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There's actually a quite nifty principle that makes it relatively easy to build your own multitouch table: Frustrated total internal reflection. The idea is based on internal refle…

What a fun question :) And there are some very cool answers! A few things that come to mind from my life, from back when I was still a kid/teenager: - Building a three-way marble-t…

So... Five stars then? ;) (But seriously, HN comments are actually great at recommending things.)

About those sneakers: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:285404 ;) But yeah, I agree that there's much too much hype around a lot of stuff...

Well, okay. Technically you're right ;) But what if you count any movements that are followed by another movement of the same face as a single step?

That might very well be, but is it obviously so? What if there was a position that takes 19 moves to solve in the fastest way possible but the next-best solution takes 21 moves? Is…

Did you try NewPipe? It works without the Google services and offers a few nifty features like background-play. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

There was a similiar case in South Africa, where SIM cards were stolen from traffic lights and also racked up large bills: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12135841

You could, but it would be thermally quite bad: The only way for parts to cool would be through radiation, which is way less effective than convection (be it forced by fans or pass…

That's actually a good idea! It doesn't work for Google or Facebook tough, or other services I explicitely don't log right back in.

If it is well integrated with your browser it's quite ok. Maybe not as convenient as using the same simple password everywhere but certainly a lot better than having to remember a …

Which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I don't want to be tracked so I try to limit the amount of fingerprinting possible.

How about a password manager? Or even better: Some kind of hardware token and a good standard that goes with it?

No, please don't. This is arduous for those of us who like a bit of privacy and regularly clear their cookies etc.

Well, in that case a non-textured or reflective clothing could have a similar effect.

It seems that this is directly caused by the arctic temperature rise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_stratospheric_warming Relevant quote: Following a sudden stratospheric wa…

live view of Starman and his car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

Live view of Starman in orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

We mainly do SMT at our hackerspace, as it is really is fast and easy to do by hand using a hot-air gun (e.g. [1]). Use a syringe to deposit solder paste (we have one which uses co…

Another method is to use a high-powered pulsed laser to create little balls of plasma in mid-air: https://www.popsci.com/secret-interactive-holograms-plasma-a...

Awesome achievement! This really looks like a viable way of true floating 3D-images. Can you levitate multiple particles at the same time? How fast are they moving? How sensitivie …

More details in this german article: https://www.golem.de/news/kilopower-ein-kernreaktor-fuer-rau... I'll summarize some of the interesting points: - The nuclear core (75kg of enri…