Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | robotmachine's commentslogin

Funny you bring Leon Theremin up. I just showed a friend of mine The Thing[0] today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)


Many moons ago an acquaintance did a somewhat similar project finding default title "mic in track.mp3" files on music sharing services that were created using MusicMatch Jukebox.

> https://www.stark-effect.com/mit.html


Seconded ^


Offtopic, but `zack_overflow` is an excellent username.


[flagged]


Maybe it’s a machine that makes robots. This coming from DeadDodo?


Yup, this coming from deaddodo, Nick Peterson.


This entire subthread is


Seconded.


A watch folder is a feature of Calibre as well.


Of Calibre yes, but not of Calibre Web. I don't want to have to create a database, and move it to web for it to work.


The new CEO's last name is Bowser which is less amazing, but more amazingly apropos.


They even play on it in Nintendo Direct, having the King of the Koopas appear in a tie to discuss strategy for the upcoming year, only to be upstaged by the real Doug Bowser.


This was very similar to my experience when cancelling my Amazon Prime account a week ago. It was at least five pages of trying to talk me out of it and the 'continue cancelling' was similarly the more obscure/non-obvious button.

It makes it feel like a very shady process without being outright deceptive.


Have mercy.


Well, this made me do a sweep on my servers to make sure I didn't have VNC running. Tag as PSA!


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: