Hacker News: qurashee

New comment by qurashee in "An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847)"

qurashee — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:44:54 +0000

Are you referring to the kroneckerwallis one ?

New comment by qurashee in "Eating stinging nettles"

qurashee — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:47:45 +0000

In my childhood in Greece, stinging nettle pie (τσουκνιδόπιτα), a dish much like spinach pie, was a traditional recipe often prepared by grandmothers. Today, younger generations may not even recognize stinging nettle, though it once held a valued place in our culinary heritage.

New comment by qurashee in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

qurashee — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:21:04 +0000

I recently had a similar experience with Amazon. I bought a pair of AirPods but didn’t like them, so I returned them the next day. Amazon confirmed they’d received the package, but when the estimated refund date passed, I got a message saying they needed more information.

When I contacted customer service, they told me I had to send them a copy of my ID to process the refund. I was really frustrated; I’ve had this account for over 20 years and never had any issues before. I spoke with several representatives, but they all gave me the same response, and a few were even rude and aggressive, something I’d never experienced with Amazon before.

Since I didn’t want to share my ID, I decided to go through my credit card provider (Visa) instead and filed a claim. Visa refunded my money, but shortly after, I got an email from Amazon asking why I’d raised a Section 75 claim (the UK’s credit card protection scheme) and informing me that my account would be closed for fraudulent activity.

I replied with proof that they had received my return and never issued a refund. That was the last I ever heard from them, and the last time I bought anything from Amazon.

New comment by qurashee in "Study mode"

qurashee — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:36:22 +0000

Indeed, that's what khanmigo is using, and they were involved in testing chatgpt before it was released for that purpose, to test/try/improve chatgpt as a tutor (that performs fact checking and doesn't hallucinate).

New comment by qurashee in "Magnetic Tape Storage Technology: usage, history, and future outlook"

qurashee — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:24:03 +0000

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Microsoft's research towards "replacing" tape storage in the future. Have a look at Project Silica.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...

New comment by qurashee in "Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M"

qurashee — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:24:50 +0000

Indeed I was thinking about private use only.

New comment by qurashee in "Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M"

qurashee — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:33:18 +0000

This looks incredible! I’ve had an idea simmering in the back of my mind for a while now: creating an audiobook from an ebook for my commute using the voice of a specific audiobook narrator I really enjoy. The concept struck me after coming across the Infinite Conversation project here on HN. Unfortunately, I just haven’t found the time to bring it to life yet. :(

New comment by qurashee in "The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released"

qurashee — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:59:50 +0000

From the creator of reicast. Skmp is such a legend in the DC community.

New comment by qurashee in "Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder"

qurashee — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 07:35:26 +0000

Send it to Lance Hedrick I'm sure he will make useful suggestions.

New comment by qurashee in "Reverse engineering the Ravensburger TipToi pen"

qurashee — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:53:34 +0000

Not a good sample but I've lived in three European countries with my kids and I've never come across them before.

New comment by qurashee in "Triple Density Floppy, Anyone?"

qurashee — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:02:38 +0000

LHA(lzh/lharc) was also a cool replacement at some point, especially since it was just one binary for both compressing and decompressing.

New comment by qurashee in "Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine"

qurashee — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:27:56 +0000

"The only limit is your imagination" is a direct reference to zombo.com for me

New comment by qurashee in "Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective"

qurashee — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:05:04 +0000

Obligatory reference to the movie https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0164961/

New comment by qurashee in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

qurashee — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 06:47:32 +0000

Twenty-three years ago, during my daily trips to the university campus, I had the exact same idea. However, I became distracted by calculating the position of the sun and delved into astronomical algorithms, which led me to never complete it. Kudos to you, that's really impressive!

New comment by qurashee in "Show HN: I made TV Sort, a web-based game for ranking TV show episodes"

qurashee — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:25:49 +0000

This reminded me of adaptive comparative judgement. I'd be interested in your algorithm on how you decide how to pair up items.

New comment by qurashee in "111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]"

qurashee — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:34:30 +0000

Your post really brought back memories of softice and w32dasm. Incidentally one of the websites from that era (gamecopyworld) is still alive! Mind blown.

New comment by qurashee in "We asked ChatGPT to write a Sherlock Holmes mystery"

qurashee — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:35:47 +0000

What is more interesting to me is that ChatGPT chose Sherlock himself as the narrator, while out of the 60 stories, only 4 are narrated by Sherlock.

New comment by qurashee in "Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can’t do with today’s web?"

qurashee — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:22:15 +0000

Why don't they setup https://ruffle.rs/ on their website? I've managed to rescue a website using it and seems to work pretty much with all modern browsers.

New comment by qurashee in "Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity"

qurashee — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:54:23 +0000

I'm more interested in the algorithm behind the pairing. I wonder if it's randomly pairing colours or using something similar to adaptive comparative judgement.

New comment by qurashee in "Eu.org, free domain names since 1996"

qurashee — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 08:00:55 +0000

United Kingdom is one.