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DIY Soft Drinks

_Microft — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:38:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blinry.org/diy-soft-drinks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741701

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by _Microft in "Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone"

_Microft — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:39:09 +0000

The title was slightly editorialized for clarity.

Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone

_Microft — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:38:11 +0000

Article URL: https://phyphox.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737376

Points: 133

# Comments: 24

New comment by _Microft in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

_Microft — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:25:12 +0000

Taking differences between degrees Celsius values is absolutely fine.

Ratios are undefined because the Celsius scale has no absolute zero while the Kelvin scale has.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement

New comment by _Microft in "Europe sleepwalked into yet another energy crisis"

_Microft — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:14:03 +0000

We should have kept using nuclear? That nuclear of which refinement capacities are over 40% in Russians hands? For conversion it’s even a combined 63% for Russia+China.

“Russia's Stranglehold On The World's Nuclear Power Cycle”, https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-nuclear-power-industry-graphi...

New comment by _Microft in "Full Spectrum and Infrared Photography"

_Microft — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:20:12 +0000

By this measure, there is no "full spectrum" photography ever.

New comment by _Microft in "TCXO Failure Analysis"

_Microft — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:00:43 +0000

That's a website of Andrew Zonenberg if that name rings a bell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=azonenberg

New comment by _Microft in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

_Microft — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:17:03 +0000

Sure, I read that but your comment still sounds like it does. You're doing yourself no service.

New comment by _Microft in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

_Microft — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:11:29 +0000

´"That's not my department", says Wernher von Braun.´

New comment by _Microft in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

_Microft — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:46:48 +0000

That internet is elsewhere.

New comment by _Microft in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

_Microft — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:40:51 +0000

You as reader might also be interested in this: https://hbenbel.github.io/blog/evm/

New comment by _Microft in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

_Microft — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:35:23 +0000

Here‘s also an advice: if you want someone to listen, try not to come across like you just did.

South-Pointing Chariot

_Microft — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:47:51 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-pointing_chariot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099122

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by _Microft in "OpenScan"

_Microft — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:56:45 +0000

The dinosaur example lists an iPhone as source and none of their scanner models. It is also saying that it was recorded at a dinosaur theme park in Germany. This one might be meters long.

New comment by _Microft in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

_Microft — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:51:47 +0000

There is an extension called HN Friends that allows to add information to a tooltip for users and shows a hint that there exists such information.

Use this as you like.

New comment by _Microft in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

_Microft — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:23:03 +0000

Tracks 3, 4 and 7 at the station in question are not adjacent to a platform. It sort of makes sense to route a train over these if there is no stop planned there (intentional or not).

Here's the map of the station:

https://www.bahnhof.de/troisdorf/karte

New comment by _Microft in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

_Microft — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:21:28 +0000

This train (RE5 (RRX) 28521) is not operated by Deutsche Bahn.

The operator is called National Express. Their trains look completely different than the ones of Deutsche Bahn.

https://nationalexpress.de/de/re5

Enron Corpus

_Microft — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:42:08 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_Corpus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925068

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Ghost Population

_Microft — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:29:59 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_population

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45770004

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by _Microft in "987654321 / 123456789"

_Microft — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:42:04 +0000

Use two or more spaces at the beginning of a line and it will be formatted as code ("") and then use symbols as you like.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc