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Re:First Implantable Cochlear Implant Launches on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:53AM (#49974720)
Same for us and our son (GJB2 Connexin 26). And we obviously hope Cochlear, AB, Medel stay in business for the foreseeable future. A cochlear implant helps many whose deafness is not caused by a genetic mutation, as there are a variety of different reasons causing it.
Re:ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine on Sunday August 02, 2026 @08:23AM (#49143867)
Looking at you Withings. My perfectly able and capable Steel HR needs to be binned and repurchased (quite hefty price too) after 8yrs of good use as now the battery lasts only 3 days. Tried to contact them to swap the battery (at a cost) they suggested the only option is the bin... 8yrs is definitely more than an Apple Watch probably, but way less than the Zenith my father wore for more than 30 years.
Still remember driving one with my dad (I was 6) back from a vendemmia (grape harvest) with the back fully loaded of at least 18 100-litre harvest buckets, on a 7-10% slope, which the ape did effortlessly.
Re:How many of the 170k English words do you know? on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:54PM (#48603137)
Agree. Complexity for me skyrocketed towards the end
Re:Stop the Apple Music app from launching on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:29PM (#48450391)
Sharing as I’ve not seen this mentioned by anyone. I have achieved something similar with Karabiner and the custom reassignment of the play button to actually run Spotify and play the last song from there rather than Apple Music and it worked like a charm.
Re:Separate the Cord from the Device on Saturday June 06, 2026 @01:37AM (#48421739)
Personally own 4, though now they are gathering dust now that I switched to an espresso machine.
Re:CT scans of BYD car parts on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:01AM (#48380855)
The mechanical key has a hinge (to be able to operate it), but it’s not “hinged” to the fob.

https://youtu.be/0aspbvdCXqs?si=9pcToYeg4EcoHfPJ

Re:Separate the Cord from the Device on Friday May 29, 2026 @01:42AM (#48319496)
One of the best moka pots I owned is the Bialetti Elettrika [1] which comes exactly with a detachable lead like the one you mention. But for me, coming from outside of the UK and never experienced the kettle lead situation, it has always been the opposite, the pot has a ‘computer lead’ :)

[1] https://www.bialetti.com/ee_en/moka-elettrika.html

Re:The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:58PM (#48185530)
What about TOTP tokens?
I was just referring to specifically the cruise control which seems useful only in traffic conditions. As soon as the road gets a bit cleared up it has a tendency to accelerate too much, and a bit too eagerly.

But we have similar conditions, 2kids and in need of space and Sealion 7 won over many other EVs for number of features, platform, and especially price.

The OTA updates are quite regular and for us one fixed a bug that did not let the doors lock entirely when the car was off.

Own the sealion 7. It is feature full, and don’t want to crush your dreams, but i would trade that killer unreliable adaptive cruise control and lane assist with a (missing?!) simple speed limiter 100 times over
Value price for us. The Sealion 7 for us had the combination of features, dimensions, range, 800v platform, for a price that was simply unbeatable (leasing).

Out of question that Volvo ex90, Kia ev9, Hyundai Ioniq 9 or even the BMW ix3 would have come on top if it wasn’t for the price.

Re:Where the Goblins Came From on Thursday April 30, 2026 @01:58AM (#47958701)
I’ve been having consistent issues with it adding Hindi words (just one usually) in the middle of its output. And sounds like other have been having this too, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832912 I don’t speak Hindi, have never asked it to translate anything in Hindi.
Re:ChatGPT thinks I speak Hindi. I don't on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:45AM (#47832913)
Had ChatGPT keeping inserting Hindi words in its responses to my clearly English prompts and had to kept asking to re-think carefully in English. Low and behold, others have been experiencing the same thing.
Waiting to read the news that this unblocks all functionalities in the re-pebble so I could finally purchase one that fully works with iPhones. Way to go EU!
I solved this same problem adding a label with the number corresponding to the barcode number alongside
Re:I Am Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday November 09, 2025 @04:56AM (#45864386)
In the south of Italy where families were very close to each others, children abundant, and passing the name of grandparents to first and second borns was expected people ended up with tons of namesakes. I have 6 people in my direct family who all share same name and last name.
Re:A Quote from Belligerentbarbies on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:21AM (#45822554)
Still find the Copilot transcripts orders of magnitude worse than something like Wispr Flow and they tend to allucinate constantly and do not adapt to a company's context (that Copilot has access too...). I am talking about acronyms of products / teams, names of people (even when they are in the call), etc.
With Three UK I used gathered evidence over the course of 4 months to wiggle myself out of a £46/month 28-month 5G contract (had to pay £200 remaining on my iPhone 16 Pro) when I demonstrated that my phone was basically useless whenever in the postcode are where I live, even if I always had 1 bar 5G signal.

Not even phone calls would go through, let alone calls on Whatsapp et al, or loading websites using something heavier than just text.

Have raised a _formal_ complaint (they must report it to Ofcom), and after that it was just a matter of ensuring I lost enough phone calls to demonstrate how many ended up in my answering machine.

The fact that Wifi calling is also super buggy and almost never work, played also a big role.

My problem is, all other mobile providers in my area are even worse, showing LTE or 4G. So I just need to wait for them to strengthen signal, or move!

Ask HN: How many 9s did AWS lose due to the last outage (us-east-1 incident)?

AWS recently published a postmortem on the October 2025 us-east-1 outage [1]. A DNS race condition in DynamoDB cascaded across EC2, Lambda, Redshift, and NLB, leading to ~14 hours of degraded operations for new instance launches and knock-on effects on multiple services.Has anyone quantitatively modelled AWS’s effective availability once you account for inter-service dependencies inside their...

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Re:Amazon Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:39PM (#45466262)
Curious about the sagemaker experience. What specifically was that broke?
Re:Oxford loses top 3 university ranking for the first time on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:21PM (#45326771)
Tutorials are all but spoon-feeding. Tutors are strongly encouraged not to give just solutions, but actually to teach the approach to solving problems and creating connections with adjacent topics where possible.
Re:Oxford loses top 3 university ranking for the first time on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:16PM (#45326722)
I used to teach tutorials at Keble college (Oxford). Not sure how they were run in Manchester.

Tutorials in Oxford are impressive for me for many reasons: 1. Those teaching were generally of a higher level beyond Ph.D., post docs or professors, all paid, all assessed against an NPS from students, and the performance of the students in exams 2. Tutors are generally teaching more adjacent topics (creating connections), students are challenged to think beyond the assignments (which are generally tough), 3. Tutorials are calibrated and personalised to students and made sure all students are challenged at the right level, I had tutorials where I had to teach 1:2 because the students were excellent and needed a higher level of complexity.

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