<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Certified</author><text>A project I worked on suggests vibrating the bone just under the earlobe at around 50kHz with a piezoelectric stack might help. 8 years or so ago I helped make a pocket sized and rechargeable medical device that operates on this principle. Last I checked it was still in FDA hell but helping the majority of sufferers in the trials. The theory of operation is that is breaks up tiny air bubbles stuck to the hairs in the inner ear.&lt;p&gt;An interesting side note is that you could &amp;#x27;hear&amp;#x27; a very high pitched sound when using the device even though 50kHz is far outside the standard human hearing range. We still are not sure but think we were hearing a lower harmonic of the tone bouncing around the skull.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_fs</author><text>I really wish someone was working to solve the problem of tinnitus. Would it be possible to generate anti phase wave out of these things to cancel out tinnitus? I would pay anything and&amp;#x2F;or wear any goofy device in my ears to live life tinnitus free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bose Hearphones</title><url>http://hearphones.bose.com/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ogig</author><text>I suddenly lost the hearing on one ear and it got replaced by a strong and permanent tinnitus. I quantify it as strong based on my talks with others with tinnitus.&lt;p&gt;What worked for me was stop fighting and start loving it. Now it&amp;#x27;s a perma mantra. Some somatic malfunction that enables me to ear the hum inside of me or whatever poetry works for you. Try it maybe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_fs</author><text>I really wish someone was working to solve the problem of tinnitus. Would it be possible to generate anti phase wave out of these things to cancel out tinnitus? I would pay anything and&amp;#x2F;or wear any goofy device in my ears to live life tinnitus free.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bose Hearphones</title><url>http://hearphones.bose.com/</url></story>