WalterGR

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by WalterGR 8mo ago
Also see https://hn.algolia.com/ which powers HN’s site search. It lets you sort by Popularity across configurable time spans.
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
Link is to “Bezos’ Rocket Firm Blue Origin to Halt Space Tourism Flights“.
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
What OP is describing is Tomb of the Mask or in that genre. There’s a good GIF embedded here showing the navigation mechanic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Mask
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
There are no pinned comments here. Any archive.is links are posted by random members.
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
Use of the em-dash got a lot of coverage. For example https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/magazine/chatgpt-dash-hyp... Based on personal experience, emoji use, but I’d have to run the numbers on what ki
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
276 comments a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489514
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
> The Udvar Hazy is being expanded to hold more stuff. Oh, that’s great news!
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
> insert / stove As a kid I lived in homes with both - and a home with a barrel stove - and as an adult with a pellet stove and I don’t remember that being a problem. Net, it was fine?
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584523
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by WalterGR 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635550
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
Thanks for the reference. I knew this product in the article sounded familiar: “Literally a piece of e-waste in waiting, Lollipop Stars are suckers with an integrated battery and tiny speaker that, when placed in one's mouth, transmit
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
That wasn’t my impression of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. (Assuming that’s the CHM you mention.) I haven’t been in maybe 10 years, though. Have things changed?
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
The US Smithsonian National Air and Space (NASM) museums are great. For those that aren’t aware, one of the locations is on the Capitol Mall in Washington, DC and the other - the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center - is near the Dulles Airport in D
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
Yeah, the page could use some inline context. It does link to this page, which has a bit more info and links to further info. Not at all 5-year-old level, but should help: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-NTSYN
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
What do you meant by them sidestepping the HAL?
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
This submission came later but is getting more traction, with 81 comments so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470017
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
Then you were successfully beworn.
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by WalterGR 10mo ago
Before spidering the site for offline reading, be aware: “Rather than secure rights to the recommended papers, we have simply provided links to Google Scholar searches that should help the reader locate the relevant papers.”
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Having very older parents, what an important use case! Long gone are the days of writing a family update, including physical photos, and putting them in the post. Fortunately, I’m able to guide my parents in their tech usage. I can’t ima
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> I used to be a polyphasic sleeper Why? If you don’t mind me asking.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
How many ounces consumed over how many minutes?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Indeed. It’s like a leet version of Unicode’s “Symbols for Legacy Computing” block. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing
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by WalterGR 1y ago
“It mimics the behavior of liquid by creating a particle system that reacts to the computer's orientation.”
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Do you have data to support that?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
90 comments 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596355
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by WalterGR 1y ago
They’re probably aware. From the paper: > We end by discussing how doubling-back aversion is distinct from established phenomena (e.g., the sunk-cost fallacy). Is the author of this pop sci article aware? Hard to tell.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Link should be https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-...
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Why not ask AI how to use <appropriate library / framework> to implement <thing>? Doesn’t seem like you can blame NIH on AI more than other motivations for NIH. Edit to add: If AI makes NIH easier , then it implies that AI
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44593357

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