Hacker News: rasengan0

New comment by rasengan0 in "The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II"

rasengan0 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:21:03 +0000

crafting one: https://youtu.be/tB8qTbdw-OQ?si=BQtwuOh83-nG8CrT

New comment by rasengan0 in "Inside the 24 hours that led to pulling Fable 5"

rasengan0 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:24:15 +0000

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/13/inside-the-whirlwin...

An interview with Theo Baker on his new book "How to Rule the World"

rasengan0 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:01:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57-OZSXGcxA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470395

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Henry David Thoreau 2026 film

rasengan0 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:48:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/show/henry-david-thoreau/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829848

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rasengan0 in "Take better notes, by hand"

rasengan0 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:07:26 +0000

Loose leaf, works great [1]

[1] Lion Kimbro. How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think. 2003 https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf

Michael Freedman: Compression Is All You Need

rasengan0 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:27:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhA6hnh-peM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561351

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rasengan0 in "Boomloom: Think with your hands"

rasengan0 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:57:27 +0000

The boom loom boss was a winner of the 2025 Core77 Design Award for Toys and Play.

It's like an analog computer of weaving.

If you have any experience with weaving you will understand the importance of shed formation. The key innovation is the heddle mechanism which affords great efficiency with weft pattern making through rotation of a pattern bar allowing the weaver to focus on other variables like yarn selection or design sequence. There is even a web app pattern picker to plan out designs developed with the help of a mathematician [1]

Perhaps other similar ideas might be something like tablet weaving [2] or Der Weberknecht [3]

The primary difference is the quick prep and setup time with the boom loom and it's near instant to develop modular samplers [4]

If anyone knows of any other hacking mechanical weaving machines like the boom loom; please share!

[1] https://www.theboomloom.com/krokbragd-picker

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_weaving

[3] https://weberknecht.notion.site/Projekt-Weberknecht-Project-...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@janethughes8151

Boomloom: Think with your hands

rasengan0 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:13:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theboomloom.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457570

Points: 166

# Comments: 17

New comment by rasengan0 in "January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy – The White House"

rasengan0 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:14:06 +0000

from The White House

39C3 – Celestial navigation with little math

rasengan0 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:20:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq1WmAVb3Sg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882174

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Art of Thinking on Paper by Joanna Wiebe

rasengan0 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:04:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Ydm-vpzjE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666438

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rasengan0 in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

rasengan0 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:13:52 +0000

I like my shiny local gewgaw as much as the next person https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/

but I find it curious that the many will always pay for the few https://youtu.be/y12yZ7bQizk?si=Mbgg-F7IP8HJXJPz

and at what cost ? https://youtu.be/-sNKfRq1oKg?si=6m8pVM9tvawohUbm

Why not just mechanical turk the codebase? Lotsa jobs even with LLM augmentation at current state.

Where is the long term thinking of utility vs cost?

Until AI can solve its own energy generation issues, the hype is gross.

Thankfully I'll be long dead (hopefully) before a local AQI > 500 is considered the new normal common good trade for high fidelity personalized deep fake pr0n

or the cure for cancer at US healthcare billable rates.

Carina Hong of Axiom Math at the Neuron

rasengan0 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:47:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldMXTPGMGI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571174

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism – Paulina Borsook Was Right

rasengan0 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497219

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by rasengan0 in "I canceled my book deal"

rasengan0 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:12:17 +0000

>"All of our future books will involve AI." >It is antithetical to the premise of the book (classic programming projects!) that they agreed to publish.

I hope this trend is not industry wide. A publisher chasing fads and trends over enduring quality, so sad. I wish I knew who the publisher was to avoid but I can foresee their pivot to AI authors with titles like "From Zero to Hero, ChatGPT 5.2 Top Prompting Secrets for Dummies"

New comment by rasengan0 in "We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years"

rasengan0 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:36:31 +0000

Glad this story got on HN, it moved the heart and I hope it spreads in the little openings of our lives. Nothings perfect, but day by day, more kindness and care, we can share https://youtu.be/wlpcFnOPH2k?si=C1Wa1cviJMa1zlYm

New comment by rasengan0 in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

rasengan0 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:40:42 +0000

Thank you, finally a SRS implementation I can use for my plain text files. Very nice! I had Gemini make a deck from https://github.com/eudoxia0/hashcards , hashcard_tutorial.md and after correcting my deck to account for escaping the < and > with \< and \>; on the second run ($ hashcards drill --card-limit=10 ./)dealt me all the correct cards, like a self QA I really like the keyboard shortcut of space and 1,2,3,4 for making deck reviewing quick work.

LibXML2, Used by Steam, Chromium, Others Is Now Abandoned

rasengan0 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:29:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDr4fKXmUvc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252788

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Unix Original Bell Labs v4 Found at University of Utah

rasengan0 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:23:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR-f07LN0-Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171611

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rasengan0 in "Transparent leadership beats servant leadership"

rasengan0 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:03:09 +0000

>transparent leadership. In my book, a good leader ...

I practice this in my day job, as in that is the default mode for continued employment. Not sure how these practices are new. I wonder if it is a generational thing.