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Re:Moon Rabbit on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:39AM (#49826659)
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival y'all!
Re:Show HN: Think Fast. Type Faster on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @10:00PM (#47512260)
I’m curious to see the most frequently used words in the alphabet.
Why don't they use land transport? After all, China and Russia share a long land border.
Re:Meta Ray-Ban Display on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:01PM (#45297507)
Could the user tape over the LED light so others won't notice?
I live in China, and the only building I know that has more than six floors but no elevator is in Chongqing, because it has another walk-in entry in the middle. The vertical distance between the entry and the destination is still fewer than six floors.
Re:Turgot Map of Paris on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:56AM (#45258927)
Seems like this guy died right before he publish his masterpiece, what a pity.
Re:ReMarkable Paper Pro Move on Thursday September 04, 2025 @03:38AM (#45124642)
Thank you for sharing this.
Re:Kucha on Thursday August 28, 2025 @05:49AM (#45050287)
Last year during the National Day holiday, I went on a road trip through southern Xinjiang. Kuqa (or Kucha) was one of my stops since it’s the starting point of the famous Duku Highway[0].

Before visiting the Kuqa Museum, I had no idea about the history of Buddhism and Islam in Xinjiang. The government also has a very “official” definition of that history, lol.

The landscapes were incredible, and I wrote a few blog posts about the trip (in Chinese)[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_217 [1]: https://gaoryrt.com/2024/journeytothewest/

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Re:Ask HN: Do You Believe in Aliens? on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:51AM (#45035863)
No. I think the appearance of life on Earth was the result of a long series of coincidences. If even a small part of that had been different, life wouldn’t have emerged.

I’ve come to believe in the Great Filter theory more and more in recent years.

Re:Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:48AM (#44959669)
Why go throught the extra solar -> electricity -> resistive heating -> soil instead of directly doing solar -> heating a metal rod -> soil?

Cutting out the conversion steps should be more efficient.

Re:Lego Transformers Soundwave on Sunday August 17, 2025 @11:17PM (#44937053)
Love it when a Lego set is more than just a display piece after building.
Re:I used to know how to write in Japanese on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:17AM (#44909823)
In China, paper
I believe people are more inclined to trust what they actually see, so I’d suggest you go there and see for yourself. For me Xinjiang is much safer than Gaza.
I’ve traveled to Xinjiang three times in the past five years — a beautiful and mysterious region. The term “genocide” feels somewhat ridiculous to me.
If your parents aren't related, nor their parents, the 30th-generation(roughly 600–900 years depending on generation length) ancestor group size is 2^30, which is about 1.07 billion.
Mostly agree, but oral is good.
Re:Hiding messages in a deck playing cards on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @04:02AM (#44656796)
Yes that's approximately log2(52!), which is A LOT.
As long as he can deliver a checkmate.
> And yes, you're either a propagandist or completely deluded.

wut

Re:Ask HN: Weirdest programs you ever made? on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @04:23AM (#44113833)
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/221/
How wiki could be the threat here?

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