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ultrasounderon Ask HN: What are you reading?

Notes from the underground, myth of Sisyphus and Thus spoke Zarathustra. All three in parallel

ultrasounderon Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/ link takes you to the homeworks/assignments and everything else for a self-study/auto-didact to follow along. Neat!

ultrasounderon Captain Zilog

kinda similar in vein https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html this one is by Scott McCloud. I own Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics both of which are inspirational reads

ultrasounderon Simulacra and Simulation

I Just finished listening to this episode of Philosophize This podcast https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/simulacra-and-simul.... Whole-heartedly recommend this podcast episode the entire podcast to anyone who is remotely interested in learning the "modern western canon" in Layman's terms.

ultrasounderon Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

Very nice implementation. I tried developing my own to practice Santhai(repeat thrice) to learn Upnishads and this tool would be at the center of my workflow. A locally installable version would be even great! Kudos. Dhanyosmi :-)

ultrasounderon Make your own microforest (2025)

Cool!

ultrasounderon Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours

Absolutely slick UI and wonderful implementation. As an ardent follower of Santana Dharma I admire OP’s courage and grit to put this piece of work out there. More power to OP and hoping to see more Epics included. Thanks for making and sharing this.

ultrasounderon Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

Thanks a million for posting! As a Kanchipuram native(can trace lineage all the way up to 5 generations at least), this was totally unexpected and a pleasant surprise. I have visited one of these Co-op looms and it's mindblowing how to this day the Kanchi Pattu(silk-Tamizh) is made with a handloom. aptly named handicraft. of course, the piece de resistance is the Varadharaja Perumal Kovil which has some of the best and well maintained sculptures on the planet.

This being one such exhibit https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/comments/1j75nc0/the_...

Brings back my joyous/carefree youth where I would spend summer vacations ambling around the massive temple complex.

ultrasounderon Non-Zero-Sum Games

Wow!. Such an original piece of "non-AI slop" content in a long time. Kudos for making this as I myself tipping my toes to explore this concept after hearing about it from multiple sources(Naval Ravikant incl). Thanks for making this and looking forward to more podcast episodes. Cheers

ultrasounderon Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

Finished scarlet pimpernel on a rainy Christmas Day. Couldn’t put the book down. To think that it spawned a whole genre of super-hero movies where the protagonist hides behind a mask of “ foppiness” and it was written back in 1901 and set against the ever green theme of the French Revolution is mind boggling. Once I finished reading it yesterday, followed it up with the movie of the same title. Well made and acted. Wholly recommend the book first and then the movie.

ultrasounderon Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options

Nice :-)

ultrasounderon Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options

Thanks for the book recommendation. Seems like an interesting book. Have seen it recommended a few times here in HN already

ultrasounderon Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options

Thanks for the book recommendations. Will absolutely check them out. No productive life for me is to be of “some use to others”. That’s what I am contemplating about. Also true regarding jumping from one goal to another without seeing the previous one through. Need to work on that too.

ultrasounderon Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options

interesting thought. I have this "side project" that I started working with some ex-colleagues that I could see sprouting some legs. My CA UI(unemployment insurance) benefits could potentially fund this for the time being when I do some soul searching and contemplating.

ultrasounderon Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options

Thanks!. Very thoughtfully framed around gratitude.

ultrasounderon Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options

Thanks!. Yes. Definitely one of the TOP priorities right now is to "Take the time off" and assess my priorities. In fact, my sons's College Apps could use some help :-)

ultrasounderon Sutton and Barto book implementation

Super helpful while I come upto speed with this field in general. Currently taking the XCS234(RL @ Stanford online) and this book is referenced for everything.

ultrasounderon The Beginner's RL Playground

The Author used to be on the Unity Agents team and was my first every introduction to Whatever Learning. This looks cool and timing couldnt be better as I am working through XCS234(Stanford Deep RL course)

ultrasounderon Show HN: I built a deep learning engine from scratch in Python

Hi I just found this resource. Is this a full-fledged Transformer implementation? If so, I would like to throw GRPO on it to see what happens. I mean what could possibly go wrong :-)

ultrasounderon A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning

Thanks a lot! Looks like a lot of fun. Like I said will combine it with my Stanford online course

ultrasounderon A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning

I found this in the Authors GitHub repo. Looks interesting. Will use this to complement my learning resources https://github.com/farhanhubble/discover-drl/blob/master/Red...

ultrasounderon Introduction to CUDA programming for Python developers

Very nice-write up. The in-line quiz, which i think is AI generated(QnA) is very useful to test understanding. Wish all tutorials incorporated that feature.

ultrasounderon Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29

Thanks! This made my day. ROFL.

ultrasounderon ElevenReader by ElevenLabs

Bravo!

ultrasounderon Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

Sounds cool! In fact, this can be applied to other areas such as "debate monitoring" for debate competitions

ultrasounderon How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

Pretty nifty, except that it also detects "winks" as "blinks".

ultrasounderon Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

@adnanaga looking at you as a future AJ. And @chan you as the DOPE(Department of pentagon efficiency). I mean the "bar" is too low now. All you need to do is Pass the bar. Pun intended. Love it guys.I just posted a continue and persist letter to you guys. You guys made me smile and laugh. So Thank You on this Thanksgiving day

ultrasounderon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)

https://www.voxtodo.com App that generates subtasks from high level tasks. Useful for chunking which is a concept of breaking down highly complex tasks into their atomic bits. Made this for my HS Junior son who has a medical diagnosis of ADHD

ultrasounderon Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support

https://www.sankaranethralaya.org/

The one in Chennai is roughly 40 years old. They should have a "appointment booking" available right there on the landing page. They perform full-on keratoplasty a.k.a Corneal Transplant. But like the other poster said, please consult your pediatrician about other options as You are dealing with a toddler. Best wishes and hugs. wishing you and your wife all the very best.

ultrasounderon Show HN: I built a free tool for breaking down tasks into manageable subtasks

sorry for this and thanks for trying out. wld you mind emailing me here vsap78atgmaildotcom. i am not seeing error logs in my webapp console and google auth is also showing no errors. one thing i might suggest is, clear you cache and try again.