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One I'm familiar with (but don't know deeply about) is Iron-air batteries [1]. Form Energy [2], an interesting grid-storage startup uses them. They're not energy-dense whatsoever, …

Neat project and approach! I got fed up with expensive registries and ended up self-hosting Zot [1], but this seems way easier for some use cases. Does anyone else wish there was a…

"I made 14 kWh more during lockdown" https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe... ^ has a wild picture of full setup

If you thing this is cool, also check out CalTopo (my favorite mapping software for backpacking): - https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=40.10094,-105.61557&z=15&b=m... - Right click an…

You reminded me of this scene from Battlestar Galactica that has stuck with me since I watched it (spoiler alert). Conversely, the character laments the sensory limitations of the …

I was actually thinking about Tay-Sachs this morning on a walk, after I passed by a church with a billboard out front that says "Christ died for all, even babies in the womb". I le…

I’m a huge fan of Postgres. This one is “user error”, but we still got bit pretty hard. A query plan changed, on a frequently-run query (~1k/sec) on a large table (~2B rows) withou…

One strategy I've found useful when asked for an estimate is to ask back: "What do you need the estimate for?" Often, this leads to a useful discussion, and we can discover things …

I've been loving my COROS. It's quite simple, and the battery life is astonishing. No music functionality though, if that's a dealbreaker for you. I got the APEX 42mm about 5 month…

I've been kicking around a related idea for a while. A static "death day" is great because you can internalize, and countdown towards it, but it loses the distribution behind life …

Robocalls are super annoying, but kind of an amazing way to ask someone out on a date (not first date - followups where you know they'll say "yes"). Twilio has this thing called "T…

I have a similar script, except that it removes posts that link to domains that I've found to frequently be non-interesting or low-quality. https://gist.github.com/scott113341/56c0…

Looks interesting, I signed up! FWIW, I ran into the same issue (Chrome): https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1910118/81509549-a...

Previous discussion from her blog post on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499137

Awesome idea, and nice work! Is this open source, and if so, would you mind sharing a link to it? I am beginning work on a slightly similar project [1] to help facilitate speech th…

CalTopo (my favorite mapping software, and originally made for search/rescue/fire [1]) map with overlays: https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=38.59058,-122.75299&z=11&b=m... [1] https:…

Reminds me of this story posted a while ago: Story of a failed pentest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475438

I got paged 50 minutes before AWS updated their status page. We are running on AWS's managed Kubernetes offering (EKS), and about one third of our nodes were running in the affecte…

Not strictly related to this article or your question, but generating ordered UUIDs can sometimes bring some performance improvements (at least in Postgres) on index reads/writes […

https://brandur.org/articles Very clear technical writing, mostly about web technologies.

> such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away... I don't think they are asserting that the laser beam travels faster…

I don't think jmcgough made such a claim, just offered an explanation for "why is it so taboo to talk about the differences..."

Monodraw is the best application I've found for ASCII (and Unicode) diagramming: https://monodraw.helftone.com

> UUIDs are way more painful than serials to recognise, remember, input or transmit... Completely agree, but I've found this can be a non-technical "feature" too. Serial integer pr…

This is a fun website to peruse every once in a while: http://brutalistwebsites.com/ Its submission from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517491