Hacker News: mercurywells

New comment by mercurywells in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

mercurywells — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:19:10 +0000

I was going to say you were missing this one but I'm not sure if it's still open after the county purchased it.

https://www.pga.com/play/ny/rome/mohawk-glen-golf-course/033...

Now add mini golf courses.

New comment by mercurywells in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

mercurywells — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:25:39 +0000

Good job, you forgot a new crush washer and now your oil pan will leak

New comment by mercurywells in "Cheap yet ultrapure titanium might enable widespread use in industry (2024)"

mercurywells — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:43:17 +0000

Once rust starts, it is porous & flaky and allows more oxygen to infiltrate and hit the next layer of iron. The reason it is porous & flaky is due to creating a mix of FeO and Fe2O3 which have different crystal structures so it doesn't create a nice protective barrier.

New comment by mercurywells in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

mercurywells — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:54:22 +0000

They've been bombing the Houthis for quite a few days now

New comment by mercurywells in "Optical Frequency Combs"

mercurywells — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:44:25 +0000

Red light does go through non-vacuum faster than blue light. They're equal in a vacuum.

New comment by mercurywells in "Hacker Fab"

mercurywells — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:35:20 +0000

not even that, they really make the machines that make the patterns that are used to develop the electronic circuits on the ICs

New comment by mercurywells in "Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane"

mercurywells — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:02:27 +0000

In your video, what flight simulator engine are you using? Is it something you created or is it something like Xplane or MSFS?

New comment by mercurywells in "Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial"

mercurywells — Fri, 10 May 2024 01:24:45 +0000

Brief? Many are still strongly against it, especially doing this very invasive surgery on babies.

New comment by mercurywells in "Global CO2 Levels"

mercurywells — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:19:35 +0000

It'd be a smaller amount that gets injected into the stratosphere, as opposed to what we normally release into the troposphere. A quick skim of the wikipedia link seems to suggest 5M tons in total, not sure what the annualized basis would be.

New comment by mercurywells in "The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?"

mercurywells — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:17:47 +0000

Back in April and there's been no other cites of it since then?

New comment by mercurywells in "Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust"

mercurywells — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:59:39 +0000

Maybe you don't have *.dev lookups working properly?

New comment by mercurywells in "General Mills, Audi pause Twitter ads, will evaluate site"

mercurywells — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:04:24 +0000

Earnings report from where exactly?

New comment by mercurywells in "Falcon Heavy Launch [video]"

mercurywells — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:30:00 +0000

It doesn't have enough spare fuel for the descent/landing burns when lifting such a large payload.

New comment by mercurywells in "Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI"

mercurywells — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:01:41 +0000

For me as a deaf person the current state of art (in terms of speed & usability) is the Recorder app on a Google Pixel phone (4a/6 Pro is what I've used)

New comment by mercurywells in "Ultrasonic Payments"

mercurywells — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 05:15:07 +0000

I have one as well, and I've noticed that area proximity detectors (in hallways used to detect presence/motion) do get picked up and come through as loud pops.

New comment by mercurywells in "Coding Up an IoT PCB Design"

mercurywells — Wed, 04 May 2022 02:29:34 +0000

VHDL has been used for design and simulation of boards (by myself and others).

New comment by mercurywells in "Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail"

mercurywells — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:33:18 +0000

Is part of the solution going to be having ML figure out what data might be missing to make a better conclusion, then explicitly asking the patient (or the person gathering data from the patient) for that missing data or a clarification?

New comment by mercurywells in "The state of Washington pays multimillion dollar salaries to college coaches"

mercurywells — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 03:13:24 +0000

Typically there's a base salary covered by the state, low to mid 6 figures. Donors pitch in for the 7 figure part of it.

New comment by mercurywells in "Advent of Code 2021"

mercurywells — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:28:47 +0000

If you look at the 'map' on the left side and also follow the plot in the puzzle descriptions, you can see that you were island hopping, so top to bottom is not the order the puzzles came out in.

New comment by mercurywells in "Show HN: Vado – A platform to encourage people to cycle and walk more"

mercurywells — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:15:00 +0000

After the activity is saved, you can edit and crop the activity to trim off the driving portion.