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> That should clear the next flight to go to orbit and deploy operational satellites! Mid-stream they said they were deploying 20 real V3 Starlink satellites. At the end of the str…

Two Notes: 1) I had to abbreviate the title as the official article title is 4 characters too long for HN. 2) The gift link in use to bypass the Verge paywall was posted by the off…

I couldn't find something to read about it, but I did find this to watch and learn about it. I won't spoil it here either :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwV1lEDJH9Y

In the LoRA/radio device sense, Meshtastic[1] is probably the easiest to get started with. It's the biggest player in the space, has devices that come pre-installed and configured,…

And, as of 3 weeks ago, the one man is "stepping back from all public-facing interaction with this project".[1] Further, "Occasional updates may appear at unpredictable intervals, …

> even the secret way to turn on 30-sec skip on the TiVo Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select ;-) Also can't forget the ,#401 dialing prefix to enable the device to call home over the Int…

ESPN is already partly doing this with "SC For You" [1]. It gives you a personalized feed of sports clips, generated and narrated by AI that uses the voices of ESPN on-air talent. …

For anyone interested, ESPN has a HAM Radio club - WE1SPN[1] - and they are live streaming some of their Field Day operations on YouTube[2]. They're not operating overnight, but sh…

I'd like to play devil's advocate for a minute and ask a question: Does anyone know exactly what the Bosch service sends the dishwasher? While I agree that connecting a dishwasher …

The system I'd love to have a better understanding of is the one TiVo deployed for the transmission of data to their boxes in the early 2000s. They would buy a 30 minute paid progr…

Direct URL is https://bfcm.shopify.com/ I had to run the link through TinyURL because using the original URL pulls up the 2023 HN thread which is entirely different.

Back in 2022 libtorrent implemented memory mapped IO as part of v2 [1]. Unfortunately, it didn't go so well. Memory usage went through the sky, leading to performance degradation a…

The more interesting thing to consider is that Trump has said Elon will have an active role in his administration. How is he going to do that on top of everything else? How are Tes…

While it is true that democrats carried urban centers it is worth noting that their support appears to have eroded somewhat in these areas. Republicans picked up a statistically re…

In interviews with people who are primarily voting on the economy a common response is that they feel things were economically better for them under Trump than they were under Bide…

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One thing to keep in mind is that CR-39 is not impact resistant. They will shatter and can do horrible things to your eyes when they do. Kids should always be put in impact resista…

How about Weezer's "Buddy Holly" music video on the Windows 95 CD? Sometimes when I see articles about viral videos and views I wonder where that video would rank if we had the cap…

Is it even possible to do this effectively using Mullvad after they removed support for forwarded ports? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113215

Math Notes certainly appears to be moving into Soulver/Numi territory. I'm a bit surprised by this one as while I personally love Soulver I didn't know how appealing it would be to…

Previous Discussion from 12/05/22 (95 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856942

Valve - the PC gaming giant and owner of Steam - is very famously a flat organization. Their Handbook for New Employees[1] that goes into detail about how they operate has made its…