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New comment by polarbearballs in "Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station"

polarbearballs — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:47:00 +0000

Thats awesome. I'm a huge fan of KEXP and WFMU. I love radio stations like this. I just signed up for your newsletter. I have it on my listen list and will stay tuned here on the East Coast.

New comment by polarbearballs in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

polarbearballs — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:59:29 +0000

I have paid versions of Chat-GPT and Anthropic and set them both to the best model and they both told me to walk.

Claude told me: "Walk! At 25 meters, you'd barely get the car started before you arrived. It's faster and easier on foot — plus you avoid the awkwardness of driving a dirty car just a few seconds down the road."

New comment by polarbearballs in "Animated Knots"

polarbearballs — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:55:25 +0000

How are more people not obsessed with knots?

It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties.

The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery you have ends in knots. The combined effect of knots on our technology and understanding of the world is fascinating.

Only humans can see a rope, have a picture in their heads of what it should look like and then set forth on creating it. It's just such a precious nugget of what it means to be human and have the urge to fuck around with shit.

New comment by polarbearballs in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

polarbearballs — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:56:53 +0000

It'd be cool if we could add a feature that places an ad inside the ad. Sort of like Ad-ception.

nvm

polarbearballs — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:06:02 +0000

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New comment by polarbearballs in "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"

polarbearballs — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:26:48 +0000

As someone who practices music 2 to 3 hours a day. I love this. I think people are coming at it as if it were a video game or designed to be a "portfolio project" but as a musician, I think you really created something awesome and lets me practice on what I'm most insecure about....my ear.