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New comment by vishkk in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

vishkk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:18:44 +0000

Pretty cool —- should do it for NYC subways!

Daydreaming

vishkk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:49:46 +0000

Article URL: https://astra-mag.com/articles/dreamers-in-broad-daylight-ten-conversations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364441

Points: 2

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New comment by vishkk in "How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?"

vishkk — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:31:32 +0000

Thank you for sharing -- that was a great read!

New comment by vishkk in "Structured Procrastination (1995)"

vishkk — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:02:59 +0000

Didn't have vocab for it, but seems like I have been doing something similar. For example, having a JIRA ticket on my board that I don't want to do will make me finish all the other tickets. I will procrastinate till the last minute -- kind of pitting one ticket against all others for myself to get the stuff done.

New comment by vishkk in "Our efforts, in part, define us"

vishkk — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:08:01 +0000

Whatever it was — a lie, the truth, or, most likely, their mixture — that caused me to make such a decision, I am immensely grateful to it for what appears to have been my first free act. It was an instinctive act, a walkout. Reason had very little to do with it. I know that, because I've been walking out ever since, with increasing frequency. And not necessarily on account of boredom or of feeling a trap gaping; I've been walking out of perfect setups no less often than out of dreadful ones. However modest the place you happen to occupy, if it has the slightest mark of decency, you can be sure that someday somebody will walk in and claim it for himself or, what is worse, suggest that you share it. Then you either have to fight for that place or leave it. I happened to prefer the latter. Not at all because I couldn't fight, but rather out of sheer disgust with myself: managing to pick something that attracts others denotes a certain vulgarity in your choice. It doesn't matter at all that you came across the place first. It is even worse to get somewhere first, for those who follow will always have a stronger appetite than your partially satisfied one. - Joseph Brodsky

New comment by vishkk in "Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code"

vishkk — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:30:17 +0000

Quite neat. Reminds of this one that I used to use: https://pythontutor.com/visualize.html#mode=edit

New comment by vishkk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

vishkk — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:09:03 +0000

Surviving.

New comment by vishkk in "The Origin of the Pork Taboo"

vishkk — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:55:15 +0000

To supplement, this is quite a good read: https://longreads.com/2015/10/14/i-would-rather-be-herods-pi...

New comment by vishkk in "20 Years of YC / HN"

vishkk — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:29:28 +0000

I was checking when I created my account, it is March 21, 2014 -- hitting my 11-year anniversary in two days!

New comment by vishkk in "The Dead Planet Theory"

vishkk — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:03:03 +0000

I do the reading, but now I have a problem of finding the best reading too, and the whole rabbit hole is reading about what could be the best reading.

I have been actively working on it, and sticking to one thing and just starting, but i am a creature of habit and love hoarding and finding resources.

New comment by vishkk in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

vishkk — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:45:35 +0000

https://aeon.co/essays/the-life-changing-magic-of-japanese-c...

Virginia Woolf's Idea of Privacy (2014)

vishkk — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/virginia-woolfs-idea-of-privacy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42327957

Points: 3

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New comment by vishkk in "Nabokov's Recommendations"

vishkk — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:40:00 +0000

I shared this link earlier in one thread, and someone suggested that it deserves its own post. So, let's discuss these strong opinions — agree, or disagree. Share your strong opinions.

Nabokov's Recommendations

vishkk — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:40:00 +0000

Article URL: http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42236643

Points: 4

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New comment by vishkk in "What made Dostoevsky's work immortal"

vishkk — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:36:16 +0000

Let me do that!

New comment by vishkk in "What made Dostoevsky's work immortal"

vishkk — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:36:17 +0000

hahah love it, thank you for sharing!

New comment by vishkk in "What made Dostoevsky's work immortal"

vishkk — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:30:24 +0000

Nabokov's recommendations: http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

I love Dostoevsky too much and am quite happy in my bias and echo chamber of that—he was one of the writers that I read in my early days, and to date, I feel that he changed a lot in me or resonated so much that I can't explain.

I believe Nietzche said this about him "the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn."

And one of my favorite quotes by him:

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!”

New comment by vishkk in "Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)"

vishkk — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:54:14 +0000

Not entirely related to the article, George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By is quite interesting. How, over the years, the words we use have become associated with the context in the past, or borrowed from other contexts, literally or figuratively. For example, IIRC, the book mentioned that all, or most of the words we use with time are related to money -- we spend, waste, lose, invest. Words related to arguments come from war/battle language -- defend, attack, counterattack.

I wonder if euphemisms have some metaphorical overloading that changes over the time, or so.

New comment by vishkk in "Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones"

vishkk — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:04:02 +0000

Pretty cool, really like it. I have been using Overlap by Moleskine on iOS for a while: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/overlap-by-moleskine-studio/id...

New comment by vishkk in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

vishkk — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:49:03 +0000

Maybe Arc.