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Re:Theranos.World on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:10PM (#50014747)
“X” was actually a pre-Twitter BBS focused on transgenics and corpuscular macronutrients, based in Fort Worth. Any true believers would know that.
Re:Disruption with Some GitHub Services on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:50AM (#49451231)
I spent a bunch of time during the outage last week setting up forgejo and some custom action runners. At the time, I was worried I was wasting time and getting distracted from my real work...alas, I guess not. Gonna finish up that work and complete the move today.
Re:AI agent hacks gym to get its owner spot in pilates class on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @09:09AM (#49257716)
A key question though...who is the legal agent in this case? The human prompter? The AI agent? The company who hosts the agent? The company who own the agent?
Re:Seedless Blackberries and Cherries That Grow on Bushes on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @09:02AM (#49257638)
Seedless cherries would dramatically increase my children's consumption and reduce my "your gonna choke on that pit" anxiety. A win win.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @05:34PM (#49236220)
If you’re in the Minneapolis / Saint Paul metro area and care about trees, you might like my recent project: https://msptrees.com

On a walk and wonder what species is shading you? Curious if the city thinks your boulevard tree is as sickly as you think it is? Find your spot on MSP Trees.

It's been fun working with some public city data and thinking about how to normalize information across different municipalities. Community doesn't end at city boundaries, but municipal GIS data systems sure do. I'm hoping to build tools like this for some more areas if I can track the data down.

Re:Herdr: One terminal to rule them all on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:13AM (#48833031)
I wish Claude's remote control sessions were longer running. If I forget about a conversation it's been cognitively difficult for me to track down which tmux tab = the correct remote control session in the Claude GUI. Remote control does come in super handy for pasting images in when some shell environments where pasting doesn't work for...reasons. The output in the GUI is also so much easier to read.
Re:5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920 on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:44PM (#48713428)
The prevalence of green turtle soup was surprising. I assumed this was a reference to a flavor or style…but nope, it’s just green turtle meat.
Re:Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor on Saturday April 04, 2026 @01:45PM (#47641376)
Aerospace helps deliver some of this functionality for you. Although the keyboard shortcuts take a little while to learn.
Re:Apple Business on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:13PM (#47505968)
Totally agree on the hidden costs. We've seen some great value in going with Mosyle for this. Lots cheaper, and it "just works."

https://mosyle.com/

Well, here we all are clicking the link and engaging in a discussion on the loathsome creep. Attention, attention.
Recent discussion on this topic:

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078840

Thanks! I will share this.
Great message...but gosh, can someone throw 15px of padding on that <td>? I know HN is supposed to be minimal, but I had to check the URL to confirm that this was a real page because of the odd design.
Agreed, but my biggest problem with this, is that most external keyboards don't really have an equivalent (at least in the some location). So while I have Fn mapped to my speech to text tool (Hex), I have to figure out something else when I'm at my desktop keyboard.
My primary point is that it's not a slam dunk for either side. Nothing's obvious about the "impact" here. I you're interested in picking a product based on its environmental impact, there are going to be many factors to consider. Just peruse this 200 page report from the UK government on the subject:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c4096ed915...

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