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Re:Springer retracts hundreds of “nonsensical” articles on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:45PM (#29832380)
These look like they were written by GPT-3
Re:Ask HN: Screen Friendly Documentation Ideas? on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:12PM (#29818817)
You could convert the Word docs to Markdown with Pandoc, then feed those files to docsify.
Re:How do I open the Mercedes EQS’s hood? on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:08PM (#29802910)
Teslas seem modular/maintainable if you have the expertise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHea6GdQYw
Re:The Third Web on Monday December 20, 2021 @12:19PM (#29627254)
Looking at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Arweave/comments/gu5elw/arweave_per...

The advantage it has over IPFS is guaranteed permanence and the incentivization is core to that functionality.

Re:Two custom React hooks on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:27PM (#29596162)
> the cost of abstracting that tiny bit of state into some top level application state is disproportionately high - it just isn't a pragmatic choice

What other costs are there besides boilerplate?

Re:Nim 1.6.2 on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:18PM (#29596021)
Do you think it has no genuine use cases?
Re:The Third Web on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:04PM (#29595804)
Arweave, for one, uses blockchain for a novel approach to data storage.
Re:Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:07PM (#29536488)
I think the process would be low-cost (reverse osmosis maybe?). Filtration generally seems pretty low-cost all around - the LifeStraw is $12.99 and can make toilet water drinkable.
Re:Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:03PM (#29527029)
It's made with processed Seaweed, so I'd think the end product would be at least mostly free of these contaminants.
Re:Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life? on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:01PM (#29513209)
Can you expand on this some more?
Re:Explain This Paper on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:25PM (#29408705)
Neat. Curious if you looked into using AI for summarization?
Re:The fish shell is amazing on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:34PM (#29345610)
Wondering how it would function after being passed through https://github.com/azproduction/html-tui