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The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•23s ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•58s ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•3m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•8m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•9m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•9m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•10m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•12m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•12m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•19m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
3•dragandj•20m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•21m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•22m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•23m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•23m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•26m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•26m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•27m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•28m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•30m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•30m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•31m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•32m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
1•mooreds•33m ago•0 comments

Sebastian Galiani on the Marginal Revolution

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/sebastian-galiani-on-the-marginal-revol...
2•paulpauper•36m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are we at the point where software can improve itself?

1•ManuelKiessling•36m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

In 1979 one of the best guitar solos recorded was cut for radio time

https://www.seekhifi.com/my-sharona-by-the-knack/
48•wmeredith•4mo ago

Comments

wmeredith•4mo ago
I'm not sure about the rules of submitting something like this to Hacker News, but I found it to be a fascinating quirk at the intersection of culture and technology. I didn't even know about it (the radio edit) when I started researching this song for my website. The gist is below.

The Knack's 1979 breakout hit My Sharona is remembered for spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, but that radio edit is woefully incomplete. Lead guitarist Berton Averre’s full-length My Sharona solo is absolutely transcendent. Which makes it all the more ridiculous that it was cut for time on the radio release.

ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
Tons of songs were cut. It's still typical to have "radio edits" of songs.

When the tech came out, that allowed the tempo to be increased, without changing the pitch, a lot of songs suddenly got faster.

In radio, every second counts, and there will be a lot of fighting for tenths of a second. Sort of like top-shelf track and field athletes.

The prose in that story is a bit ... intense.

MarkusWandel•4mo ago
Oddly enough... I looked for the full length version, played it through and... yep, that's how I remember it. From what I recorded off the radio as a 12 year old in Germany. I guess they ran the full length version there.
jdalgetty•4mo ago
I'm too young to know the radio version but I've definitely enjoyed the solo for many years listening to the mp3 version.
bitwize•4mo ago
Fun fact: Sharona Alperin, now a realtor, uses her status as the subject of this song to market her real estate business. https://mysharona.com
ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
Sorry you got dinged. That was a fascinating fact. Thanks for sharing it!
Anthony-G•4mo ago
Also referenced in the article: https://www.npr.org/2010/03/06/124397021/the-woman-behind-my...
alsetmusic•4mo ago
The Beatles never sat on the stereo mixes for any of their songs because the radio of the time was AM / mono. All the stereo mixes were done by their producer / sound engineers / possibly others without their input. Not that they were cut out or anything; they just didn't care.
ribfeasty•4mo ago
The Beatles (especially John) also hated the tedium of re-recording vocals to layer them, as is common in audio production to improve the impact of vocals in recordings.

Their engineer ended up coming up with a technical approach we call ADT (Automatic double-tracking) to artificially duplicate and layer the vocals without requiring the artist(s) to re-record vocals.

IAmBroom•4mo ago
IIRC, Richard Carpenter took this to the Nth level. He found the recording equipment with the largest number of tape tracks - 28 - and used them all to layer Karen's voice.

She had an amazing voice, but she also stood out because of his technical nuancing of their sound.

alsetmusic•4mo ago
I'm super late with this reply, but they were also the first to close-mic drums. Before that, drums were always recorded with a couple of mics above the kit.
ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
The worst, for me, was watching a Gary Clark Jr live recording (I think it was When My Train Pulls In) on YouTube. He had a long solo, and, right in the middle of it, a damn Cialis ad pops in.
comrade1234•4mo ago
When my train pulls in... Cialis ad...

Am I just pointing out the obvious joke that you made, thus making it unfunny?

ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
Well, the Internet knows I'm a white guy in my 60s, so I get these really weird ads, all the time. Wouldn't surprise me, it the choice of ad was deliberate.

These ads look like they were designed by young folks, that have no idea what it's like, being older. AI is making them even weirder.

IAmBroom•4mo ago
Scene: ordinary couple, on a cliffside, both naked and sitting in side-by-side bathtubs, holding hands.
db48x•4mo ago
Adblockers solve so many problems.
ChrisMarshallNY•4mo ago
Not sure that would work, with inline video ads. The Two Yutes solution, below, might be better.
db48x•4mo ago
It would work.
andrewstuart•4mo ago
What an awesome guitar solo. I think my favorite of any.

In fact the entire album is really awesome.

marshray•4mo ago
Wow, I'd never heard that before. That was really wonderful.

All those times I'd listened to it on the radio... I knew it was missing something.

dundercoder•4mo ago
That was some serious musicianship right there!
kristianp•4mo ago
Favourite guitar solos? I like "Sweet Child of Mine" and "Brothers in Arms".
johnh-hn•4mo ago
Slash's World on Fire album (2014) is excellent, in case you're interested.
wmeredith•4mo ago
I'm partial to the solo in comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd.