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I never understood why it's considered strange to take time off to just stay home. We spend so much time away from home, and then when we finally take a week off, we're expected to…

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If you had legally purchased DVDs and blu rays during mega-upload's time, and hadn't tried to decrypt them for backup purposes (thus circumventing copyright measures, also using to…

I remember just learning to code at a young age, but not knowing trig or seeing how it applied because I only knew it as being about triangles. I had learned to use some game graph…

Alas! Didn't get the memo? We're In the era where AI tools are all "software as a service," and you must pay for individual inferences from the model. How could they charge for inf…

What a lot of nonsense, where is the executive order banning gain of function research?

I don't think I will ever understand how the freedom of separate IRC servers got replaced by a single platform that mistakenly calls each community a "server" when it's clearly all…

I read at the link that yt-dl uses ffmpeg and doesn't endorse avconv. Just curious if this is the place to ask, Does anyone know what the differences are between avconv and ffmpeg?…

Assuming this is real, I would ask what could it possibly be. The whole popular culture "x-files" narrative doesn't make sense to me. If these are craft which are manned with some …

Most people don't get enough vitamin D. It's probably good advice for everyone to take a little. Above average vitamin D levels have been shown to correlate strongly with many bene…

The old tech/nerd crowd I remember was very strongly against censorship of any kind. Thinking back to the slashdot days of early 2000s. Everyone used to talk about how bad it is to…

This brings back old memories. Amazing how it hasn't changed in 20 years. I was learning c and c++ and this provided a free full development suite comparable to others which were w…

Ah, I personally preferred gotoblas to linpack as it was faster (keep in mind this was a few years ago when I did research, no idea how it kept up). I also enjoyed the story of how…

John McAfee claimed they were doing this to him before he "suicided".

Not the OP, but Mercari is a good one. (Maybe there are others?)

I had all of this information, most of it from a little known "quarantined" subreddit. Luckily reddit didn't outright ban it for so many users proposing the "misinformed" lab leak …

I'm always struck by the giant CRTs in futuristic 80's movies. Blade runner is one example where there are scenes with CRT screens that even look very blurry/dated compared to the …

The issue I suspect caused this is all of the newer energy efficient washers/ dryers. The author tested a Samsung dryer. I recently lived in apartment with a similar model, and it …

Snopes is very quick to claim things as "False" if it goes against their left leaning lens of the world. As an example arguments used by pro-gun advocates are marked as false. Here…

Any idea the year this was published? I don't see a date, and I googled the title and found several references (even on wikipedia) without a date mentioned.

I disagree with the premise. Happiness with a transportation system does not correlate with the absolute speed you can go. Instead, I think it would correlate with "how many intere…

Hey Gavin. Of course I remember you, it's been ages but great to hear from you. I would take this to PM but Hacker News doesn't seem to offer such a feature. I currently work in th…

I designed and coded the FCEUXD hex editor shown here. I did this back in 2004 when I was a teenager -- built it in C in pure win32 API. It's great to see it still show up when peo…