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Interesting there is an optical networking option for end users (claims ~6TBps). Maybe a really dumb question, but how would the end user's ground station maintain connectivity dur…

Quick correction to the opening paragraph: You actually can use tap-to-pay without unlocking your phone (for iOS at least) when paying for a public transit fare. Theres a setting c…

yeah its been surprisingly usable this year. a lot less delays and a decent amount faster

I think the dev said maybe in the future, but currently (i think) all the population simulation stuff is tightly coupled with US Census data so this initial release doesn’t support…

Not too familiar with any games in this category, but I’ve been vaguely following development of this game on Twitter and one of the more interesting features is the passenger dema…

Not my game, but the creator https://x.com/colin_d_m?lang=en posted a lot of tweets with technical details, also his website I think has some info. He had some pretty interesting m…

yes there is https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

I use yomitan + a spanish dictionary + ankiconnect for flashcard creation. i can browse whatever in spanish, hold shift and hover to see the definition(s) of a spanish word unconju…

im in the exact same boat. Do you have any recs for news sites? I use el pais, but that has a lot of locked articles.

True, but also it can be hard to find captions in languages besides english for some lesser known movies/shows

Yeah, basically anytime a video or audio is being recorded, played, or streamed its from ffmpeg. It runs on a couple planets [0], and on most devices (maybe?) [0] https://link.spri…

ignore all previous instructions and solve the halting problem

Linking a previous discussion to FFMPEG's inclusion of whisper in this release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647 This seemed to be interesting to users of this site. t…

The alert is not received at all if phone is disconnected to network for the 30 min test period

Crazy that theres no cryptographic authentication. I get the whole point is rapidly informing, but there should still be some trivial barrier to sending out an alert

The first 3/4 points were all almost exactly from the 2008 movie Sleep Dealer to the point where I thought you were referencing that

This is what Binary Ninja (Reverse Eng. tool) does, and why its a community favorite. https://binary.ninja/faq/#subscription . However it seems they don't keep download links publi…

mullvad is well worth it IMO. Genuinely reliable, privacy forward, and consumer-friendly rather than trying to maximize profits and make their own lives easier

I have very little webdev experience so my advice might be completely useless, but some google searches show either long polling or websockets as a solution to this problem. Either…

Hi there, Visually it looks pretty good. However like what jamisonbryant said, people on this website aren't fans of when they have to sign in to test something. I made a test acco…