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I purchased a bottle of good Vietnamese fish sauce after reading a thread on HN about its mythical flavor profile. Added a few meager drops to a noodle soup, and I was so overwhelm…

TLDR: The new variant is that the word "repair" was changed to "service" in the user manual.

Seconding this for geospatial dev projects, which may have absolutely massive binary data files.

You've described every recording ever made. I'm describing a band playing a concert to an empty ampitheatre which has been silent for two millennia after its inhabitants perished t…

The Live at Pompeii "concert" in that empty amphitheatre has always felt to me like they were playing to an audience of ghosts or spirits. If you have the opportunity to see it on …

That really improved things! Now each rabbithole goes deeper and deeper and deeper...

This is why we can't have nice things. Looks like someone scripted `curl` in a loop and generated thousands of permutations of hate content.

It seems like the site's algorithm is that every newly-generate page includes multiple links to not-yet-existing pages. So it doesn't matter that existing pages are cached, all the…

That's a pretty absurd complaint. Are you aware of any XML parser ever which preserves the plaintext formatting of the .xml file while magically inserting and modifying an arbitrar…

This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.

This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg: …

Agree, CP/M has nothing to do with the story, nor does the 8080/8086 sidetrack. The whole story is that Microsoft just never bothered to standardize, despite using it themselves.

Zip drives were revolutionary for 100mb and then 250mb storage, at the same time that many people gained widespread access to the Internet. But they were proprietary and required y…

The "neuroplasticity" which leads to a relative quietness presumably comes after the psychedelic experience. Interestingly, the paper only lists the following adverse effects: visu…

Wow, he admits to using two AI tools: He used Claude Code, which failed because the blog was intentionally set up to refuse AI crawlers, so he pasted the page into ChatGPT. Then he…

Retinal imaging is used to detect damage from glaucoma or other eye disease, by "diffing" the fine blood vessels and nerves.

Particularly relevant to HN is that Bobby's primary writing partner for decades was John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): https://www.eff.org/jo…

While predation by rats is curious news, much more common (here in the US at least) is predation by raccoons. Conservation-minded management practice is often to build a "bat frien…

Windows 2000 or Windows XP - with security updates and modern hardware support - is exactly what I want.

Oof, "zero" is two syllables so we'll have to pronounce it "null".

Because that's for half-time!

This website is a useless exercise, but the idea in the submission title "using fewer syllables to express numbers" has utility. As a musician, I frequently need to count to a rhyt…

Have you considered that it's used as a unit to represent capacity of our power grid? As in, we have now have the energy capacity for 300,000 fewer homes given this operating data …

PS: Someone changed the title of this submission after my comment. It was originally something like "By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market." This statistic is obvio…

"By my count"... Which means pretending that every single "unknown" desktop, which is a larger percentage than the Linux desktops, are Linux. And also by considering ChromeBooks, w…