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Why is this the top HN story? There are tons of perceptual audio examples that have been around for decades. Check out Curtis Road's Computer Music book for an
by 10dpd 14y ago
Why is this the top HN story? There are tons of perceptual audio examples that have been around for decades. Check out Curtis Road's Computer Music book for an in-depth analysis of this technique and more.
- charliesome 14y agoBecause it's cool and hackers like cool things. I would never have known about this if it didn't make it to the top of HN.
- 10dpd 14y agoSo can we come up with an meaningful definition of 'cool'? There is an infinite number of arbitrary 'cool' things in the world - audio perception is definitely interesting, but so is granular synthesis, binaural audio and physical modelling. I'm just not sure if the role of HN is to educate users on 'cool' things. Maybe its because most of the US is currently sleeping...
- charliesome 14y agoOn-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- DanBC 14y agoIt's a weekend. Different content rises to the top on the weekend.
- jamesrcole 14y agoIf you already know everything about perceptual audio techniques... I didn't know about it, and found it interesting.
- sp332 14y agoBecause it's Saturday... From first-hand experience, it's not hard to get to the top on HN on most Saturdays.