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New comment by bcraven in "Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022)"

bcraven — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:13:24 +0000

This is a good video on that medieval belief:

Medieval Science was Baffled by Birds - CuriousCabinet123

https://youtu.be/vgFj-MMTqIc

New comment by bcraven in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

bcraven — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:41:01 +0000

I think that's the point - they have been removed.

New comment by bcraven in "The Joy of Numbered Streets"

bcraven — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:34:47 +0000

Imagine finding this in the US...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

New comment by bcraven in "Butterfly-collecting: The history of an insult (2017)"

bcraven — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:37:48 +0000

In my field we often refer to palaeontology as "just stamp collecting".

New comment by bcraven in "Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy"

bcraven — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:11:00 +0000

I do not trust that graph in your example

New comment by bcraven in "Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods"

bcraven — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:14:04 +0000

Looks like this is the reference, for anyone else wondering.

https://viewing.nyc/new-yorker-cover-from-1976-accurately-po...

New comment by bcraven in "Scientists Just Broke the Solar Power Limit Everyone Thought Was Absolute"

bcraven — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:42:31 +0000

I often think this at first when I see such numbers, but then remember that condensing boilers have efficiencies over 100% so then I'm not sure.

Theodosian Land Walls of Constantinople (2025)

bcraven — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:19:47 +0000

Article URL: https://turkisharchaeonews.net/object/theodosian-land-walls-constantinople

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435616

Points: 43

# Comments: 9

New comment by bcraven in "NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch"

bcraven — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:52:36 +0000

As it's currently March, April seems very close to me. I didn't know there was a moon flight planned so this is a great headline to me.

New comment by bcraven in "Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes"

bcraven — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:03:51 +0000

It links to it, but no the article is about his seascapes.

New comment by bcraven in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

bcraven — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:12:45 +0000

Presumably that's why the subheading is:

>First wave of Ryzen AI desktop CPUs targets business PCs rather than DIYers.

New comment by bcraven in "Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you"

bcraven — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:16:53 +0000

It feels like we're _so_ close to having StumbleUpon back.

New comment by bcraven in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

bcraven — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:58:13 +0000

[An] AI agent [wrote] a blogpost to [shame] the maintainer who [closed their initial Pull Request to matplotlib]

New comment by bcraven in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

bcraven — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:14:45 +0000

These comments make me grateful that we have the concept of 'lane discipline' in the UK. It's rare to see the 'fastest' lane be anything other than the outside one. Otherwise we keep left and out of the way.

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/lane-discipline.html

New comment by bcraven in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

bcraven — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:47:24 +0000

Something similar, or indeed, exactly the same:

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/leak...

New comment by bcraven in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

bcraven — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:29:56 +0000

None of these are local news articles, in fact they are all from a different continent.

A local article that I did find was from a BP petrol station in Liverpool, so I'm not sure this can be isolated to 'mom-and-pop' outfits (something we don't really have over here anyway).

https://www.petrolprices.com/news/garage-sells-petrol-dilute...

New comment by bcraven in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

bcraven — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:11:01 +0000

And there's me asking people :/

New comment by bcraven in "Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback"

bcraven — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:34:25 +0000

The article suggests custom roms can just be updated to be 'newer' than this.

At the moment they're 'older' and would class as a rollback, which this fuse prevents.

New comment by bcraven in "My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months"

bcraven — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 05:33:55 +0000

Convergent joke ideas, in my opinion.

New comment by bcraven in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

bcraven — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:33:28 +0000

I'm with you... and have yet to find the solution. Somehow only Nova does tabbed app drawer pages (and allows folders within them).