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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard 538 by talccc | 149 comments on Hacker News. Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free chord tools and tuners. No signup or download. 1 minute video demo: https://youtu.be/DtcluMLdSgs I would love feedback on how the strumming feels and sounds.

New best story on Hacker News: Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe 535 by Zeekaas | 717 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/U3ZVu5z... , https://ift.tt/eh7o0IB , https://ift.tt/Id9CeXr... Related: https://ift.tt/RuZqnU0... I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked - https://ift.tt/tVi1dL2 - Aug 2026 (239 comments)

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years 523 by lukehandcool | 132 comments on Hacker News. Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There's no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which is out of reach for most families there and was about two weeks of summer job money for me. The daughter of the family I stayed with, Anwarite, was 11. I offered to pay her fees and told myself I'd keep paying as long as she wanted to keep going. This summer she graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam with a degree in Language Studies, and last week she told me she'd been accepted into a Master of Arts in Swahili program there. Roughly 2% of people from Njombe ever finish a university degree. Her goal is to get a PhD and then to bring it back to the region. Her entire 18...