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Something to hold in mind are the issues with scaling out to new cities in terms of safety risks: https://junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com/p/rapid-scaling-turns...

When the girls breakup prolly: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-07-15/uber-a...

I recommend doing some reading about the inputs modern agriculture depends on (e.g. chemical fertilizer) then thinking about the issues they're associated with beyond an anthropoce…

HN supposedly currently runs via M5 Hosting according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750668 (comment from late 2025), though I think it ran on a single server over a dec…

Google has also tried to hide things like water consumption data, see: - https://cloud.sustainability.watch/explore-issues/example-go... - https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/art…

My anecdata: bought used DDR4 ECC 16gb ram sticks (i.e. serverpulled ram) for $11 off ebay last year (Jan 2025), now as of June 2026 the lowest listing I see is $42, most are aroun…

There was also an effort called Glimpse around 2019 to be a UX / accessibility overhaul of GIMP along with a name change to be less offensive, see: - https://github.com/joshgiesbre…

Similar titled discussion from a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168198

Theres a better description of the differences here: https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/OpenSCAD.html#tra... Some of the differences may be in when you are trying to refere…

A notable example I remember from around 2010 was when Evernote dropped WPF, supposedly due to blurry text issues but probably also performance (remember when we called it EverBloa…

My perspective of that situation is Link was a fairly popular poster, and had a post that was a quote post of someone from the Bluesky team with an image of an assassinated figure …

Somewhat related discussion on Redmond Washington & Flock cameras: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879101

There was a fairly recent case on Apple about this in the Santa Clara California area: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-takes-action-against-ap... (EPA, 2025) See also https://…

" Building an EV requires metal forging, battery manufacturing, painting, and chip fabrication — all processes that drove Tesla to build in Nevada and Texas. Tesla's Fremont factor…

Theres something clickbaity and missing from this article, I encourage watching youtubers like 'mirai club' for better info. What i recall from his videos is: - The Mirai made fina…

Likely No. Undecided with Matt Ferrell recently did a video on how sodium ion batterys startup in the US (not necessarily for EVs, but other power applications) have had challenges…

Something to note here is that just yesterday (January 6 2026) the FDA announced changes around regulation of wearable & AI enabled devices: https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/fda…

There are some ways to FDM 3D-print transparent plastic, see https://www.printables.com/model/15310-how-to-print-glass as one example. Another example is this one where the 3D prin…

Worth noting this Branden Flasch video from a year ago talking about how the charging speed on the 4680 pack tesla Model Y was uncompetitively slow and arguably shouldn't have been…

Historically yes, but in some areas like the EU there have been some regulation changes in 2024 where theoretically there could be alternate browser engines on iOS but in practice …

On a different tack, I feel like I went out of my way to use Firefox (and Firefox Focus) on iOS and was thankful they had them during a time where everything had to use the safari …

The F-150 Lightning Pro trim is the closest thing to this, and aside from the first year generally has only sold to fleets. Theres also the Chevy Silverado EV WT trim which is a si…

Overpopulation is still a concern when considering biodiversity, groundwater loss, etc. The latest UNEP report includes it - see page 37 from https://www.unep.org/resources/global-…

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Why cant an android phone with ethernet tethering to a router suffice? I've done this using an android phone, usb-c hub w/ethernet nic, and and edgerouter lite before. The biggest …