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San Francisco Bay racer here. Very nice website — thank you. A few requests: 1) To make it easier to identify these buoys, please take the information in the “characteristic height…

Agreed

Interesting stuff

Thanks. As an Evernote user since 2007, and paying customer for several years, this sucks. I’m curious: why is Notion not on your short list?

Maybe this is a dumb question... but why doesn't Reddit lower its API prices to a point that Apollo and other app developers can afford? Plenty of other companies have figured out …

Will be popular with shoplifters, package thieves, and bus thugs.

I wonder if note taking applications like Notion (or new startups) might include something this as a capability to improve their search and summarization.

Thank you! (ArangoDB employee here...)

“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.” … great point.

Here are some trends that could drive a fundamental shift in social media: 1) Trust is the scarcest element in social media today. Any social media company that is built on adverti…

To get a sense of how many solar panels and batteries we'll need, drive around Houston, Texas some time. You'll see mile after mile of chemical refineries. Granted, some of these a…

Downhound creator here. Thanks for linking to the site; hope it was able to provide a bit of clarity on the situation on Google yesterday. Google's outage was pretty short, around …

Thanks. I hear your point about the last sentence. If I read "Glory to America", I'd more than cringe. However, the last sentence in Roman characters is "Slava Ukraniya" which has …

If you have a website, you can support Ukraine right now. Not all Russian citizens have the information about what their armed forces are doing in Ukraine, and what casualties they…

"We never spent a dime on marketing." ... except for Luis' salary, hosting the website, and the rest of the marketing stack, which might include Calendly, video conferencing, maili…

(InfluxDB employee here. Sorry I should have mentioned that in my original post.)

Migration is something we feel is very important, which is why we've delivered a single-CLI-command upgrade from 1.x to 2.0. Here's the documentation: https://docs.influxdata.com/i…

Also, screens last a long time, but it's the computers themselves that need continual ugrading. Case in point: we have a Dell screen from 18 year ago. The Dell desktop long since b…

I'll make two bets: 1) PC makers start coming out with their own keyboard computers with a similar form function within the next 12 months. 2) A future Mac Mini has this same keybo…

Maybe I missing something, but I've published several tutorials on Medium, all outside their paywall, and all appearing in google search results. It's a nice blogging platform. Not…

Consider Sales Engineering. Often in tech companies, there are two types of salespeople: nontechnical folks, and sales engineers. The nontechnical folks have titles like Account Ex…

Hacker Newsletter. The best* of Hacker News, delivered once a week. Each newsletter contains a few useful articles that have helped me in work and life. * not sure how they figure …

Interesting story about how this developer got called by the NSA, who instructed him to hang up then call back the publicly listed number for the agency. Exactly the steps that big…