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Maybe a disclaimer in the title that it only works in Safari on Macs, so linux users don't waste their time clicking?

A one paragraph press release, with no implementation detail? How is this hacker news?

Their blog is a prime example of why you should keep engineers away from the public. http://notionink.wordpress.com/ "I have closely observed a different kind of integrations evolv…

I like how they censor the title of Dudebro, My Shit Is Fucked So I Got To Shoot/Slice You II: It's Straight Up Dawg Time. It seems to miss the point somewhat.

The claim is "interesting " insofar as it is astoundingly unlikely, and almost certainly untrue. The chemistry of solid oxide fuel cells are well understood. It only works one way.…

Doubtful. Solid oxide fuel cells are very efficient, but have lousy power density. A big cabinet full of Bloom fuel cells does 25 kilowatts. That's a lot of electricity, but it's o…

Yes. 1.) Mostly to complain about things, and to do a little writing. Well, almost entirely to complain about things. 2.) Unexpectedly, it's become a minor obsession. If I don't po…

Some basic spec comparisons: A Intel i7 900 series processor has a die size of 296 mm^2, with a process size of 45 nm. The GA144 has a die size of 21 mm^2, at a process size of 130…

I used to use Fedora, until I found out that one of its leads used to develop malware for the FBI. http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/04/current-red-hat-linux-em... At which point I …

You're a whole five hours behind the times. http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/notion-ink-smartpad-comes... Pixel Qi screen, Tegra CPU, Android OS. No physical keyboard, though, wh…

In Chrome OS every application is a web application. There are no native applications. Argh. Why would you do this with a performace-limited machine? I bought a Pre the day it came…

80legs is kinda evil. You see, it runs on Plura, which is essentially spyware piggybacked on the flash game du jour. Desktop Tower Defense is one of their clients. When you play DT…

So, like the Archive Team? http://archiveteam.org/

I upvoted the topic, since it was already highly scored.

Adding another me too post... I use http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/ for http://bbot.org/blog/ Its basically Jekyll, But In Bash. I use http://js-kit.com/ for commenting, which …

I use the delegation on my personal site to point at my openid provider, so when I sign it, it shows up as bbot.org, which is amusing. I don't use it a whole lot, though, other tha…

Yeah yeah yeah. Apple sucks, the app store sucks, the long tail sucks. We get it. Can we stop spamming HN with these posts, now?

Oh Joel. Your next post will be straight up trolling, right? A Last Measure redirect, maybe? Also, there's no duct tape here, other than it involves Jamie himself, and perhaps what…

If I wanted to speed up SSL transactions, I'd just buy a full cryptographic accelerator, which usually include a hardware random number generator. Like, say, the IBM 4764, which do…

That's not how you spell "Kaizen".

Hey, let's do impressions. I'm c0nsilience. I fail to understand obvious satire, and am frequently confused by very simple things in every day life. If only some incredibly handsom…