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New comment by ______ in "Kitchen optimizations"

______ — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:21:21 +0000

I got it and absolutely love it. Takes a bit of getting used to of course, but after being in my kitchen I expect all taps to work like this.

The biggest downside is that visitors will be confused why the water doesn’t run (the physical tap is always left open but there is a “virtual” tap controlled by the sensor is not.

New comment by ______ in "Spending too much time at airports"

______ — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:16:00 +0000

Having a kitchen tablet is also amazing - I have a ten year old iPad Pro with the keyboard, it's great for looking up recipes and following along, and also messaging while cooking.

New comment by ______ in "Cursor CLI"

______ — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:09:19 +0000

Ultimately if this stuff is actually intelligent it should be using the same sources of information that we intelligent beings use. Feels silly to have to have to jump through all these hoops to make it work today

New comment by ______ in "The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon"

______ — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:26:15 +0000

A good first step is not paying for Prime.

It's like $140 annually now... and if you're mostly just buying things and not watching their content, it's a nice speed bump to just accumulate items in the cart until you hit the minimum free shipping and only order then.

When you occasionally do for some reason need an instant item, you can pay the shipping then. It's kinda like for most people, having a second or third car is much more expensive than just renting one when you actually need it.

That said, I am close to a Costco so that's where I get most of my bulk items - the Amazon stuff tends to be more discretionary.

New comment by ______ in "PDF to Text, a challenging problem"

______ — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:28:32 +0000

pdfplumber is great for table extraction but it is python

New comment by ______ in "I just want to code (2023)"

______ — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:54:46 +0000

That’s great!

Also - coffee at work, tea for play

New comment by ______ in "Out of the Fog"

______ — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:08:12 +0000

People were really desperate to get out of there at the end. A wild story is of Buang Ly who landed a Cessna on a US aircraft carrier: https://www.historynet.com/maj-buang-lys-daring-feat-to-save...

New comment by ______ in "Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding"

______ — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:47:20 +0000

I use a cheap MIDI controller in this manner - there is even native browser support. Great to get immediate feedback on parameter tweaks

New comment by ______ in "New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs"

______ — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:30:54 +0000

> This research was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

I wonder if this is the kind of grant that is no longer being funded (or at least "paused")

New comment by ______ in "Threlte 8"

______ — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:01:03 +0000

The main Raycaster class in three.js (which you can access / use via refs from Threlte) isn't tied to the view, but can be used to cast from any point.

It might get computationally expensive to point that raycaster in many directions and intersect with all leaves. I'm not aware of a way to do "bulk" raycasting in three.js yet.

Separately, the lighting / shadows can compute visually shadow and lighting. But I'm not aware of a way to then easily measure out how much of a mesh is in shadow.

I am also interested in tree simulation -- I'm tinkering on a arborist/lumberjack game where you trim / cut down trees :)

Gilded Age

______ — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:03:45 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42067516

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by ______ in "Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications"

______ — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 11:31:01 +0000

Construction industry is a good one: often you are working in a remote area or have cut power (so no WiFi) and having access to your data is key. That’s why there is so much printing still going on- paper works offline.

New comment by ______ in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

______ — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:57:57 +0000

People with cats end up with a lot of cat photos and in the same boat for Photos.

New comment by ______ in "GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much"

______ — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:13:47 +0000

Something about these makes them incredibly funny to read.

New comment by ______ in "History of the PDF"

______ — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:15:24 +0000

An issue with this is that the print CSS of most websites is an afterthought.

While it’s possible to alter the design with @media print as well as the page breaks, few websites do this. You are often left with broken layouts, empty pages, or nonsense page breaks.

New comment by ______ in "A Lot of Damage in Grindavík"

______ — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:46:08 +0000

That's pretty close to Blue Lagoon, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the area, which is now closed as a precaution: https://www.bluelagoon.com/seismic-activity

New comment by ______ in "SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years"

______ — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:36:26 +0000

I met a former Anchor brewer who left and moved to at a brewery in Flagstaff AZ two years ago, they seemed pretty unhappy back at Anchor.

The evolution of the Google Analytics snippet

______ — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:31:45 +0000

Article URL: https://filosophy.org/code/the-evolution-of-the-google-analytics-snippet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36218711

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ______ in "Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature"

______ — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:52:29 +0000

Making mushroom logs!

I cut down a few invasive trees recently (Norway Maples). If you inoculate the branches and logs with spores of a mushroom that you want (in my case, shiitake) during the first few weeks after cutting, it will fruit with that for a few years. It's a fun DIY project, and a way to reuse trees.

To prevent unwanted mushrooms from the environment from colonizing, you seal the holes you drill, as well as the end the ends of the logs, with cheese wax - which I had heated in a crock pot, hence the need for cleaning that up.

New comment by ______ in "Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature"

______ — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:09:11 +0000

Last night I was typing on Google: "How do I get (rid of wax from pots and pans)" and the top auto-suggestion at that point was "How do I get rid of my ai on snapchat"

Must be a big issue if they own the "How do I get" SEO :)