frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?

3•tinnitus_crazy•1h ago
Not exactly technical, but HN feels like the correct crowd to ask because asking anywhere else I would be considered mentally ill.

I have a tinnitus that seems to stay 99,9% of the day, it’s away for some minutes sometimes and it’s very high frequency. Imagine a power supply coil whine.

Now the mentally ill part: the tinnitus can change position (left/right ear) and change volume. I didn’t hear the tinnitus on the right ear for some days, now it’s back on it (and still audible on the left ear) after sitting on the couch again.

The couch, you ask? Two weeks ago, when the tinnitus started, we changed the layout of our living room. The couch was now located next to our WiFi router. The tinnitus started shortly after that. I never had tinnitus before. Guess what, the router makes the same noise (even my partner can hear it). After some days of realizing it might be from the router, I changed the position of it to the other side of the room, but now somehow I can still hear the high frequency from the router from 3 meters apart. And as soon as I start sitting on the couch, the tinnitus gets much worse. Even disabling electricity in the full house I still hear that WiFi router noise in my ear.

Am I insane? Is this a thing? Can some frequency cause a tinnitus which can be re-triggered by the same frequency? Can it have a memory effect? Could it be it doesn’t go away even if I don’t sit on the couch for days because all these power supplies have high frequency coil whine in each and every facility these days, which trigger it again?

I feel like Neo from The Matrix who got enlightened and now can hear electricity, but without the rest of the super powers :(

PS: I visited a doctor and am doing the usual medical procedures to deal with tinnitus (Prednisolone 60mg/day), but it doesn’t help in any way.

Comments

moomoo11•55m ago
funny enough i thought i was getting tinnitus, something that was bothering me for almost a year. turned out it was my power adapter’s coil whine
anenefan•52m ago
I'm not a doctor so all I can do is point you to places like [1] though I've had tinnitus for 30 plus years. I worked around loud equipment with inadequate ear protection - but the defining blow was having my head beside a push bike tyre when it exploded resulting in partial deafness for a day or so.

It's different for everyone, mine is actually damage to the small hearing hairs so no cure hope at all. It takes a while for the brain to adjust and slowly ignore the noise but only to a point. Different things work and you've probably been told about white noise could could help out.

For a start my tinnitus was like standing on the tarmac beside a jet screaming its engines ... making any conversation a great deal of effort trying to ignore the loud whine. It eased over the years where I could almost mistake it for a loud chorus of crickets or cicadas at night, which strangely was more easy to think that's just what it was. Mostly though lately I can ignore it or simply forget it's going on.

[1] https://hearingandme.com/can-tinnitus-be-cured-what-science-...

bigyabai•45m ago
Try moving your couch. It's possible that you're sitting in a resonant part of the room that amplifies background noise through room modes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_modes

That's a long shot, though.

k310•19m ago
Music all day long diverts attention.

There's an oldies station nearby, and's it's very effective and uplifting.

Music at bedtime to mask odd country noises of unknown origin.

The Title on Your Badge Is Becoming a Guess

https://priorcontext.substack.com/p/the-title-on-your-badge-is-becoming
1•contextwindow•10s ago•0 comments

Arrow Flight vs. JSON in Next.js: Benchmarking Python and Go

https://kayhan.dev/posts/012-arrow-flight-vs-json-nextjs-snowflake-benchmark/
1•keynha•5m ago•0 comments

The Hidden Reason Screwdriver Handles Look Like This [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGiRSA_GWK8
1•CharlesW•5m ago•0 comments

Global AI Diffusion Q1 2026 Trends and Insights

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/dmc/topics/ai-economy-institute/reports/...
1•igor_mart•12m ago•1 comments

Grinder12: 0.96-Bit Lossless Streaming KV-Cache (16.55x VRAM Savings

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/22891
2•AMICLLC•19m ago•0 comments

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

https://github.com/nooga/xsofy
3•andsoitis•28m ago•0 comments

Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search...
4•gmays•39m ago•0 comments

Snyk and Claude Code: real-time security scanning of AI-generated code

https://codebrainery.com/articles/snyk-claude-code-real-time-security-scanning-for-ai-code
2•yogeshbansal•40m ago•0 comments

Dissolving atherosclerotic plaque without surgery

https://www.cureus.com/articles/488870-closed-loop-extracorporeal-vascular-cleaning-by-staged-che...
2•iliatoli•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Modafinil - Let agents continue running while MacBook lid is closed

https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil
3•hamza_q_•44m ago•0 comments

"genesis mission (US Government)" (Angela Collier on AI and research) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Ejmhwb8Sc
2•eqvinox•45m ago•0 comments

MCP for sandboxed, reproducible envs for agentic-first coding workflows

https://github.com/aniongithub/devcontainer-mcp
3•anionyt•46m ago•0 comments

Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/05/09/flipping-the-bozo-bit-on-flips-the-learning-off/
3•eatonphil•47m ago•0 comments

Powering the Inference Era: Inside the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/powering-the-inference-era
2•gmays•47m ago•0 comments

The Laboratory and the Artist

https://clereviewofbooks.com/the-laboratory-and-the-artist/
3•skogstokig•49m ago•0 comments

Memory device breaks high-temperature performance record

https://physicsworld.com/a/memory-device-breaks-high-temperature-performance-record/
4•EA-3167•50m ago•0 comments

How Israel's creation mirrors Greek independence – and why it's overlooked

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-895285
5•dima1830•52m ago•2 comments

DOS, Floppies, NetBSD and Nostalgia

https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF
3•jaypatelani•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Satellite Visualizer

https://github.com/aabiji/kepler
2•aabiji•56m ago•0 comments

Pocket Raspberry Pi Computer for Hackers [Pre-Sale]

https://shop.m5stack.com/pages/m5-cardputerzero
3•daniel_iversen•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fixing AI memory blind spot on connected facts with benchmark

https://yourmemoryai.xyz/
4•SachitRafa•58m ago•0 comments

Plant Seeds Do Something When the Sound of Rain Strikes

https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-can-sense-the-sound-of-rain
2•m463•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
59•imtomt•1h ago•15 comments

Anthropic weighs deal for near $1T valuation as revenue surges

https://www.ft.com/content/a40cafcc-0fa4-4e70-9e24-90d826aea56d
3•mfiguiere•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Codex/Claude Code plugin for persistent product context thru sessions

https://github.com/idodekerobo/draft-cli-plugin
3•idodekerobo•1h ago•0 comments

Godot Usage and Engine Growth

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-growth-stats-2026/
3•JSLegendDev•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Can a tinnitus be triggered by high frequency noises?

3•tinnitus_crazy•1h ago•4 comments

Situational Awareness Kindle eBook ePub

https://blog.cahillanelabs.com/kindle/epub/llm/2026/05/10/situational-awareness-ebook
2•linuxfan2718•1h ago•0 comments

The Case of the Kung Fu 'Phreak'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-case-of-the-kung-fu-phreak/
3•mindcrime•1h ago•1 comments

Model Provenance Kit: Know Where Your AI Models Come From

https://blogs.cisco.com/ai/model-provenance-kit
3•boh•1h ago•0 comments