danielmeskin
Re:DiscImageStudio
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:28AM (#50348442)
Glad I read the article, this is fascinating:
> In 2012, a LightScribe optical drive was successfully used by Maher El-Kady, a graduate of UCLA, to turn a specially prepared graphite oxide layer coated onto a DVD into graphene.[10] El-Kady and Richard Kaner, his lab professor, used an unmodified LightScribe drive. The disc was prepared by coating the disc with an aqueous solution of graphite oxide and allowing it to dry. Areas of the coating illuminated by the LightScribe laser were turned into graphene. Various shapes can be drawn, which allowed the scientist duo essentially to laser-print an ultracapacitor on graphene using consumer-grade technology.
Re:AO3 Down for Maintenance
on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:14PM (#50312271)
It’s built into most smartphones now isn’t it?
Re:Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:20PM (#50237036)
I mean, clearly the person you’re replying to does
Re:Apple Music 404 Not Found
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:11AM (#50220931)
https://www.crowdsupply.com/certain-things/sprout-pi-mainboa...
This one claims to have Bluetooth and Internet support
Re:Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:12AM (#49988071)
If you think you can finish the game in at most 15 hours then yes subscribing for a month or so will work
Re:Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:38PM (#49984494)
~~I feel like that would probably meaningfully increase the amount of compute necessary to serve the website. As it were it’s likely static html, but any randomness would have to rely on a server side operation for each request and couldn’t be cached.~~
I went and checked and in fact it is already serving a script s.js so I guess you’re right!
Re:Chop Up Your Books
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:12PM (#49718981)
What do you do with the pages of the book once you’ve scanned it?
Re:Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting ri...
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @05:36PM (#49103389)
The issue, I suspect, is payment processing and KYC. To operate at their scale requires not only the cooperation of various PCI partners (who are not obligated to cooperate) it also involves massive liability. A better question to ask is for whom would the investment of building a new Shopify be worth it. I suspect the answer is “not anyone who is using Shopify”.
Re:Deflock Casa Grande
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:28PM (#49102617)
Making a list of the tells you have will only serve to have them prompted against.
Re:Hubbele: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @03:03PM (#49101613)
Why limit to language and SDK? Have the LLM write machine code.
Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children ...
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:11PM (#48874269)
Who exactly are "they"?
Re:Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus
on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:56PM (#48850749)
They say they have leaders but don’t need them
Re:Pulpie: Models for Cleaning the Web
on Monday July 06, 2026 @08:29PM (#48812259)
Well allbirds is an AI company now so I guess that makes sense
I suspect this would have an effect similar to early internet worms that caused significant strain
Re:Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras with Trash Bags
on Friday May 29, 2026 @12:22AM (#48318999)
Yes, and the IR light they emit when they use it can allegedly identify them: https://github.com/Noflock/Flock-IR-Detection
Re:Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)al...
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:32PM (#48196431)
Reminds me a bit of Futurama S3 E7, “the day the earth stood stupid”
Re:The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:51PM (#48186228)
It is still maintained, but I believe the maintainer is employed by Bitwarden now, and is working on projects in addition to Vaultwarden.
Re:Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:27PM (#48098751)
Re:I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine
on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:39AM (#47961531)
Yep! I don’t comment unless I have something useful to add to the conversation.
Re:I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:02PM (#47954598)
This account was made solely to leave this comment, for what that’s worth to the non-bad-faith users on here.
Re:Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Saf...
on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:46PM (#27150475)
Does Skype no longer do POTS calls?
Re:Ask HN: My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track m...
on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:44PM (#27137868)
This is correct. My gums unfortunately receded and
* my teeth are extremely sensitive
* the area is sore constantly
* I will need a graft from elsewhere in my mouth to correct it.
Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
on Sunday May 09, 2021 @11:25AM (#27096742)
How much of that is the APU? I’d imagine the bottleneck would lie with manufacturers using the cheapest panels and digitizers they can.
Re:Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React
on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:48AM (#27086255)
Worked for me, what did you `cat`?
Re:Playlist for iOS
on Friday May 07, 2021 @07:39AM (#27074780)
I dislike it because chromium is almost a monoculture and Google controls it. I’m not diametrically opposed to chromium based browsers but I might be more hesitant to switch.
Re:Playlist for iOS
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:22PM (#27069732)
Sorry if this was asked already but is Synth chromium based?
Re:Slidev – Presentation Slides for Developers
on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:32PM (#27058873)
How is this better than something like MARP?
Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:19AM (#27046147)
Plain old Linux:
Free: GCP
Paid (but cheap): Linode, DigitalOcean
—- Machine Learning:
Free: Google CoLab, Paperspace Gradient
Paid (but [relatively] cheap): JarvisLabs, DataCrunch
—- Databases and user auth:
Free: Firebase spark
Paid (but cheap, remember to set billing alerts!): Firebase blaze
Re:Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
on Monday May 03, 2021 @09:40AM (#27024946)
As far as I know its Alibaba stock got split off into its own company (Altaba)
Re:Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division
on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:15PM (#26950578)
Probably the opposite, instant massive userbase, then just slowly phase out the meat bags.