Hacker News: chinabot

New comment by chinabot in "Let's Talk Space Toilets"

chinabot — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:35:24 +0000

If people are going to live in space for any period of time then they are going to need gravity so long term, yes.

New comment by chinabot in "Kindle users in uproar over update rendering oldest devices virtually unusable"

chinabot — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:04:57 +0000

Kindle gone, Kobo in. Bit more friction but I mostly just read library ebooks, free ebooks or the 500 ebooks books I took off my old kindle library a few years ago before I left.

New comment by chinabot in "Kindle users in uproar over update rendering oldest devices virtually unusable"

chinabot — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:58:58 +0000

Keep Calm, (Install KoReader) and Carry On.

New comment by chinabot in "Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts"

chinabot — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:28:12 +0000

Valuable real-estate, it wont have any tariffs!

New comment by chinabot in "How Beyond Meat sank from a $14B plant-based protein powerhouse to a penny stock"

chinabot — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Shame, I only tried one once and it tasted quite nice, too expensive though. I guess I was in the minority.

New comment by chinabot in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

chinabot — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:33:17 +0000

Interesting looking at the data, that Norway generates 4x the electricity of NZ and they are roughly the same size and population I assume it exports most.

New comment by chinabot in "Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)"

chinabot — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:26:38 +0000

I'm going to try and give it a go on a zero2 I have lying around. Thanks, this is exactly what I come to hacker news for.

New comment by chinabot in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

chinabot — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:57:20 +0000

Respectfully, not everyone shares this view.

New comment by chinabot in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

chinabot — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:49:41 +0000

If the government knew every single user on the internet's name, address, phone number and what they had for breakfast, it would not stop monsters like this, or even slow them down.

New comment by chinabot in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

chinabot — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:32:23 +0000

big opportunity here for therealhackernews.com

New comment by chinabot in "AI models know they are guessing before they generate text"

chinabot — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:18:26 +0000

Humans know this too, that's why they prefix sentences with "I might be wrong, but.." or "I think.."

New comment by chinabot in "Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984"

chinabot — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:04:16 +0000

If you work in C and are happy with the standard libraries and don't want to go too deep into the hardware then most of the 8-bit micros are pretty similar. During COVID and the component shortages I had to do a bit of swapping around, luckily it was all GPIO, I2C and UART stuff so nothing too taxing.

New comment by chinabot in "Rats Play DOOM"

chinabot — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:49:45 +0000

It was tested on humans first

New comment by chinabot in "A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator Written in COBOL"

chinabot — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:51:38 +0000

Party like its 1974

New comment by chinabot in "Tim Cook Has Put Mike Rockwell in Charge of Siri, Reporting to Craig Federighi"

chinabot — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:36:31 +0000

I miss Steve Jobs.

New comment by chinabot in "Netherlands launches fund to lure top scientists, like those fleeing the U.S."

chinabot — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:13:50 +0000

Rather than top scientists, the fund should target the young scientists, and or promoting companies that will employ these guys locally. Once lost to somewhere like the US, they rarely return. Me and a Lot of my friends who left in 97 and I still keep in touch with would never return without similar opportunities locally or the same seed funding we can get in US.

New comment by chinabot in "A Visual Intro to NumPy and Data Representation"

chinabot — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:57 +0000

Already discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20282985 Great intro though

New comment by chinabot in "How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon"

chinabot — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:44:05 +0000

There used to be a local hackathon where I used to live in London. Amazingly talented people used to attend, great social, I really miss going to these events

New comment by chinabot in "fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'"

chinabot — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:39:23 +0000

Works really well for me. tks

New comment by chinabot in "Database full of 1000+ validated problems that can be turned into applications"

chinabot — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:58:18 +0000

I hope my idea for a dating app for dogs is not on this, it's going to make me millions!