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I think its like WW2, loads of amazing tech came from war. Covid was a bit like that for bioTech.

I worked for a very old school manufacturing company based in Switzerland. We wanted to roll our own IoT platform for sensors in the factory. We spoke to MS, what they had was a lo…

It reads like someone’s daddy got them a summer job writing “a few bits for gen z”

It doesn’t really work like that in the UK. I doubt you’d get anyone to take it on, let alone for feee. Proving the material impact would be hard. She’s not been named publicly, no…

Parkinsons law of triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

This is amazing: https://beeline.co/pages/beeline-moto E-ink display so works in very bright light Very small Multiple methods of navigation

FYI This is GB news, think fox but more right wing.

Thanks for ruining my productivity this afternoon. I love HN for interesting small projects like this.

It’s also the heavy manipulation of the free and social press by Murdoch, Paul Darce and state actors.

After 4 years of EV ownership this is exactly how it works for me and my friends, in the UK at least.

I come to hacker news for this kind of well written content. As a person who works in a non engineering role (although I started out there) this is brilliantly written and explaine…

Is the answer not because the world was at war and throwing all it's resources into beating the other side? Surely the GDP spend per capita on science and research was far what it …

The Saudi fund that has invested in them has also invested in uber.

Not everyone works at your pace, and sometimes matching someone else's cadence can be a healthy exercise and an opportunity for growth.

This is why big incumbent car companies will lose against people like Tesla. The amount of organisational energy and capital required for a project like this is huge, and it's pay …

Interesting relationship between another front-page article: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/borden-dairy-bankruptcy

I also struggled with books. Despite being an avid WW2 and science fiction fan I avoided lengthy texts and just got my information online. As has been said many times over that inf…

This is an amazing Show HN. The best bit was “I did this because I'm lazy” I suspect not somehow. I did wonder why those chips were so expensive? I have a super limited knowledge o…

When I worked at GDS the aim was to use PDF’s they were considered to have a long shelf life, where as HTML and the web in general can evolve and leave some people without a way to…

This is why hacker news, despite all its problems, is such a joy. There are people doing some amazing stuff that I can learn so much from (while trying not to think to hard about h…

Because the thing people generally put in a car is a liquid, called petrol, not a gas.

I listened to a great pod cast about Amazon recently. On it they talk to the CEO of Birkenstock and he discusses about how they no longer sell on amazon and why. Its a great listen…

I’d love a link but this argument makes total common sense. Learning where your boundaries are, and pushing them a bit, is such an important developmental step.