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thomasqmon A web app that can play musical scales according to mathematical equations

also log(x)

thomasqmon 17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards

From trustworthy wikipedia: "A 2011 study found that the amount of NMHC pollutants emitted by a leaf blower operated for 30 minutes is comparable to the amount emitted by a Ford F-150 pickup truck driving from Texas to Alaska. The two-stroke engines used in most leaf blowers operate by mixing gasoline with oil, and a third of this mixture is not burned, but is emitted as an aerosol exhaust. These pollutants have been linked to cancer, heart disease, and asthma," cited with https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-... and https://www.wsj.com/articles/leaf-blowers-are-loud-ugly-and-...

thomasqmon Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder

amazon! probably

thomasqmon Spirograph

You’re a crackpot! What is an atomic field? Are you referring to the electromagnetic fields generated by subatomic and ionic particles? If so, they are indeed a linear superposition, whose constituents do have wavefunctions, which do include (spherical) harmonics.

thomasqmon AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)

I noticed the same. Disabling or lowering noise cancellation in-app fixed everything.

thomasqmon Snakes Found a New Way to Slither

space lab space

thomasqmon Show HN: Esochess, customized chess (3/4 player, capablanca, two king) in C/WASM

thanks, yeah havent implemented stalemate, and the ai is a bit crufty. funny to see you call it fast; with -O3, which is whats online, it takes up to ten secs and when enabling debug symbols, it takes millenia, likely because my vector implementation is relatively slow

thomasqmon Mathematicians will never stop proving the Prime Number Theorem

Why is it that posts from quantamagazine consistently appear on the front page, just to be debunked (though this one literally does not contain any substance!). Why do you upvote this?

thomasqmon Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity

I do not read anything relating inclusivity to demographics. I think they are just discouraging ignorance of other editors.

thomasqmon Ask HN: Your must-read HN post?

I already read this one though.

thomasqmon Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence

They are commonplace puzzles that serve to measure commonplace intelligence. What else were you thinking?

thomasqmon $699 Apple Pro Wheels

Thanks for the warning.

thomasqmon Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

Yep, it’s not Win32, it is a software renderer (according to renderer.c).

thomasqmon Humans Not Invited

No, but in the source you can get a message if you are the first to solve it.