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Human Routers of Machine Words

zx321 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:35:24 +0000

Article URL: https://borretti.me/article/human-routers-of-machine-words

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521709

Points: 72

# Comments: 43

New comment by zx321 in "Show HN: Pets for Cursor"

zx321 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:55:40 +0000

ペット？ So it's "petto".

New comment by zx321 in "Practical Vim command workflow (2023)"

zx321 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:08:05 +0000

Something like this maybe? https://github.com/luukvbaal/nnn.nvim

New comment by zx321 in "Math That Goes on Forever but Never Repeats"

zx321 — Thu, 25 May 2023 21:39:00 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne_constant

New comment by zx321 in "Language Learning with Netflix"

zx321 — Sat, 06 May 2023 20:58:11 +0000

Check out the browser extension Yomichan. It does something very similar.

New comment by zx321 in "South Korea to give $490 allowance to reclusive youths to help them leave house"

zx321 — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:33:33 +0000

The Wikipedia page appears to have been edited 1 day ago to say that 91% of women age 30-39 have had plastic surgery, though the cited source says 31%.

The source itself: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111220/south-korea-plas...

New comment by zx321 in "Reddit's antiwork sub and the online movement to end work"

zx321 — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:45:31 +0000

Possibilities such as?

New comment by zx321 in "Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?"

zx321 — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:24:58 +0000

If lacking assistance, you can get guidance on which parts of your books are worth reading by googling for college course syllabi.

New comment by zx321 in "Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL"

zx321 — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 03:13:45 +0000

The average human height is about 1.5 meters. There are about 7.5 * 10^9 people alive, so the total height of humanity is ~1.1 * 10^10 meters.

Wikipedia says that Pollux's radius is about 9 times that of the Sun, which is about 7 * 10^8 meters. So Pollux's diameter is ~2 * 9 * 7 * 10^8 = 1.3 * 10^10 meters.

Verdict: not a bug.

New comment by zx321 in "Ask HN: Any startups solving for software engineering hiring?"

zx321 — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:56:34 +0000

Triplebyte.

New comment by zx321 in "NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels"

zx321 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:11:37 +0000

You're looking for proselint. https://github.com/amperser/proselint

New comment by zx321 in "How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)"

zx321 — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 02:40:59 +0000

Your list is missing a few things.

Be healthy, physically and mentally. Be born into a reasonably affluent family. Be able to attend a good school. Be able to find a partner.

New comment by zx321 in "Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people"

zx321 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 08:20:05 +0000

Please be careful! Posting links to these kind of small communities on much larger ones has a way of diluting what makes them so great in the first place - or at least severely irritating the regulars.

New comment by zx321 in "Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators"

zx321 — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:27:53 +0000

There's this thing called "glowfic" which is essentially that.

http://belltower.dreamwidth.org/8579.html?style=site

http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/31812.html

New comment by zx321 in "Author’s Note 119: Shameless Blegging"

zx321 — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:03:44 +0000

IF you found that annoying you may prefer Daystar's remix of the first few chapters : https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9676374/1/Daystar-s-Remix-of-Ra....