30.0...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092648

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"

locusofself — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:47:47 +0000

Is it lame that (especially for super long discussions), I often open a gemini tab and summarize the comments? I like reading HN comment threads, but I often only have a few minutes and just want to get the gist of the reactions from the community for some topic.

New comment by locusofself in "Our position on open-weights models"

locusofself — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:58:53 +0000

The gap between China's chip manufacturing capabilities and the USA's is only going to shrink, right? ASML obeys some export controls for their most sophisticated machines, but those machines are in China's backyard (Taiwan).

Taiwan manufactures the world's most advanced chips. CCP wants "re-unification" with Taiwan. AI may be THE key to world dominance. These are scary times.

New comment by locusofself in "Why care about programming languages"

locusofself — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:10:02 +0000

Something that I think we will see soon (if it doesn't exist already), are programming languages that are specifically designed to be used with LLMs doing the coding, with natural language as the primary input. Maybe LLMs will get so good that it's just not necessary, but it's hard to imagine a world in which this new paradigm of most users using coding harness (or event totally autonomous agents) doesn't end up having serious influence on language design itself.

One outcome I would love to see is average programmers (or even vibecoders) being able to create performant applications. Imagine if the issue of making an attractive cross-platform application didn't mean using a chromium-based Electron type framework.

Or, perhaps things we used to code in Java or C# can be more easily brought into existence in a lower-level language akin to Rust, but far more easy to create and maintain due to LLM assistance.

New comment by locusofself in "Claude Is Painful"

locusofself — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:00:15 +0000

I'm using copilot cli because I work at microsoft and it's free for me. It has all the models. I have not loyalty to any of them. Even the copilot harness can be swapped out for claude, codex or whatever.

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

locusofself — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:46:19 +0000

I tried to press space, arrow keys, enter, tab, etc to get to next quote. None of those worked

New comment by locusofself in "Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii"

locusofself — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:43:29 +0000

Found the grok bot

New comment by locusofself in "On cigarettes"

locusofself — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:09:14 +0000

I haven't smoked in about 13 years, but I did from the time I was 13 until 29 or so.

It's disgusting and I couldn't be more glad that I quit, but it does sound good sometimes. I also quit drinking and had to give up caffeine, so I have like zero vices now besides napping and ice cream.

New comment by locusofself in "Pre-2022 Books"

locusofself — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:54:39 +0000

I take comfort in the fact that my wife and I have a few decent bookshelves of good novels many of which we have not read yet. I've been hoarding e-books as well.

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

locusofself — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:52:50 +0000

Yet another reminder that my wife is far more well known than I am

New comment by locusofself in "Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further"

locusofself — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:33:02 +0000

How awesome would it be if it was reasonably priced AND doubled as a large eReader ?

New comment by locusofself in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

locusofself — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:22:03 +0000

You lost me in the last sentence there. What do you mean?

New comment by locusofself in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

locusofself — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:37:56 +0000

I have to imagine this is very temporary.

New comment by locusofself in "Claude Fable 5"

locusofself — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:28:10 +0000

but they are trying to IPO with 2-trillion dollar valuations

New comment by locusofself in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

locusofself — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:21:50 +0000

Slopathon

New comment by locusofself in "Ask HN: Will your company be doing "LeetCode" interviews a year from now?"

locusofself — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:17:01 +0000

that's probably true, but if they are anywhere in the realm of leetcode, there are so many example in the training set that they can regurgitate, debug and explain them perfectly. I assembled an entire book of leetcode solutions, explanations, common pitballs etc using claude and send it to my kindle, and so far, it's bang on.

Ask HN: Will your company be doing "LeetCode" interviews a year from now?

locusofself — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:38:33 +0000

I work in big tech. I'm a SWE manager, but I have a half a mind to return to being an IC at some point. I am using LLMs at work (mostly for reporting stuff etc), and for coding personal side projects, and generally trying to keep up with all this agentic stuff.

I was never good at leetcode, I snuck my way into SWE and SWE management by way of sysadmin/SRE.

I'm considering interviewing at some point in the future, possibly at companies like Google and Meta. Even for Engineering Manager roles, these companies have coding rounds, so I've been "grinding leetcode" slowly.

There is a notion floating around that DSA interview questions are quickly becoming obsolete, since you can just ask an LLM for an optimal solution now.

Putting aside whether it's good for the brain and for being a good programmer to have these skills sharpened, do you think leetcode style interviews are going the way of the dinosaur, or will they stay or even have a resurgence?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420519

Points: 3

# Comments: 7

New comment by locusofself in "More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support"

locusofself — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:57:45 +0000

It's certainly a lot more satisfying than asking Reddit most of the time, whether you are getting the truth or not. I don't know how many times I've posted a question on reddit, not necessarily about something psychological or relationship related, even about things like mortgages or landscaping, come back to check the comments and ya, have my day totally de-railed by trolling strangers with an ax to grind.

New comment by locusofself in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

locusofself — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:26:45 +0000

The M3 air has no fan either, which is a big reason I bought it, as I record acoustic music and having no fan is the best.