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david927

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    Comment #49238680

    This is fantastic and exactly what I needed. Thank you!

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    Comment #49233803

    Very cool

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    Comment #49233581

    Just a fun thing I do: editing films to music. https://brodlist.com/sfe P.S. Credit to adityaathalye for the change of phrasing for these posts to add "what are you curious about?"…

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    Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

    What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?

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    Comment #49217132

    right? I didn't do that one. But, wow.

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    Comment #49216783

    Not for my short films, but here's where I put some existing films I've cut and edited to music (and a few from others) https://brodlist.com/sfe

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    Comment #49216667

    oh, it can be anything, in the same way a short story can be. A lot of times it has a music track which is central to it.

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    Comment #49216351

    I'm interested in film making. Writing, directing. Mainly short films, often without dialog.

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    Comment #49210536

    The 1990's

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    Comment #49183813

    Your argument is silly. Europe is more content than the US and a big part of that is the social protections such as universal healthcare. I like accelerator pedals on cars, I do, b…

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    Comment #49183575

    It's a subjective measure each way, to be sure, and really applies to the the coasts. If you want to see it that way, no one can correct you. But as an American who has spent decad…

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    Comment #49183401

    > I think a part of it is the individualism we’re raised to embrace. > We don’t care for our children, our elderly, or our communities. It’s all me me me. How do I get mine and fuc…

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    Comment #49176151

    Will we call it "The Big Short 2" and just reuse footage from the original?

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    Comment #49162478

    I would need more information. Maybe make a small website that shows some screenshots, etc.

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    Comment #49158157

    Fantastic. The additional context for each work is wonderful. I would prefer if I could restrict it to a style or movement, say, "Baroque" or period "1400-1600". I think it would m…

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    Comment #49110843

    This is a better article than the initial paragraphs reveal. The author is saying that what James Joyce called ‘proper’ art is essentially a stepping stone for our understanding of…

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    Comment #49103387

    It was always supposed to be part of the question -- not just what cool projects you might be working on but also ideas that you might be thinking about. It fits nicely! Consider i…

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    Comment #49101644

    Each second Sunday of the month, I post an "Ask HN: What are you working on?" thread. I can add this to that, since the idea is the same. What do you think?

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    Comment #49088721

    An argument that tries to refute a fairly dumb argument in favor of an idea does not, in fact, negate the idea.

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    Comment #49027629

    "It's not debt, it's what they owe, and it's not hidden, if you dig you can find it."

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    Comment #48921914

    Yeah, something like that but more utopian and closer to Jacques Tati's Playtime. And I think that's what would make it funny: the affordance of the efficiency in design creating t…

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    Comment #48921190

    I thought about writing a comedy, set in the far future, where everything looks beautiful but nothing works right and it's just accepted (almost unnoticed) as a running gag through…

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    Comment #48899753

    It was famously Dijkstra, so they were almost certainly quoting him. He was responsible for a lot of great aphorisms; I think he was as quotable as he was irascible.

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    Comment #48898543

    "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes," Edsger Dijkstra I always liked that quote because telescopes can introduce artifacts, so astronome…