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New comment by megnaro in "Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer"

megnaro — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:58:40 +0000

Found this cool PBS video on the Western Minnesota researchers working on this. If you'd like to ingest this info in the form of a nine-minute PBS piece, here you go: https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/prairie-sportsman/fertilizer-...

New comment by megnaro in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

megnaro — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:36:56 +0000

Hi, are the roles listed for Seattle/Remote open only to residents of Seattle? Asking because my application was bounced with this message: "Your application shows you are based in an area that we are not currently hiring for this role, therefore we are unable to proceed." Not upset, just interested what the parameters were, or if for any reason this was unintended.

New comment by megnaro in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

megnaro — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:43:55 +0000

You'll find that in the job post.

New comment by megnaro in "Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?"

megnaro — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:47:45 +0000

"You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership." [0, 1] - Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USN

0: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper 1: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-wit.html

New comment by megnaro in "Is this octopus having a nightmare?"

megnaro — Sat, 27 May 2023 22:31:28 +0000

Anyone who agrees with or is intrigued by the above comment may very well enjoy Frans De Waal's book, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Publisher link: https://wwnorton.com/books/Are-We-Smart-Enough-to-Know-How-S...

New comment by megnaro in "1989 California Medfly Attack"

megnaro — Fri, 29 May 2020 04:02:48 +0000

When I was a little kid in Long Beach I remember some days we couldn't use the drinking fountains at school and stuff like that because they (city? state?) had sprayed for medflies that day. I have no details, it's just a childhood memory.

I had no reason to access that memory except that it's here on HN. As a kid I had no idea there was anything more to it, but thanks to this post, now I do. Neat.

New comment by megnaro in "We can’t fix the data scientist talent shortage with $40 online courses"

megnaro — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:08:20 +0000

The author of this post is Adam Lichtl, probably the most intelligent person I've ever gotten to speak to in real life. He's really neat.

We can’t fix the data scientist talent shortage with $40 online courses

megnaro — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 22:44:28 +0000

Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/podium/2019/04/07/we-cant-fix-the-data-scientist-talent-shortage-with-40-online-courses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629460

Points: 5

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New comment by megnaro in "Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?"

megnaro — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:14:30 +0000

I bought Modern Classical Physics last summer as a birthday gift to myself and I am also slowly going through it.

New comment by megnaro in "Frans de Waal Embraces Animal Emotions in ‘Mama’s Last Hug’"

megnaro — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 18:50:44 +0000

I've read several of his books. My favorite is Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are. Very much worth your time.

New comment by megnaro in "In a Detroit Train Station, Ford Looks for the Future"

megnaro — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:22:44 +0000

Way better than when Quicken moved to the city :)

New comment by megnaro in "Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs"

megnaro — Sat, 12 May 2018 17:09:20 +0000

"Handpicked by AI..."

I hope that joke was intentional.