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muntooon YC AI

Well, that depends on how you define your cost function. :-)

muntooon Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers

My Watch Later is like 100 videos long. Ain't nobody got time for that.

muntooon AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

That's probably one of my key focus bands... though I'd probably list:

ISIS — Oceanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2C8Z1Keluk

ISIS — Panopticon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA2AJIiw0p8

ISIS — In The Absence of Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atCKkDusJkc

The latter being a more accessible, earthlier sound (with no growling); yet the former two being the greater works.

Additionally, some classic post-rock masterpieces by GY!BE:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — F# A# ∞ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy4IsC5eb7o

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZwQeZh6rP0

As a track is named, the former is bleak, uncertain, beautiful; both melancholic and uplifting with despairing wails and wavering cries of tears and joy. The second is the more known GY!BE album, which is just as good.

Nowadays, I just listen to whatever strikes my mood (I can tune most stuff out), but the ones I listed above were particularly good for focusing during essay writing.

muntooon Ask HN: You're in an empty room. How do you generate a random number?

Or 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, and 9.

muntooon Ask HN: You're in an empty room. How do you generate a random number?

...And mod by the number of hairs you have on your hand.

muntooon Ask HN: You're in an empty room. How do you generate a random number?

One can't be sure if there is air, gravity (or how much), or a singularity sitting right outside the room. We don't know if it is filled with solely oxygen at 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000psi.

muntooon Ask HN: You're in an empty room. How do you generate a random number?

What about people who spin in circles and think everything looks like a 0? It isn't completely random if someone is biased towards a number, especially when the picture is uncertain. A possibly better approach would be to count the number of 'splatters' (or whatever), and mod by some smaller number (i.e., 16).