Hacker News: techer

New comment by techer in "Digitising CDs (a.k.a. using your phone as an image scanner)"

techer — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:24:47 +0000

Less hidden in the stock Notes app. Paperclip/Scan Documents.

New comment by techer in "Prepper Disk"

techer — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 04:44:36 +0000

Assuming it’s this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DHExchange/comments/1ejtk6z/a_prepp...

New comment by techer in "1,100-year-old Viking sword pulled from UK river by magnet fisher"

techer — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:54:34 +0000

A quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

New comment by techer in "Daktilo: Turn Your Keyboard into a Typewriter"

techer — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:44:55 +0000

write or die 2 w/ typewriter mode or momentum writer. both a bit old.

New comment by techer in "Library of Short Stories – An online library of public domain short stories"

techer — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 12:56:30 +0000

or perhaps offer both versions. Thank you for this library.

New comment by techer in "Mega-dose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold (2001)"

techer — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 05:52:45 +0000

I found it on Anna's archive...

New comment by techer in "Why Britain doesn’t build"

techer — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 02:27:40 +0000

“in the 5 years from 2015 to 2019, an average of 74% of people in England had a full driving licence“

New comment by techer in "Forbe's 20th Best Bank Feb 2023: SVB Financial Group"

techer — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:36:10 +0000

I can see it there.

New comment by techer in "Show HN: Beatbot.fm – Make Songs with AI"

techer — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 14:47:17 +0000

This is excellent. Really got the vibe of my prompt better than I could imagine. Didn’t really mail the style of beat I wanted but didn’t matter.

New comment by techer in "Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text"

techer — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:48:39 +0000

“For You Page”

New comment by techer in "The Economist’s best books of 2022: from financial scandals to cell theory"

techer — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 07:57:48 +0000

https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-City-Pilots-Journey-Across/dp...

New comment by techer in "Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows"

techer — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:38:54 +0000

Not the same but subtitles are available of course…

not sure if you’ve seen getyarn.io which isn’t comprehensive but is quite fun :)

New comment by techer in "Cramer: Tech CEOs tell me they’re sick of spoiled Silicon Valley employees"

techer — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:28:17 +0000

Cramer + Theranos

https://youtu.be/FurGeefL-LI?t=28

New comment by techer in "On Aging Alone (2021)"

techer — Sat, 21 May 2022 05:01:36 +0000

Confelicity: Pleasure in another's happiness. Antonym: schadenfreude

New comment by techer in "What do new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?"

techer — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:18:23 +0000

It seems/feels rather recent…

New comment by techer in "The Future is Vast: Long-term perspective on humanitys past, present and future"

techer — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:23:52 +0000

Maybe kill…but probably enslave??

New comment by techer in "How Angry Should Other Writers Be About Brandon Sanderson’s $22M Kickstarter?"

techer — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 13:30:15 +0000

Extremely hard working and generous artist makes money…why would anyone be angry?

I’d be far angrier that someone has to write this article but they have to make a living too…

Sanderson’s YouTube lectures of his BYU 2020 creative writing class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc

New comment by techer in "Let's democratize the United Nations and make it relevant again"

techer — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:32:29 +0000

It’s main purpose is simply to avoid WW3…

New comment by techer in "Love is biological bribery?"

techer — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:15:10 +0000

“Slavoj Žižek: Love is evil“

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hg7qdowoemo

New comment by techer in "Building an iPod for 2022"

techer — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:23:17 +0000

I use the alphasmart neo2. Extremely simple and cheap. Batteries last months and months.

I may end up with a derivative of the FWT one day but for now there’s no need at all.