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DanSmooth··on What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
Relevant SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bot-3
DanSmooth··on Cartoonist R. Crumb's Biography: Two reviews
TCJ has an interview with the writer Dan Nadel here: https://www.tcj.com/an-interview-with-crumb-biographer-dan-n...

Actually, they have quite a lot of additional links to further reviews/features about the book here: https://www.tcj.com/the-egg-a-symbol-of-life-this-weeks-link...

DanSmooth··on Argentinian farmer finds family of 20k-year-old armadillos
Considering that the only comment on the piece is four years old as well, this looks like a repost from that time.
DanSmooth··on Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards
Scryfall.com and their API is your friend
DanSmooth··on Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards
You might want to also check Cardmarket.com to get a better view on prices for the European market.
DanSmooth··on Tiny Awards for Small Websites
I think they use another definition of "small" than most of tech-oriented folks here at HN. They don't seem to be interested in filesizes, number of requests, or even usability. They used a WYSIWG builder (see their advertisement somewhere else in this thread), which is responsible for all of the bloat. It looked good on their (fruity?) devices, and they went with it. It doesn't look like anyone with a technical sensibility was ever involved.
DanSmooth··on ChatGPT generated a puzzle game
Looks like a variant of Kakurasu [0] but instead of given numbers (1 to X) they use random numbers.

[0] https://www.puzzle-kakurasu.com/

DanSmooth··on Tiktoken: OpenAI’s Tokenizer
Same. A shame "Token McTokenface" seems to be already in use. What about "Sentence Splitter Upper"?

More serious "qiktoken" would at least hint at the use for the package.

DanSmooth··on It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness
The whole sentence could use some more punctuation marks, like so:

A large number of young people across different countries are affected, with considerable impact on health care systems and society as a whole. Since spread via social media is no longer restricted to specific locations such as local communities or school environments, spread via social media is no longer restricted to specific locations such as schools or towns.

DanSmooth··on Nuxt 3 vs SvelteKit
Really enjoyed the read and the details, but the number of words per row and thus the width of the row is straining.

In the for-loop example, I prefer that you can easier and more direct see what's going on with Svelte. The syntax is more expressive.

DanSmooth··on Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free online
There is https://croatian.film/en/ for Croatian short films.
DanSmooth··on Crossword.el – download and play crossword puzzles in Emacs
There is https://crosswordlinks.substack.com/ for a daily newsletter with all the usuals (including info if they offer a .puz) and https://crosswordfiend.com/download/ with direct downloads of the same.
DanSmooth··on Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
Fantastic logo! I first thought it was a stylized treble clef but I think it's more a stylized sixteenth note. Not sure if this was your intention but still great. You might even consider to add the five lines used in sheet music to make the music-part more clear.

Speaking of logos, I disliked that you use songbox there, but call your service SongBox. I would change it and maybe even fix it in the user stories.

Small suggestion for the image that shows the dashboard: To quote Matthew McC: "You gotta pump those numbers up!" It's apparent that they are from a demo account you use, but perhaps you could make the numbers more appealing (don't oversell it, though). If I would use your service, I would hope to have a better avg listening time for example.

Kudos for that Doctor Who easter egg, btw!

DanSmooth··on Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email
Great idea! Just subscribed to get some Dumas in my mailbox.

A preview would be nice. Something to get a feel of how long a chapter might be. Also time is a fickle thing. Your 3pm might differ from mine. You might want to include the timezone somewhere. Finally: What's up with the blots that appear onclick in the upper quarter of the page?

DanSmooth··on Andy Matuschak's Notes
Feels like a horizontally aligned version of Tiddlywiki: https://tiddlywiki.com/
DanSmooth··on Learn to code by creating working applications
Could link directly to https://hyperskill.org/ and the disclaimer in their terms is of importance:

"Hyperskill is a part of JetBrains Academy's learning experience. While most of learning will be happening online on hyperskill.org, some parts of the service are accessible only via JetBrains IDEs."

DanSmooth··on ”The Program” first results – how I used HN to launch a fiction podcast
Perhaps they haven't found the download link? :-)

I get that the change won't affect many listeners, but it also couldn't hurt, considering that the change itself is of the smallest proportions.

DanSmooth··on ”The Program” first results – how I used HN to launch a fiction podcast
Haven't listened to an episode yet, but this looks great!

One small suggestion: a direct link to download the MP3. It's easy to find, no question there, but I use the NoScript add-on and had to enable it, and then had to figure out that I should use the menu in Chrome's audioplayer to get to the download.

DanSmooth··on The next outbreak? We're not ready. Ted talk by Bill Gates (2015)
Perhaps also of interest, his recent AMA on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill...
DanSmooth··on Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says
Details and study as PDF (27 pages) has been released today: https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/release-new-study-google-r...

They also provide a pre-written Op-Ed, which differs from the NYT version: https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/google-study-oped/

DanSmooth··on Ask HN: Is it possible to create a medium.com account with an email address?
See here: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004915268

It's possible, but sorta hidden.

DanSmooth··on Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
A small "Read the full description"-link to the #readme anchor below the inital short description probably would work wonders here.
DanSmooth··on The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died
And if the postings are still online perhaps link to the official "obituaries".
DanSmooth··on Show HN: Predict how well people will react to your writing
Landing-page would have been a great opportunity to show the effects of the tool in action. Have a casual-text (a slightly longer version of what is stated there now) that explains it at the top and display different versions (utilizing different fonts) that use other lingo (i.e.: business, student, techies) at the bottom to show what the tool is actually doing. Add a prominent link to the examples, to show the actual tool in action, and I'm sold.

Or to phrase it another way: Shit needs more bling!

DanSmooth··on Breaking Up with James Joyce
Further reading: The NYT had just last week a longform piece on Jason Kidd, who was once celebrated as the greates JJ scholar alive: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/magazine/the-strange-case...
DanSmooth··on What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016)
I once argued that the best thing that ever happened to web-development in terms of adoption was "view source" and how easily accessible it was.
DanSmooth··on Incorporating a limited company in Germany
There is missing ("Gewerbeamt") and partially wrong information there (the 17.500 VAT thing), so use with caution!

My best advice: get a tax-guy. They do all this crap and more and while they come with a price (German tax laws are no laughing matters) it's money well spent and also acts as security because said tax-guy shoulders a lot of accountability (pun intended).

DanSmooth··on South Park's creators on how the series has evolved
You mean a training-effect?
DanSmooth··on Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS
Additional details: https://okfn.de/en/projekte/prototypefund/

It has support from the BMBF (Federal Ministry for Education and Research)

DanSmooth··on Mir Spacecraft: Worst collision in the history of space flight [video]
Let's start small by disabling auto-play.
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