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They're talking about the font on the shirt

Kind of makes me wonder if the "more than 1,100 employees globally" actually means "1,111" employees. Talk about committing to the bit

About 1,200 kWh per transaction, currently[0]. I wrote about this back in 2022, when it was about 2,200 kWh per transaction[1]. Edit: made a chart with this data, but adding in a b…

Do you have an API?

The constant "By the way..." from Alexa drove me nuts. If you say "Alexa, stop by the way", it'll get the device to stop responding with follow-ups for ~24h. I ended up creating a …

I've been tickled by the idea of a follow-up version, Send Me To Hell, where users instead throw their phones _downward_. High scores are awarded based on the maximum speed achieve…

The second example for each language sample where the generated squid ends up being “B4aajs” essentially reads as “P0ooop” to a Swedish speaker. Which is fine, they don’t propose t…

EDIT: My reply below is wrong - you _can_ deal with in-flight requests with E-Tags as well using the if-match header. I had only seen them used with if-none-match. TIL. E-Tags woul…

The Common Paper app[1], though not quite a git workflow, has always struck me as being pretty close to how an software engineer might approach contracts: 1. An immutable set of st…

A few fun ones from finance: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/simon-peyton-jone... http://www.thierry-roncalli.com/download/smart-beta-minimum-... https://papers.ssrn.com…

Betterment's Cash Reserve[1] might be of interest to you. It's a similar concept, where they spread your deposits among multiple program banks to give you a higher level of FDIC in…

I managed to get my rocket very very slowly rotating ( Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth Score: 1712.2 point crash Speed: 15226.2mph Angle: 174.3° Time: 5963 seconds F…

RoQR: https://roqr.app/ It's a privacy-focused dynamic QR code application. Just got my first paying customer this past week, which I'm pretty stoked about! The costs of running it…

I'm building an open-source[1] alternative to qr-code-generator (Bitly), called RoQR[2]. The goal is to provide advertisers with analytics for the scans of their QR codes while sti…

Hi HN, For the last few months, I have been building RoQR, a privacy-respecting SaaS platform for dynamic QR codes. Dynamic QR codes let the code creator see statistics about the n…

No, the calculation is done per transaction, not per block. You can calculate the per-block consumption pretty easily based on the stat that there are about 150[1] blocks mined dai…

I think this commenter put it pretty well, so I'll just link to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596781