Hacker News: tylorr

New comment by tylorr in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

tylorr — Sun, 18 May 2025 22:03:54 +0000

This reminds me of the share feature on mobile phones which gets plenty of use by developers. Seems quite possible to make something like this on a standard OS

Time spent on computer linked to increased chance of erectile dysfunction

tylorr — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:28:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/erectile-dysfunction-computer-laptop-study-b2515859.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771639

Points: 16

# Comments: 3

New comment by tylorr in "Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4"

tylorr — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:10:08 +0000

They're a lot more intrusive on the mobile app

New comment by tylorr in "Sunken Greenhouse"

tylorr — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 09:41:47 +0000

How is that different than what heat pumps are doing?

New comment by tylorr in "Ask HN: What are you doing now to profit from the current or upcoming recession?"

tylorr — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 22:09:58 +0000

You'll get a months worth of that rate but then it will change. Could go up or down.

New comment by tylorr in "Scratch is a big deal"

tylorr — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 23:24:35 +0000

Using text in games is incredibly common

New comment by tylorr in "Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?"

tylorr — Tue, 31 May 2022 23:15:58 +0000

A share feature that uses discord spoiler syntax to include but hide your guesses would be appreciated. Discord uses ||spoiler here|| syntax. The dordle [1] game variants has this share option.

[1] https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

New comment by tylorr in "Implementing a Merkle Tree for an Immutable Verifiable Log"

tylorr — Fri, 06 May 2022 18:21:35 +0000

Those all generate new commits, they don't modify existing ones. Though the only way of easily detecting that is comparing it to a clone of the repo.

Towards the Prettiest Printer (2015)

tylorr — Wed, 04 May 2022 09:03:17 +0000

Article URL: https://jyp.github.io/posts/towards-the-prettiest-printer.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31258206

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tylorr in "Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML"

tylorr — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:32:29 +0000

What about if I bought a book from a bookstore then I wrote in the margins or highlighted some text and then sold it to used bookstore?

New comment by tylorr in "Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?"

tylorr — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:09:37 +0000

> Most people can't do this.

Which is why

> have pondered it and decided not to

New comment by tylorr in "Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?"

tylorr — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:08:10 +0000

I have Ulcerative Colitis and biologics are working great for me, I take Simponi.

DIY Energy Recovery Heat Exchanger

tylorr — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 08:15:20 +0000

Article URL: https://greenwayerv.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-heat-exchanger.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28084497

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tylorr in "Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter"

tylorr — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 02:36:02 +0000

Keeping an air purifier running efficiently requires me to keep all the windows closed which negatively effects the temperature in my apartment. Is it worth the trade off?

New comment by tylorr in "Toxoplasmosis: An important risk factor for acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection"

tylorr — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 02:07:41 +0000

Not the OP. Toxoplasmosis from what I understand can cause mice to lose fear of cats. So I think what the OP is suggesting is that toxoplasmosis is brain washing us to like cats and without it we would abandon some cats.

New comment by tylorr in "TypeScript's Type System Is Turing Complete (2017)"

tylorr — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 06:39:53 +0000

Jai being developed by Jonathan Blow is like that https://inductive.no/jai/

New comment by tylorr in "Useful and useless code comments"

tylorr — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:53:01 +0000

This sounds like a great idea for an editor plugin.

New comment by tylorr in "Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers"

tylorr — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:46:46 +0000

Google maps on Android lets me do something like this. It will occasionally prompt me to update the map with new data.

New comment by tylorr in "Show HN: Direct manipulation flowchart editor without the mouse"

tylorr — Mon, 24 May 2021 02:42:44 +0000

I've wanted undo selection so many times in Sublime Text and I had no idea this existed, thank you!

New comment by tylorr in "Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones""

tylorr — Fri, 21 May 2021 07:34:47 +0000

Some names that come to mind are Jonathan Blow, Rami Ismail and Edmund McMillen