harrydehal
Re:Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States
on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @12:58AM (#45022423)
"The Snell Helmet Standard is Meaningless"
Re:I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
on Friday June 13, 2025 @02:40PM (#44271054)
Worth pointing out that HPE also acquired Aruba Networks and Juniper Networks – not sure how both those networking portfolios look like post-acquisition.
Re:Sayonara, R35: Nissan Japan has stopped taking orders for the GT-R
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @04:22PM (#43285189)
Oil burning was a common problem for early S2000s (specifically AP1 motors) and AFAIK (having been an owner for 10+ years and read nearly every s2ki/s2kca forum post over the last 20 years), the problem was never truly solved in a documented, reproducible way.
Replacing the valve stems, seals, changing oil brands/weights, etc. have all been a bit unscientific and for me, the only thing that’s “worked” was not overfilling (as anxious owners tend to do), checking early and often, and ensuring I read the dipstick correctly (the trick on this motor is to read both sides of the dipstick).
Unfortunately, Honda always held firm on the "1 litre per 1000 miles is considered normal” and the problem went away with the F22C/AP2 motor. I've learned to live with it for an otherwise extremely reliable ownership experience.
Re:Walter G. Ehmer, longtime Waffle House president, dies at 58
on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:57PM (#41491387)
To quote the late, great Anthony Bourdain – it's about "the notion of universal awesomeness."
The likes of Waffle House (and In N Out Burger – another Bourdain favorite) are not supposed to be "the best diner" or "the best burger" – but there is something magical about them that many of us can't quite put our finger on (and many don't understand at all).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEpXeTDwbk8 is the Parts Unknown segment with Chef Sean Brock in Charleston, S.C.
Re:US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic ins...
on Sunday April 07, 2024 @11:17PM (#39965928)
Haruki Murakami, is that you?
Re:John Locke's recipe for Pancakes (2021)
on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @02:35PM (#39361794)
"If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike?"
Re:Toyota Creates Ultra-Luxury Century Brand Above Lexus
on Monday January 22, 2024 @10:12PM (#39099130)
"I told you, Lexus doesn't make a convertible."
Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:38PM (#38028101)
In terms of keeping it simple, but having a responsive design that covers mobile/tablet/desktop -- do these count?
Re:Punjabi Mexican Americans
on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:41PM (#37423618)
Solid doc! I think I found it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236AWbnDtBc
I also really loved this article on the food-side of Punjabi-Mexican culture:
California’s Lost (and Found) Punjabi-Mexican Cuisine https://www.eater.com/2019/4/23/18305011/punjabi-mexican-mig...
Re:3M reaches $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination of water systems
on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:34AM (#36662488)
You can search the NSF.org certifications here, specifically NSF/ANSI 53 and NSF/ANSI 58:
https://info.nsf.org/Certified/DWTU/Listings.asp?ProductFunc...
https://www.nsf.org/news/pfoa-pfos-reduction-claims-requirem...
P.S. Note the "facility" where these products are manufactured are also listed. One might also want to note that [replacement] filters may also have different country origins.
Re:Magic the Gathering Players Lament the Loss of 30-Year History
on Monday January 30, 2023 @02:24AM (#34576813)
Loved this story. Is this a peek of your site on the Wayback Machine? The late 90s and early 2000s were such a magical time for the early web!
https://web.archive.org/web/20020930072241/http://www.thebib...
Re:Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsule Smaller ...
on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:58AM (#34576288)
For the curious:
Re:AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measu...
on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:31AM (#34576140)
I run an indoor sensor from a different company and it definitely allows me to measure whenever the neighbors are doing yardwork, or there's a fire down the street, etc.
My sensor is indoor, but I am curious about picking up an outdoor sensor to see if I can find any long-term correlation between a train passing and increase in emissions.
Re:AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measu...
on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:13AM (#34576006)
Check out the Purple Air community map and their sensors:
Re:Toroidal propellers: A noise-killing game changer in air and water
on Saturday January 28, 2023 @02:35PM (#34560819)
When life imitates art; highly recommend "The Hunt for Red October" (adapted from Tom Clancy's 1984 novel) about the Soviet Unions' secret development of a new type of submarine that proves to be undetectable to passive sonar.
Re:Ask HN: Why do sites insist on local language?
on Thursday January 26, 2023 @09:55PM (#34541919)
We run a high-traffic (millions per day) website and found that for certain cohorts, we saw up to 25% of users in Canada and Australia identifying themselves a "en-us" (English United States) from their default browser language... The number is shockingly high.
Re:Ask HN: What's a good home router?
on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:11PM (#34343932)
In a sea of recommendations for Mikrotik, TP-Link, UniFi, etc. -- all routers I was looking at getting myself -- I'm hesitant to share the blissful state of https://firewalla.com
I had crossed the bridge of being tired of configuring OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc. over the years. I just wanted something that worked reliably and was intuitive to both setup and manage.
With the Firewalla Purple and their iOS app, I've never seen such good UI/UX in a networking product, and it's been a great experience (I recommend the Purple or the Gold).
Even the late Anythony Bourdain could espouse on the greatness of an "objectively terrible" Wafflehouse meal.
There's a time and place for everything, and even the snobbiest of us food snobs can appreciate the time and place for the likes of Little Ceasars, Costco Pizza, Wafflehouse, et al.
Re:Brushed Metal in Pure CSS
on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:18PM (#33924598)
Yes! Shoutout to Phong.com. They had a ton of crazy Photoshop and web design tutorials and were pushing the boundaries of design on the web in the early, pre/post-CSS days -- inevitably kicking off my career in web and tech.
Anyone remember using emp.gif (empty.gif) to help align table-based layouts with images?
P.S. I still think this "eplastic" tutorial is one of the prettiest things I've seen: https://archive.phong.com/tutorials/eplastic
Re:Nascar Driver Stuns to Qualify for Championship with GameCube Move
on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:30PM (#33416581)
Assuming this is the video you're referencing:
https://youtu.be/9fPamV6LsV8?t=107
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)
on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:45PM (#33070049)
DoorDash | Remote Contract-to-Hire | https://get.doordash.com
We're looking for a highly-motivated junior or mid-career front-end engineer with experience in React, Next.js, Typescript -- key differentiators are a quantitative and qualitative approach to improving UX, a11y, i18n and documentation -- seeking Engineers who ask questions, unravel the thread, and take a holistic, long-term approach to solving problems.
We're a very small, but nimble team of Engineers working within Marketing at DoorDash.
To learn more about our team, please see our blog post: https://doordash.engineering/2022/02/22/building-a-marketing...
This position is remote and would start off as a contract (40 hours a week, with flexibility), with a desire to hire directly to our team if there is a good fit.
Please send your resume and GitHub (no cover letters needed) to harry[at]doordash[dot]com.
Thank you!
Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans
on Saturday August 20, 2022 @10:47PM (#32536977)
Some blood is sweeter than others.
-Bram Stoker, or someone.
Re:Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans
on Saturday August 20, 2022 @10:44PM (#32536967)
I've seen the commercial traps that run off propane tanks (and the mechanics only last 1-2 years until they breakdown) – they seem far too wasteful.
This idea seems ingenious, especially the part about using seltzer water for the CO2 (which will last 3-4 hours).
Thanks for sharing!
Re:Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver ...
on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:15PM (#32446330)
https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/
Watched his cacio pepe. He doubled down on reminding to always use dry pasta. Not bad. Subscribed.
Re:Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver ...
on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:12PM (#32446311)
This is called the "Leidenfrost effect." The other possible health downside to doing this in a stainless steel pan, as referenced elsewhere in these comments, is the overheating of certain cooking oils beyond their smokepoint and into temperatures that turn them potentially bad for your health.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
https://youtu.be/CB-SCA1reqE?list=FL4AL7iVYshdIk6899Kgomug&t...
Re:The Race to Reclaim the Dark
on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:05PM (#32227398)
For the data-visualization curious, here's a fun map:
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info
Clicking on your location/vicinity shows a tooltip with your "Bortle Dark Sky Scale" number, which can be referenced here:
https://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/bortle.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale
Apparently I've lived in a class 6 or 7 my whole life, and only recall seeing shooting stars camping out in the Sierras, e.g. Yosemite, which is still only a class 2!
Re:Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?
on Monday July 11, 2022 @07:56PM (#32063806)
I would look into Contentful, Prismic, Sanity, and Strapi (among others).
Re:US water contains more ‘forever chemicals’ than EPA tests show
on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:30AM (#32010247)
What is your whole-house filter setup look like?
Re:Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?
on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:27PM (#31900319)
Looks like it's supported in Google Meets (as well as Zoom):
https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10058482?hl=en&co=GEN...