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Re:Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:47AM (#49657528)
One difference is sound can only travel through a medium, so that bit is always implied. Not so with light.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blog in 2024? on Sunday January 05, 2025 @06:16PM (#42605896)
Construction Physics:

https://www.construction-physics.com/

Re:Ask HN: A network device that doesn't exist? on Thursday September 14, 2023 @08:19AM (#37507930)
I believe what you are looking for is called a multi-WAN router. More specifically, one with a failover function.
Re:Daily 'Breath Training' can work as well as Meds to reduce high blo... on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:00PM (#32928010)
Anyone able to tell if the study was funded by the device manufacturer?
Re:Fissure: The RF and Reverse Engineering Framework for Everyone on Sunday August 28, 2022 @10:44AM (#32628780)
Video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHbxXXmnms
Re:Facebook's timeline just shows random things for some users on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:35AM (#32579999)
It's a bug, now fixed: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23319552/facebook-bug-cel...
Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or Facebook is being bombarded by spam? on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:33AM (#32579987)
Facebook/Meta has said it's a bug: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23319552/facebook-bug-cel...
Re:Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us? on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:29AM (#32506846)
Raindrop looks amazing. Wish it weren't based in Russia.

Ask HN: Has anyone tried Creation Crate?

Posted by 04rob on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Just had an ad for Creation Crate[1] pop up on my feed. Looks like a fun way to learn some more electronics, beyond the one class I took in college. Anyone tried it who can give some feedback on it?[1] https://www.creationcrate.com/courses/electronics

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Re:NBA Metaverse Partner Terminates Relationship, Threatens Reporters ... on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:09AM (#30010712)
Background:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682102

Re:Ready for an N95? Here's how to find a high-quality one that fits y... on Saturday January 15, 2022 @10:32PM (#29953003)
This has been studied. A beard does compromise the seal, but to a lesser extent on n95s than in other masks:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34006963/

Re:Google introduces mandatory 2-Step Verification for Google Accounts on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:24AM (#29095969)
Is this really "mandatory" or rather just "opt-out?" My understanding is that it can still be disabled...
Re:Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:30AM (#28840957)
Is the source code available? It would be interesting to apply this to reporting on other topics.

As far as suggestions, it would be great to see an explanation of each problem when hovering over it in the text. Also, the colors for the "Object", "Counterfactuals", and "Accident" problems are difficult to distinguish for color-deficient individuals.

Re:NSFW++: Amazon's “The Hobbit” (27k+ reviews) listing taken over mal... on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:42PM (#28450317)
Unfortunately with comingling of inventory in Amazon warehouses you'd still end up with counterfeits.

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