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Re:Leatherman (Vagabond) on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:49AM (#45299789)
I think there's at least a 40% chance this was Radagast. His fate after the War of the Ring is unknown after all.
Re:How many ants live on Earth? on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:42AM (#42918631)
Another fun biomass-related fact: spiders eat more annually than the weight of all human adults [0].

[0] https://newatlas.com/worlds-spiders-insects-tons/48403/

Probably influenced by the most popular JavaScript library for achieving this type of layout, Masonry[0]. The author notes at the end of the article:

> But do expect the name of this value to change in the future. And perhaps prepare for a future where we call this “columnar grid” or “Grid Level 3” instead of “Masonry”.

[0] https://masonry.desandro.com/

Re:How to center a div in CSS on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @02:51PM (#39362007)
I'm just as lazy as you, but I just wanted to point out that you can create a new stacking context explicitly with

isolation: isolate;

Re:Edison Bulb Night Mode on Saturday November 04, 2023 @03:10AM (#38138817)
I like this a lot. I had a similar idea for my own site[0], but I leaned a bit more heavily into the actual cord behavior of the thing.

[0] https://svarden.se/post/the-worlds-most-satisfying-toggle

Re:Quake's lightning gun bug explained on Thursday June 15, 2023 @08:32AM (#36339540)
Or Carmack.
Re:The Runner Who Leads Every Pack and Then Vanishes on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:43AM (#34955733)
Thousands and thousands of miles of practise. Elite pacers can hit 400 m splits with sub-second accuracy by feel alone.
That seems way too high. A rough ballpark of energy expenditure while running is 1000 kcal per hour. Strava has the activity at 16,751 kcal.
Re:Those HTML attributes you never use on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:15AM (#30906875)
Seeing the download attribute mentionend felt weirdly nostalgic. I wrote a short blog post about that attribute which shot up to the number one spot here on HN when I submitted it back in 2013[0].

In the nine years since that post, I have not once used it in a real project.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5594791

Are you familiar with Hanlon's razor?
Re:Ask HN: How Was the Calculus Discovered? on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:09AM (#28681829)
I can highly recommend the book Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz to anyone who wants a non-technical introduction to calculus and its history. Great book.
Re:Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:04AM (#28231165)
In Ghost of Tsushima, foxes lead the player to shrines, which grant certain items. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you can befriend dogs by feeding them and they'll lead you to treasure. Not foxes sure, but almost the same thing. I wonder if the developers of these games were inspired by Skyrim's "feature".
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Re:Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:56AM (#26875558)
I can reproduce this behavior. Though I noticed that removing a newline with <Delete> does cause the asterisk to appear.
Re:Ask HN: What is your morning routine? on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:59AM (#21080100)
04:30 AM: Wake up, realize I don't have to get up for another 75 minutes

05:45 AM: Wake up, get out of bed

05:48 AM: Try to find a pair of running socks without holes in them

05:50 AM: Put on running clothes

06:00 AM: Start my run

07:00 AM: Finish my run

07:10 AM: Shower, shave and all that stuff

07:30 AM: Practise piano

07:55 AM: Leave apartment to catch my train

08:00 AM: Hop on train

The second paragraph on that page:

> In humans, the long-term health effects of moderate caloric restriction with sufficient nutrients are unknown.

Re:EasyJet bans peanuts on all flights on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:01AM (#19747608)
The idea that some people are extraordinarily sensitive to peanuts, to the degree that they can't be in the same room as someone eating a Snickers bar, is bunk. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology states[0]:

> There is no evidence to support peanut vapor as a cause of reactions or that peanut dust itself circulates and causes reactions.

I am a little surprised to see such uncritical propagation of this myth on HN.

[0] https://www.aaaai.org/ask-the-expert/peanut-air-travel

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