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by divbzero 1y ago
> I was thinking it’s hard to relate to Tom and Daisy in high school… Yes, it seems easier to relate to them after encountering more “careless people” as an adult.
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by divbzero 1y ago
> So, there you have it: "all you have to do" is deploy a few hectares of radiators in space, combined with heat pumps that can dissipate gigawatts of thermal load… Starcloud’s whitepaper suggests a 4 km × 4 km radiator. For
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by divbzero 1y ago
I was wondering if these server racks in space would need to be specifically designed for enough radiative cooling. Apparently the answer is yes: the radiators would be expansive and placed on the reverse side of the solar panels. Starclou
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by divbzero 1y ago
Relative to that time scale we are still, at ~10¹⁰ years, in the opening moments of the universe.
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by divbzero 1y ago
Reliance of small businesses on big tech AI feels similar to reliance of small businesses on Google search: business risk present with each update.
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by divbzero 1y ago
Thank you! That answers my question definitively. It’s notable, of course, that Robert Prevost was highlighted in this post but left off of many other lists of papal candidates.
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by divbzero 1y ago
Was this published before the Pope was elected? The article byline indicates 08 May 2025 but response header shows Last-Modified: Fri, 09 May 2025 13:39:02 GMT and the earliest entry in the Internet Archive is Fri, 09 May 2025 12:28:01
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Night tornadoes are twice as deadly and growing more common(nationalgeographic.com)
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Gas stoves nearly double children's cancer risk, Stanford study shows(sfchronicle.com)
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by divbzero 1y ago
I only learned recently that several Japanese Americans were killed in those camps. [1]: https://www.history.com/articles/japanese-american-relocatio... [2]: https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Homicide_in_
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by divbzero 1y ago
Thanks for keeping the HN API open for these alternative UIs.
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Bloomberg Terminal was the first example that came to mind for me too: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomberg_Terminal_M...
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by divbzero 1y ago
The official HN front page is already pretty good on UI density, so it’s promising that you’re using that as a starting point. Is there any chance https://hcker.news is related to https://hckrnews.com ? The dense layo
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by divbzero 1y ago
I was wondering if that missing period was intentional…
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by divbzero 1y ago
So maybe it makes sense that LLMs do okay at programming even though they lack the ability to reason?
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Passerby protected accused driver in Vancouver attack from angry mob(theglobeandmail.com)
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How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean(nationalgeographic.com)
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Firefly's rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we've ever seen(arstechnica.com)
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by divbzero 1y ago
Does anyone know how Florida’s Miami–Orlando Brightline is doing? I believe that’s the only higher-speed rail route opened since Acela.
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by divbzero 1y ago
The Pale Blue Dot is an incredible image but actually understates our cosmic insignificance. Voyager 1 hadn’t left the Solar System at the time and is still light years from our nearest stellar neighbors. Even our farthest stellar neighbo
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by divbzero 1y ago
What exactly is the “sunbeam” in the Pale Blue Dot ? Is it a real astronomical phenomenon or an imaging artifact?
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by divbzero 1y ago
I recognize Terman from the names of places at Stanford but never knew he played such a big role in the early days of Silicon Valley.
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Data Free Disney (2023)(publicbooks.org)
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by divbzero 1y ago
At South Lake Union and University District crosswalks earlier this week: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-crosswalk-...
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by divbzero 1y ago
Isn’t OP analyzing frequencies of individual chords, not chord progressions? Analyzing individual chords involves counting the frequency of each chord (such as G, C, or D). Analyzing chord progressions would involve counting the frequency o
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by divbzero 1y ago
That’s an anime that should be made.
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by divbzero 1y ago
Yes, video ads have been in NYC taxis for 15+ years.
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Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words (2023)(stevejobsarchive.com)
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The first known nitroplasts (2024)(cen.acs.org)
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by divbzero 2y ago
I prefer the dedicated minus (U+2212) over the hyphen-minus (U+002d) for mathematical use because they look different in most font faces. Are there cases where the dedicated hyphen (U+2010) is preferred over the hyphen-minus?

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