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I replaced the battery after using the kindle Paperwhite for 7+ years. And now its battery life is as good as the new one's.

Is ISBN database available for download?

While trying the script, I am getting the following error - ReadWriteBufferFromHTTP: Failed to make request to ' https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/40298680.json '. Error: …

What's the difference between an OS and an emulator in this scenario?

"The difference is the extensive legal framework protecting Western citizens and companies from state security overreach." Unfortunately, China is winning in the rest of the world …

We have been following Singapore math for our kid since he was a little over five years old. We've found the concepts in this book series practical and workbooks enjoyable for the …

If solving problems create opportunities for new ventures, that is what the smart people should do instead of piggy backing on technologically stagnated big corporations. Developin…

The best thing about dial-up was the sound of the data transfer. Ah! Those days!

From my history of long time loneliness, I have learned to cope with it by observing things that bring me out of my comfort zone in positive way. I found the following activities h…

I want to build a hacker news clone app using flutter to familiarize myself with backend frameworks. I know Google's firebase is a viable option, and hacker news database can be ac…

I wonder if the experience improves by using proxy browsers, such as- Opera (lite/mini).

I wonder why India with population 1.3bn has only 145MB zipped footprint when USA with population a quarter of that has almost 1 GB? AFAIK, FB is huge in India.

This is a remarkable device. The configuration looks good as well. It reminds me of the primary concept of Microsoft Courier. While going through pros and cons for considering a bu…

I am tired of showing my kids (3-5 years) youtube videos of animals, blippi, Kids TV and so on. Despite being addictive and informative, I somehow (strongly) feel video consumption…

Thanks for excellent technical analysis! I personally enjoyed reading your article. However, to my knowledge, no decision maker is interested to learn the technical details. Don't …

Capitalism is driving the world, and it is setting the policies as per necessity, different ones in different countries. The west has stopped exporting democracy around the world s…

Just out of curiosity- when Google is infamous for hard-to-reach human support, what in the Internet would make anyone interested to register their domain with them? Do they provid…

Gradual militarisation of US police is one significant development since 9/11.

China has already bought the second (Russia) and third world (not in terms of wealth, rather actual third world) with the cheap variants of original technologies. Intellectual prop…

My online activity seems to be in a loop comprise of hackernews, email check, and google news recently. It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too freq…

When someone talks about robots destroying the mankind, I start picturing scenes from movies or tv series (i.e. Terminator, iRobot, Westworld so on) where human like robots try to …

May be its days are numbered, but MIPS still has significant presence in the low to medium end routers (Mediatek's MT72xx, Atheros AR7xxx so on).

Then the website must be breaking on my side, even though I cannot see any error (neither in Safari, nor in Chrome), only a couple of warnings. This is good for GP to fix the issue…

I am not being judgemental, rather trying to understand how you get fish of that size with your far-from-well-designed website (from your profile), and far-from-rich marketing cont…

I am looking for some old content which I know exists in a 2TB backup drive using a Windows 10 machine. Despite using a modern machine, it has taken over 25 minutes and still is lo…