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Our house has a commercial style HVAC system. The controllers for everything (relays) are very simple. The run on a protocol called BACNet that is unauthenticated and pretty straig…

I rolled my eyes when I saw your comment, then I watched the video. The lips and cheeks are distinctly botox'd.

My wife is unexpectedly expecting. My startup is seed funded with a very small ( I feel extremely torn and am unsure what to do. In an ideal world I would take a lot of paternity l…

It is worth noting that it is trivial to buy fake stars for a project you are not affiliated with. The reason someone might do this would be to "test" the purchasing of fake stars …

I think the most interesting thing would be to run this test against the list of Launch HNs, sorted by votes, grouped by class.

FWIW a smug doctor usually corrects people that they are a Physician.

David Sacks wants to run for President. He watched Trump's election closely. He wants to be the smart guy that uses the idiot's playbook. He is working hard to get placed on as muc…

One I saw recently was "With developer signups from the world’s leading brands" and then a wall of logos under it. Felt like a stretch to use a company's logo when all that happene…

I have a friend who is going through something eerily similar. To be honest I had to do a double take because a fossil fixation was a part of their breakdown too. It sounds like yo…

I do this so often now it's embarrassing. I have always had a problem with tone. Even on email where people don't expect much tone, I manage to come off as an asshole. Now I just w…

I would love to hear the inside story about why the old one was discontinued and it took so long for the v2. The HomePod mini is the "first device" we have given to our children. N…

Agree, ducts are wonderful! If you don't have ducts, go ductless for sure.

My question is a bit of a non sequitur, but I noticed that your project took off pretty quickly out of the gate. Congrats! I am curious what non-HN places have resulted in that lev…

This is a society set up for this sort of thing. You are physically isolated both at the home level and the community level. There is nobody you can run to. It is a physical taking…

She cannot get her old passport. If her "employers" know she is leaving, they will stop it. I won't post about how we plan to get her out but I believe it is a good one and it has …

We have a Filipino woman who works for us. She has been a citizen here for 25 years and has worked for us for 12. Her sister went to Qatar 15 years ago and has been miserable. We h…