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New comment by fivestones in "Why is the sky blue?"

fivestones — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:33:07 +0000

I’m pretty curious. What are those too 30 misconceptions in US commercial astronomy texts? Is there a list somewhere? Or can you name some?

New comment by fivestones in "Show HN: Lore Engine – Turn 10-hour lectures into 2 hours of comprehensive notes"

fivestones — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:52:04 +0000

I think clickable links in the markdown would be great, at least as an option. Even if they would break when the original file is moved.

New comment by fivestones in "Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally"

fivestones — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:43:10 +0000

Maybe Lifestreams? https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/ericchi96.html

New comment by fivestones in "Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally"

fivestones — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:02:06 +0000

I’m not sure how exactly timelinize stores photos, but you could sync photos as you take them to timelinize, and then, if they are accessible, point immich to the timelinize photos for its use. That would essentially deduplicate your photos.

New comment by fivestones in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

fivestones — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:53:27 +0000

I want to be able to do all these same kinds of searches too. Especially layering on searches, like what you said about how the search ideally could be bookmarked and searched on. Like any search result could become a smart album maybe. I’d love to be able to search something like [all photos in the box I drew on the map] and then out of those results [photos in 2021 and 2023] and then out of those results [photos of person x] and out of those results a clip search like [people walking on the beach]. It would also be great to remove photos from the search like [photos in this geographical area] but not [clip search for “yellow lab”].

New comment by fivestones in "Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys"

fivestones — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:28:01 +0000

A lot of things in science/technology have been invented essentially by accident though, with little to no understanding of why it worked. Who’s to say aging can’t be similar.

New comment by fivestones in "Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys"

fivestones — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:25:42 +0000

Maybe they did but when they realized it was working decided not to publish /joking

New comment by fivestones in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

fivestones — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:46:50 +0000

What’s this updatable BitTorrent protocol? I wished for something like this years ago as an auto-updating torrent for downloading Wikipedia with live (or daily or whatever) changes.

New comment by fivestones in "Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video"

fivestones — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:15:26 +0000

My question too

New comment by fivestones in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

fivestones — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:15:14 +0000

One more update: it’s a UZ801, with the Qualcomm MSM8916 chipset (according to `adb shell getprop ro.product.model` etc, and the fact that openstick works). I got it running Debian without much trouble, and it’s working great. I followed the tutorial for openstick at https://wthoog.nl/openstick/ (which seems to be down for me now).

I got the one that’s white with a bit of red near/under the cap.

One other thing that took me a bit to figure out: after removing the cap, the entire back of the device slides off (kind of like a battery cover in a remote) and there is a spot to put a SIM card beneath. Supposedly this does GPS too but I haven’t figured out how yet.

New comment by fivestones in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

fivestones — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:32:25 +0000

Just wanted to update that I got this in the mail today. Not bad—6 days from order to delivery, all for just over a dollar. I haven’t tried to hack it at all yet. Here are photos: https://imgur.com/a/J7S8rEW

New comment by fivestones in "How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]"

fivestones — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:21:28 +0000

Yeah. You’re probably right.

New comment by fivestones in "Slow social media"

fivestones — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:42:14 +0000

I think this is a joke but it’s interesting to note that Amish people have essentially this.

https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/2022/09/30/ohios-a...

New comment by fivestones in "Nepal picks a new prime minister on a discord server days after social media ban"

fivestones — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:28:21 +0000

This is a good critique, and I’ve been wondering the same ever since watching that TED talk. Still. I’m not sure it’s much worse (or worse at all) than what we have right now, at least in the USA. Maybe I’m wrong about that though?

New comment by fivestones in "How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]"

fivestones — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:24:47 +0000

I don’t know. I asked chatgpt where I can get the most calories for my money when eating fast food, tempered by the qualification that the food is delicious. It very confidently and without any wishy washiness told me I should go to Wendy’s and get a burger. I highly doubt this is actually the best answer to my question, but I bet lots of people are asking similar questions. It made me actually think about going to Wendy’s. It read like an ad, in some ways, but some part of me took it in and tried to believe it because it felt much more similar to a recommendation from a friend (which I would for sure listen to) than an ad (which I almost always tune out—the louder and more obnoxious the stronger I look away).

New comment by fivestones in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

fivestones — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:33:25 +0000

I just bought one for $1.07 US with free shipping. I was buying with a new account so I probably got that discount. But even so, before buying I got $2.99 the first time I loaded the page, then $9.89 or thereabouts, and finally $0.99 (which I bought, it had an additional $0.08 in fees for $1.07 total). We’ll see if it shows up and is hackable, but at that price it feels too good to pass up the chance.

New comment by fivestones in "Nepal picks a new prime minister on a discord server days after social media ban"

fivestones — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:16:49 +0000

Same here! But really wonder if we don’t already have all the needed technology and someone just needs to put it together…and convince their society to make use of it.

I really like this kind of conversation because as I read peoples comments I see where some of the obstacles are.

New comment by fivestones in "Nepal picks a new prime minister on a discord server days after social media ban"

fivestones — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:14:28 +0000

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. I didn’t mean the overthrow of the government was democratic. I was referring to the people in the discord server choosing a new leader.

New comment by fivestones in "Nepal picks a new prime minister on a discord server days after social media ban"

fivestones — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:08:01 +0000

Isn’t there a way to do the first option, but without attaching anyone’s votes to their digital id, except in a cryptographic way such that any individual person can look up their own vote online and verify that their vote has been counted correctly (with their own personal cryptographic key if some kind), but no one without the key can see which person made a given vote? I’m sure I remember watching a Ted talk about this years ago, but don’t remember the specific talk at the moment.

I’m sure there are other obstacles to surmount, but if that system works, you could have a digital id, use it to vote every time, and audit your own vote without anyone else knowing what you voted.

New comment by fivestones in "Nepal picks a new prime minister on a discord server days after social media ban"

fivestones — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:02:02 +0000

This also makes me wonder what could be done to make discord (or something similar) a better venue for direct democracy. I know the circumstances in Nepal were exceptional, but I wonder if we will see other countries experiment with Discord for similar purposes. It seems like in Nepal they have essentially used it as a caucus, and I wonder if this could be shaped into a better way to elect leaders (or even legislate directly) than what most of the world is doing.

My wife and I were talking about this today and we thought it's possible that what has just happened in Nepal is at least in some sense the most democratic thing any country has ever done.