Hacker News: woollysammoth

New comment by woollysammoth in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

woollysammoth — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:10:14 +0000

There's a term "eggcorns" for these logical misinterpretations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

New comment by woollysammoth in "Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading ($5/trade)"

woollysammoth — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:03:55 +0000

Sounds like a fun experiment! The overflow-x:hidden on body/html is causing weird issues when scrolling (on FF.)

New comment by woollysammoth in "Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?"

woollysammoth — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 16:23:31 +0000

I put together a chrome extension for saving snippets from YouTube videos, has definitely been helpful. (ClipSnip on the chrome web store)

New comment by woollysammoth in "Godot 3.2"

woollysammoth — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:05:35 +0000

I've been working with Godot/Websockets lately and it has been really enjoyable -- excited for Juan's 4.0 vulkan work!

New comment by woollysammoth in "Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice"

woollysammoth — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:44:15 +0000

This looks really great, congrats! Forgive me if I missed something, but I was wondering if you could clear up some confusion. From the terms: "Subject to the Biometric Data Agreement, you hereby grant to us a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display Your Voice, Digital Voice..."

Just to be clear, the license of the voice/digital voice is revoked upon deletion of the recordings? I understand it is subject to the biometric agreement, but the words perpetual and irrevocable still worried me. Thanks!

New comment by woollysammoth in "[dead]"

woollysammoth — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 16:16:25 +0000

Beyond impressive, kbr! Congrats on the Moon release.

New comment by woollysammoth in "Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman and Bill Gates Invest Too"

woollysammoth — Fri, 26 May 2017 23:39:40 +0000

Definitely, it’s not a perfect comparison — it just seems to me that a company with somewhat low revenue and an altruistic mission should do everything it can to be lean.

New comment by woollysammoth in "Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman and Bill Gates Invest Too"

woollysammoth — Fri, 26 May 2017 21:14:35 +0000

This is a little frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, the site should definitely exist and serves a useful purpose. My criticism comes when I read that they have ~300 employees. They are ranked 1,269 globally on Alexa. Craigslist is ranked 99 globally with only 30 employees. Even more so, on Glassdoor their benefits include “Fully stocked kitchen with everything you can imagine, catered dinners, massages, game room, nap room, open and comfortable work space.” [1]

“The world is kind of in the shitter and Change.org could be the world’s greatest plunger.” Not if it continues being a bloated company focused on recouping their massive expenses.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Benefits/Change-org-US-Benefits-EI...

New comment by woollysammoth in "Sonic Visualiser: Viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files"

woollysammoth — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:06:36 +0000

The band Vulfpeck used the PNG export for this recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbO2e65gmwg

New comment by woollysammoth in "Hello from Orkut"

woollysammoth — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:34:20 +0000

"We are living in a strange time. We hide behind our devices, ignoring the people around us."

So... a mobile app is the solution?

New comment by woollysammoth in "Show HN: An Alternative Web Interface for YouTube"

woollysammoth — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 13:57:12 +0000

Very nice - hover states (or just cursor:pointer) on the search results would be a good addition