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cezary | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I made a TikTok for short-form videos on Reddit

Thanks for checking it out. Hadn't used Mix before, I can see the similarities. The app is a lot simpler than what they've done; I wanted a stream of new videos and a way to consume them quickly on a website. Any social interaction like commenting or upvoting are handled on Reddit.

With my usage, I don't want to log in to another site and I like that I could browse by user or multiple subs: https://ayayay.app/r/AnimalsBeingDerps+animalsdoingstuff+aww...

cezary | 1 year ago | on: Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland

Poles have existed for a millennia, the first Polish state started in 966 AD as the Kingdom of Poland with the adoption of Western Christianity by the first Polish king. Maybe the idea of a nation hadn't been formed yet, but Poland had. The Polish word for Germany is "Niemec" or land of mutes, because they were unintelligible.

Why would anyone make that argument? Claiming Poznań as German reeks of irredentism. Germanic != German. Do germans still claim the cities of other Germanic countries and former lands like Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Baltics as German?

cezary | 9 years ago | on: Los Angeles Drivers on the 405 Ask: Was $1.6B Worth It?

> "Richard Close, 73, who has lived in Sherman Oaks for 43 years, said his daily commute to Santa Monica has become easier, and with the construction crews gone, he has come to appreciate the new 405. He said he leaves his office after 7 at night, to miss the worst of rush hour, and it takes about 75 minutes to go 15 miles, which he said saved him 15 minutes a night on his old commute."

So he went from going an average of 10 miles/hr to 12.5 miles/hr. Never mind the ever-increasing population of the area and this little boost in commute time is just going to evaporate as more people congest the highway. Ideally they'd take away a lane on each side and build a new Metro rail line. It might not alleviate traffic much, but it would give people an alternative to driving.

cezary | 9 years ago | on: iPhone 7

This is how I see it. There's no mention of Airpods using bluetooth, I'm betting that W1 chip is using a proprietary wireless protocol that keeps other manufacturers from easily/cheaply creating wireless headphones or using these wireless headphones on other devices.

cezary | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Awesome, thanks for the feedback!

The subreddit list definitely needs some attention. The aim was to bucket them into categories, so I either need to flesh that out or sort them.

Skipping media that doesn't load is doable. Some content won't play or advance automatically because a lack of an api to control the api (gifs, Liveleak, Basecamp, iTunes, spotify) but I didn't automatically filter them out because a lot of it is good content. Probably a good option to add to a settings page.

cezary | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Rddt.tv - http://rddt.tv

Reddit.tv was an app to watch videos posted to reddit but shut down back in January. Haven't been able to find a replacement that I liked, so I built my own. Made the videos full-screen by default and added extra stuff like support for Soundcloud embeds (so you could listen to music subreddits), a directory of video-posting subreddits, multireddits, keyboard shortcuts.

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