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I think that the crowd on HN tend to enjoy learning, and thus wouldn’t find it pointless to read.

I wonder how it compares to electric car usage, or street lights in the USA.

How much value are the Voyager's providing us at the moment, in terms of scientific data?

As a man who lived outside western society for many years, I often received comments about my looks and mannerisms. Did I cry like a baby, no. I made jokes about their looks and ma…

I'm not American and not taking sides. Have you listened to the latest the latest Joe Rogan episode with Musk. The Harris camp seems to be guilty of many of the things they accused…

While I don't think react is the best frontend framework, it has become the industry standard and therefore is the most peaceful approach to building apps in 2024.

We've come to expect zero customer support from the likes of Facebook and Google, but why does that need to be the norm ?

Either way, it would force us to re-think our practice of broadcasting into space.

The risk of getting sued prevents companies from using pirated software. The big players might just pay the fee because they might one day need to prove where they got the data fro…

I think this is a good point to consider. Let's imagine an inexperienced developer comes across a problem in an open source library, that has an existing issue raised in GitHub. Ar…

It seems that not advertising your wealth is good financial literacy. Similar to not having valuables on show in a parked car.

Why would your whole product need to be AGPL just because the database is ? It's like saying that Oracle owns my product because I use MySQL.

I can't remember seeing Qualcomm CPU's before. The name makes me think of WiFi cards. With Intel stock taking a dive recently, I can't help but feel that the processor landscape is…

Teams, Teams and Skype.

The website could use some screenshots of the actual tool.

I don't like Oracle Cloud, but not for the reasons described in this article. For me, it seemed like none of the documentation was written at a native English level, which made thi…

Is this because Hyundai simply don't want you to replace the battery, and would prefer you buy a new car? Batteries are not like most other car parts which can be manufactured by a…

Were unit tests a thing back when the probes were built? I wonder how new engineers learn about the intricacies of such ancient tech, without breaking them.

I'd like to think that we'll be interplanetary by then. Heck, it would be nice to terraform Mars before then.

I've seen companies store pdf invoices in the database too, for the same reasons you spoke of.

I found a lot of luck by telling ChatGPT that I want direct answers only. But you're right, it's annoying.

I'm still waiting for the Google Drive app for Linux.

The range of IPV4 address's is small enough that a single server can scan it, in a single day. So I guess the problem isn't going away.

I don't think it was a pile of rubble when they started defending it. The city previously held strategic value.

My understanding that WASM has a heavier load time, however actual benchmarks after the initial load are more impressive.