Hacker News: marai2

New comment by marai2 in "The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

marai2 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:39:05 +0000

For me it was a Bjork song but it was in Icelandic. I had heard it around 2010ish and didn't have the song. Because it was in Icelandic and I didn't know the name of the track I couldn't figure out how to find it - because I had streamed through all of Biorks albums on one of these streaming services and it wasn't on any of them. I don't know how similar Icelandic is to other Nordic/Scandinavian languages so maybe a speaker of these languages would have been able to identify the lyrics, but I couldn't even identify a single word from memory that I could use to search for the lyrics.

After more than a decade The Guardian had an article on Bjork and mentioned something about her fan club on Reddit. So I thought I would ask there.

That hit the jackpot, someone mentioned she had an earlier band called Tappi Tíkarrass (from 1981-1983) and it was a song they performed on some TV show. https://youtu.be/nkuXOtFLMZw

New comment by marai2 in "Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005)"

marai2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:27:29 +0000

Thank you for your valuable comment! As an autodidact I do buy books on various fields that interest me and I'm always looking for comments such as yours that can give me more information about the main texts in that field and what they cover well or what another book covers better. So this is very helpful!

New comment by marai2 in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

marai2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:11:43 +0000

How many Blurays are we talking about?

New comment by marai2 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

marai2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:17:53 +0000

Thanks for all your efforts on pikuma.com, huge fan here.

Can you share what kind of ideas you're mulling for the direction of the site?

New comment by marai2 in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

marai2 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:15:02 +0000

I had no idea about any of this! Thank you for sharing this!

New comment by marai2 in "Ardour 9.0"

marai2 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:18:49 +0000

A light weight journaling of your learnings as you go along would probably be real beneficial to many (such as myself who has zero knowledge on the subject of DAWs and creating music effects for games). And since you said it’s very challenging maybe writing about it in small bite-sized learnings might make the process easier? Going from “I must learn all this stuff!!” to “let’s see what audio gems we pick up in our adventure today”.

New comment by marai2 in "Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st"

marai2 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:34:42 +0000

Come on, somebody at Adobe spill the beans. Who was responsible for this debacle?

New comment by marai2 in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

marai2 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:31:49 +0000

Since you’re already done creating your hardware product instead of thinking of a new product to follow up with, I would suggest a new business model: there are probably a non-zero number of people on HN that have a vision about making a hardware product. You can offer your services so the don’t have to learn all these lessons the hard way!

New comment by marai2 in "Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?"

marai2 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:12:48 +0000

I agree. In fact you should make a (YouTube?) video showing the slide rule and how to use it and your grandfather’s history to preserve this bit of history for your family and family’s future descendants.

New comment by marai2 in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

marai2 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:31:16 +0000

this is gold!

“Click to keep avoiding work …”

New comment by marai2 in "Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations"

marai2 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:34:39 +0000

quite an interesting list of books for 2025. I’ll have to get some of these to read. Especially the Information theory one above and the one you mentioned in your review.

New comment by marai2 in "Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations"

marai2 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:43:44 +0000

1. Why Machines Learn - Anil Ananthaswamy

Fantastic exposition of machine learning. The author does an amazing job of bringing a technical subject down to an easily readable level.

2. The Joy of Abstraction - Eugenia Cheng

Similar to the above review. I never thought Category Theory could be made so easily readable!

3. A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton

Small, compact book. A quick interesting jaunnt through the history of philosophy. Entertaining and educational!

Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations

marai2 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:31:22 +0000

Top 1 or top 1-3 book you read this year (2025) that you would recommend to the HN community? Note: book itself doesn't need to have been published in 2025.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226571

Points: 32

# Comments: 20

New comment by marai2 in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

marai2 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:14:57 +0000

Same with the Stanford university bookstore. Was one of the better bookstores in the Bayarea. Used to have a whole room of technical, science, math books. It too is a shadow of its former self. So sad.

New comment by marai2 in "OMSCS Open Courseware"

marai2 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:16:15 +0000

One course per semester might be doable? Not sure how frequently the assignments are due because you could probably carve out some time over the weekends.

New comment by marai2 in "Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]"

marai2 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:04:08 +0000

i bought a compilers book that was an Indian edition. The paper and print quality was so bad (like smudgy) that I could not read it and I didn’t think I was particularly picky about this. Not sure if I just got unlucky or if this is generally true?

New comment by marai2 in "Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]"

marai2 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:23:17 +0000

Wow, this is so cool that you did this and this showed up right now. There was an online book (soon to be published) by Xavier Leroy on the history of control mechanisms in programming languages with the last few chapters on Effect systems.

New comment by marai2 in "Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets"

marai2 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:56:30 +0000

ratfactor - you’re doing God’s work by teaching us how to tackle the demon that is the fitted sheet!

New comment by marai2 in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

marai2 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:37:39 +0000

BBC's Jeremy Bowen was on the Jordanian aid-dropping plane yesterday or day before. "He was told by the Jordanians that Israel did not want our crew to film outside the plane's windows while he was onboard".[1] Obviously why - then he'd be able to film the ... not decimation, but total destruction of some of the cities in Gaza that would provide evidence for the genocide.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/clyj4gnzxgno

New comment by marai2 in "Take Two: Eshell"

marai2 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:19:41 +0000

I think if you were to write a post (or better yet a video) to demonstrate your usage of your workflow, that would be a great resource! I love working in M-x shell but your workflow sounds next level.