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New comment by ultrasandwich in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

ultrasandwich — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:53:22 +0000

This is a really cool idea. Been thinking of a way to introduce my daughter to my old LPs without her wrecking the vinyl, and this might be a good compromise!

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

ultrasandwich — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:40:22 +0000

I'm working on a tool to automatically sync your work-in-progress music from your DAW (digital audio workstation, like Ableton Live, etc), to your phone. Basically a workflow tool for musicians and producers! Also has some quick share/feedback functionality too. Would love some feedback since it's still in really early stages. Already integrates with Ableton, Bitwig, Cubase, and GarageBand. https://trackid.com.

I used to work at Native Instruments, and super happy to now work on something for myself instead.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Last.fm is now independent"

ultrasandwich — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:07:52 +0000

Last.fm is my favorite service I've ever used, period. Been using it since the early days, met real people through its comments section, and generally never had complaints about the quality of recommendations, etc.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

ultrasandwich — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:21:58 +0000

Using this "out-of-the-box" with an OpenRouter subscription using DeepSeekv4, I just blew through 15 dollars in 45 minutes on a moderate sized code base, just making a plan and executing a refactoring of an upload pipeline to use a state machine. Not really seeing the cost savings for real-world work tbh.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

ultrasandwich — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:32:30 +0000

Aeropress coffee maker. Look up the James Hoffmann recipe on YouTube and you can never drink another coffee style again

New comment by ultrasandwich in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

ultrasandwich — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:38:45 +0000

Having just received a toniebox as a gift for my daughter's 1st birthday, this got me so excited. Had no idea this was possible. Gonna get some of the NFC tags next week.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015)"

ultrasandwich — Tue, 06 May 2025 08:01:53 +0000

A friend of mine created a graphic novel about this, called "Madame Choi and the Monsters", if you're interested in that kind of thing.

https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/madame-choi-and-the-mons...

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy"

ultrasandwich — Sun, 04 May 2025 09:33:16 +0000

Is the last sentence satire? I can't really tell. Literally entire fields of study are dedicated to this, including one at Harvard. https://sts.hks.harvard.edu/about/whatissts.html

New comment by ultrasandwich in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

ultrasandwich — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:25:48 +0000

Not sure how much this adds to the conversation, but I have a 1990 VW Golf which is possibly the easiest piece of technology I've ever worked on. Has satisfying buttons that button. Has an actual windshield wiper handle. Diagnosing and replacing parts is incredibly easy due to the wealth of knowledge out there, and readily available parts that can be ordered. The most complicated thing is tracing electrical gremlins, which, given the 30+ years of collective knowledge out there on forums, is really not so bad anymore. I'm not always nostalgic for old stuff, just saying that if you have an engineering mindset, tinkering with an older car is very satisfying.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "37C3: Fuzzing the TCP/IP Stack"

ultrasandwich — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 07:31:59 +0000

Since I'm neither in Austria nor Cologne, I'd go with https://sensor.community

New comment by ultrasandwich in "37C3: Fuzzing the TCP/IP Stack"

ultrasandwich — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:12:44 +0000

> All-in-all quite a disappointing session IMHO the worse I attended at 37c3, nothing compared to the excellent https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/numerical_air_... that was running at the same time.

Yeah, was there for this one, can highly recommend. Will also be building my own DIY air quality sensor to add to their network.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Excellence is a habit, but so is failure"

ultrasandwich — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:45:17 +0000

I learned a lot about this kind of predictive modeling function of our brains from _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. He was on Sean Carroll's podcast not too long ago and they had a great conversation on this topic.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Ask HN: HN-like forum for literature and cinema?"

ultrasandwich — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:51:48 +0000

Yeah this was absolutely amazing. Blake did a great job curating the contributors and the comments led to some great conversations sometimes.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study"

ultrasandwich — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:08:47 +0000

Terra Creta was everywhere in Crete when I was visiting there. Maybe it doesn't ship to the mainland very much?

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?"

ultrasandwich — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 19:14:41 +0000

"Ring of Fire, an Indonesian Odyssey" is at the top of my list. An incredible journey spanning 10 years. Allegedly bankrolled by Ringo Starr who was captivated by the premise, and had faith in the brothers who set out to trace the steps of naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire:_An_Indonesian_...

New comment by ultrasandwich in "The dark side of rapeseed oil (2018)"

ultrasandwich — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:21:01 +0000

How does uncited trash like this make it the front page?

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Notion for everyone"

ultrasandwich — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:37:19 +0000

wanted to add my email but the console reports "mailchimp ajax submit error: error"

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?"

ultrasandwich — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:14:33 +0000

Such a great blog. Gives me some motivation to find a way to organize my own writing and photos in a genuinely useful way.

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Dwarf Fortress: An actual look at graphical improvements"

ultrasandwich — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:52:20 +0000

The actual changelog of this game is legend.

- "Dwarves form grudges with animals"

- "Flying creatures stop flying, fall to the ground, and explode"

- "Knocked out teeth dont bleed"

- "Rodent men don't use their new teeth to bite."

- "Eyes can't be gouged out"

https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/changelog_page.p...

New comment by ultrasandwich in "Social media is spreading 'toxic positivity'"

ultrasandwich — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:19:51 +0000

Great further reading on this sentiment from academic/philosopher Byung-Chul Han if you're interested. He makes a pretty entertaining case against positivity in his book "The Burnout Society."

"...Because Otherness is disappearing, we live in a time that is poor in negativity. And so, the neuronal illnesses of the twenty-first century follow a dialectic: not the dialectic of negativity, but that of positivity. They are pathological conditions deriving from an excess of positivity."

http://theorytuesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Han_Bur...