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Cue the resurgence of lip reading-based espionage. Imagining having to scan the room for people watching subvocalizers. Will subvocalizers start holding up a clipboard over their face a la NFL coaches?
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:12AM (#49374166)
I’m curious if you’d share there rest of your principles. This is so well articulated.
Re:How Old Is Ann? on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:31AM (#49109753)
and the circle remains unbroken
Re:RLS sounds great until it isn't on Monday May 25, 2026 @12:56AM (#48263521)
Re:ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL on Monday April 20, 2026 @10:01AM (#47834510)
It is conceivable that this could become a duckdb extension, such that it can be used from within the duckdb CLI? That would be pretty slick.
I’ve seen this approach - so no chromatography? We have a compound that is very trace (parts per trillion) that we need to monitor for. We are always looking for solutions that could be useful.
There are a few industries that use odorants/aromas.

What is the limit of detection on the sensors? Can they reliably pick up compounds in the parts per billion range? Parts per trillion?

Show HN: Reduction Blockprint Planner/Simulator

https://reduction-planner.hirson.xyz

I’ll start this by saying I am not a programmer. As such, I’ve used Claude Code to do most of the coding, so I expect some issues on the vibe coding front.As a hobby I do block printing - usually linoleum, sometimes I 3-d print plates to make prints. One of the techniques that I use to make multi-colored prints is called reduction printing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printmaking). Instead of...

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Re:Why Is the Sky Blue? on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:49PM (#46951971)
But a banana is yellow for a very different reason (and a much easier to explain reason) than why the sky is blue. And air isn’t blue, because it’s red at the end of the day?
Re:Opentrees.org (2024) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:12PM (#46843540)
this reminds me of https://fallingfruit.org/
Re:Haiku Validator on Monday September 29, 2025 @11:07AM (#45414764)
close comes up as 2 syllables in the app, should be 1.

Nice and simple, very nice app.