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I’m curious, what is the objection to Han unification?

It’s perfectly normal to have two W-2 employers. On the other hand, it’s odd that these “contractors” can’t set prices for their services and risk deactivation if they decline the …

Uber misclassifies en masse the drivers it employs and shifts vehicle depreciation costs onto these "small businesses". Our taxes pay for healthcare costs which should rightfully b…

Some very recently published research (Dec 2025) claims evidence of fire starting among homo neanderthalensis. This would push back fire starting know-how (not only control) from 5…

For anyone this deep on the thread, check out this video (great presenter!) explaining TV spectrum allocation, NTSC, PAL, and the origin of 29.97 fps. https://youtu.be/3GJUM6pCpew

Nice work OP, and congrats on HN front-page. Keep publishing or it never happened!

Improved transcription accuracy from non-native English I bet.

No snark, but posting with genuine concern for any homebuyers who didn’t experience the pain of 2008, please read and grok this: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/underwater.asp…

I’m in favor of cycling infrastructure in the US, but it’s important to remember that the latitude of the Netherlands (like most of the European cycling cities) is north of the ent…

Yes, I was definitely expecting cuneiform and base 60 literals.

I thought the failure was interesting too, enough to try on GPT-4. It succeeds with the same prompt.

Thanks for the links Bryan! May I suggest a small teaser trailer post to the old “On the Metal” feed? I’m still subscribed there, but wasn’t aware of the new channels. Those were s…

Perhaps mandate a trigger? In the event of bankruptcy, implanted medical device firmware and hardware designs enter the public domain. Patients’ interests should take precedence ov…

> will eventually be shown to be superior to the current standard of care, in which case it would become the standard of care How does this overturning occur? Do care providers agi…

> disintermediates the entire payment sector Unfortunately, the recent proposal specifically reassures commercial banks that any US CBDC will be intermediated (right on page 2) [1]…

> There was a rule in the Port of Los Angeles saying you could only stack shipping containers two containers high. This is not correct. Next though, CA DOT should do a one time wai…

What about a credit repair service which offers a web crawler to generate plausible pro-social disinformation, with searches like "nearest gym", and "houses for sale in "?

> the inventor if [sic] mRNA vaccines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karikó https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Weissman Patent filing: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/pu…

Thank you. For me, this clears up a long held misconception.

Is this doc no longer valid? https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/languages/new It's worth noting the distinction between the Fuchsia API Surface (consumed by End-developers…

https://www.foreflight.com/ An early iOS success story, founded in 2007, and recently acquired by Boeing. They are the dominant software company in this niche, and are well positio…