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Ah, interesting - no idea about mosquito range, or if disease can transmit between mosquitoes, but probably puts a cork in that idea. Thanks!

Awesome, thanks for these. I wonder if you couldn’t distribute heavier parts across a swarm - perhaps separating the sender and receiver(s) - running the wave at an angle (or many …

Whilst being aware that the civilization in question ended significantly before European arrival in South America, I have two questions that hopefully someone smart here can help w…

I was being a tad intentionally ungenerous for fun. Thanks for taking the time to clarify. Your "science made them men" point feels astute, compact, and one that feels familiar, as…

I can understand being interested in it from a Modernist perspective. It's both a new technology that maps a geometry to existing language - which is very interesting from several …

> Over this period, the number of books with observed sales in a quarter grew 19.2-fold, while quarterly revenue grew only 8.9-fold. That's very interesting, and not as dramatic a …

> your two examples are of men whose early adulthoods were shaped by large scale global conflicts, yet you totally dismiss the author's idea that the easy rewards of high status an…

Quite. If the author's argument had been: "Gabriel Smith specifically is wasting some of his finite life commenting on this post on HN - which is for nerds" then it would at least …

> It's a lot less hard to imagine a person with the potential to be the next Hemingway staying home because they're satiated by diving headfirst into the MCU I disagree - I don’t t…

> but instead [the potential intellectuals] are drawn to the easy honeypot of modern middlebrow culture because it is too nerdy, too attractive, too omnipresent, to ever leave. Wha…

My personal politics are very economically leftist - I’m closest to a Luxemburgist. I find this (Nolan as conservative; Bane as Occupy) interpretation a bit tired, to be honest. It…

lol, nice. I think AMZN can revoke your ownership of my work at any point, but your sale is still chalked up towards the total, which seems more like a very expensive library to me…

Really nice. I think we might have similar backgrounds. Say hi sometime if you like. Feedback: I couldn't work out how to begin audio - it didn't autoplay in Arc (which might block…

I’d agree, but would argue that Nolan has a unique (almost Delphic) talent - for better or worse - amongst contemporary Hollywood directors for capturing and reflecting contemporar…

“In book form” is a really important part of what you’re saying. I’d bet that people, on average, read more words per day in 2026 than at any other point in history (unless it peak…

I think there are tonnes of errors and repetition at the top of this essay. 'Glorious' repeats across two of the opening sentences, for example. The title, combined with this, has …

This looks great for accessibility specifically. My fiancee is partially-sighted, so (while not directly related) I'm extremely supportive of developments in assistive tech. There'…

>So the main reason for a windows view is to use Grok's subscription over the API correct? Yeah, spot on. I literally wrote a Chrome extension to download -> grab last frame -> nav…

Man, this made me laugh a lot. Thank you for that.

Hi HN, Gabriel here. This is a standalone binaural beat generator, combined with a two-deck local audio player built with the Web Audio API. It includes ten harmonic carrier pairs,…

Nice! Because the Grok subscription is the cheapest-per-second video offering (that I'm aware of) but doesn't provide API access, I'm often moving between the browser and editor (t…

Yes - I think the idea of 'citizenship' feels increasingly abstract and outdated to anyone who only rarely noticeably interacts with the entity they pay taxation to, typically sole…

The metadata matters in a different way. A single piece with a single composer can be interpreted very differently, over time, by different conductors and orchestras. This means cl…

Lol, I'm personally too broke for a Spotify subscription - as in I couldn't sign up this month with the cash in my bank account - and that has often been true during the periods of…

You're mostly correct - I was absolutely generalising, using internationally known examples (like the BBC), to be more comprehensible to the international audience here about cuts …