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I wonder if at scale this will lead to mosquito farms or to mosquito extinction in nature.

Of course I suspect it will be the former but the latter is way funnier.

We've been stuck with these insects for a while. It would be so funny that the solution to get rid of them was in fact the same that wiped out many species before: over exploitation of natural resources.

cc https://tornyol.com/

OP here.

Sharing this for the philosophical questions it raises, as well as what it means for politics in general. The discussion was super interesting to me, so I figured it might be to some other people here.

I'm not sharing this to discuss short term political subjects, neither to judge wether China or the West is better/worst.

Did AI help at any step in the process?

After seeing this, I (or rather, v0) created https://hnhell.com for the joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946932

To be fair it is really not great, but it works for the joke and I'm impressed by how good it works for how little time it took.

Inspired by WikiTok (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723)

After making HN paradise: https://meet.hn

I had to make https://hnhell.com

Fully created with v0.dev: wanted to make the joke but didn't have time for it. Thanks v0!

It's even better as you will probably enjoy some very cursed errors/problems, which is expected in hell.

I would have liked to get the specific HNers pov.

Actually I just shared an example of the type of tips I had in mind. Limestone in the shower was pretty time-consuming to clean up, and using microfiber cloth and white vinegar made it much easier/better/faster.

Removed the optimizing part from the title. I shared an example of what I meant in a comment.

OP: White vinegar for limestone. With microfiber cloth it's very effective.

Damn! After reading this I was surprised by the fact that this sounded very familiar.

I actually "practiced" a lot like this because I was always amused to notice how we could basically "see through" objects with this double-image thingy (see experiment below).

So I decided to film myself... and I was actually already doing a divergence! Not convergence!

Thanks a lot for your comment which made me realize that.

Experiment:

1. place your phone (handy size/shape for the experiment) in front of one eye (X), at about 20cm.

2. close the other eye (Y) and look at your phone

3. Open Y and look straight without focusing on the phone. By blinking Y, the double-image should appear/disappear, as if it was unveiling what's behind your phone.

4. By closing X and with Y open, looking at your phone, you should see it displaced from where it was when X was open and Y was closed. The size of this displacement is equal to the size of the double-image transparent part.

Do you have a training method for divergence?

Similar to the finger moving closer and closer to the upper nose technique, for convergence.

This is incredible! Works unbelievably well. Thanks for sharing!

What's the state of the art?

What do you mean by "connecting" them?

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A lot of good points here, thanks a lot!

> Email-chain would be the easiest.

It would require users to share their emails to meet.hn, am I right?

> creating a some form of very simple forum board

Might be a good idea as well. It would require more work and maintenance but could be valuable.

If you want, I can display something similar to this at your location: https://meet.hn/city/43.6534817,-79.3839347/Old-Toronto

Hit me up if interested :)

Yes, I had to make a change about urls in order to support locations from all around the world. lat/long ended up being the only unique thing in common.

To do so, I implemented a search using OpenStreetMap. The thing is, OpenStreetMap can give several results for a given location (and rightfully so). Example with Paris: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Paris%2C%20France.

When I updated the way meet.hn handles location, I migrated all city ids like the one you mention "gb-London" to a new one using lat/long.

The problem is: when users select a location, they can end up at another (close) location suggested by OpenStreetMap. To mitigate this pb, if locations have the same full name or OpenStreetMap id, I don't display them in the location selector.

Also, I put locations of type "city" first to nudge users into selecting cities more and hopefully end up with less problems of this kind.

Code about this is here: https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn/blob/808143d36841b...

There is something to be done, but I only had overly complicated ideas to fix this.

Very open to suggestions. Don't hesitate to open an issue/PR for this on GitHub.

> A monthly "Meet HN" post– for each area (per city might be too small?)

Per city would definitely be spam! There are 720 cities as we speak.

Or it could not be, but it would require locating them under a specific route like news.ycombinator.com/meet or something.

> why would it be compulsory to have a profile on some social networking thing?

It's not! In fact you have several other options if you prefer.