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New comment by ginko in "New 'Super Ice' 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to the Strength of Concrete"

ginko — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:05:33 +0000

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

New comment by ginko in "I Love Software Rendering"

ginko — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:03:36 +0000

If you want to have the true PSX gaming experience you can also round all vertex coordinates to the next pixel and force noperspective interpolation.

New comment by ginko in "New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot"

ginko — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:04:17 +0000

Viennese Fiaker horses are limited to 18 working days per month and there's already temperature limits. Whether those should be lowered further is up for discussion. the current limits for horses are already lower than for outdoor laborers in Vienna.

IMO completely banning horse carriages in Vienna is overshooting.

New comment by ginko in "Porsche Mission S"

ginko — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:40:40 +0000

So is this an EV or an ICE car? The rev counter makes me think ICE?

New comment by ginko in "AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers"

ginko — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:50:27 +0000

Anthropic: "Oh no! Small (open source) models might self-replicate. Better ban those. :^)"

New comment by ginko in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

ginko — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:03:15 +0000

I wouldn't want to be hit by those headlights as a pedestrian..

New comment by ginko in "Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video]"

ginko — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:47:38 +0000

IMO they're completely overengineered. There's nothing useful they can do that schuko can't. (the built-in fuse and fixed polarity aren't useful)

New comment by ginko in "A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis"

ginko — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:54:09 +0000

>The Cray-1 team hopes to fill the currently empty second half of the tower through a crowdfunding campaign to secure 70–80 additional M4 Mac Minis. The goal: create a cluster capable of ranking on the TOP500 supercomputers list.

Is ~100 Mac Minis really all it takes to get into the TOP500 these days?

New comment by ginko in "The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news"

ginko — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:36:20 +0000

Yeah

New comment by ginko in "The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit"

ginko — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:57:02 +0000

The article mentioned this needed a modified N64 to route the extra debug signals from the cartridge to the CPU. That got me wondering since afaik there are no unused cartridge pins on the N64.

Turns out it's actually a bit more complicated. The Partner-N64 uses some little-used analog input pins (LAUDIO, RAUDIO, VIDEO_SYNC) for this. The modification also requires cutting the lines to the system's DAC chip to work.

https://ultra64.ca/tutorials/make-your-own-partner-n64-conso...

New comment by ginko in "Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI"

ginko — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:24:59 +0000

You'd think everyone working in tech would be aware that RSI was a widely used acronym already.

New comment by ginko in "The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris"

ginko — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:26:39 +0000

The Game Boy version of Tetris was entirely made by Nintendo R&D1 in Kyoto. It only used the licensed concept.

New comment by ginko in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

ginko — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:40:42 +0000

Why do you keep using confusing abbreviations like that?

New comment by ginko in "Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center"

ginko — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:29:56 +0000

Millions per month is tens per minute. That doesn't seem like all that much to me?

New comment by ginko in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

ginko — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:33:00 +0000

I have yet to understand what the value proposition of an internet-connected refrigerator is.

New comment by ginko in "U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore"

ginko — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:23:31 +0000

The PPWD is a terrible law and should have never been adopted in that form. FWIW the commission is rushing to fix it.[1] Their general guidance is also to ignore this for now but I can see small business being squeamish.

[1] https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/...

New comment by ginko in "The Millennium Problems for Biology"

ginko — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:21:03 +0000

> Demonstrate the ability to cryopreserve and recover live wild-type mice with high viability.

I thought we already managed to successfully cryopreserve and recover small rodents like hamsters in the 50s.

Edit: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryopreservation#History

New comment by ginko in "Waymo in Singapore"

ginko — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:58:39 +0000

I have to admit I haven't taken a taxi in Tokyo but my impression was that it was a fairly high-end service akin to London black cabs and relatively pricey.

New comment by ginko in "TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node"

ginko — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:17:23 +0000

Come on we're in the 21st century, UTF-8 is pervasive. Just call it "Å14" node.

Monobloc Chair

ginko — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:09:40 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobloc_(chair)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745178

Points: 2

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