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Do you have a link to that doorbell product? My house came with the same problem.

I think Google+ had already broken Google search in that several way years before Disney+ appeared.

Micro Men! Great little TV movie, and really interesting story of the rivalry between UK golden-age home computing giants Sinclair and Acorn (Acorn being the company behind the BBC…

They use a new nanocomposite material, which combines graphene oxide flakes with upconverted nanoparticles (UCNPs) to achieve an unprecedented data density.

...and so, teaching us rubes that lesson was Elon's intended 3D chess move all along?

Via HN yesterday, some good thoughts on that question: https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-problems/

Incorrect and vulnerable crypto is why people are microdosing LSD?

Perhaps Forrest Mims of Radio Shack Engineer's Notebook fame? https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and...

Either way, too early.

I suspect it's called Kilo Lisp because all those sizes are in the of "kilobyte" order of magnitude, rather than "megabyte." But not because any aspect of it is exactly 1k in size.…

Or how about the bash script that takes python's print out of the binary and converts it to decimal?

Don't know much about the ride share industry, but am interested and curious. Which parts of this type of app do you think would be particularly difficult to scale?

Ah yes! The great Tom Lehrer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109930

I would assume the best intentions for the vast majority of individuals working in the health system. But the economy of that system is one that favors treatment over cure/preventi…

I'd argue benevolent belongs in quotes. Not to question the very clear upside to the game development community. But rather to acknowledge that Epic is likely anticipating the bene…

I find the absence of Smart Zoom on Mac Firefox to be very painful indeed. The "double right tap" gesture works in both Safari and Chrome, and zooms in exactly on the div/image you…

Everyone would notice a nuclear attack. NSA exploiting vulnerabilities to their own ends, not so much.

Definitely not 10x better. But being open source and freely self-hostable give GitLab an edge over GitHub in two respects that are very important to some users.

Sorry to point this out, but Betteridge's law of headlines seems to apply very squarely in this case.

Which, I guess, is ample justification for humans to treat these animals cruelly? Not really following the logic of your argument here. Though I definitely agree with your point ab…

Why not just an app? Cheaper, and no scarcity issues: one for every customer.