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New comment by vortico in "SampleBrainz: Browse music samples, curated by the MusicBrainz community"

vortico — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:18:20 +0000

I built a site to browse which songs include samples of others. It's common in hip hop, electronic, pop, etc to reuse drum breaks, melodies, or vocal snippets of other tracks. SampleBrainz includes 220,000+ of these connections.

All metadata is in the public domain (CC0), and anyone can contribute by adding sample relationships on MusicBrainz.

Source code at https://github.com/AndrewBelt/SampleBrainz

SampleBrainz: Browse music samples, curated by the MusicBrainz community

vortico — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:18:20 +0000

Article URL: https://samplebrainz.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750014

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by vortico in "My Dream Thermostat"

vortico — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:23:06 +0000

I want to specify heat, cool, or auto. I don't want to cool in the winter under any circumstances. I can simply open a window. Vise versa for the summer.

New comment by vortico in "How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2"

vortico — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:21:03 +0000

>Scientists claim to have discovered a ‘new color’ no one has seen before.

LOL!

New comment by vortico in "Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator"

vortico — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:54:18 +0000

Cool! Some random requests to consider: Could the range x~y be uniform instead of 2 std dev normal (95.4%ile)? Sometimes the range of quantities is known. 95%ile is probably fine as a default though. Also, could a symbolic JS package be used instead of Monte-Carlo? This would improve speed and precision, especially for many variables (high dimensions). Could the result be shown in a line plot instead of ASCII bar chart?

New comment by vortico in "Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL"

vortico — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:53:29 +0000

As a workaround you can type a trailing slash: example.internal/

New comment by vortico in "Donating forks to the dining hall"

vortico — Thu, 30 May 2024 02:56:29 +0000

The cafeteria manager likely had no idea they were running out of forks. A simple email or phone call to the cafeteria department would have probably solved the problem, since managers are likely looking for ideas of things to buy, especially if they've been recommended by customers (students).

New comment by vortico in "Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years"

vortico — Tue, 21 May 2024 18:41:50 +0000

Why so many posts about Firefox bugs getting fixed after N years? https://hn.algolia.com/?q=firefox+bug+years

New comment by vortico in "VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared"

vortico — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 01:13:00 +0000

Have you tried contacting support? https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/contact-form.html

New comment by vortico in "Why [“1”,“2”,“3”].map(parseInt) yields [1, NaN, NaN] in JavaScript (2011)"

vortico — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:52:27 +0000

The reason is surprising but perfectly valid once you remember the spec of map() and parseInt(). Love JS WTFs.

New comment by vortico in "http://pn./"

vortico — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:16:25 +0000

Also http://ai./

New comment by vortico in "Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition"

vortico — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:38:44 +0000

    Notepad++ refund request form
    Product price: 0 USD
    Name:  _______________________
    Email: _______________________
    Purchase Date: _______________________

New comment by vortico in "Ask HN: Favourite open source game?"

vortico — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 04:00:06 +0000

Mindustry https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry

New comment by vortico in "The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces"

vortico — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:24:55 +0000

Reminded me of my favorite article. http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

I'm willing to pay extra to avoid touch screens in my cars, washing machines, door locks, and personal computers. I can't be the only one!

New comment by vortico in "Show HN: Find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correlations to any stock"

vortico — Tue, 03 May 2022 12:48:09 +0000

Very cool, although index funds like S&P 500 and DJI don't seem to work.

https://betagainst.fun/asset/_gspc_spy/

https://betagainst.fun/asset/_dji_dia/

New comment by vortico in "Would You Click?"

vortico — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:58:20 +0000

Why did they have to add the super slow scroll lag? That ruined the whole site.

New comment by vortico in "It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV"

vortico — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 14:54:11 +0000

How so? I can buy a modified Thinkpad (https://minifree.org/product/libre-t440p/ or http://www.cnmod.cn/x210/) because enough people demand it. If enough people demand dumb TVs but their niche prices far exceed smart TVs, then people will begin selling modified smart TVs without cell chips for mutually fair prices.

New comment by vortico in "It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV"

vortico — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:24:02 +0000

Wouldn't the free market simply provide modifications with the cell networking removed for an extra $50 or so? The "discount" you get from buying a smart TV verses a dumb TV (which is a niche product so it would cost hundreds more) would still be positive after subtracting the cost of modification.

New comment by vortico in "Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?"

vortico — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:59:45 +0000

Was going to say PDF but this is close enough :)

New comment by vortico in "hiccupFX.js"

vortico — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 20:19:05 +0000

Bonus: Can this be a pure CSS library?