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mkgoldenon Show HN: PHONK, JavaScript scripting for Android devices

Phonk is also a genre that typically takes samples from early-1990s hip hop, combining them with sounds from jazz,and deploys distorting techniques such as chopped and screwed to create a darker sound.

- From wikipedia

Really cool stuff I might add

mkgoldenon An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

Can you share with us some of the mentioned meditations?

mkgoldenon DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors

Maybe it is because protesters are more of a threat to those in power than looters

mkgoldenon Ask HN: Do you ever truly use your revision history?

I think you do get value from it. You won't know it till you eventually do have to go digging in commit history, though I don't find myself doing this regularly. I have found it useful when attempting to understand why code was changed or written the way it was some years previous before. I have also used it to understand when/where a bug was introduced. A tool I like for exploring git history is DeepGit.

mkgoldenon SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM

Interesting, my experience is different. I recently canceled my subscription and the amount of ads soundcloud plays drives me up the wall. It makes me want to resubscribe.

mkgoldenon Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?

Linux on mobile. With the release of pinephone and librem we have the opportunity to remove ourselves from the Google and apple mobile walled gardens.

mkgoldenon Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

Thanks for the link! Been looking for something like this.

mkgoldenon Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

The is the real question

mkgoldenon Fast Software, the Best Software

Foobar2000 is the bee's knees

mkgoldenon Planting a trillion trees could be our best strategy to tackle climate change

Checkout tentree

mkgoldenon Solid Design Principles: The Guide to Becoming Better Developers

This is the conclusion I have reached, well put.

mkgoldenon Lsd: The next gen ls command

I'm geekin lol

mkgoldenon Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition tech

The self checkout lines in walmart and target have a HD camera right in your face. I have always found these disturbing, they aren't even looking at what I'm buying. Do you guys think they are using facial recognition on these streams?

mkgoldenon Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos

Everyone keeps saying how easy it was to find. My experience was different, eventually came across a torrent of it but it took me surprisingly long, 30 minutes or so. Maybe im bad at googling?

mkgoldenon Building a RISC-V PC

Check out the LoFive RISC-V development board

mkgoldenon Ask HN: What are the most fun areas of programming?

Came here to say this.

mkgoldenon The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores

I have always found those cameras in the Walmart self check-out lines extremely sketchy. They DO NOT need to be there.

mkgoldenon Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex

Why do articles like this even exist? Wish I could get the 2 minutes I spent reading it and typing this out, back.

mkgoldenon Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

Care to share a botched merge story of yours? I try to learn from others mistakes.

mkgoldenon Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

I would like to hear some examples as well. I hate losing my work.