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Yes! I meant to link to rctestflight and not RCLifeOn. Amazing stuff. Especially the latest ground effect series.

I've added a list of my favorite channels to my comment.

I burnt out hard after almost 20 years programming, mostly web things, last decade in the full-stack JavaScript ecosystem. Last year I started building simple electronic stuff with…

https://ciechanow.ski hands down. The front page is just the latest post in it's entirety. The format and interactivity and content is amazing.

I spent a few years developing a Japanese-English dictionary that had searchable example sentences. Full text indexing for Japanese is a nightmare. I used MeCab, Kumon, and Kuromoj…

That's most definitely true. But describing one's character or predicting behavior based on that is simply random stereotyping. And even if we could make some use of it, the astrol…

Sorry, I don't remember. But it was definitely written by a Prof. Something Something, PhD. And of course it had a mesmerizing rendering of some cosmic occurrence on the cover.

Another way I noticed that makes "smart" people believe in bullshit is using very scientific language and vague science concepts. I noticed one of my friends (college educated and …

It's not about the Roth IRA. It's about him using politics and influencing the public for personal gains. And those gains are based on arming evil agencies with evil weapons. And h…

An alternative to the Apple ecosystem. Same functionality and range of products, different design choices. e.g. laptops with matte displays and columnar layout keyboards. Think dif…

How about showing the comments directly on the video, at a specific time, and a specific place. Something like Soundcloud comments but for video. Asian video platforms used to do t…

Yes, it was my favorite for a while. But recently I switched to GraphCMS for more basic data structure and I love it. Especially the UI. I think what the market is missing is a sor…

I'm a fullstack JavaScript dev. I used to write everything in pure React and serve it with Express on Node but two years ago I started experimenting with all the fancy new framewor…

The Polish government always had a thing for people in funny hats. Miners are treated like royalty there. Poland just loves when people sacrifice themselves for no good reason at a…

We once had a friend staying over for the weekend with her 3-5 year old daughter. My girlfriend took my DSLR camera and they took hundreds of photos. I casually imported everything…

That is exactly something Elizabeth Holmes would do.

I just realized that Harley Austin from harleyaustin.com is the same guy that wrote the article. He writes romance novels, horrible blog posts, and websites.

This felt so underwhelming. I don't know if it's because I've seen SpaceX doing much more complicated missions or it's just not that big of a deal. They got about two minutes of ze…

As someone who grew up in Eastern Europe in the early 2000s, with a a taste for Western media, especially movies, and the Internet becoming a widespread thing, it was infuriating w…

I made an alternative HN interface that works good on mobile and adds some functionality like dark mode, split pane view for comments, etc.. It's open sourced and you can use it fr…

Completely agree. I think it's the aether of modern science. And I believe that one day all the discrepancy between measurements that lead to the idea of dark matter will be explai…

I also made a HN reader app with dark mode and it's open sourced at https://github.com/boberbober/yahni You can use it at https://yahni.news

Not OP. I helped a couple friends get into programming and it certainly helped me gain a new perspective, value my skills, and motivated me. So I would give that a try.

Oh man, I'm in the exact same spot right now. I'm 35, sold first website when I was 17. And I don't even have "regular" job now, just working on my own projects and I still complet…