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> computers take over a lot of the trivial thinking we do, freeing us to be creative

> What is concerning is that vehicles appear to broadcast a MAC address. Somewhat related: 'Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you': https://networks.imdea.org/your-car…

What is coming into view from the top center at 08:26:25 [0], right after the commentator says, "the weather conditions remain go"? It stays visible for more than seven minutes bef…

Nice work! One minor point for me: it wasn’t immediately clear that you need to press Compile before Play gets enabled (e.g. Arduino IDE let's you upload right away and compiles if…

Germany (~5% of SMEs underfunded [0]) isn’t underbanked; it’s just bureaucratically annoying; so more of an UX problem (which Kita helps address) with a somewhat similar outcome. T…

Sidenote: unlike in Tagalog, Kita means “day-care facility for children” in German, so names like Kita Capture and Kita Credit Agent could carry unintended connotations.

Street View cars added Velodyne LiDAR around 2017 [0][1], but it's optional. I found no data on 'LiDAR vs image only'-percentage. [0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/google…

Crunchyroll uploaded E01 for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt573QIevIM

Writing system [0]: "In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles on 11 May 2009 [1], Serafini stated that there is no meaning behind the Codex's script, which is ase…

> His primary school principal described him as ‘a happy little fellow who has a clear understanding of the fact that he is different’.

Also, files that are added to .gitignore after they’ve already been committed will still appear as modified. To stop tracking them, you need to remove them from the index (staging …

If they get the read speed up to a couple of GBit/s (~100x current max write speed), 4.8TB might be a good fit for 32k movies.

They mention it in the article: > Microsoft began to build on their work in 2017. Although Kazansky’s approach maximizes durability and the density of data, in the latest work, Mic…

Pentagon might ask contractors to certify they don't use Anthropic's Claude (wsj.com) 13 points by fortran77 20 hours ago | 6 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057294…

Current write speed (No read speed given): Blu-ray (1×) ~36 Mbit/s MS-Glass (single beam) ~25.6 Mbit/s MS-Glass (multi-beam) ~65.9 Mbit/s That's ~7-18 days per 120mm x 120mm medium…

> Imagine some future event even more powerful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event

Reminds me of: Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning

Sorry, nitpick: 720kB DD 1.44MB HD

> Today we're launching Twin publicly, after a 1-month beta where users deployed more than 100,000 fully autonomous agents. We're also announcing a $10M seed round led by LocalGlob…

Whoops! Mistook the "You're about to speak with an AI."-progress bar for processing delay.

You could add a Max Headroom to the hn link. You might reach real time by interspersing freeze frames, duplicates, or static.

Website has problems, NYT version: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neand...