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jhymnon On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted

Would you mind linking to your live-stream recordings? I love listening to choral chants and whatnot. Very soothing.

Domains around here are amazingly creative. It's an important part of the package, and if it delivers a surprise and a chuckle like this all the better.

jhymnon The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: 16M Historic Newspaper Pages

Recenty my browser's home page is a real-time stream of randomly clipped newspaper articles going back to the 1600s: https://newspaperarchive.com/clippings/

It's fun to see what people are digging into the newspaper archives for, and to speculate how it may relate to present or future events.

Note: paid subscribers see more (which I am for family history purposes).

jhymnon Ask HN: What are the other websites you visit daily?

Ditto. I put everything in newsblur and get a holistic view of topics I care about, and can zoom in and read articles when they grab me.

jhymnon Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California

Since when did face-blockers look like a vortex into another dimension? Creepy.

jhymnon Firefox 76

I don't use Firefox often because of the constant updating that prevents me from using it right away. Chrome and Brave don't seem to do that, at least not in the same obvious way that Firefox does.

jhymnon Firefox 76

Whenever I start up Firefox it tells me to wait a few moments while it updates. The browser obviously doesn't care about me. It has its own agenda. This is why I won't use it.

jhymnon Notion encourages busy-work

The gtd system by David Allen and a blank text file will get you 90 percent there. An app like Dynalist pro will get you the other 10 percent.

jhymnon Ask HN: Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history

The best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago. The next best time is now.

This also applies to getting a pardon.

Thanks for sticking up for animals who cannot advocate for themselves. I consider you a hero.

jhymnon Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

The old Slashdot. I also had a website called hardcorelinux.com where I evangelized Linux, and I miss that too.

jhymnon Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with Covid-19, are dying from strokes

I work at a homeless shelter where a young guy in his mid twenties recently had a stroke that left one of his hands completely limp. He's active and outdoors all day, but cannot self-isolate at night because he lives in a shelter.

I was shocked when he told me because he's "fit as a fiddle" otherwise. This article makes some sense of it.

jhymnon Cryptocurrency system using body activity data

My jaw dropped as soon as I saw this submission. As a Christian who has recently gotten into crypto, I thought it might be Ripple / XRP that would fullfil this prophesy.

It looks like it will be Microsoft. Feeling some serious chills!

jhymnon Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

My concern is that a lot of stand-up comedy is really "blue" and NSFW. Are there warnings or ratings for each set (I don't see any).

Do you provide clean content?

jhymnon Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

I recently took a Coursera course on Schizophrenia and found it fascinating. YMMV of course.

jhymnon A song that was constructed to reduce anxiety

Along the same line is Deepchord, a dub techno band I've been getting into lately.

Can't wait for the next BoC release though!

jhymnon Ask HN: Advice for staying in the job market while homeless?

STAY WHERE YOU ARE and make arrangements to make staggered/partial payments at a later date.

STAY WHERE YOU ARE. I work at a homeless shelter and see first-hand how not having a safe place to work from and store your things complicates life and creates undo hardships.

STAY WHERE YOU ARE, especially now with the pandemic when shelters are trying to protect their clients from outside contamination. You may be turned away from even emergency homeless shelters.

STAY WHERE YOU ARE!

jhymnon How to Stick to a Learning Habit

jhymnon Show HN: Pomodoro Calendar: custom printable planners for Pomodoro technique

I love this idea. So much potential. A way you might improve it is include tomorrow's Todo list below the tomatoes? That would also make better use of the paper.

P.S. The price for the PDF may be a touch high. I'd drop it by a buck.

jhymnon Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs

Not if you like nerding out on this stuff. Then it's more like a hobby or pleasant diversion.

But I agree one needs to zoom out and put things into its proper perspective.

jhymnon Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read

I use Readwise.io almost obsessively and would use your app too, but I'm on Android. Any plans for an Android app?

jhymnon Ask HN: Any (tech) black friday deals you'd recommend?

DNA kits for Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are half price. MyHeritage also has genetic risk/carrier status report + DNA matching kit that's also 50 percent off.

jhymnon Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

The Fitbit brand-name has become a generic term like Aspirin, Kleenex or Google. That must be a big part of it's appeal for Alphabet.

When you own Fitbit, you own the category.

jhymnon Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

Readwise for storing highlights and excerpts from books, articles etc. Lots of customization under the hood.

https://readwise.io/

jhymnon Ghost 3.0

Then why not Svbtle or Write.as? You have lots of affordable or even free choices.

jhymnon Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

Right, and in marketing-speak it's called positioning. Taking a privacy stance allowed Apple to differentiate against their competitors without actually innovating.