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Re:Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:45PM (#49778103)
Mods: can we just link to the actual announcement instead of a blog: https://www.sherline.com/an-important-message-to-our-sherlin...
Re:Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:28PM (#49777922)
What is the best replacement for hobbyists?
Re:A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have ... on Sunday August 16, 2026 @02:12PM (#49322290)
Original HN discussion referenced:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298035
Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:22PM (#48985041)
How do Chinese companies distill the models?
Re:Let's Buy Spirit Air on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:12AM (#48004877)
SEC should investigate this.
Re:Let's Buy Spirit Air on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:08AM (#48004865)
They can probably make money on business class travelers who spend their companies money on flights which aren't necessarily the cheapest but can reap the rewards for their own personal benefit.
Re:Car Seats as Contraception on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:48AM (#47598055)
Why didn't your kids like them?
Re:Halt and Catch Fire: TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of... on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @11:02PM (#47057019)
Syllabus:

https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/

Re:Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @04:08AM (#46363707)
Didn't Richard Stallman use a Lemote Loongson computer before?

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Re:Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants and dementia on Sunday November 02, 2025 @11:24AM (#45791419)
Any recommendations for a good air quality monitor?
Re:US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest i... on Friday September 05, 2025 @01:23PM (#45141079)
But wasnt JPow's slow reaction to initial inflation one of the main problems to begin with? Although the data was signaling rising inflation he kept saying it's "transitory". Now he says we need to look closely at the data which is what he should have done in the first place.
Re:UMichigan study: EVs are cleaner than ICEs over average vehicle life on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:13PM (#45055877)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670401

This comment says EVs generate 10-15% more tire dust which is a significant ocean pollutant.

Does anyone know the impact on human health?

Re:UMichigan study: EVs are cleaner than ICEs over average vehicle life on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:21AM (#45050445)
Less CO2 for sure but do any of these studies also factor in increased tire dust from EVs since they are heavier and wear out tires faster?
Re:VHS-C: when a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video] on Friday August 22, 2025 @08:15AM (#44983574)
Every time I hear about VHS I like to bring up Marion Stokes : https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-televisi...
Re:Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previous... on Monday May 12, 2025 @07:50PM (#43968519)
TLDR: Hawking radiation can cause things besides black holes to evaporate.

  Man and moon: 10^90 years
Because the researchers were at it anyway, they also calculated how long it takes for the moon and a human to evaporate via Hawking-like radiation. That's 10^90 years. Of course, the researchers subtly note, there are other processes that may cause humans and the moon to disappear faster than calculated.
Re:Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war on Monday May 12, 2025 @02:28AM (#43960187)
They also dictate that their suppliers will all use AUTOSAR which is a legacy framework that makes even toggling a GPIO difficult.

https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/leq366/comment/gm...

  you'll spend a few more months sitting in online seminars while some talking head explains why it takes 6 hours to configure a million goddamn things so their garbage tool can shit out an entire Italian resaurant's worth of spaghetti code just to blink an LED at 1Hz. Except it's not 1Hz, it's 10Hz, or 0.1Hz, or some other bullshit that you didn't want, because you muttered the wrong incantation to the configuration utility somewhere around step 2 out of 800, so guess what, you get to back and do the entire fucking thing again.
Re:Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:23PM (#43071845)
Is there a script to download all your Kindle books?
Re:Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free ... on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @07:00PM (#42199500)
What about wealthy people with low AGI but lots of assets?
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] on Sunday October 13, 2024 @08:32PM (#41833025)
How does this differ from his other book The Case For Kats?
Re:A $1k Wheelchair on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @06:11PM (#41725424)
https://whirlwindwheelchair.org/

Professor Ralf Hotchkiss used to teach a course at SFSU on how to build wheelchairs.

Re:WordPerfect for Unix Character Terminals on Sunday September 08, 2024 @04:06AM (#41478934)
Also see old thread on Almost Perfect :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163741

Re:Founder Mode on Monday September 02, 2024 @02:27AM (#41423083)
Isn't that podcast from last year whereas this talk was last week?

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