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New comment by udit99 in "Fretboard Memorisation with Modular Arithmetic"

udit99 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:14:40 +0000

100% agree. CAGED is extremely underrated. The starting premise is so simple, that most intermediate players go "yeah, yeah, sure...that's cool but it's not very insightful". It's when you start hanging all the basic (and probably more) scale/arpeggio patterns off it that it starts to become more and more valuable.

New comment by udit99 in "Show HN: I made a Space Invaders-style, guitar-driven fretboard learning game"

udit99 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:23:25 +0000

perfect, thank you! Just fixed it.

Show HN: I made a Space Invaders-style, guitar-driven fretboard learning game

udit99 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:05:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gitori.com/play/FBG-106

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751687

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by udit99 in "Ear Training Practice"

udit99 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:20:48 +0000

Another approach is having an "explore and test" or "Training Wheels" mode. Correct notes played by the user behave exactly as they do right now. But for a wrong note played by the user, instead of the round ending, you could just gives some audio-visual feedback that this is not the right answer but continue to expect the user to find the right answer. This way we can hunt and peck our way to the end of the round.

This creates a problem in that it's easy to muddle your way through without learning anything. To prevent this:

Once it gets to the end of the round in this mode, if the user had even 1 wrong note selected in this round, the game will then expect them to play it perfectly once again (like it does now).

This way you get both the hunt and peck exploration and the final "now that you've had your time to get your ears and fingers in order, play it correctly."

New comment by udit99 in "Ear Training Practice"

udit99 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:12:10 +0000

same!

New comment by udit99 in "Ear Training Practice"

udit99 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:58:44 +0000

This is amazing! A couple things:

1. Doesn't work on Firefox because of compatibility. (Web MIDI could not be enabled: DOMException: WebMIDI requires a site permission add-on to activate index-C82-1cwq.js:10:56869 doInitialize https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net/assets/index-C82-1cwq.js... ) . Might be worth detecting browser and telling users straight up before they waste any time.

2. How did you come up with the melodies? Hand crafted? AI? Asking because I plan on building this for Gitori(www.gitori.com) at one point and my original idea was taking snippets from MIDI files of famous classical pieces/jazz solos

Also, TIL about the Simon game. Might buy this for my 6 year old :)

New comment by udit99 in "Show HN: I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition"

udit99 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:53:22 +0000

hmm..let me look into this.

New comment by udit99 in "Show HN: I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition"

udit99 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:57:17 +0000

hmm...I just tried it on Chrome on my Macbook and it worked for me. Does the sound on this game work for you? https://www.gitori.com/FBG-101

(Give it a 2-3 seconds to load the sounds and it should autoplay a note in the background)

New comment by udit99 in "Show HN: I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition"

udit99 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:25:42 +0000

Whoops! I’ll try and recreate the issue. Thanks for the tips.

Show HN: I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition

udit99 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:29:02 +0000

I’ve spent a year building a theory learning path that starts from scratch and goes all the way up to topics like Secondary Dominants and Borrowed Chords. It uses a combination of games, interactive lessons and spaced repetition to help you understand and remember concepts. Not just learn something new and forget it in a few days.

I’m trying to figure out: 1. Is the progression logical? 2. What am I missing that you’d like to see in there? 3. Where does it get confusing and could use more clarification?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47794703

Points: 5

# Comments: 8

Why is the sky blue?

udit99 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:39:51 +0000

Article URL: https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946401

Points: 813

# Comments: 270

New comment by udit99 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

udit99 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:32 +0000

https://www.gitori.com

Games for Guitarists.

The Haken Continuum musical instrument [video]

udit99 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:11:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uINw9IW57c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270302

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by udit99 in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

udit99 — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:19:13 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by udit99 in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

udit99 — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:11:16 +0000

> f you're using LLMs to learn, create an MCP tool for them to insert Anki cards on topics you're discussing in a csv on google drive, then sync that with you anki decks on your phone.

Speaking for myself, I’d love to see a blogpost detailing how this is done. At the very least, I’d love to know: How are you syncing csvs to anki cards and how does the MCP interaction look like for an LLMs response to the CSV creation

Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Spex

udit99 — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:03:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/sea-monkeys-and-x-ray-spex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997612

Points: 4

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New comment by udit99 in "The Acid King (2001)"

udit99 — Mon, 12 May 2025 22:00:22 +0000

Thanks, TIL

New comment by udit99 in "The Acid King (2001)"

udit99 — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:45:25 +0000

Hey dang, unrelated question but.... I posted this a couple days ago and it seemed to have resurfaced somehow. Never seen that happen in any past submissions. Is this a new HN feature? Slow news day bumps up some potentially overlooked posts?

The Acid King (2001)

udit99 — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:30:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/acid-lsd-king-william-leonard-pickard-prison-pete-wilkinson-184390/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43941068

Points: 58

# Comments: 48

New comment by udit99 in "Tarpit ideas: What they are and how to avoid them (2023) [video]"

udit99 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:41:09 +0000

> argue that memorisation isn't really learning and that learning experiences should be about developing deeper understanding, Agreed, but if you ask anyone who's SR for any amount of time will tell you: It's realllly hard to be effective with it if you don't understand the underlying concept. The order of operations is "first understand, then drill". Of course, this comes with nuance. There are things that just have to be drilled and others that don't even need any drilling if you understand the concept. And I'd expect those educators to know the difference.

> There is no measure of 'best practice'; a lot of these shifts are driven by personal preference.

Again, you're probably right but using the example of SR threw me off because it's the one thing where I think the data is so clear that it's easily justifiable.