Hacker News: cosmotron

New comment by cosmotron in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"

cosmotron — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:45:30 +0000

Kagi Small Web has been fun to explore and reminds me a bit of the StumbleUpon of yore: https://kagi.com/smallweb

If you'd like to read more: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

New comment by cosmotron in "Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America's leaky water infrastructure"

cosmotron — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:41:01 +0000

This seems to be the project's website: http://defconfranklin.com/

New comment by cosmotron in "Why wordfreq will not be updated"

cosmotron — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:32:15 +0000

You can still get to product reviews directly and search them. Here's an example:

Product page (copy the identifier at the end): https://www.amazon.com/Long-Thanks-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-...

Review page (paste the identifier at the end): https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B001OF5F1E/

This seems to bypass all of the LLM stuff for now.

New comment by cosmotron in "Veo"

cosmotron — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:49:34 +0000

Something in this vein was just posted here a few days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307519

New comment by cosmotron in "Hong Kong Locations in Ghost in the Shell"

cosmotron — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:20:13 +0000

It does mention Kowloon:

> [...] in nearly every other respect both the imagery and soulful mood depicted in the film mirror reality very closely – especially when contrasting the modern skyscrapers of Central with some of the older neighbourhoods in Sheung Wan and Kowloon.

New comment by cosmotron in "Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on"

cosmotron — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:15:34 +0000

As others noted, it does happen and is called a human challenge trial. In fact, here's one for malaria that's currently accepting signups.

https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/CVD/trials/MAM01/

New comment by cosmotron in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

cosmotron — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:02:22 +0000

Maybe this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0GbRNGMLk

New comment by cosmotron in "Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer"

cosmotron — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:50:41 +0000

Just passing along a hat-tip on the acronym. Looks like you had some fun with it and wanted to let you know it has been appreciated!

New comment by cosmotron in "Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default"

cosmotron — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:40:06 +0000

Contrast ratio for white on green is only 2.15:1 : https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=FFFFFF&...

Whereas for black on green it's 9.72:1 : https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=000000&...

New comment by cosmotron in "Google is shutting down Stadia"

cosmotron — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:00:04 +0000

Why would VPs be interested in using different building entrances?

New comment by cosmotron in "Elizabeth Holmes found guilty"

cosmotron — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 05:28:50 +0000

You can also try out this tool I saw shared on another thread: https://www.sentencing.us/

New comment by cosmotron in "Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord"

cosmotron — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:26:07 +0000

I feel like there's an interesting irony here (on HN, not in the particular link you shared). In a thread where folks are discussing how they like/dislike how companies shutter their forums in favor of Discord, you then see how Discord themselves use a more traditional thread based tool to manage their own support site rather than using Discord itself.

Why wouldn't Discord's support site say, "Meet us in the Support Discord"?

New comment by cosmotron in "Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground"

cosmotron — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:09:53 +0000

FWIW, it was confirmed that this was a bad parking job and was making things annoying for the employees.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9ji...

New comment by cosmotron in "SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]"

cosmotron — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 22:00:52 +0000

0xffff2, you yourself just said, "I'm stuck in because of ." It can't be that baffling to think that h3rsko is also stuck (e.g. because of a family).

Ask HN: How has SARS-CoV-2 impacted your benefits and compensation?

cosmotron — Tue, 05 May 2020 19:43:14 +0000

For those fortunate enough to have so far kept their job through the pandemic thus far, have your benefits and compensation been impacted either immediately or in the future?

I imagine there have been combinations of furloughs, bonus plan adjustments, retirement match reductions, promotion freezes, etc. Have executives taken pay cuts? I've been curious to see how large and small companies in various sectors are managing this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23084027

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cosmotron in "‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially"

cosmotron — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:28:09 +0000

If one person searched for the other by name (you know, just to see if they're on FB and what stuff is publicly shared), then they may appear in PYMK.

New comment by cosmotron in "Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life"

cosmotron — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:54:56 +0000

What if that's what the startup Cameo is actually offering? https://www.cameo.com/

:-)

New comment by cosmotron in "California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am"

cosmotron — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:02:28 +0000

Here is NPR's article on it: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/12/6761187...

Here is the journal article referenced: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/12/eaau6200

Here is the CDC's summary referencing further studies: https://www.cdc.gov/features/school-start-times/index.html

New comment by cosmotron in "Android 10"

cosmotron — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 22:38:23 +0000

From the article (if you scroll down to the Camera section and expand it):

> HEIF Imaging

> Support for new file format (.heic) to save still images.

New comment by cosmotron in "YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”"

cosmotron — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:32:29 +0000

asdf21 is implying that your strategy probably won't be effective because YouTube may only enforce this policy selectively (i.e. not on their own parent's content or other powerful entities).