Hacker News: nopelynopington

New comment by nopelynopington in "Show HN: Simulation of the Tech Industry in 2027"

nopelynopington — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:32:27 +0000

Pretty cool, I got as far as secret messages urging me too engage the project chat but there was none, I just get redirected to a blank express project on withmarble

Maybe that's the point?

New comment by nopelynopington in "PayPal's crypto partner mints $300T of stablecoins in 'technical error'"

nopelynopington — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:17:25 +0000

Sure seems like the authoritarians love it.

New comment by nopelynopington in "Microsoft Amplifier"

nopelynopington — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:22:53 +0000

I was hoping this was going to be an awesome new music player, but no, everything new thing is AI now. Welcome to the future

New comment by nopelynopington in "Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers"

nopelynopington — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:52:27 +0000

Grass can survive leaves, I don't see dead patches on my lawn because I didn't move the leaves around

New comment by nopelynopington in "Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers"

nopelynopington — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:50:23 +0000

Well maybe that's the issue, I don't spend 1000 hours on my lawn

New comment by nopelynopington in "Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers"

nopelynopington — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:11:50 +0000

I live in a very leafy area with a lot of deciduous forest cover, so we're no stranger to leaves. I have never understood leafblowing. It seems like such busy work. It's not hugely common here but I have seen people carefully shepherding leaves into little piles on pathways, battling against the entropy of a light breeze. I'm sure there's a good reason but it always just seems like the ultimate expression of man trying to conquer nature in every way

New comment by nopelynopington in "Neutts-air – Open-source, on device TTS"

nopelynopington — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:06:12 +0000

If this lives up to the demo it's a huge development for anyone looking to do realistic tts without paying to use an API

Neutts-air – Open-source, on device TTS

nopelynopington — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:06:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/neuphonic/neutts-air

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45489311

Points: 105

# Comments: 28

New comment by nopelynopington in "A 102-Year-Old Yoga Teacher's Simple Approach to Aging Well"

nopelynopington — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:07:33 +0000

I don't think I've ever seen such a click bait title on hn

New comment by nopelynopington in "Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S."

nopelynopington — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:50:04 +0000

> It also seems clear that this administration currently views almost everything as a threat to U.S. national security — including its own allies and partners.

Also furniture, apparently. And escalators.

New comment by nopelynopington in "FLX1s phone is launched"

nopelynopington — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:01:52 +0000

My first time hearing of this and I'm very interested.

Does anyone know if it can run a full desktop mode when docked? Windows phones and some Samsung phones used to be able to do this and it was a neat trick.

I would love to have a phone I could hook up to a hotel TV with a keyboard and use like a lite desktop

New comment by nopelynopington in "FLX1s phone is launched"

nopelynopington — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:59:36 +0000

I actually find a bump better for putting your phone down on a flat surface, and my logic is this:

If your camera lens is flat to the body of the phone, it's more prone to being scratched on a table. With a bump, the lens becomes slightly elevated as the phone balances between the bottom of the case and the edge of the bottom of the camera bump, giving the lens(es) a tiny clearance

New comment by nopelynopington in "This map is not upside down"

nopelynopington — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:22:54 +0000

We're lucky enough where we live to have a surviving map of the area from the 1600s. On this map, north is at the bottom, and south is at the top, as there was no convention that said it should be otherwise. From the same mapping survey there are other maps that are not oriented merely south but also southwest, southeast, West entirely. The survey taken in the 1600s was not even consistent from map to map - it was enough to show a compass to indicate which way North is.

New comment by nopelynopington in "What to do with an old iPad"

nopelynopington — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:10:51 +0000

These iPads I'm using are ipad2, well over a decade at this point

New comment by nopelynopington in "The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb"

nopelynopington — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:28:27 +0000

The norden bombsight was a game changing piece of tech that allowed more precision than had been possible.

The RAF tended to carpet bomb at night, but the USAF wanted to precision bomb by day.

It was nowhere near as precise as today's tech but it vastly improved during the course of the war.

Ultimately it didn't work because the theory didn't work. German manufacturing was not disrupted by precision bombing enough to matter

Masters of the air also touches on this, and some of the disastrous missteps during the raids that led to aircraft loss

New comment by nopelynopington in "The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb"

nopelynopington — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 10:27:41 +0000

There's a good book by Malcolm Gladwell called "the bomber mafia" that's all about the airforce doctrine of indiscriminate bombing to break the population and the rebel faction within the airforce who advocated high precision bombing instead. Crippling industry instead of punishing civilians.

They eventually lost out to the former, culminating in horrific napalm raids on Japan that continued even after the atomic bombs were dropped and had more casualties

New comment by nopelynopington in "What to do with an old iPad"

nopelynopington — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 10:17:01 +0000

Sounds like you're using a low power adapter. I have a few ipad2 that the kids use for things. Even if they have 1% and we plug them in they can be used while they charge.

I'd also suggest lowering the brightness slightly, can make a huge difference to battery drain

New comment by nopelynopington in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

nopelynopington — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:46:11 +0000

I agree. Dwelling on the past is pointless. All of this is new.

New comment by nopelynopington in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

nopelynopington — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:29:44 +0000

I think they meant, they are born into the situation and don't have an outsiders perspective, not that they are ignorant of what's happening

New comment by nopelynopington in "Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses"

nopelynopington — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:13:55 +0000

I came here to post this exact comment and kick ass. And someone beat me to the comment