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This made me wonder what happened to hackernewsbooks.com? The last newsletter I got was "Hacker News Books – Week 28 Jul 05, 2026 – Jul 12, 2026".

What is Extend?

4 degrees Fahrenheit:

> "... air temperature warming as high as 2.2 °C ..."

Francisco de Cuéllar survived a shipwreck near Streedagh beach, in Co. Sligo (Ireland).

The film Armada 1588 tells that story: https://youtu.be/2LxjGGzjtAE

Every year in September, Spanish Armada Ireland organises an event called Remembering the Armada, to pay tribute to those fallen in that coast: https://youtu.be/xTUwTmjauLg

This year will happen between September 17th and 20th: https://spanisharmadaireland.com/full-programme-2026/

"in real running engines the rotating crankshaft should float completely on a very thin surface of oil" - I found this to be a great insight.

It is not a cathedral, is a basilica: https://sagradafamilia.org/en/history-of-the-temple that will be finished next June 10th, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Gaudi's death and the visit of pope Leo XIV to Madrid.

Also, the footer reads "© 2026 FEP Holding Company LLC" (probably not automated, the web seems like an HTML exported Word document).

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Electronic_Publishers

Archive: https://archive.md/5eZWq

The startup is Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs: https://amilabs.xyz/

I'm not sure what the organizative reform of Spain has to do with the founding date of Spain and Portugal's navies. In any case, the Spanish Armada is the result of joining the Castilian and Aragonese navies, both dating from the early XIII century: https://armada.defensa.gob.es/ArmadaPortal/page/Portal/Armad...

Establishing when did Spain become Spain is complicated, but a commonly agreed date is 1480, following the Cortes of Toledo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Castile

No, I'm sayng that Portugal never closed the circuit that led to a global trade route. They built a line between Europe and Asia, but Asia and America remained economically disconnected. It was that loop that Spain closed that enabled a global economy.

Spain was the first globalization, not Portugal. The article forgets to mention two key elements:

1) The Manila galeon[1], the first trading route connecting Europe, America and Asia. This was the first trully global trade route (Portugual never established a trans-Pacific route).

2) The Real de a Ocho[2], the first global currency, used virtually everywhere including the US until the modern dollar replaced it in 1857. It still lives through the $ symbol, representing the Pillars of Hercules and the "Plus Ultra" script [3].

It also downplays the role of Spain in the first circumnavigation. Sure, Magellan was born in Portugal, but he sailed for the Spanish Crown. The expedition was financed by Spain, sailed Spanish ships and finished its trip commanded by a Spanish sailor (Juan Sebastián Elcano).

Finally, it is worth mentioning that the Spanish was not an empire of mere territorial possession, it was a civilization. Spain has currently 50 sites inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage [4], and from the ~150 sites in the Americas, ~50 were built by Spain. These includes entire cities, universities, hospitals, infrastructure, defenses and more [5].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRn5qCAXBI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_ultra

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_i...

[5] https://greatbritainandtheusatheirtruehistory.quora.com/33-c...

RLHF: Reinforcement learning from human feedback - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning_from_hu...

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Find an English pub that needs you.

¡Feliz Navidad!

> I’m not even going to bother explaining what an agent is.

Does anyone actually know what exactly an agent is?

From the official site: https://www.yangwangauto.com/en/car/u9-xtreme

- 6:59.127 Lap Time - The first lap record on the Nürburgring

- 496.22 km/h - The Fastest Car on the Planet

- 1200v - World's first series-production model with ultra-high-voltage platform

- Over 3000 HP - Global horsepower record for production cars

- 30000 rpm - Global fastest motor rpm - 4 motors

There is an organization doing this in Spain, Adopta un Abuelo: https://www.eib.org/en/stories/isolation-elderly

https://adoptaunabuelo.org

I can highly recommend the book Practical SDR if you want to learn about SDR: https://nostarch.com/practical-sdr

Honest question: what kind of problem does this solve?