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abnry commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001

hggh · 13 days ago

> you will likely see NSFW content. Please only continue if you're an adult.

Should be: Please only continue if you're not at work.

abnry · 13 days ago

The NSFW content is a big bummer for me. I can't let a kid go to Wikipedia unsupervised because of this.

abnry commented on Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same subth.ink/... · Posted by u/sonnig

abnry · a month ago

I love it!

I typed "hello".

> Your thought's hash is: 4358f43b660389eecd435dc2a5f5cee29786245cd2cff27bd4de0b3e8fd53b79

> Including you, 267 persons had that thought already!

> First time was 4 hours, 14 minutes ago, last time was less than a minute ago.

Of course, everyone else has thought of this. But what if I "type": 4358f43b660389eecd435dc2a5f5cee29786245cd2cff27bd4de0b3e8fd53b79

> Your thought's hash is: c37d0a8c512b9ec7074d3bc77c4545d58fdfcde55bad89a70ede71ac2ac0000d

> Including you, 8 persons had that thought already!

> First time was 2 hours, 1 minute ago, last time was 1 minute ago.

That's hilarious!

And also, "typing": echo "hello world" | curl -d @- https://subth.ink

>Your thought's hash is: c5ba1c7e35345dbb8c2dc6be0972d0b6ddf6c6515143b64c057296948e2ba8cd

>Including you, 10 persons had that thought already!

>First time was 1 hour, 52 minutes ago, last time was 2 minutes ago.

abnry commented on Maybe the default settings are too high raptitude.com/2025/12/may... · Posted by u/htk

matsemann · 2 months ago

What did you get out of this comment? What do you think a reader gets? Maybe follow the spirit of the article: slow down and pounder, be curious, maybe you would have gotten the right take away instead of being antagonizing towards someone's fond memory.

abnry · 2 months ago

I think the response is a great comment. It really is insane that they felt the need to damn the flooded campsite.

The comment actually does a great job of accentuating the point of the story. Everyone offended is too caught up in their achiever mode mindset to truly appreciate the absurdity.

abnry commented on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle tailscale.com/blog/tailsc... · Posted by u/Quizzical4230

finalarbiter · 2 months ago

I agree with your sentiment that the Kobo is better than the Kindle from an... ethical standpoint, if you have the money for one. However, it is worth noting that Kindles will always be cheaper than Kobo devices [0] due to economies of scale and lockscreen advertisements (removable with jailbreaking). From a pure cost perspective, and assuming the user is technically-minded enough to accomplish the jailbreak, the Kindle is likely always [1] a better deal.

[0] as of today, 12/8/25, the "base model" Kindle 11th Generation is priced at $109.99 USD, and the respective Kobo Clara BW is $139.99 USD.

[1] I say "likely always" to cover my bases. To my knowledge Calibre supports Kindle, just not as well as Kobo. That said I have found that the KOreader app is more than powerful enough for my use case (reading my own epubs, using dictionaries, etc.)

abnry · 2 months ago

Where do I get DRM-free ebooks to put on a Kobo? I don't support breaking DRM. So I'm using a Kindle because it has the best access to and integration with almost any book I want.

abnry commented on Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs github.com/ngafar/llama-s... · Posted by u/nawazgafar

abnry · 6 months ago

I would really like a tool to reliably get the title of PDF. It is not as easy as it seems. If the PDF exists online (say a paper or course notes) a bonus would be to find that or related metadata.

abnry commented on How Pi Almost Wasn't mathenchant.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/jamespropp

twiceaday · a year ago

The real nerds celebrate Tau day on 6/28.

abnry · a year ago

That's just controlled opposition.

abnry commented on How Pi Almost Wasn't mathenchant.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/jamespropp

abnry · a year ago

The real nerds celebrate octal pi day on 3/11. The crowds are too big on 3/14 anyways.

https://imgur.com/a/gczeqkz

abnry commented on Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf] analog.com/media/en/train... · Posted by u/Tomte

brcmthrowaway · a year ago

Waste of money. I suggest getting an SDR that can rx AND tx. I recommend the Ettus USRP

abnry · a year ago

You need a mortgage to buy most of their SDRs. Their cheapest IIRC is a B210 which is about $2,500.

abnry commented on Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from? grossack.site/2025/01/16/... · Posted by u/mathgenius

np_tedious · a year ago

Well I was curious, but there's a lot there I didn't understand. Apparently I'm good enough at math to do the proofs, but not to write the exercises.

Exercise left to the reader:

Prove 7*n^3 + n is divisible by 2

abnry · a year ago

7n^3 +n (mod 2) = 1 n^3 + n = n + n = 2*n = 0*n = 0

abnry commented on What we know about CEO shooting suspect bbc.com/news/articles/cp9... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

that_guy_iain · a year ago

I‘m talking about justice and what is legal and what is just are two different things.

Is it just a child rapist, who there is video evidence commuting the crime, gets to walk free because they can’t find the victim to testify in court? And yes, that is the law in some countries. The uk had to wait for someone to come back to the uk because they could convict without the victims but the country he committed the crime couldn’t.

And it’s only not obvious that he‘s responsible for a lot of pain and suffering when you ignore the facts. The accused doesn’t need to give their side of the story for people to know what happened.

abnry · a year ago

> The accused doesn’t need to give their side of the story for people to know what happened.

There is always a defense in court. This is not necessarily the defendant explicitly testifying. That's what I meant by the defendant making their case.

Justice can fail in the courts, I agree. But you can't have justice without (a) an authority with the power to judge, usually the state, and (b) a court proceeding where evidence is weighed.

If you say the UHC CEO killing was justice, then you must, to be consistent, allow for other such killings. Should all healthcare CEOs now be knocked off?

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