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Re:IRC technology news from the first half of 2026 on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:58PM (#49246447)
Wonderful to see so much activity within a so old community. Thanks for the news!
"Git and email are the two really only tools I use"
Nah, this is peak US innovation! /s
Re:Is my blue your blue? on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:08AM (#47934060)
Same here. 'My blue is not my blue', or yellow in my case. I realized this looking at the yellow doublet lines from Sodium vapor lamps: one of my eyes sees it greener than the other.
Re:Starlette 1.0.0 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:00AM (#47517456)
> Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python.
Re:OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:26AM (#47178860)
An easy way to contribute to OSM is by using Street Complete (https://streetcomplete.app/) which asks questions about one's surroundings.

"This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map."

Available from f-droid.

Re:CPUs are getting so small they're starting to hallucinate on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:30PM (#47027763)
Why is this illustrated with an SEM image of some chip from 2020?
Re:Opentrees.org (2024) on Thursday January 29, 2026 @04:37PM (#46816990)
Fabulous, thanks!
And for those enzymes to work efficiently you need hot enough water from the very beginning of the washing cycle. See the video link I posted in another comment.
Dishwasher related video from "Technology Connections": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8
Re:U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:45AM (#46552389)
Thank you!
Re:Sanctum 1.0.0 Released on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:55AM (#46526386)
> What is Sanctum?

> Sanctum is a small, reviewable, capable, PQ-secure and fully privilege separated novel VPN daemon and protocol designed to run under OpenBSD, Linux and MacOS.

Re:Robot scans rare library books at 2.5k pages per hour on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @04:45PM (#44652779)
Illustrated by a video from 14 years ago!
Re:Transmuting mercury into gold via fusion [pdf] on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:40AM (#44623790)
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610491

Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt (marathonfusion.com) 56 points by apugoneappu 1 day ago | flag | 89 comments

On behalf of our investors and of our domestic clients: Thanks! Trustfully yours, Boeing
Re:Photos: The Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:11AM (#44603371)
Well, technically, patents are accessible to all. One might not use what is described by the patent for commercial purposes for the patent lifetime but still, the information is accessible.
Re:If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @03:01PM (#44502946)
— therefore, I disagree
Are we getting dumber by the hour to need a tutorial on how to use a knife?
She is a "customer-support engineer" on a EUV machine from ASML.

Shitty clickbait title...

Re:Microplastics Seem to Be in Every Kind of Animal Except One on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @06:34AM (#41635108)
tardigrades

The paper: https://peerj.com/articles/17641/

Re:Openwrt working on moving to Alpine Package Manager (APK) on Sunday September 01, 2024 @07:25AM (#41415986)
Main objective is "replacing the unmaintained OPKG fork".

First announcement was in Feb 22: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/rfc-announcing-apkwrt/120096

Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video] (ccc.de) 607 points by robin_reala 58 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 170 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389267

> Gliese 12 b maintains an estimated surface temperature of 107 degrees F (42 degrees C)
Re:Pter: TUI and GUI for Todo.txt on Friday May 03, 2024 @06:30AM (#40246123)
Re:AMD FSR 3.1 Announced at GDC 2024 on Friday March 22, 2024 @07:32AM (#39789618)
FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3

AMD's "cutting-edge open upscaling technology"

Re:Ask HN: Best sci-fi for near term future? on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:10PM (#39047793)

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