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New comment by mrstone in "ChatGPT Health"

mrstone — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:48:42 +0000

Not a chance.

New comment by mrstone in "Haiku Validator"

mrstone — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:09:51 +0000

A little flask app to write and validate haikus. It's definitely not perfect and makes some mistakes. It uses the syllables python library to estimate how many syllables are in each word.

You can check the override list at https://haikuvalidator.com/overrides and if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know any words that are broken.

This is my first time making a web app. Hoping that someone finds it fun / useful.

Haiku Validator

mrstone — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:09:51 +0000

Article URL: https://haikuvalidator.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388761

Points: 30

# Comments: 33

New comment by mrstone in "Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says"

mrstone — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:42:50 +0000

I feel like I've heard this one before. With this administration, I can't seem them actually doing it.

New comment by mrstone in "Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says"

mrstone — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:38:03 +0000

How many times is Ticketmaster going to be slapped on the wrist before something is actually done? They are clearly corrupt and colluding with scalpers and every 4 years or so the FTC says "hey now don't do that" and Ticketmaster goes back to their old schtick. It's immensely frustrating because they are also a monopoly and no one can feasibly compete with them because they also control the event venues. I guess this is end-stage capitalism though..

New comment by mrstone in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

mrstone — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:11:07 +0000

They sure do, but not enough to be self sustaining, and tariffs aren't going to magically produce more aluminum and steel. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47294. Canadian aluminum is critical to the US supply.

Bananas may not matter (to you), but coffee certainly will.

New comment by mrstone in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

mrstone — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:20:47 +0000

This is one of the most surface-level understandings of national economics that I have seen. Sure, all of that would be great, if not for two things a) these tariffs are not targeted and b) your country could produce everything that it is tariffing. What is the plan for cocoa beans? bananas? aluminum and steel?

These thinly veiled pro-trump people are much too common the internet and I'm getting tired of it.

New comment by mrstone in "OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio"

mrstone — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:06:58 +0000

> I wonder if there's a way to automatically detect how "fast" a person talks in an audio file.

Hilbert transform and FFT to get phoneme rate would work.

New comment by mrstone in "TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel"

mrstone — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:56:19 +0000

I'm on Firefox and it doesn't flash for me.

New comment by mrstone in "Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]"

mrstone — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:07:12 +0000

At the very least, here's a scan from Jotti.

https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/filescanjob/svl9focwgt

New comment by mrstone in "A Canadian payroll dependency chart"

mrstone — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:43:24 +0000

Thanks for this comment. Duty? Customs? On a 10 dollar part? Especially for agricultural purposes - this guy is a little off his rocker. It seems like he tried to buy a part, found out shipping was expensive and the seller wanted to use a broker (probably $20), neither of which have anything to do with regulations.

New comment by mrstone in ""Et Tu, Ilya?""

mrstone — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:31:28 +0000

I have to agree - the amount of self-importance in this is hilarious. I would really like someone to be able to point to something definitive that Sam has actually built. In my view, he was a classic techbro who built one MVP and immediately went on an Regulation World Tour to secure his market cap. It seemed pretty transparent, but I guess people must like that?

New comment by mrstone in "How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis"

mrstone — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 01:58:54 +0000

A neurologist is a medical doctor. Neuroscientists are the PhDs who do the actual research.

New comment by mrstone in "Odorant diffuser improves memory and neural functioning in older adults"

mrstone — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:24:37 +0000

Do you think they faked the data? Or something else?

New comment by mrstone in "The Speed of the Librem 5"

mrstone — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:19:52 +0000

The phone itself looks like junk from 2011. The ghosting on the screen is apparent in the video demonstrating its "speed". The apps they are demoing look very poorly designed, but all of this to be forgiven because "they aren't collecting your data".

Disappointing but I didn't really expect much from them.

New comment by mrstone in "Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players"

mrstone — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:18:38 +0000

Excellent contribution. A truly well thought out, concise brief answer. Bravo.

New comment by mrstone in "YouTube Removes R.F. Kennedy Presidential Candidate Interview"

mrstone — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:13:15 +0000

Yikes.

New comment by mrstone in "Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty"

mrstone — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:09:22 +0000

Francesca Gino is a woman.

New comment by mrstone in "Zluda: Run CUDA code on Intel GPUs, unmodified"

mrstone — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:53:03 +0000

I imagine they could, but it is probably more of a legal thing.

New comment by mrstone in "OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request"

mrstone — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 17:02:53 +0000

A surprise to no one, Sam is a knob.