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New comment by beeandapenguin in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

beeandapenguin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:36:33 +0000

Fun fact: Axolotl have the largest animal genome ever sequenced with ~32b base pairs, 10x more than humans.

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

beeandapenguin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:33:37 +0000

Axolotls have also been used for over 200 years for medical research related to regenerative biology. They’re unique among vertebrates in that they can regenerate nearly every part of their body, even parts of their brain. https://orip.nih.gov/about-orip/research-highlights/amazing-...

How to Use Standard HTML Video and Audio Lazy-Loading

beeandapenguin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:29:34 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2026/how-to-use-standard-html-video-and-audio-lazy-loading-on-the-web-today

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676889

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How Squarespace Implemented Support for HTML Video/Audio Lazy Loading

beeandapenguin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2026/squarespace-and-web-standards-how-we-helped-bring-html-video-and-audio-lazy-loading-to-todays-browsers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622958

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by beeandapenguin in "5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy"

beeandapenguin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:31:42 +0000

Agreed. I just traveled to Peru for the first time a few months ago and visited Cusco for 7 days. For me, it was not enough, since all I wanted to do was go back immediately upon leaving. I'm normally the kinda person that wants to travel to as many new places as possible, but Peru was different. I can easily say I want to go back there at least 5 more times in my life.

Reflecting on it when I got home, I couldn't understand what made me not decide to go earlier in my life. I had Machu Picchu at the top of my bucket list since childhood as I'm sure many do, but it was never at the top for some reason. That was such a big mistake and I wish I went to Peru a long time ago, there's no other place like it, and it only gets harder to travel there the older you get since the altitude is rough. The number of elderly and retired people I saw struggling in Cusco from altitude sickness was too high. I heard a horror story of someone needing to spend a week in the hospital and unable to see a single site.

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams accused of $2.5M rug pull as NYC Token crashes 80%

beeandapenguin — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:00:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/861269/former-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-accused-of-2-5-million-crypto-rug-pull-as-his-nyc-token-crashes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610957

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Static sites enable a good time travel experience"

beeandapenguin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:12:21 +0000

Was wondering the same thing. Couldn't they just load https://web.archive.org/save/{site_url} once a month in their Github action instead of managing the storage of these images?

New comment by beeandapenguin in "The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return"

beeandapenguin — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:13:23 +0000

Newton spent the majority of his life trying to answer this question. It'd be more interesting if the question asked “Will Newton’s prediction that the Second Coming won’t happen before 2060 be correct?”, but that might be a bit too long for Polymarket.

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii"

beeandapenguin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:02:13 +0000

OP's been preparing for this moment: https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2024-12-04-hugs-of-death...

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

beeandapenguin — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:27:43 +0000

Looks like the site's down.

https://archive.is/kGmn6

New comment by beeandapenguin in "How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months"

beeandapenguin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:59:20 +0000

Extremely slow times - from development to production, backend to frontend. Depending on how bad things are, you might catch the microservice guys complaining over microseconds from a team downstream, in front of a FE dev who’s spent his week optimizing the monotonically-increasing JS bundles with code splitting heuristics.

Of course, it was because the client app recently went over the 100MB JS budget. Which they decided to make because the last time that happened, customers abroad reported seeing “white screens”. International conversion dropped sharply not long after that.

It’s pretty silly. So ya, good times indeed. Time to learn k8s.

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Ernest Hemingway's brother established a floating republic in the Caribbean"

beeandapenguin — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:27:29 +0000

Seems like a precedent for the Conch Republic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Venezuela is first Andean country to lose all of its glaciers"

beeandapenguin — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 22:28:52 +0000

A related article from NASA Earth Observatory has a slider to compare satellite images of the glacier.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152893/humboldt-gla...

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Engineering for Slow Internet"

beeandapenguin — Fri, 31 May 2024 16:37:36 +0000

This is why we need more incremental rendering[1] (or "streaming"). This pattern become somewhat of a lost art in the era of SPAs — it's been possible since HTTP/1.1 via chunked transfer encoding, allowing servers to start sending a response without knowing the total length.

With this technique, the server can break down a page load into smaller chunks of UI, and progressively stream smaller parts of the UI to the client as they become available. No more waiting for the entire page to load in, especially in poor network conditions as the author experienced from Anartica.

[1]: https://www.patterns.dev/react/streaming-ssr

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile"

beeandapenguin — Thu, 16 May 2024 22:14:52 +0000

The Sphinx wasn't built with stone from a quarry, it was carved from the bedrock. It has since been restored a number of times, one of which added layers of limestone block which is easily distinguishable from the original shape.

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile"

beeandapenguin — Thu, 16 May 2024 22:04:35 +0000

At Wadi al-Jarf[1], one of the oldest harbors in the world (~2600 BCE), they discovered numerous stone anchors, a stone jetty, and storage galleries carved into limestone that contained several boats, sail fragments, oars, and rope. They also found jars that have been discovered at another site across the Red Sea, indicating they may have been used for trade.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_al-Jarf

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks"

beeandapenguin — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:59:43 +0000

Which toothbrush company/product are they referring to? The stock image implies Phillips, but I don't see any mention of that in the article.

Never thought I'd be judging a toothbrush based on cybersecurity, but here we are...

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data"

beeandapenguin — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:14:00 +0000

Tangentially related, if you've ever had the pleasure of migrating away from Google Photos/Drive with Google Takeout, prepare to spend some time fixing photo metadata in your library and re-embedding exif data with exiftool. Takeout strips out the exif data into a non-standard JSON sidecar, as opposed to something more standard/well supported like XMP.

It's unfortunately hostile for non-technical users that care about their photo metadata, which I assume is most people since it includes data such as creation timestamps and location. It's not too bad to script this if you're savvy (and careful), but otherwise you'll have to pay for a third-party tool[1]

[1]: https://metadatafixer.com/

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Ask HN: Any LAN alternatives other than PowerLine or MOCA?"

beeandapenguin — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 18:36:47 +0000

Depending on how far apart your rooms are, it's not too difficult to wire up a long, flat ribbon ethernet cable[1] between rooms. They usually come with clips to help install it cleanly as a fixture. Then you can just connect it to a separate switch/WiFI access point in the other room and have the same connection speeds. However, if you have two WiFI access points, you'll likely run into radio interference if they don't have mesh capabilities.

I use an 100ft cable to go from living room to basement, and have an mesh AP for each. The Eero devices are relatively affordable compared to Ubiquiti for how powerful they are, if you want a seamless experience using multiple WiFi APs.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Ethernet-Cable-White-Connectors/d...

New comment by beeandapenguin in "Interaction to Next Paint (INP)"

beeandapenguin — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:59:28 +0000

He’s referring to the P75 from Chrome’s field data. Now, Reddit definitely could do more here and get that LCP at the same time as the FCP (eliminate load and render delay). But a big purpose for these metrics is to make the web more accessible/usable, and the reality is most of the world doesn’t have iPhones or fast networks[1].

[1] https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/