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New comment by Archelaos in "How to make your text look futuristic (2016)"

Archelaos — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:58:32 +0000

Raumpatrouille Orion also from 1966 used a similar font style:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumpatrouille_%E2%80%93_Die_p...

I reckon this style originated much earlier from the fonts used on the covers of science fiction books and magazines.

Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday

Archelaos — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:15:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/08/david-attenborough-100th-birthday

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056836

Points: 8

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New comment by Archelaos in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

Archelaos — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:20:43 +0000

> And to the haters: Show me any company or product from Germany in IT that is Top 100 globally.

Also I wouldn’t want to disagree with you outright, there are still a few important German companies in the IT sector (or related): Siemens, Infineon, Deutsche Telekom, Bechtle, TeamViewer come to my mind.

What Siemens exemplifies is that the strength of German industry is not pure software, but high-tech machinery. While Siemens and most of its spin-offs are doing somewhat okay, the stocks of its spin-off Siemens Energy have risen by ~700 % in the last 3 years.

New comment by Archelaos in "Ti-84 Evo"

Archelaos — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:04:10 +0000

On 9 July 1537, Martin Luther wrote in a letter to Wolfgang Capito about a lost golden ring: "Pro annulo aureo gratias tibi agit mea Catharina, quam vix unquam magis indignatam vidi, quam ubi sensit, cum vel furto sublatum, vel sua negligentia (quod nec mihi verisimile est, licet usque ingerenti) amissum, quod persuaseram ei, hoc donum esse felix omen et augurium ei missum, tanquam nunc certum esset, vestram Ecclesiam cum nostra suaviter concordare; id mire dolet mulieri."[1]

When Luther's house in Wittenberg was excavated about 20 years ago, a golden ring[2] was found that must have been deposited there before 1540. It is therefore quite likely that this is the ring mentioned by Luther in 1537.

[1] See WA, BR 8: no 3162 -- https://archive.org/details/werkebriefwechse08luthuoft/page/...

[2] Here is an image of the ring: https://www.zum.de/Faecher/G/BW/Landeskunde/rhein/geschichte...

Experience: I died on my 44th birthday

Archelaos — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:00:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/01/experience-i-died-on-my-44th-birthday-assisted-dying

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975579

Points: 3

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New comment by Archelaos in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

Archelaos — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:29:51 +0000

Socrates never wrote anything. At least, not as far as we know.

New comment by Archelaos in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

Archelaos — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:24:58 +0000

This article made me think how I could use similar techinques to colour code the data in database tables. Has anyone here tried that and has some recommendations where to start, etc.?

New comment by Archelaos in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"

Archelaos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:59:14 +0000

Polar bears can have furtile offspring with grizzly/brown bears. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%E2%80%93polar_bear_hyb...

New comment by Archelaos in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

Archelaos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:24:27 +0000

> If an old coin is deemed to not be historically significant, it probably belongs to the landowner.

According to § 984 BGB, a historically insignificant find belongs to the finder and landowner in equal shares.[1] If the find is so important that it is considered a "cultural monument" (Kulturdenkmal), the law of the individual German state determines who owns it and whether or how much of a compensation is payed to the finder.[2]

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__984.html (in German)

[2] For details see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schatzregal#Deutschland (in German)

New comment by Archelaos in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

Archelaos — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:08:59 +0000

> In most markets Senior developers often command salaries exceeding $150,000 USD per year

Why not outsource this to a cheaper country? For example, here in Germany salaries are about half of that, and the talent pool is excellent.

New comment by Archelaos in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

Archelaos — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:56:53 +0000

German citizen here. I find this attitude horrible and threatening. You are working on sacrificing yet another part of our digital sovereignty to a US company. There are trillions of better things to do with your life.

A visual guide to the Gulf fertiliser blockade

Archelaos — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/visual-guide-gulf-fertiliser-blockade

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635166

Points: 4

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Launch day has arrived for NASA's Artemis II mission–here's what to expect

Archelaos — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:09:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/launch-day-has-arrived-for-nasas-artemis-ii-mission-heres-what-to-expect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601957

Points: 5

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On Discovering the chestnut mining bee in New York after a gap of 119 yrs

Archelaos — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:25:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/30/i-discovered-chestnut-mining-bee-new-york-molly-jacobson-aoe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573999

Points: 3

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Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk

Archelaos — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:23:27 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/final-analysis-of-2025-iberian-blackout-policies-left-spain-at-risk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528689

Points: 3

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Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d'Artagnan may have been found

Archelaos — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:49:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/skeleton-three-musketeers-dartagnan-alexandre-dumas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520798

Points: 7

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Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds

Archelaos — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:47:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/25/bond-dogs-humans-dates-back-15000-years-study-finds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520779

Points: 4

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Jürgen Habermas Has Died

Archelaos — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:43:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/juergen-habermas-philosopher-dies-age-96-publisher-says-2026-03-14/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377807

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Obituary for António Lobo Antunes

Archelaos — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/06/antonio-lobo-antunes-portuguese-novelist-dies-aged-83

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281839

Points: 2

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New comment by Archelaos in "Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024)"

Archelaos — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:59:07 +0000

Can the experiment be summerised by saying that training the model is a kind of probabilistic pre-calculation that converts the Stockfish expert system into a different, rather distinct representation that is worse than Stockfish, but still quite good?