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I use the UHK keyboard which has butter smooth home row keys mouse movement so I never need a mouse anyway. https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/

This is like saying tractors won't steal agricultural hand-ploughing jobs, the people building the tractors will. Technically true. But... stupid.

To make this event type completely reproducible and measurable to the millisecond there could be a new cube product which uses LEDs to show the colors of a randomly scrambled cube …

Do you really think that the couple hours it saves by having these maps to hand instead of a terrorist going to the station and making their own map of the public space is going to…

I’ve been searching Amazon and Google and cannot find a decent, or any, laptop backpack which actually has a hard uncrushable shell to protect my new, exceedingly expensive, MacBoo…

If you had your current skills but were starting from scratch, in that you couldn't use any existing stuff you've built or any of your connections, and had exactly 7 days until you…

When I was a kid my parents had a big physical encyclopaedia set. I used to lose myself in those things just as much as I scroll through stuff now. Just because in both instances, …

Of course there's a lot of HN bitterness here. But I like Fig. I've been running my own heavily customised .zshrc for about a decade with loads of bells and whistles in terms of au…

If the business model for this was: 1) fully open source 2) ~$2.99 per user per month 3) more for team features 4) paid plugins and themes 5) opt-in and inspectable telemetry They’…

I’m keen to try coding in VR.

Isn't this going to break their own "send mail as" feature in Gmail to send as another Gmail address you own? Which I basically use constantly.

UHK. Warning though, once you start you can’t go back. It presents to the machine as a mouse on holding the mouse key. I take my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse 80% less no…

How are you feeling? What are you thinking? Do you feel this is overhyped or not hyped enough? What are people in your circles saying? Do you feel you can speak freely or is do you…

Hasura is brilliant and is written in Haskell mostly. Give them a try: https://hasura.io/careers/?jobId=vso4JFIiAd8G

Was just looking for a more human readable representation of my Postgres UUID v4 primary keys today - Douglas Crockford alphabet is perfect for that. Thanks!

At what point does quantum tunnelling become a problem?

As a South African I guarantee you that getting something ludicrous verified by a bureaucrat is not remarkable.

Can it run Crysis?

Seems Jeff has launched a malicious attack on proof-of-stake, been unsuccessful, and has lost his stake. In this case his reputation. You can't hand-wave over "complexity" and then…