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Part of NASA's remit is public communications. They have inspired generations and generations of engineers, scientists, technicians, and explorers. We can debate whether or not "AI…

Obligatory "be careful with that poison paper" warning![1] [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

If you follow Oxide (perhaps just by reading their Blog[1] and RFDs[2]), I think you'd find a more rigorous engineering and business culture than most case studies you're referring…

It's not that I believe all HN comments must be fruitful, but contributing the suggestion that there may have been "some backlash" against someone at "some point", could do with a …

For the uninitiated, Berkeley Mono[1] (the font this is mimicking) is the oft cherished[2] font by Neil Panchal[3] [1]: https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono [2]: https://h…

Not OP, but I think the take is similar to: "why market yourself as a rip off of Neil's[1] work?" [1]: https://neil.computer/

In my experience in NYC kitchens, I wouldn't trust most restaurants to actually be able to accommodate certain allergies. If it isn't stated clearly on the menu, I would rather be …

The point of STE is to support technical writers who have knowledge of the matter and a style guide. In other words, STE will not make something unambiguous simply by replacing wor…

https://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/ https://github.com/ce-store/ce-store

I'm surprised not to see Odin[1] mentioned. DoD is one of its central paradigms. [1]: https://odin-lang.org/

Many artificial environments are useless to tasks they were not designed for until somebody experiments, tests, redesigns, and iterates. I'll give a specific example apropos of TFA…

http://archive.today/2026.07.25-012850/https://www.wsj.com/h...

I learned something and along the way, I really enjoyed the author's writing style! Phew, it works. But it wasn’t easy, was it? That’s why remember my advice: when writing a quine,…

Reminds me of SpaceTraders[1] [1]: https://spacetraders.io/

Not OP, but here's Gemini's reaction: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...

Baby food is often just puréed fruits and vegetables. Adult diapers are only funny if you've never considered that being able-bodied is temporary. It is more likely that the person…

There are tools which exist to make things such as this accessible to non-CS major perpetrators.

Animated Knots by Grog[1] and 3D Knots[2] are oft-cited places to learn knots on the internet, but OP's is such a nice throwback. Don't miss the "requested entries" page with 28 mo…

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The use of ultrasound is interesting! The first step (identifying speech) is called subvocalization recognition, and early research (Chuck Jorgensen, et. al (2023) from NASA) use E…

I with my car had an accessible log of these notices. Another example, my car gives you a safety score at the end of every drive, out of 100. When I get less than 100, there's no i…

If AI replaces most software developers, it may be because there is less use for the software (read: mostly SaaS applications) developers are employed to build. Or otherwise, there…

RAM impacts engineers' machines. We learn to build smaller again. More breakthroughs happen around less-memory intensive local inference. Model provides' bottom lines are impacted.…

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy less unhappiness. There's diminishing returns, of course, but I'd hazard it looks a bit like ln(n), in that the returns are quite signific…