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Re:Is TfL losing the battle against heat on the Victoria line?
on Sunday May 25, 2025 @10:06AM (#44087942)
In case you also couldn’t guess the “f” in TfL, it’s Transport for London.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:15PM (#44032912)
If you want to see the thread
https://xcancel.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610?s...
Re:High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill
on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:46PM (#43928080)
> What's the plan here?
…
Re:Vacheron Constantin Breaks the World Record for Most Complicated Wr...
on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:16PM (#43665686)
Another nice longform essay, from the NYer (2017)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of...
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:14PM (#43401943)
I also thought at first that G acquired the budget smart bulb company but then I realized it’s “WiZ” and not “Wiz”.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @02:05PM (#43258703)
curl -X POST "https://apply-to-avantos.dev-sandbox.workload.avantos-ai.net" \
-H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"email": "<your-email>"}'
Re:Magnus is auctioning his Jeans
on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:04PM (#43131523)
> Charity: All net proceeds will support Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Re:Bunkers in Albania
on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:52AM (#42768194)
> Albanians have a deep gratitude to Americans because…
Albanians gratitude to the USA continues beyond Woodrow Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_Boulevard
Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your child...
on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:27PM (#42703365)
HN parenting thread…
> Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Re:Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce
on Saturday January 04, 2025 @04:19AM (#42593636)
Not only pasta sauce ;)
> Detection of buffalo milk adulteration with cow milk by capillary electrophoresis analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002203021...
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
Videotape Format War
Re:I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop
on Monday December 09, 2024 @02:47PM (#42369771)
The newest Mac Mini with M4 Pro and 64GB of ram costs ~ €2000
Re:Calculating the largest known prime in Ruby
on Saturday November 30, 2024 @07:11AM (#42281116)
Could explain the << calculation a bit? I read about the operator but it’s not clear how this works
Re:Did Claude's quality drop recently?
on Sunday November 24, 2024 @10:12AM (#42228282)
Yes, there are some reports. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215912
Re:The Return of Stealth Mountain
on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:54PM (#42011409)
The original bot was undoubtedly using the Search API and not Firehose (real-time tweet stream).
Re:We're forking Flutter
on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:26PM (#41975841)
Re:Ribbonfarm Is Retiring
on Sunday October 20, 2024 @11:29AM (#41895944)
> ZIRP stands for “Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon,” …
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/LC-what-is-zirp-and-how-...
Re:Is English a "Creole Language"?
on Monday September 30, 2024 @11:36AM (#41698400)
Re:South Park creators renovate a beloved restaurant, and find nostalg...
on Monday September 16, 2024 @03:14PM (#41559468)
Here’s the trailer for the documentary: https://youtu.be/I4TkkS7xePY?feature=shared
South Park creators renovate a beloved restaurant, and find nostalgia is pricey
Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our proc...
on Saturday September 14, 2024 @02:43AM (#41537958)
SIEM = Security information and event management
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_information_and_event...
Re:The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony
on Friday September 13, 2024 @03:45PM (#41534487)
Here are the prize winners: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
Re:Show HN: A whiteboard that writes math equations
on Friday September 13, 2024 @03:22PM (#41534276)
I asked “what is the circumference of a square?” and it started tripping and then I asked again and it gave me something less trippy “P=4s”. In between it answer correctly for the circumference of a circle.
Re:Linux kernel contributor swatted and handcuffed live on stream [video]
on Friday September 13, 2024 @02:14PM (#41533660)
I thought I recognized him:
Re:IRS Guidance for Thieves, Drug Dealers, and Corrupt Officials (2014)
on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:01PM (#41522349)
Discussion from 2021:
IRS Guidance for Thieves, Drug Dealers, and Corrupt Officials (2014)
Re:Giant underwater avalanche decimated Atlantic seafloor 60k years ago
on Friday August 30, 2024 @04:35PM (#41404190)
Can also happen in inland lakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauredunum_event
Re:More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland
on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:35PM (#41193411)
FWIW, cuckoo clocks originated in the Black Forest, southern Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock
But it reminds me of the famous quote from Bertrand Russell
> My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.
(Bertrand Russell / 1872-1970 / Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? / 1930)