Hacker News: navhc

New comment by navhc in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

navhc — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:04:26 +0000

He is a humanist, how could relying on humans possibly go against his beliefs?

New comment by navhc in "Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers"

navhc — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:56:03 +0000

It sounds like you're under the impression it's meant to be a real product rather than a joke

New comment by navhc in "Public restrooms are hard to find in America"

navhc — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:47:48 +0000

Have you considered merging efforts with Where Is Public Toilet? Service has existed for many years and seems to have a decent amount of locations in Winnipeg

New comment by navhc in "Public restrooms are hard to find in America"

navhc — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:44:33 +0000

There is already an app for this, called Where Is Public Toilet that covers most of north America and parts of Europe

New comment by navhc in "Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars"

navhc — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:36:47 +0000

So don't make the modifications at all if it's going to make it a nuisance?

New comment by navhc in "UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners"

navhc — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:44:10 +0000

There are non-liquid chemical attacks that could be facilitated from something like anthrax to powdered pepper spray. Disallowing liquids does nothing to stop those

New comment by navhc in "Lucky girl syndrome and the endless rebranding of “The Secret”"

navhc — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:37:49 +0000

Being told you're gifted often isn't a self fulfilling prophecy, and can easily lead to failure or giving up when being gifted isn't working.

New comment by navhc in "Ask HN: How can Netflix and Amazon Prime be this bad at recommending content?"

navhc — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:15:58 +0000

Not only that, they dynamically change the poster to try to make it more appealing to each person and it still fails miserably.

New comment by navhc in "Show HN: I made a library that adds a metallic look to anything you throw at it"

navhc — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:48:03 +0000

Doesn't seem to work well in Firefox, the effect is very different from the sample images and the text is borderline unreadable

New comment by navhc in "Ask HN: Tool to generate a simple web form from SQL"

navhc — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 14:51:52 +0000

Maybe appsmith? https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

New comment by navhc in "Can't Unsee"

navhc — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 06:43:48 +0000

I agree the style itself isn't very good but I think the "lesson" was in differentiating primary and secondary actions to make it obvious

New comment by navhc in "Show HN: Rethinking Tabs in Firefox"

navhc — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:49:24 +0000

I guess I'm missing the point because it seems to me like almost all of this can be accomplished in native Firefox. If I want to search my open tabs I just type a % in the address bar with my query and it searches my tabs. If I want to search for a bookmark (which doesn't seem meaningfully different from a star) I use a * instead of %. ^ is for history. For recently visited tabs I can ctrl+tab. Clean is basically close all except pinned but it also includes the tab playing audio.

New comment by navhc in "Aizuchi: Does your listening make Japanese people uncomfortable? (2013)"

navhc — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:19:13 +0000

> The fact that there isn't even a proper translation of the word in English, though, just proves that native English speakers aren't as aware of it as Japanese speakers

The article seems to make a pretty big point about this being a foreign concept that is difficult to articulate, but in English linguistics we call it "backchanneling". Obviously it won't be a perfect one-to-one translation but it's the same as what is described in the opening.

New comment by navhc in "Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2?"

navhc — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:33:45 +0000

I don't think it's all about blame, knowing it came from a lab would also pull into question the practice of engineering viruses and the safety and security standards required.

New comment by navhc in "Ask HN: Help me summon the strength to finish my project"

navhc — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:17:10 +0000

Is the book you're thinking of maybe The Body Keeps the Score?

New comment by navhc in "I've locked myself out of my digital life"

navhc — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:19:08 +0000

The article ends with "In the meantime, please rest assured that my home is still standing." So presumably it's all hypothetical.

New comment by navhc in "How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History [video]"

navhc — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:41:26 +0000

I don't think that excluding sections from a speed run is a thing; the whole setup for speedrunning means splits and total time passed, not manually adding up splits ignoring some, or pausing timer at any point.

Also, this could open up room for exploitation, such as intentionally failing for a long period of time to make a certain amount of time pass in game to get to some desired state, while not being counted in total time.